What is Life?
Chemistry of Life
Macromolecules
The Cell
Vocabulary
100

Bacteria lack membrane-bound organelles, which means they are in this group of organisms.

What is a prokaryote?

100

This type of bond is formed when one element donates an electron to another element.

What is ionic bond?

100

The protein shake you drink before every work out is providing these essential monomers to your body.

What are amino acids?

100

The power house of the cell

What are mitochondria?

100

This is the study of life

What is Biology?
200
Hatched chickens are an example of this characteristic of life 

What is Reproduction/Growth/Development?

200

Water is known as the universal this because it is able to dissolve several different compounds

What is solvent?

200

This macromolecule has no universal monomer.

What are lipids?

200

These organisms are hard to see without immersion oil and a high-powered microscope objective

What are bacteria (or prokaryotes)?

200

This is the term used to describe internal consistency

What is homeostasis?

300

Someone who breeds dogs to hunt is affecting this characteristic of life

What is Evolution?
300

This property of water is responsible for the movement of water up a tree trunk or stem.

What is cohesion/adhesion?

300

These monomers are responsible for the genetic information stored in our DNA

What are nucleotides?

300

Nucleotides can be found in this cell organelle

What is the nucleus?

300

The outermost shell of an atom is known at this shell

What is the valence shell?

400

The liver, heart, and brain are all components of this hierarchical level of Biology

What is organs?

400

These types of bonds help ice form when water is frozen

What is a hydrogen bond?

400

If you're eating a meal of spaghetti and meatballs, this macromolecule makes up a majority of spaghetti.

What is carbohydrates?

400

COVID-19 has invaded your cells! This organelle could help break these molecules down and help throw them out of the cell.

What are lysosomes?

400

This organelle contains the DNA of the cell and has the directions for the rest of the cell contained within it.

What is the nucleus?

500

Name the domain that includes unicellular prokaryotes that often live in extreme environments such as hot springs

What is Archaea?

500
Phosphodiester bonds, bonds that share an electron between phosphate and the ribose sugar in DNA, are examples of this type of bond

What are covalent bonds?

500

This type of reaction breaks down proteins into amino acids.

What is hydrolysis?

500

People of the future have green skin and do not have to hunt for food. This organelle is likely responsible for this new hue.

What are chloroplasts?

500

This type of reaction takes a water out when it joins two monomers together to form a polymer

What is a Dehydration synthesis?
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