Proteins
Nucleic Acids
Carbohydrates
Lipids
Basic Chemistry
100
The monomer
What are amino acids?
100
Monomers
What are nucleotides?
100
The monomer of carbohydrates.
What are monosaccharides?
100
The two major parts of a lipid.
What are the glycogen and fatty acid chains.
100

What element is the backbone of life?

Carbon

200
The name for a polymer.
What is a polypeptide or protein?
200

Functions of DNA

genetic code

200
The major function of carbohydrates.
What is short term energy?
200
Has only single bonds and is solid at room temperature.
What is saturated lipid (fat)?
200
These lipids are found in the cell membrane.
What are phosphlipids?
300
There are ___ amino acids that build up into proteins.
What is 20?
300

Functions of RNA

make proteins

300
Examples are glucose, fructose and galactose.
What are monosaccharides?
300
Two major functions of a lipid.
What are long term energy (stored energy) and to make cell membrane?
300

Process of making a monomer.

What is hydrolysis?

400
A type of protein that speeds up chemical reactions.
What are Enzymes?
400
Name for the polymer of nucleic acids.
What is DNA and RNA?
400
Examples are cellulose, starch and glycogen.
What are polysaccharides?
400

What are the three types of lipids

Steroids, Fats, Phospholipids

400
When water is pulled out of monomers to join them into polymers
What is dehydration synthesis or Condensation?
500
The functions of proteins
What are for Structural support, membranes, protection, catalysts (enzymes), transport, defense (anti-bodies), non-steriod hormones, regulation, movement (remember MEANS)
500

Letters of nitrogenous bases/nucleotides

ATCG

500
the storage unit of carbohydrates in animals. Stores excess carbs in the liver.
What is glycogen?
500
This is an important lipid that is the precursor to many other lipids such as vitamin D.
What is cholesterol?
500
Carries oxygen in the blood to the rest of the body
What is hemoglobin?
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