Characteristics of Living Things & A Little Bit of Chemistry
The 5 characteristics of living things.
What is they move, reproduce, require a source of energy, grow & develop, and respond to their environment?
The most important carbohydrate for living things. Known as the fuel on which they run.
What is glucose?
Lipids are composed primarily of these 3 atoms.
What are carbon, hydrogen, & oxygen?
Proteins are built from smaller units called this.
What are amino acids?
The pH scale ranges from this to this.
What is 0-14?
Tiny bits of matter that all living and non-living things are made up of.
What are atoms?
Single molecule carbohydrate.
What is a monosaccharide?
The 2 main portions of lipid molecules.
What are the glycerol portion and the fatty acid portion?
Amino acids are linked together to form these.
What are peptides?
Values less than 7 are this and values greater than 7 are this.
What are acidic & basic?
Found in the nucleus of an atom.
What are protons and neutrons?
Enzymes work to join carbohydrates as well as this.
What is lyse?
Fatty acids are chains of this kind of atom ranging from 4-24 in length.
What are carbon atoms?
The process of linking amino acids into peptides is known as this.
What is dehydration synthesis?
The value of 7 is said to be this.
What is 7?
The type of bond that transfers electrons from one atom to another.
What is an ionic bond?
Enzymes are named similarly to the carbohydrates on which they act and end in this.
What is --ase?
The lipid is classified as being a monoglyceride, diglyceride, or triglyceride depending upon this.
What is the number of fatty acid chains present in the lipid?
Our bodies utilize enzymes through a process known as this.
What is hydrolysis?
7.4
What is the pH of blood?
The 4 elements vitally important to living things.
What are carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen?
The storage of glucose in plants is known as this.
What is amylose?
Saturated fatty acids are this at room temperature while UNsaturated fatty acids are this at room temperature.
What is solids and liquids?
Proteins are generally this sized molecule.
What is very large?
This type of paper is used to determine the presence of an acid or base.
What is litmus paper?