Bio Basics
Chemistry of Life
Water
Carbon
Macromolecules
100
This includes the group Eukarya, Bacteria, and Archea.
What are domains?
100
When the place on the percent Hydrogen scale is below 7.
What is acidic?
100
This is an important quality of oils.
What is hydrophobia?
100
This group includes an oxygen double bonded to a carbon, along with an oxygen and hydrogen bonded to the same carbon.
What is a carboxyl group?
100
These are the macromolecules.
What are proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and lipids?
200
This is the second most broad category of biological organization.
What is genus?
200
This grouping of electrons allows molecules to bond.
What is a valence shell?
200
This type of bonding allows water to break up salts.
What is ionic bonding?
200
This functional group is important in ATP.
What is phosphate?
200
This bond is important in proteins.
What is a peptide bond?
300
These structures have the same formula, but different shapes.
What are structural isomers?
300
This includes Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, and Hydrogen
What are the four elements essential to life?
300
Water does this to other water molecules.
What is cohere?
300
This compounds, made of only two types atoms, is an essential molecule to life.
What is a hydrocarbon?
300
This is what differentiates a saturated and an unsaturated lipids.
What is a double bond?
400
This is the main difference between eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells.
What is a membrane bound organelle?
400
This type of bonding has to do with charges.
What is ionic bonding?
400
This important factor of water has allowed for life in the ocean.
What is density of water?
400
This important part of carbon makes it the backbone of life.
What is carbon's ability to bond with four atoms?
400
These act as biological catalysts, and are made of a type of macromolecules.
What are enzymes?
500
This philosophy is the foundation of biology.
What is "Structure equals Function"?
500
This is the most common bond.
What is a covalent bond?
500
Carbonic acid does this to water.
What is acidification?
500
This group is also known as a hydrocarbon.
What is a methyl group?
500
This reaction is essential to macromolecule formation.
What is dehydration synthesis?
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