Elements of Life
The fundamental building blocks of the universe.
What are atoms?
Biological Macromolecules.
What are "friend groups" of atoms that make up all living things?
High heat capacity.
What is the quality that water needs a lot of energy to heat up?
The four elements that make up 96% of living things.
What are Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, and Oxygen?
A macromolecule that primarily provides energy for living things.
What are carbohydrates?
The quality of water molecules which allows them to stick tightly to each other.
What is cohesion?
The most fundamental element for life on earth.
What is carbon?
The three atoms that make up carbohydrates and fats.
What are Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen?
The quality of water molecules that allows them to stick to other substances.
What is adhesion?
Two of the four minor elements that living things need.
What are phosphorous, Sulfur, Calcium, and Potassium?
What are carbohydrates (energy, bread), fats (long term energy and protect cells, olive oil), proteins (build and repair muscle, pinto beans), and nucleic acids (store genetic information, all living things).
Polarity.
What is the quality of water molecules that causes them to create strong bonds called hydrogen bonds due to the strength of the oxygen atom pulling electrons toward itself, making one end of the molecule positive, and one negative (like the north pole and south pole, or a magnet).