Definitions
A natural polymer that is made up of glucose monomers.
What is a starch?
A natural polymer that is made up of amino acids
What is a protein?
A single celled fungus used in fermentation.
What is yeast?
A compound that contains the element of carbon.
What is an organic compound?
Water
What is a chemical that is essential to life?
A group of organic compounds that are essential for the normal growth and nutrition of living things.
What are vitamins?
What is carbohydrates?
A group of inorganic compounds that are an essential components to the body's chemical processes.
What are minerals?
Proteins, Carbohydrates
What are chemicals that are essential to life?
fats, fibers, vitamins, minerals
What are 4 chemicals that are essential to life?
A compound that contains he same number of atoms as another compound, but in a different arrangement.
What is an Isomer?
Small molecules that can join together to form long-chain polymers.
What are monomers?
A substance with a long-chain of molecules, formed from smaller molecules called monomers.
What is a polymer?
Biological Catalysts
What are enzymes?
Our body uses them to break down food.
What are enzymes?
A catalyst used by living things to increase the speed of a natural chemical reaction.
What is an enzyme?
A group of solid esters that are stored in living things as a source of reserve energy, also know as fats.
What is lipids?
A chemical reaction in which a sugar is broken down by microbes into alcohol and carbon dioxide.
What is fermentation?
Used in alcohol fermentation
What is yeast.
It catalyzes the reaction that changes glucose to ethanol.
A series of organic compounds in which a hydroxyl group is bound to a carbon atom; they all have the general formula CxHx+xOH.
What is an alcohol?
The synthesis of complex molecules, formed from smaller ones; occurs in living things and is known as creative metabolism.
What is anabolism?
The breaking down of complex molecules into smaller ones; occurs in living things and is known as destructive metabolism.
What is catabolism?
What is the chemical enzyme contained in yeast
FINAL JEOPARDY
You have 5 minutes to draw and label the Carbon Cycle.