Vocab
Stores energy in plants then turns to sugar after it is broken down.
What are starches?
Provides functions to the cells
What are sugars?
What is cellulose?
Speeds up biochemical reactions.
What are enzymes?
Liquid lipids that plants use to store energy.
What are oils?
Store energy in animals.
What are fats?
Regulate life processes.
What are hormones?
Stores genetic information in the nucleus of the cell.
What is DNA?
Reading the genetic code that helps make proteins.
What is RNA?
Nitrogen bases found in both DNA and RNA.
What is adenine?
All living things need this.
What is energy?
Building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
Class of biochemical compounds that includes cellulose.
What are carbohydrates?
Green pigment that captures light energy.
What is chlorophyll?
A process in which certain organisms make glucose.
What is photosynthesis?
Unsaturated hydrocarbons with at least one double bond.
What are alkenes?
A process in which cells break down glucose and release energy.
What is cellular respiration?
A large molecule that consists of many smaller molecules joined together by covalent bonds.
What is a polymer?
Small molecule joined with other small molecules by covalent bonds to form a much larger molecule.
What is a monomer?
Molecules with the same atoms but different shapes.
What is an isomer?
A protein depends on its overall shape, sequence of amino acids, and number of amino acid chains.
What is the function of proteins?
Saturated hydrocarbons such as ethane.
What are alkanes?
Unsaturated hydrocarbons with at least one triple bond.
What are alkynes?
Long carbon chains found in lipids.
What is a fatty acid?
A general name given to biochemical polymers.
What are macromolecules?