Carbon Compounds
Compounds with covalently bonded carbon atoms
What is an organic compound?
Small subunits bonded together to make large carbon compounds.
What are monomers?
There are only 20 types of these subunits
What are proteins?
The digestive process begins here.
What s the mouth?
This structure is continually broken and reformed in molecules.
What are bonds?
Number of covalent bonds carbon can form.
What is four?
Large polymers are called this.
What are macromolecules?
Macromolecues that provides quick energy
What are carbohydrates?
All of these are catalysts and most end in -ase.
What is an enzyme?
Elements or molecules found on the right side of a chemical equation.
What are products?
Glucose in cells has this carbon shape.
What is a ring structure?
This molecule is made up of 3 repeating units: a Nitrogen base, a phosphorus and deoxyribose.
What is DNA?
Multipurpose molecule that will no longer function if it denautes or unfolds.
What are proteins?
Stores bile and helps break up fat.
What is the gall bladder?
This process removes water in order for bonds to form.
What is dehydration synthesis/reaction/dehydration?
A role carbon has in all macromolecules.
What is a backbone? What is a central atom in all molecules?
This polysaccharide is stored in the liver and muscles of animals
What is glycogen?
Can lead to artherosclerosis (heart disease) if too many are part of a diet.
What are saturated fats?
Digestion of the major macromolecules takes place here.
What is the small intestine.
The process that stores E.
What is hydrolysis?
There are 20 of these naturally occurring molecules and they each containn -COOH, a carboxyl group.
What are amino acids?
A large molecules that contains the most C, H and O.
What is starch?
Its major responsibiity is as a "catalyst", in other words, speed up chemical reactions.
What are enzymes?
Inflammation of the small or large intestine that causes diarrhea, bloating and cramps.
What is IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease), crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis disease?
Metabolism describes all chemical reactions taking place in living organisms. An important molecule is necessary for this to take place.
What is water?