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All Kinds of Energy
Four Letter Code
Bulking Season
Oil-ympians
100
Definition of a Macromolecules
What is a molecule containing a very large number of atoms, such as a protein, nucleic acid, or synthetic polymer?
100
Organic molecules that serve as a primary source of energy for living organisms
What are Carbohydrates?
100
Contains genetic information in the form of genes
What is DNA or RNA
100
The monomers of proteins
What are amino acids?
100
The two fats that make up Lipids
What are Saturated and Unsaturated Fats?
200
Name the four types of biological Macromolecules
What are Carbohydrates, Proteins, Lipids, Nucleic Acids?
200
The monomer found in the Carbohydrates starch, cellulose, and glycogen
What is Glucose
200
The monomer of DNA, and RNA
What is a nucleotide
200
Enzymes, Antibodies, and Ribosomes are an example of this type of macromolecule
What are Proteins?
200
Definition of Steroids
What are lipids characterized by a carbon skeleton consisting of four fused rings?
300
Definition of a Polymer
What is a long molecule consisting of many similar building blocks?
300
The simplest Carbohydrates
What is Monosaccharides or Single sugars?
300
A three letter polymer of nucleotides (two accepted answers)
DNA or RNA
300
Two Functions of Proteins
What is (any 2 of)..
Catalyze chemical reactions
Provide structural support
Transport and receive signals from outside cells
Transport substances
Protects against disease
300
Function of Phospholipids
What is responsible for the structure and function of the cell membrane?
400
The building blocks in a Polymer
What is a Monomer?
400
How many sugar molecules are in a disaccharide
What is 2?
400
The three structural components of the nucleotide
What are Phosphate Group, Sugar, and a Nitrogenous base
400
This process can use heat, or pH changes to change or destroy the natural structure, or characteristics of a protein
What is to denature.
400
Which of the four Macromolecules are Hydrophobic (water fearing)
What is Lipids?
500
Which of the four classes of life’s organic molecules are NOT polymers
What is Lipids?
500
The elements found in carbohydrates
What are C:2H:O?
500
The four nitrogenous bases that make up DNA
BONUS: The base(s) found in RNA
You can name just the letters.
DNA: A T G C (adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine)
RNA: A U G C (adenine, urine, guanine, cytosine)
500
The elements Amino Acids are made up of
What are Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen, Nitrogen and (bonus) Sulfer Atoms?
500
DAILY DOUBLE:
Identify 4 bio-molecules in this image
