Nature of Matter
The Nature of Life
The Molecules of Life
Biological Molecules
Biological Molecules 2
100
Smallest unit of matter
What is an atom?
100
The substances used in the beginning of a chemical reaction.
What are reactants?
100
Macromolecules
What is smaller molecules that come together to form large molecules?
100
Carbohydrates
What is an essential part of our diet grains, fruits, and vegetables
100
Oil and butter
What is an example of a lipid?
200
Protons, Neutrons, and electrons.
What are the three subatomic particles?
200
Products
What are substances found at the end of the reaction?
200
Organic
What is "containing carbon"?
200
Monosaccharides, disaccharides, and polysaccharides
What are the tree types of carbohydrates?
200
Peptide Bonds
What are covalent bonds that bond amino acids?
300
Isotopes
What is an atom of the same element that has a different number of neutrons?
300
Polar Molecules
What is water composed of?
300
Methane
What is the simplest organic carbon molecule?
300
Proteins
What is most often found in meats of our diet?
300
Polypeptides
These bond molecules together?
400
Ionic bond is 1 or more electrons transfer from one atom to another. Covalent bond is the atoms share electrons.
What is the difference between an ionic and covalent bond?
400
hydrophilic is water loving (dissolve). hydrophobic is water hating (separate)
What is the difference between hydrophilic and hydrophobic?
400
4
How man covalent bonds can carbon make with other atoms of molecules?
400
Amino acids
Proteins are composed of building blocks called?
400
Primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary
What are the 4 levels of proteins?
500
Weak bonds, from between positive and negative charges and don't take much energy to break.
What are hydrogen bonds?
500
Cohesion and Adhesion
What is the attraction between water molecules? What is the attraction between water molecules and other molecules?
500
The foundation for molecules in living things.
What is carbon?
500
Lipids are the fats in our diet and nucleic acids carry genetic blueprints of a cell and carry instructions for the functioning of the cell.
What are lipids and nucleic acids?
500
Primary- sequence of amino acids Secondary- folding/coiling of peptide chains Tertiary- complete 3-D arrangement of polypeptide chain Quaternary- only proteins with more than one chain have a 4th level
Explain each of the 4 levels of proteins.
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