Carbohydrates
Lipids
Proteins
Enzymes
Carbon
100
A simple sugar consisting of one sugar unit
What is a monosaccharide?
100
This lipid is also a steroid that is the base for other steroids and is responsible for keeping water in our cells
What is cholesterol?
100
Monomers that bond in a long chain to create a polypeptide
What are amino acids?
100
Something that speeds up chemical reactions
What is a catalyst?
100
Carbon backbones
What are carbon skeletons?
200
A sugar consisting of two bonded simple sugars. Example: sucrose
What is a disaccharide?
200
This fat has a double bond in at least one of the fatty acid chains
What is an unsaturated fat?
200
Consists of one or more polypeptide chains
What is a protein?
200
The energy required to begin a chemical reaction
What is activation energy?
200
Three shapes that carbon can form
What are ring, branched chain and straight chain?
300
Starch is an example of this carbohydrate consisting of many simple sugar units
What is a polysaccharide?
300
These fats are solid at room temperature and contain no double bonds within the fatty acid chains
What are saturated fats?
300
Two things that can affect protein shape
What are the sequence of amino acids and the surrounding environment?
300
How an enzyme catalyzes reactions in our cells at normal body temperature
What is by lowering activation energy?
300
Building a polymer by releasing or removing water
What is dehydration?
400
Almost all carbohydrates attract water so they are referred to as this...
What is hydrophilic?
400
The carbon backbone in a saturated or unsaturated fat
What is glycerol?
400
The term for the shape of proteins
What is globular?
400
The location on an enzyme that binds the substrate so that the reaction can take place
What is the active site?
400
Breaking a polymer by adding water
What is hydrolysis?
500
A polysaccharide found in plant cells that humans cannot digest (fiber)
What is cellulose?
500
The differences between unsaturated and saturated fats
What are: saturated fats have no double bonds in fatty acid chains and are solid at room temperature?
500
A change in protein shape due to increased temperature or change in pH
What is denaturation?
500
Denaturation
What is a change in temperature or pH that results in a non-functioning protein or enzyme?
500
One contains carbon, one doesn't
What is the difference between organic and inorganic molecules?
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