Proteins
Nucleic Acids
Carbohydrates
Lipids
Macromolecules
100
The monomer
What are amino acids?
100
Monomers
What are nucleotides?
100
monomer
What are monosaccharides?
100
Most common lipid used for long term energy storage
What is triglyceride?
100
Enzymes lower the _________ _______ to speed up the chemical reaction.
What is activation energy?
200
The bond between the monomers.
What is a peptide bond?
200
Nucleic acids are made up of these elements...
What are Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen and sometimes Phosphorous?
200
Function.
What is short term energy?
200
Has only single bonds and is solid at room temperature.
What is saturated lipid (fat)?
200
Carries oxygen in the blood to the rest of the body
What is hemoglobin?
300
A type of protein that speeds up chemical reactions.
What are Enzymes?
300
Three components of a nucleotide.
What are phosphate group, sugar, and a nitrogenous base?
300
Examples are glucose, fructose and galactose.
What are monosaccharides?
300
Two main functions.
What are long term energy (stored energy) and to make cell membrane?
300
Two main components of the cell membrane.
What are phopholipids (lipid) and proteins?
400
When water is pulled out of monomers to join them into polymers
What is dehydration synthesis or Condensation?
400
structure of DNA
What is double stranded double helix?
400
Examples are cellulose, starch and glycogen.
What are polysaccharides?
400
Elements found in lipids.
What are Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen?
400
Process of making a polymer.
What is polymerization?
500
The functions of proteins
What are for Structural support, membranes, protection, catalysts (enzymes), transport, defense (anti-bodies), non-steriod hormones, regulation, movement (any 3 for credit)
500
There are ___ amino acids and 8 of them are essential (meaning we must get them from food--the others we can synthesize)
What are 20 and 8?
500
the storage unit of carbohydrates in animals.
What is glycogen?
500
This is an important lipid that is maintains fluidity of the cell membrane and is a precursor to many other lipids such as vitamin D.
What is cholesterol?
500
These lipids are found in the cell membrane.
What are phosphlipids?
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