Critical Carbons
This form of carbon consists of hydrogen and only one carbon.
What is a hydrocarbon?
The three types of fossil fuels.
What are coal, natural gas, and petroleum.
Biochemistry deals with the chemistry of what.
What are living things?
Name two of the most important biochemical reactions related to food.
What are photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
Biophysics combines the study of physics and biology in order to examine this.
What are systems of living things?
The 3-D form of carbon is strong, compact, and rigid. It has a hardness of 10 because no other natural substance is harder than it.
What is a diamond?
This element primarily makes up fossil fuels.
What is carbon?
All biochemical compounds contain these three elements.
What are carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen?
Our bodies release energy from this in controlled chemical reactions within our cells.
What is fat?
When you are on a spinning ride, the walls of the ride keep you from flying off. This would cause you to fly off if the walls weren't there.
What is inertia?
The bonds in the compound of this form of hydrocarbon are all single bonds.
What is a saturated hydrocarbon?
This fossil fuel, containing mostly the same gas produced by a cow's stomach, burns cleaner than coal and with much less soot.
What is natural gas?
All biochemical compounds can be grouped in these 4 main classes.
What are carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids?
This protein catalyst is essential to food digestion and cellular respiration.
What are enzymes?
A forensics engineer is called to the scene of a car accident. After determining the amount of friction which caused the car to stop, he or she can estimate what.
What is the speed of the car before the driver hit the brakes.
Another name for this type of hydrocarbon is an alkane.
What is a saturated hydrocarbon?
The fossil fuel is formed mostly from the remains of marine animals such as plankton and algae.
What is petroleum?
Without this biomolecule, living things woudl not have the energy they need to survive.
What is glucose?
This substance is needed in forming the enzymes required for cellular respiration.
What is Vitamin B?
What is the speed of the car before the driver hit the brakes?
This type of hydrocarbon contains one or more double bonds, and their names end in -ene.
What are alkenes or unsaturated hydrocarbons?
This happens when hydrocarbons of fossil fuels are burned in the presence of adequate oxygen.
What is complete combustion?
This class of biochemical compounds regulates life processes and defends against infections.
What are proteins?
Photosynthesis and cellular respiration are related in this important way.
What is the products of one are the reactants of the other?
Name three types of technology that biophysicists have developed to help patients with heart problems.
What are cardiac defibrillators, pacemakers, and artificial heart valves?