Reactions and Bonds
Reaction that builds polymers.
What is a dehydration reaction?
A positively charged subatomic particle.
What is a proton?
Water molecules sticking together.
What is cohesion?
Molecules composed only of carbon and hydrogen.
What are hydrocarbons?
The four major classes of macromolecules.
What are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids?
Reaction that breaks polymers.
What is hydrolysis?
The atomic property determined by number of protons.
What is atomic number?
Scale measuring acidity or basicity.
What is pH?
Molecules with same formula but different structures.
What are isomers?
Small building blocks of polymers.
What are monomers?
Molecules that speed chemical reactions.
What are enzymes?
Atoms of the same element with different neutrons.
What are isotopes?
Substance that stabilizes pH.
What is a buffer?
Mirror-image isomers.
What are enantiomers?
Long chains of repeating units.
What are polymers?
Weak attraction involving hydrogen atoms.
What are hydrogen bonds?
Bonds formed by sharing electrons.
What are covalent bonds?
Reason ice floats in water.
What is lower density of ice compared to liquid water?
Groups responsible for chemical reactivity.
What are functional groups?
Storage carbohydrate in animals.
What is glycogen?
Bond connecting monosaccharides.
What is a glycosidic linkage?
Attraction between oppositely charged ions.
What is an ionic bond?
Substance that increases hydrogen ion concentration.
What is an acid?
Maximum number of bonds carbon forms.
What is four covalent bonds?
Structural carbohydrate in plants.
What is cellulose?