Hydrocarbons
Isomers can be geometric or ________.
What is structural?
What are alcohols?
What is trans?
____________ are molecules composed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen in a 1:2:1 ratio.
What are carbohydrates?
__________ can make their own sugar using photosynthesis.
What are autotrophs?
_______ have at least one triple bond.
What are alkynes?
Outside of carbon and hydrogen, amines contain this element.
What is nitrogen?
This type of strain comes from resistance to twisting in a bond.
What is torsional strain?
The simplest sugars are called _________, of which glucose is an example.
What are monosaccharides?
What is a phosphate group?
A cycloheptane molecule has this amount of carbon atoms.
What is seven?
Citric acid is part of this group.
What are carboxylic acids?
The different conformers of butane form ______ different energy configurations.
What is four?
__________ are made of a carboxylic acid polar head and a non-polar hydrocarbon tail.
What are fatty acids?
In RNA, thymine is replaced by _________.
What is uracil?
1,3,5-cyclohextriene also has this name.
What is benzene?
What is substitution?
____________ is the most stable ring hydrocarbon because of its chair configuration.
What is cyclohexane?
Our bodies can synthesize _____ out of the 20 amino acids we need.
What is eleven?
Human cells contain 46 ___________.
What are chromosomes?
Derivatives of benzene are called by this name.
What are aromatic compounds?
Polymers are usually formed by either of these two reactions.
What are addition and condensation?
When two highest priority groups are on the same side of the double bond, we get a _____ isomer.
What is Z?
Proteins are formed when amino acids join via _______ bonds.
What are peptide bonds?
________ is the process of making an exact copy of an organism.
What is cloning?