Carbohydrates
These are the three most abundant elements in carbohydrates.
What are C, H and O?
Lipids are more commonly referred to as these.
What are fats?
These are the MONOmers that make up protein POLYmers.
What are amino acids?
These are the two types of nucleic acids.
What are DNA and RNA?
Since oil and water don't mix, they are said to be "hydro- 'THIS' "
What is "hydro- 'PHOBIC.'"
Humans and other animals use the energy from the breakdown of this carbohydrate to fuel all life-sustaining processes.
What is glucose?
These types of "unhealthy" fats contain a greater number of hydrogen atoms, melt at higher temperatures than their "healthier" counterparts, and are found in milk, cheese, and other dairy products.
What are "saturated" fats?
These two words starting with the letters "S" and "F" refer to the incredibly important purposes and processes in which proteins are involved for all forms of life.
What are "Structure" and "Function?"
These are the three types of RNA.
What are messenger-RNA, transfer-RNA, and ribosomal-RNA?
Potatoes are one of the best sources of this carbohydrate which plants synthesize and store for future energy use.
What is starch?
This most abundant carbohydrate in all of nature, it is the main structural component of the walls of plant cells.
What is cellulose?
These types of "healthy" fats contain fewer hydrogen atoms, occasional C=C double-bonds, melt at lower temperatures than their "unhealthy" counterparts, and are found in fish and olive oil.
What are "unsaturated" fats?
These chemical compounds, most of which are proteins, catalyze other chemical reactions.
What are enzymes?
In this process, the nucleic acid sequence in DNA is used as the template to synthesize messenger-RNA.
What is transcription?
A lipid molecule consists of these two structural components.
What are glycerol and fatty acids?
This is the chemical formula of glucose.
What is C6H12O6?
Fats that aren't needed by the body right away are stored as these. (Don't HIDE if the lab work that your Dr. ordered states that the level of these in your blood are too high!)
What are triglyderIDEs?
This process in which the language of messenger-RNA is used synthesize proteins from amino acids.
What is translation?
This will be the corresponding strand of DNA if this strand is the template: GCA-CGT-ATG-TCA
What is: CGT-GCA-TAC-AGT?
These two sugars are components of RNA and DNA, respectively.
What are ribose and deoxyribose?
This sugar is the carbohydrate component of DNA.
What is deoxyribose?
This is the scientific term for fatty tissue.
What is adipose?
This hormone which controls the level of glucose in the blood was the first protein to have its complete amino acid sequence determined.
What is insulin?
This will be the resulting strand of messenger-RNA if this strand of DNA is the template: ACT-GTA-CAG-TGC
What is: UGA-CAU-GUC-ACG?
The names of nearly all enzymes end in these three letters?
What are "-ase?"