Water
Bio-macromolecules
Chemical Reactions
Root Words
Grab Bag
100
This is the chemical formula for water.
What is H2O?
100
These are the monomers that proteins are made from.
What is an amino acid?
100
A bond formed between two atoms in which electrons are shared.
What is a covalent bond?
100
A root word that means water.
What is hydra?
100
The most plentiful element in the bio-macromolecules.
What is carbon?
200
This is water's tendency to form molecular bonds between its molecules.
What is cohesion?
200
This is the portion of an amino acid that determines which amino acid it is.
What is the side chain?
200
A bond between two atoms in which electrons are transferred from one atom to the other.
What is an ionic bond?
200
A root word/prefix that means one.
What is mono?
200
The commonly used acronym for ribonucleic acid.
What is RNA?
300
This is the phenomenon that occurs in plants that allows water to go up the inside of the stem.
What is capillary action?
300
These are the two portions of a lipid molecule.
What are the glycerol and the fatty acid chain?
300
This process is used to form the polypeptide bonds in proteins.
What is dehydration synthesis.
300
A word that means "breaking apart water".
What is hydrolysis?
300
The technical name for the sugars found in milk.
What is lactose?
400
This is the amount of energy a substance can absorb, per change in temperature of the substance.
What is heat capacity?
400
These are the bonds found in unsaturated fats but not saturated fats.
What are carbon double bonds?
400
The type of protein that speeds up that rate at which a chemical reaction occurs.
What is an enzyme?
400
A root word that means "blood".
What is hemo?
400
Two atomic versions of the same element, differing only in the number of neutrons in the nucleus.
What is an isotope?
500
This is the type of molecule water is and refers to it's differing electrical charges.
What is polar molecule?
500
ATGC
What are the four nucleotides in a DNA molecule?
500
The amount of energy required to make a chemical reaction occur.
What is activation energy?
500
A word created from the root words meaning two sugars.
What is disaccharide?
500
The type of lipid that makes up the cell membrane of animals.
What is a phospholipid?
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