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The building blocks of carbohydrates.
What are monosaccharides?
Lacking any affinity to water.
What is hydrophobic?
What are amino acids?
Enzymes are a special class of _______.
What are proteins?
These are the building blocks of nucleic acids.
What are nucleotides?
Composed of many monosaccharides.
What are polysaccharides?
This is the scale to understand the level of acid/base something is.
What is the pH scale?
Many peptide bonds.
What are polypeptides?
A substance that alters the speed of a chemical reaction but is not used up in the process.
What is a catalyst?
DNA is a double chain of nucleotides that twists around to from a double ______.
What is helix?
Composed of 2 monosaccharides.
What is a disaccharide?
An amino group is the functional group for this group of molecules.
What are bases?
What is a peptide bond?
The amount of energy required to get a reaction started.
What is activation energy?
The word that DNA stands for.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
A chemical reaction in which molecules combine by removing water.
(ex. glucose + fructose --> sucrose + water)
What is a dehydration reaction?
This type of fat does not form any double bonds.
What is saturated fat?
A special class of proteins that act as catalysts
What are enzymes?
The theory that each enzyme has an active site that complements the shape of one substrate molecule.
What is the lock and key theory of enzyme action?
This is an arrangement of phosphorus, hydrogen, and oxygen found in nucleic acids.
What is a phosphate group?
Breaking down complex molecules by the chemical addition of water
(ex. sucrose + water --> glucose + fructose)
What is a hydrolysis reaction?
A group of atoms within a molecule that interacts with other molecules in predictable ways.
What are functional groups?
What is the primary structure?
The process in which the normal shape of a protein is lost, usually due to heat.
What is denaturation?
Adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine are the four types of this structure.
What is a nitrogenous base?