Chemical Elements & Water
Carbohydrates, Lipids, & Proteins
DNA/RNA & DNA Replication
Transcription & Translation
Respiration & Photosynthesis
100
Needs four bonds to be happy.
What is carbon?
100
A common monomer of carbohydrates, found in glycogen, starch, and cellulose.
What is glucose?
100
The complement of cytosine.
What is guanine?
100
DNA → RNA → Protein
What is the central dogma of biology?
100
Adenosine Diphosphate.
What is ADP?
200
The reaction that links the monomers of proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates.
What is condensation?
200
A chain of many carbohydrate monomers.
What is a polysaccharide?
200
Unwinds the double helix and separates the two strands of DNA during DNA replication.
What is helicase?
200
The product of transcription.
What is mRNA?
200
The controlled release of energy from organic compounds to produce ATP.
What is cell respiration?
300
The property of water that describes the bonding of water to other polar molecules.
What is adhesion?
300
Glycerol joined to 3 Fatty Acids.
What is a triglyceride?
300
Discovered the structure of DNA using model making.
Who are Watson and Crick?
300
The site of protein translation; consists of a small and large subunit.
What is a ribosome?
300
Give a small yield of ATP from glucose.
What is anaerobic respiration?
400
Bonds that briefly join adjacent water molecules.
What are hydrogen bonds?
400
A change in the conformation of a protein, which results in a loss of function.
What is denaturation?
400
During DNA replication, each new DNA molecule consists of one original (parent) strand and a newly synthesized, complementary strand.
What is semi-conservative DNA replication?
400
The genetic sequence on mRNA that codes for polypeptides one amino acid at a time.
What is a codon?
400
The production of carbon compounds in cells using light energy.
What is photosynthesis?
500
Anabolism together with catabolism.
What is metabolism?
500
Fatty acids that contain hydrogen atoms located on the same side of the each double-bonded carbon.
What is a cis-fatty acid.
500
The bacteria used during Meselson and Stahl’s experiment.
What is E. coli?
500
The complement to a codon found on tRNA.
What is an anticodon?
500
The pigment that absorbs red and blue light most effectively and reflects green light more than other colors.
What is chlorophyll?
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