Carbohydrates
Lipids
Proteins
Nucleic Acids
Properties of Water
100
These are the building blocks of carbohydrates.
What is sugar or monosaccharides?
100
Lipids contain some oxygen but are mostly made up of these two elements.
What are carbon and hydrogen?
100
The building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
100
These are the building blocks of nucleic acids.
What are nucleotides?
100
The property of water causes surface tension which allows bugs to walk on water.
What is cohesion?
200
Three examples of a carbohydrate.
What are glucose, fructose, sucrose, lactose, and glycogen?
200
Three examples of lipids.
What are fats, oils, and waxes?
200
Two functions of proteins.
What are transport substances, speed up reactions, provide structural support, make hormones, and repair damaged tissue?
200
Two functions of nucleic acids.
What are storage and communication of genetic information?
200
The property of water that helps water move along and be pulled through different materials.
What is adhesion or capillary action?
300
Two functions of carbohydrates.
What are short term energy storage and structural support?
300
The two main functions of lipids.
What are long term energy storage and providing barriers?
300
This type of protein speeds up chemical reactions.
What are enzymes?
300
The two types of nucleic acids.
What are DNA and RNA?
300
The property of water that dissolves substances in order to transport materials into and out of the cell.
What is being a universal solvent?
400
The shape of a monosaccharide.
What is a ring?
400
A type of fat has at least one double bond present in the tail.
What is an unsaturated fat?
400
This is how enzymes are able to speed up chemical reactions.
What is lowering the activation energy?
400
The long hand name of DNA and RNA.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid and ribonucleic acid?
400
Water being able to do this in lakes helps fish survive in the winter.
What does forming ice to act as an insulating layer do?
500
The ratio of elements in a carbohydrate.
What is one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms for each carbon atom?
500
The trait that makes lipids repel water and function well as cell membranes.
What is non-polar or hydrophobic?
500
The three parts of an amino acid.
What is an amino group, carboxyl group, and a variable group (R group)?
500
The three parts of a nucleotide.
What is a sugar, phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base?
500
The reason why water is such a good universal solvent.
What is polarity?
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