Lipids
The reason fatty acids store a lot of energy.
What is having a lot of bonds/carbon & hydrogen in long chains?
This biology term indicates that a molecule is not soluble in water.
What is hydrophobic?
The name for many linked amino acids.
What is a polypeptide?
The stage of digestion where we actually eat food.
What is ingestion?
Two functions of lipids.
What are energy storage, structure, and hormones/communication?
This is the type of bond that forms between water molecules due to their polarity.
What is a hydrogen bond?
The monomer of a protein.
What is an amino acid?
The name for two monomers of a carbohydrate linked together.
What is a disaccharide?
Patterns of behavior/things we can only see in biology if we look at the bigger picture (cannot be seen in studying individual parts alone)
What are emergent properties?
The difference between saturated and unsaturated fatty acids.
What is a double bond/a kink in unsaturated fatty acids that leads them to be liquid instead of solid?
This property of water allows for water to remain liquid even with high temperature variation.
What is the high specific heat of water?
The difference between different types of amino acids.
One function of nucleic acids and two functions of carbohydrates.
What is nucleic acids storing genetic information and carbohydrates storing energy or acting as structure?
Something included in the Total Carbohydrates label on a Nutrition Facts sheet that we cannot absorb/digest.
What is dietary fiber?
The main difference between the head and tails of a phospholipid.
The head is hydrophilic (because of the charged phosphate group) while the tails are hydrophobic.
The number of valence electrons on a typical carbon atom that allows the carbon to form this number of bonds.
What are four valence electrons?
What are signaling/hormones, structural support, movement, transport, immunity, enzymes/reactions, and more?
At least two differences between DNA and RNA.
What is DNA being a double helix while RNA is single, DNA and RNA having different sugars, and RNA containing U (uracil) while DNA contains T (thymine)?
Two possible micronutrient deficiencies in the US.
What are iron, vitamin D, calcium, magnesium, potassium, and B vitamins? (Or other common vitamins/minerals!)
The three types of lipids we discussed and an example of one of them.
Fats, phospholipids, and steroids - many example options for fats & steroids
The difference between adhesion and cohesion.
Adhesion is water molecules sticking to another surface/substance, while cohesion is water molecules sticking to each other (due to polarity)
Two things that can lead to denaturation.
The part of a nucleotide that varies/creates the code of DNA and RNA.
A substance that helps maintain steady pH in solutions by donating or accepting protons when acids or bases are added to the solution.
What is a buffer?