Carb Challenge
The primary role of a carbohydrate is to provide this.
What is energy?
This commonly referred to triglyceride can provide insulation to a cold climate organism.
What is fat?
While other molecules provide energy, protein is more so involved with this.
What is structure?
It may be the tiniest organelle, but it's the one that could make large proteins.
What is a ribosome?
The two basic nucleic acids that use slightly different coding are these.
What are DNA and RNA?
This is the simplest carbohydrate with a name that means "one sugar".
What is a monosaccharide?
It's the only alcohol that makes up a triglyceride.
What is glycerol?
They are the basic building blocks of protein.
What are amino acids?
The ribosome "reads" this molecule directly in the protein making process.
What is mRNA?
The shape of DNA looks like a spiral staircase, but it's true name is this.
What is a double helix?
This disaccharide is found in milk and its presence makes some people intolerant.
What is lactose?
It is a liquid fat at room temperature.
What is oil?
It is the number of different protein building blocks.
What are 20?
tRNA has been compared to a taxi cab because it can pick up and drop off these molecules?
What are amino acids?
It is the organelle in which DNA is always found.
What is the nucleus?
It is the chemical formula for glucose, galactose and fructose.
What is C6H12O6?
The number of fatty acids required to produce a fat molecule.
What is three?
It is the type of bond that links protein building blocks.
What is a peptide bond?
Protein synthesis takes place in this colloidal part of the cell.
What is the cytoplasm?
The code of nucleic acids can only be used to make this.
What is a polypeptide or a protein?
Plant cell walls are made up of this polysaccharide.
What is cellulose?
It's this kind of fatty acid, having at least one double bond between its carbon atoms.
What is an unsaturated fatty acid?
If 40 protein building blocks were linked together, we could call it this.
What is a polypeptide?
It's the type of RNA that makes up a ribosome.
What is rRNA?
It is the result of DNA making mRNA.
What is transcription?