Hydrocarbons
What is the simplest and shortest hydrocarbon?
Methane
What functional group is found as hydroxyls?
alcohols
What are the monomers of carbohydrates?
monosaccharides
What element is found in all organic compounds?
Carbon
What sugar does DNA contain?
Deoxyribose
What type of hydrocarbon contains only single bonds?
Saturated hydrocarbons
What functional group has the structure –CHO? and found at the ends
Aldehydes
What molecule stores energy in plants and is a polysaccharide?
Starch
What type of bond primarily forms between carbon and hydrogen?
Covalent
What sugar does RNA contain?
Ribose
What type of hydrocarbon contains at least one double bond?
Unsaturated hydrocarbon
What functional group forms acids, like nucleic acid and citric acid?
COOH (carboxyl)
What biomolecule stores long-term energy?
Lipids
What is the prefix for 3 carbons?
Prop-
What three parts make up a nucleotide?
Sugar, phosphate, nitrogenous base
What is the name for molecules with the same formula but different structures?
Isomers
What functional group is a carbonyl in the middle of a chain?
Ketone
What polymer is made of amino acids?
Proteins
What is the prefix for 4 carbons?
But-
What polysaccharide gives plants structure?
Cellulose
What is the structure of benzene?
A ring-shaped aromatic hydrocarbon
What functional group contains nitrogen and is found in amino acids?
Amides
What monomer makes up DNA and RNA?
Nucleotides
What happens during a substitution reaction?
A hydrogen atom is replaced with another atom or group
Which two functional groups do all amino acids contain?
Amine and carboxyl groups.