Carbs
What simple sugar is the primary source of energy for the body?
What is glucose?
What is the primary function of lipids in the body?
What is long-term energy storage?
What monomer makes up proteins?
What are amino acids?
What are the two main types of nucleic acids?
What are DNA and RNA?
What are the four main elements that make up most living organisms?
What are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur?
What type of carbohydrate is made up of two sugar molecules?
What is a disaccharide?
What type of lipid is commonly known as fats and oils?
What are triglycerides?
What type of bond connects amino acids together?
What is a peptide bond?
What is the building block of nucleic acids?
What is a nucleotide?
What element is the backbone of all organic molecules?
What is carbon?
What is the storage form of glucose in animals?
What is glycogen?
What is the term for lipids that do not mix with water?
What are hydrophobic?
The twenty amino acids differ by what group?
What is the R group?
What sugar is found in RNA?
What is ribose?
What is the term for the smallest unit of an element?
What is an atom?
What is a polysaccharide found in plants that provides structural support?
What is cellulose?
What is a fatty acid that has at least one double bond in its carbon chain?
What is an unsaturated fatty acid?
What protein is responsible for speeding up chemical reactions in the body?
What are enzymes?
In DNA, what base pairs with adenine?
What is thymine?
What element is essential for the formation of nucleic acids?
What is phosphorus?
What is the formula for glucose?
What is C₆H₁₂O₆?
What type of lipid forms the cell membrane?
What are phospholipids?
What is the process called when a protein loses its functional shape?
What is denaturation?
How do DNA and RNA differ in structure?
What is DNA is double-stranded and RNA is single-stranded?
What is the most abundant element in the human body?
What is oxygen?