Macromolecules
Potluck
Protein Structure
Nucleic Acids
Chemistry
100
Amino acids are the subunits of this macromolecule.
What is protein?
100
A neutral atom that loses two electrons would have this charge?
What is plus 2?
100
This is when a single polypeptide chain has assumed its most stable three dimensional shape.
What is tertiary structure?
100
Like proteins, heating up DNA causes this. It's often irreversible in proteins, but with DNA it's reversible.
What is denaturation?
100
Carbon has 6 protons, 6 neutrons, and 6 electrons. This is it's atomic number.
What is 6?
200
This is what makes the amino acids different from one another.
What is the functional group (R)?
200
This is the number of different amino acids that make up proteins.
What is 20?
200
It's the sequence of amino acids in a protein.
What is primary structure?
200
RNA uses this nucleotide instead of thymine.
What is uracil?
200
Nitrogen has five electrons in its outer shell, so it can form up to this many single bonds.
What is 3?
300
This type of reaction joins subunits of macromolecules together, resulting in the removal of water.
What is dehydration synthesis?
300
In order to destroy the primary structure of a protein you would have to break these bonds.
What are peptide bonds?
300
A disulfide bridge between two cysteines in a protein is this kind of bond.
What is covalent?
300
Watson and Crick discovered that the structure of DNA is this?
What is a double helix?
300
Oxygen has 8 protons, 8 neutrons, and 8 electrons. This is its atomic weight.
What is 16?
400
The monomers that make up carbohydrates are these sweet molecules.
What are monosaccharides?
400
Ribosomes, the sites of protein synthesis, are not organelles because they do not have this feature.
What is a membrane?
400
Stabilized by hydrogen bonding, examples of this include alpha-helices and beta-sheets.
What is secondary structure?
400
This is what holds the two DNA strands together?
What is hydrogen bonding?
400
You'll get a charge out of this type of bond that is weaker than a covalent bond, but stronger than a hydrogen bond.
What is an ionic bond?
500
DNA is more stable than RNA because it lacks this on the 5 carbon sugar found in its nucleotides.
What is the 2' hydroxyl group (OH)?
500
This is the maximum number of electrons that can occupy the first energy level of an atom.
What is 2?
500
These type of amino acids are most likely to be found in the interior of a globular protein.
What are hydrophobic/non-polar amino acids?
500
A nucleotide is made up of these three parts?
What are a 5-carbon sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base?
500
Water is polar because, compared to hydrogen, oxygen has a greater attraction for electrons, a property known as this.
What is electronegativity?
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