What elements make up nucleic acids?
What is carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorous (and sometime sulfur)
What process joins monomers to make a polymer by removing water?
What is Dehydration Synthesis
What is the monomer of a carbohydrate?
What is a monosaccharide
Are fatty acids polar or non-polar?
What is non-polar.
What is the process of breaking bonds with water?
What is hydrolysis
What is the monomer for nucleic acids?
What is a nucleotide
What are proteins made of?
What is amino acids
What are two kinds of carbohydrate used for storage?
What is starch (plants) and glycogen (animals)
What is the molecule that makes up the cell membrane?
What is a phospholipid
What kind of bonds hold amino acids together in a protein?
What are peptide bonds
What are the matching pairs of bases in nucleic acids? (who matches with whom?)
What is A ---> T (or U, in RNA)
G ----> C
Name a disaccharide
What is sucrose, lactose or maltose
Which fat has a kink in the tail?
What is unsaturated
What are the 5 options for nitrogenous bases?
What is adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil
What are the four structures of proteins?
What are: Primary, secondary, tertiary & quaternary structures