These are the basic unit of life: the smallest organisms only have 1, while the largest have trillions.
What are cells?
100
This is the chemical formula for water.
What is H2O?
100
Each of these monomers have an amino group and a carboxyl group attached to a central carbon.
What is an amino acid?
100
These are monomers of carbohydrates.
What are sugars or monosaccharides?
100
These are the monomers of nucleic acids.
What is a nucleotide?
200
This macromolecule consists of the code that all living things share. Hereditary information is help in its structure.
What is DNA?
200
These unequal bonds are the reasons water has a such important properties.
What are polar bonds?
200
This is the chain of amino acids bonded together, from the first to the last.
What is primary structure?
200
Cellulose provides this for plant cells.
What is structure?
200
All the C-C bonds are single bonds in this type of lipid.
What is saturated?
300
This type of reproduction allows for offspring to have a mix of genetic information from each parent.
What is sexual reproduction?
300
This is the property of water that allows it to stick to itself, allowing it to move up to the top of plants.
What is cohesion?
300
These are two secondary structures found in proteins.
What are alpha-helix and beta-sheet?
300
This macromolecule occurs when two monomers bind together.
What is a disaccharide?
300
Hormones are a type of this molecule.
What are lipids.
400
When living things respond to their environment, they are responding to these signals.
What are stimuli?
400
This property of water accounts for its ability to maintain a constant temperature. This property keeps costal areas cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
What is specific heat (or heat capacity)?
400
This is the bond that is found between the C and N that bind different amino acids together. This bond also lends its name to a nickname for proteins.
What is a peptide bond?
400
This is the general formula for all carbohydrages
What is (CH2O)n?
400
Heredity information is transmitted out of the nucleus by this molecule.
What is RNA?
500
When organisms maintain a stable internal environment, they do this. It comes from the latin, meaning "same state."
What is homeostasis?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
These types of compounds do not dissolve in water.
What are non-polar compounds?
500
These proteins lower the activation energy of reactions by binding to substrates to help chemical reactions occur more quickly.
What are enzymes?
500
The six-carbon molecule glucose is the basis for this process, by which energy is gained by breaking down nutrients.