Chemistry
An element with the symbol C
What is carbon?
A mixture in which one or more substances is dissolved and evenly distributed in another substance
What is a solution?
An organic compound containing carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in a 1:2:1 ratio
What is a carbohydrate.
Single organic molecules that can be linked together to make larger molecules
What is a monomer?
A type of polymer that contains more carbon and hydrogen than oxygen and does not dissolve in water
What is a lipid?
This element has eight protons
What is oxygen?
The bonds between the oxygen and hydrogen atoms in a water molecule
What are covalent bonds?
A polymer made of amino acids
What is a protein?
A large molecule made by linking together many monomers
What is a polymer?
Any substance that forms hydroxide ions (OH-) in a water solution; greater than 7 on the pH scale
What is a base?
A subatomic particle with very little mass and a negative electrical charge found outside the nucleus of an atom
What is an electron?
Any substance that forms hydrogen ions (H+) in a water solution (pH lower than 7)
What is an acid?
Large organic molecules that store genetic information
What are nucleic acids?
The number of bonds one carbon atom can form
What is four?
Particle in the nucleus of the atom that does not have an electrical charge
What is a neutron?
The sum of protons and neutrons in an atom
What is mass number?
The name given to a water molecule because of opposite charges on either end of the molecule
What is polar?
A polysaccharide made by animals to store energy in the muscles and liver
What is glycogen?
A term for a compound that speeds up the rate of a chemical reaction
What is an enzyme?
Carbon-13 is an isotope that contain this many neutrons
What is 7?
Atoms of the same element with different numbers of neutrons
What is an isotope?
The bond that holds two water molecules together
What is hydrogen bond?
A type of covalent bond found between amino acids
What is a peptide bond?
The chemical process of removing a monomer from a polymer by breaking a bond using a water molecule
What is hydrolysis?
A type of bond found most frequently in carbon compounds
What is a covalent bond?