What is an enzyme?
Follow up ?: What can cause an enzyme to denature? Why is this significant?
100
A chemical substance that neutralizes a small amount of acid or base added to a solution.
What is a buffer?
Follow up ?: Why are buffers so important in biological systems?
100
A big molecule that is a long chain of similar smaller molecules bound together.
What is a polymer?
Follow up ?: Which of the 4 large biological molecules that we studied are polymers?
100
The overall 3D shape of a protein.
What is tertiary structure?
Follow up ?: What other two types of structures do all proteins have?
100
Its monomer is a nucleotide.
What is a nucleic acid?
Follow up ?: What is the function of nucleic acids?
200
A mixture in which one of more substances are uniformly distributed in another substance.
What is a solution?
Follow up ?: In an aqueous solution what is the solvent? What is a solute?
200
When an electron is transferred from one atom to another.
What is an ionic bond?
Follow up ?; When do ionic bonds occur?
200
The region on an enzyme where the substrate docks.
What is the active site?
Follow up ?: Is an enzyme consumed, or changed permanently by its reaction with substrate?
200
The monomer is the amino acid.
What is a protein?
Follow up ?: What is the one part of an amino acid that changes from amino acid to amino acid? What are the other parts of an amino acid?
200
On this kind of triglyceride there are several carbon-carbon double bonds.
What is a polyunsaturated fat?
Follow up?: In what state are polyunsaturated fats at room temperature? Why?
300
A bond where a pair of electrons are shared unequally.
What is a polar covalent bond?
Follow up ?: What causes this kind of bond to happen?
300
A substance in which the hydrogen ion concentration is greater than the hydroxide ion concentration.
What is an acid?
Follow up ?: What is the pH of an acid? What is a substance where the hydrogen ion concentration is lower than the hydroxide ion concentration? What is its pH?
300
A reaction that binds monomers together.
What is a dehydration reaction?
Follow up ?: What is the other product of a dehydration molecule besides the polymer?
300
It is a biological molecule that is not a macromolecule. It is also hydrophobic.
What is a lipid?
Follow up ?: What is the basic structure of a triglyceride?
300
Branched chains of polymers of glucose that animals use to store excess glucose in liver and muscle tissue.
What is glycogen?
Follow up ?: What are the structures and functions of the two other polysaccharides that we discussed?
400
When the outermost shell is full.
What is stable?
Follow up?: What does an atom do to become stable? When is an atom neutral?
400
Universal solvent of anything that has a charge. Its solid form is less dense than its liquid form. Cohesion. High heat capacity.
What are the four unique characteristics of water?
Follow up ?: Why does each occur?
400
What is the only part of a nucleotide that changes from nucleotide to nucleotide?
What is a nitrogenous base?
Follow up ?: What is the one nitrogenous base that DNA has, but RNA does not? What does RNA have instead?
400
It is a sugar or a polymer of sugars.
What is a carbohydrate?
Follow up ?: What are the three main categories of carbohydrates?
400
The nucleic acid that is double stranded.
What is DNA?
Follow up ?: What kind of 5 Carbon sugar does it have? What about RNA?
500
The weighted average of all isotope masses for an element.
What is the atomic mass?
Follow up ?: What is the atomic number? What is the mass number?
500
The intermolecular attraction between water molecules.
What is a hydrogen bond?
Follow up ?: Why do hydrogen bonds happen between water molecules?
500
A simple organic molecule that is only composed of carbon and hydrogen.
What is a hydrocarbon?
Follow up ?: Are hydrocarbons polar or non polar?
500
A group of atoms in a large organic molecule that is directly involved in chemical reactions and that add characteristics like polarity or acidity that affect the molecule's function.
What is a functional group?
500
The pH of a solution that has a hydrogen ion concentration that is one thousand times more dilute than distilled water.
What is a pH of 10?
Follow up ?: Why is the pH of distilled water 7?