Carbohydrates
Which three key elements are included in Carbohydrates?
What are carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen?
What are the two types of fats that are found with lipids?
What are saturated and unsaturated fats?
What elements are proteins made up of?
What are nitrogen, carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen?
What elements are nucleic acids made up of?
What are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, potassium, and sulfur?
What is a chemical reaction?
A process that changes, or transforms, one set of compounds into another.
What is the ratio of the three elements found in Carbohydrates?
What is 1:2:1?
Which key elements are found in lipids?
What are carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen?
What are amino acids?
Amino acids are compounds with an amino group on one end and a carboxyl group on the other.
What are nucleotides?
Nucleotides are monomers that consist of a 5-carbon sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitorgenous base.
What are the parts of a chemical equation and why is it the same on both sides?
There are reactants and products, and the Law of Conservation of Mass prevents matter from being created or destroyed.
What is the function of a Carbohydrate?
Organisms use carbohydrates to store and release energy, as well as for structural support and protection.
What is the difference between saturated and unsaturated fats?
Saturated fats contain the maximum number of hydrogen atoms, while unsaturated fats have fewer than the maximum number of hydrogen bonds.
What is the function of a protein?
Some proteins function to control the rate of reactions and regulate cell processes.
What is the function of nucleic acids?
Nucleic acids store and transmit hereditary, or genetic, information.
What is the difference between a catalyst and an inhibitor?
A catalyst speeds up or starts a chemical reaction, while an inhibitor slows or stops it.
What is the difference between starch and glycogen?
Glycogen is made up of only one molecule while starch is made up of two. Also, glycogen is manly found in animals while starch is found in plants.
What are phospholipids made up of?
A glycerol molecule with a phosphate group and two fatty acids.
All amino acids are identical in the regions where they may be joined together by what type of bond?
What is a covalent bond?
What are the two types of nucleic acids and what are their full names?
What are ribonucleic acids and deoxyribonucleic acids?
What are substrates?
The reactants of enzyme-catalyzed reactions.
What is the name of the monosaccharide that is a component in milk and fructose?
What is galactose?
If there is at least one carbon-carbon double bond in a fatty acid, what type of fat is the acid?
What is unsaturated?
What are the monomers of polypeptides?
What are amino acids?
What are the four elements that are most commonly found in a strand of deoxyribonucleic acid?
What are adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine?
What is the role of enzymes in relation to chemical reactions?
The role of enzymes is to speed up chemical reactions that take place in cells and to break things down.