Carbon
The term used to describe molecules of living things containing carbon
What is organic?
The monomer of a carbohydrate is __________
What is glucose?
The monomer of a protein
What is an amino acid?
The monomer of lipids is this
What is a fatty acid?
Two common nucleic acids
What are DNA and RNA?
Carbon has the ability to form _____ (#) bonds
What is 4?
List one source of carbohydrate
What are potatoes, pasta, rice, bread, etc.
List one function of proteins
What is they make up enzymes, transport nutrients, make up cell receptor sites, make up antibodies, etc.
Lipids are not water soluble. This is the term we use to describe this characteristic
What is non-polar?
This is the monomer of the nucleic acid
What is a nucleotide?
The outer shell electrons are called__________
What is valence?
A complex carbohydrate is also called a ___________ (many sugars)
What is polysaccharide?
What is the alpha carbon, R (functional) group, amino group, carboxylic acid
We find lipids in this part of the cell
What is the phospholipid bilayer?
These are the parts of a nucleotide
What are a sugar, phosphate and nitrogenous base?
The formation of a polymer that generates a water molecule is called ______________ ___________
What is dehydration synthesis?
List a common disaccharide
What is sucrose? (table sugar)
The R group of an amino acid is like a variable in algebra class. It can have many __________
What are structures (values)?
Testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, prednisone are this type of lipid
What are steroids?
This is the sugar in DNA
OR
This is the sugar in RNA
What is deoxyribose?
What is ribose?
The process of splitting a polymer with the addition of a water molecule is called ____________
What is hydrolysis?
Fructose and glucose have the same chemical formula - C6H12O6 - this is what makes them different
What is they have different arrangements of the same atoms - called isomers
What is a protein or polypeptide?
When we say lipids are "saturated" - what are they saturated with?
What is hydrogen?
List the four nitrogenous bases in DNA
OR
List the unique base of RNA
What is adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine?
OR
Uracil instead of thymine