Air/ Climate
Compounds composed specifically of hydrogen and carbon.
What is a hydrocarbon?
A type of bond that is formed by 2 atoms, each contributing 1 electron to a shared electron pair.
What is a covalent bond?
Adenine, Guanine, cytosine, & Thymine
What are the nitrogenous bases of DNA?
Three fatty acid molecules and one glycerol molecule
What is a triglyceride?
The ability of an atom in a bond to attract electrons to itself
What is electronegativity?
The process in which a substance burns in oxygen ...
What is combustion?
The number 6.02214076 x 10^23.
What is Avogadro's number?
The unique identity and sequence of the amino acid that make up each protein
What is a primary structure?
fats, carbohydrates, and proteins, that provide essentially all of the energy and most of the raw material for body repair and synthesis
What are macronutrients
The most electromagnetic element
What is Flourine?
Volcanic eruptions, forest fires, dust storms
What are examples of natural aerosols?
The relative ability of an atom to attract shared electrons to itself.
What is electronegativity?
DNA from one organism should have a 1:1 stoichiometric ratio of complementary nucleotides.
What is Chargaff's Rule?
A naturally occuring organic compound containing a carbon skeleton arranged in 4 rings.
What is a steriod?
the force that is responsible for the abnormally high boiling and melting point of water
What is hydrogen bonding
Natural process by which atmospheric gases trap a major portion of the infrared radiation radiated by earth
What is the greenhouse effect?
Elements tend to bond in such ways that allows each atom to have eight electrons in its valence shell
What is the octet rule?
What is the process that results in the linking of amino acids coded for by a molecule of RNA?
What is translation?
a fatty acid where hydrocarbon molecules have a hydrogen atom on every carbon
What is saturated fat?
the property of water that allows for regulation of body temperature in addition to costal temperatures. It's also the reason why pools are so expensive to maintain.
What is high heat capacity?
A chemical substance that participates in a chemical reaction and influences its rate without undergoing permanent change.
What is a catalyst?
A carbon atom with four different groups attached.
What is a chiral carbon?
The force of attraction between the 2 strands of DNA that helps stabilize the double helix.
What is hydrogen bonding?
Fats that contain one double carbon bond.
What are monounsaturated fats?
movement of solvent from a solution of lower concentration to solution of higher concentration
What is osmosis?