Water
Organic Compounds
Functional Groups
Molecules
More Molecules
100
The tendency of molecules to stick together.
What is cohesion?
100
Carbon-based molecules are also called this.
Organic compounds
100
A hydrogen atom bonded to an oxygen atom.
What is a hydroxyl group?
100
A class of molecules ranging from the small sugar molecules dissolved in soft drinks to the larger ones in starch molecules.
What are carbohydrates?
100
Three fatty acids linked to one gylcerol molecule.
What is a triglyceride?
200
A measure of how difficult it is to stretch or break the surface of a liquid.
What is surface tension?
200
Compounds composed of only carbons and hydrogens.
What is a hydrocarbon?
200
A carbon atom linked by a double bond to an oxygen atom.
What is a carbonyl group?
200
Carbohydrate monomers
What are monosaccharides?
200
Lipids whose carbon skeleton is bent to form four fused rings.
What is a steroid?
300
A liquid consisting of a uniform mixture of two or more substances.
What is a solution?
300
The chain of carbon atoms in an organic molecule
What is a carbon skeleton?
300
A carbon double-bonded to an oxygen and also bonded to a hydroxyl group.
What is a carboxyl group?
300
When cells link together to form polymers and a molecule of water is removed there is a reaction.
What is a dehydration reaction?
300
Fatty acids and fats with double bonds are called this.
What unsaturated fats?
400
A dissolving substance in a liquid.
What is a solvent?
400
Compounds with the same formula but different structures.
What is an isomer?
400
A nitrogen atom bonded to two hydrogen atoms.
What is an amino group?
400
Polymers of polysaccharides linked by dehydration reactions.
What is a polysaccharide?
400
The most important role for proteins.
What is an enzyme?
500
The substance that is dissolved in a liquid.
What is a solute?
500
The groups of atoms that usually participate in chemical reactions in an organic compound.
What is functional groups?
500
A phosphorous atom bonded to four oxygen atoms.
What is a phosphate group?
500
The most abundant organic compound compound on Earth.
What is cellulose?
500
A chain of amino acids.
What is a polypeptide?
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