What's the MATTER?
Anything that has mass and takes up space
What is Matter
Molecular formula shared by both glucose and fructose
What is C6H12O6?
The monomers or building blocks of proteins
What are Amino Acids?
Another name for lipids
What are Fats?
The molecule that forms the basis of life
What is DNA?
An explanation or representation of something that cannot be seen
What is a Model?
Simple carbohydrates that contain 3-10 carbon atoms
What are Monosaccharides?
A bond that links amino acids together
What is a Peptide Bond?
Lacking an affinity for water
What is Hydrophobic?
A monomer of nucleic acids
What is a Nucleotide?
A collection of atoms that have the same number of protons
What is an Element?
A chemical reaction in which molecules combine by removing water
What is a Dehydration reaction?
A special class of proteins that act as catalysts for many life-supporting chemical reactions
What are Enzymes?
A lipid made from fatty acids that have no double bonds between carbon atoms.
What is a Saturated Fat?
Sugar present in RNA
What is Ribose?
A change that alters the makeup of the elements or molecules of a substance
What is a Chemical change
Table sugar is also known as this disaccharide
What is Sucrose?
A specific area in the structure of a protein catalyst where substrates bind to speed up the reaction
What is an Active Site?
A lipid made from fatty acids with at least one double bond between carbon atoms
What is an Unsaturated Fat?
The nucleotide present in DNA but not in RNA
What is Thymine?
The tendency of water molecules to travel across a semipermeable membrane into areas of higher solute concentration
What is Osmosis?
Breaking down of complex molecules with the addition of water
What is Hydrolysis?
This is the currently accepted model or theory of how protein catalysts work
What is the Lock-and-Key Theory?
A lipid molecule is made up of three fatty acids and one molecule of this
What is Glycerol?
A strong attraction between hydrogen atoms and other atoms (usually oxygen and nitrogen) that holds the double helix together
What is a Hydrogen Bond?