Proteins
The monomer of proteins.
What are amino acids?
The closest thing lipids have to monomers?
What are fatty acids?
The monomer of carbohydrates.
The monomer of nucleic acid.
What are nucleotides?
Enzymes that break things apart.
What are catabolic enzymes/reactions?
The polymer of proteins.
What are polypeptides?
The polymers of lipids.
What are triglycerides and phospholipids?
The polymer of carbohydrates.
What are polysaccharides?
The polymer of nucleic acids.
What is DNA & RNA?
Enzymes that build things up.
What are anabolic reactions/enzymes?
The function of proteins.
What are hormones, enzymes, rebuilding tissue, antibodies, and energy as a last resort.
The function of lipids.
What is long-term energy duration, membranes, and the insulation and protection of organs.
The function of carbohydrates.
What is energy for now and later?
The function of nucleic acid.
What is storing and carrying genetic information?
The body's way of balancing catabolic and anabolic enzymes.
The structure of amino acids.
What is hydrogen, amino groups, carboxyl groups, and side chains?
What is a hydrophilic head and hydrophobic tails?
The amount of sugar molecules in a disaccharide.
What are two sugar molecules?
The structure of a nucleotide.
What is a nitrogenous base, sugar, and phosphates?
A reaction that results in water and chains sugars together.
What is dehydration synthesis?
The four protein structures.
What is primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary?
The structure of a trigyleride.
What is one glyceride and three fatty acids?
A polysaccharide that cannot be digested or turned into energy.
What is cellulose?
The nitrogenous bases of RNA.
What is adenine, uracil, cytosine, and guanine?
The opposite of dehydration synthesis that uses water to break apart sugar chains.
What is hydrolysis?