Carbohydrates
This monomer is the basic unit for larger carbohydrates.
What is a monosaccharide?
This compound is the backbone of a triglyceride and bonds to three fatty acids.
What is glycerol?
This monomer contains an anime group and a carboxyl group.
What is an amino acid?
DNA and RNA are polymers of this compound.
What are nuclotides?
A liposome is an artificial vesicle used in drug delivery. It is highly biocompatible due to this phosphate containing lipid.
What is a phospholipid bilayer?
The product of the dehydration synthesis of two monosaccharides.
What is a disaccharide?
What is hydrophobic?
Hydrolysis of this compound would produce two amino acids.
What is a dipeptide?
Nucleic acids are made of a nitrogenous base, a sugar, and this functional group.
What is a phosphate group?
A single gram of this polymer can store up to 215 petabytes of digital data when converted from binary into quaternary code.
What is DNA?
Animals cannot create starch, so they store their carbohydrates as this polysaccharide.
What is glycogen?
Many oils are liquid at room temperature because they are made of this type of fatty acid.
What are unsaturated fatty acids?
The careful folding of this structure turns it from a "string of beads" into a functional protein.
What is a polypeptide?
Each nucleotide in your DNA has a nitrogenous base that corresponds to one of these four letters.
What are A, T, C, and G?
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is caused by prions, an infectious and incorrectly folded version of these macromolecules.
What are proteins.
This carbohydrate is largely undigested by humans but is an important food source for ruminants thanks to their gut microbiome.
What is cellulose?
What is a phospholipid?
A lipoprotein's job is to transport materials throughout the body. These molecules are a combination of a protein and this other macromolecule.
What is a lipid?
The D from DNA comes from this sugar.
What is deoxyribose?
Many bacterial cell walls are composed of a compound called peptidoglycan, which is made of these two types of macromolecules.
What are proteins and carbohydrates?
This carbohydrate forms the exoskeletons of bees, lobsters, and all other arthropods.
What is chitin?
This type of lipid is produced by a the uropygial gland of waterfowl and helps water run off their backs.
What is wax?
This type of protein acts as a chemical messenger, signaling growth, metabolism, reproduction, and other bodily functions.
What are hormones?
This polymer carries information from the nucleus to a ribosome.
What is mRNA?
From the Greek for "foreign" or "strange," this prefix in "XNA" highlights the unnatural, synthetic nature of its molecular backbone and shares the prefix of the alien that attacked Ellen Ripley.
What is xeno? (Xeno nucleic acid)