Proteins
What type of monomer links together to form a protein?
What is an amino acid?
Are lipids hydrophobic or hydrophilic?
What is hydrophobic?
Which type of carbohydrates is used by plants for energy storage?
What are starches?
What are the 3 main components of a nucleotide?
What are a nitrogen-containing base, a phosphate group, and a sugar molecule?
Which biomolecule stores twice as much energy as carbohydrates?
What are fats?
Where is the R-group located on a polypeptide?
What is the central carbon?
What type of fat has the maximum number of hydrogens attached to its carbon chain?
What is saturated fat?
How are carbohydrate polysaccharides formed?
What are glycosidic linkages?
What type of bond occurs between the nitrogenous bases in DNA?
What is a hydrogen bond?
Which biomolecule is used as energy storage for plants and animals?
What is carbohydrates?
Which functional group does every amino acid contain?
What is a carboxyl group?
What is the bond called between glycerol and fatty acid?
What is an Ester Link?
What structural shape does glucose form in an aqueous solution?
What is a ring?
What is the bond called between nucleotides?
What is the phosphodiester bond?
What are protein polymers called?
What are polypeptides?
Which protein structure involves interactions between the R-groups?
What is tertiary structure?
What gives unsaturated fats a kink in their structure?
What is a double bond between carbon atoms?
What is the bond between 2 glucose monomers where the oxygen is shared between carbon-1 and carbon-4?
What is a Beta 1-4 glycosidic linkage?
What 2 nucleotides do not form long polymer chains?
What is ATP and cAMP?
What will guanine always pair within a DNA strand?
What is cytosine?
What type of R-group interaction involves 2 non-polar R-groups that attach to 2 central carbons?
What is a Van Der Waals interaction?
What type of lipid creates a cell membrane?
What is a phospholipid?
Which glucose bond is responsible for branching?
What is 1-6 glycosidic linkage?
What are structural isomers called that can interconvert in a rapid equilibrium?
What are tautomers?
What are the 2 structural shapes called that are created by hydrogen bonding in a protein structure?
What are alpha helix and beta pleated sheets?