Macromolecules
Which macromolecule forms structures called enzymes used to break down other polymers into their monomers.
Proteins
An person breathing in carbon monoxide will eventually pass out by breathing the poison gas as it replaces oxygen in their body. What characteristic of life is being disrupted by the gas?
Use of Energy
Which element is found only in proteins and is a major component of the proteins that make hair?
Sulfur
Carbohydrates
What specialized organ allows fish to extract oxygen from the water around them?
Gills
A boy has a ton of energy and is almost jittery and shaking after consuming a ton of candy, which macromolecule was most likely in the candy?
Carbohydrates
What do we call the characteristic of living things that states, living things can make more of themselves?
Reproduction
Which element is the "backbone" of all organic molecules?
Carbon
What is one example of a monomer for carbohydrates?
Glucose
Who was the physicist to first describe gravity?
Isaach Newton
A whale uses its blubber to store energy and insulate itself from the cold water, what macromolecule is the blubber most likely made of?
Lipids
Response to the Environment/Stimulus
Which element is essential for animals to breath in in order to create energy?
Oxygen
What is the term for a molecule made of many monomers being bonded together?
Polymer
Who was the scientist that originally wrote the equation E = mc2?
Albert Einstein
A strawberry is covered in little black seeds, what macromolecule is most abundant in strawberry seeds?
Nucleic Acids
A biologist looks through a microscope at some slime and finds that the slime is made of tiny boxes with their own little parts inside. What characteristic of life is the biologist observing?
Cells
Which element is found in amino acids and facilitates their bonds to create polymers?
Nitrogen
Nucleotides are the monomers to what polymer?
What class of animals were the first to evolve the ability to fly in earth's history?
Insects
Monomers
Moss on a rock will spread and cover the entire rock over many years. What characteristic of life is this an example of?
Growth and Development
Which tiny element is found in every single biological molecule?
Hydrogen
Which of the four macromolecules does not normally have monomers and polymers?
Lipids
What is the effect in physics that states that waves appear to be moving faster as they approach the observer and slower as they move away from the observer?
The Doppler Effect