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The dissociated atoms that are free floating in an acidic solution.
What are hydrogen ions?
Loss of structural function due to changes in pH or temperature.
What is denaturation?
The total number of anabolic and catabolic reactions which occur in a cell.
What is metabolism?
The polysaccharide which forms the cell wall of most plants and is indigestible by animals due to the beta glycosidic linkages.
What is cellulose?
The portion of a phospholipid which makes the molecule hydrophilic. A unique factor in lipids.
What is a phosphate group?
The force created from bonds between non-like polar molecules. Enables capillary action.
What is adhesion?
The portion of amino acid structure which determines protein conformation.
What are R Groups?
The components which make up a nucleic acid monomer.
What are sugar, phosphate, and nitrogenous base?
A bond formed between two carbohydrate monomers with the hydroxyl group and hydrogen on opposite planes
What is a beta-glycosidic linkage?
The number of fatty acids found bonded to a glycerol molecule in a triglyceride.
What is three?
An emergent property of water molecules in which the alignment of hydrogen bonds enables some organisms to walk on water.
What is surface tension?
Localized folding in a polypeptide such as alpha helices and beta sheets.
What is the secondary structure of proteins?
A nucleic acid which is located outside of a Eukaryota nucleus.
What is RNA?
The general molecular formula for polysaccharides.
What is CH2O?
The three main categories of biological lipids.
What are steroids, triglycerides, and phospholipids?
The weak bonds that result from the polarity of water molecules.
What are hydrogen bonds?
The bonds formed through dehydration reactions linking amino acids.
What are peptide bonds?
The names of the large nitrogenous bases (purines) in nucleic acids.
What are Adenine, guanine?
A molecule composed of two monosaccharides.
What is a dissaccharide?
The "monomer" of many lipids.
What is glycerol or fatty acids?
The emergent property of water which allows a large amount of energy input before a state change occurs.
What is specific heat?
The four structures that are found attached to the central carbon of an amino acid.
The location on a nucleotide in which phosphodiester bonds are added.
What is the 3' carbon?
The highly branched polysaccharide found in muscle and liver tissue in high concentrations.
What is glycogen?
When a fatty acid is kinked due to formation of double bonds between carbons.
What is unsaturation?