Scientific
Definitions
Macromolecules
Chemistry
Odds and Ends
100

Possible solutions in science

What are hypotheses? 

100

The study of life

What is biology?

100

Organic compound that contains carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in a 1:2:1

What is a carbohydrate?

100

Neutral subatomic particle

What is the neutron?

100

Polypeptides folded into alpha helix or beta pleated sheets

What is Secondary structure? or localized folding

200

A hypothesis that indicates no statistically significance between groups

What is a null hypothesis?

200

Maintaining a relatively constant internal environment

What is a homeostasis?

200

Three or more simple sugars bonded together

What is a polysaccharide? 

200

A positive charged ion

What is a Cation?

200

5 carbon sugar, phosphate group, and nitrogen base 

What is a nucleotide?

300

Smallest unit of matter

What is an atom?

300

Lipid molecules that make up a large part of cellular membranes, and they include hydrophilic and hydrophobic portions

What is phospholipids? Phospholipid bilayer 

300

Monomer of nucleic acids

What is a nucleotide? 

300

The bond formed by water that gives it slightly positive and negative ends

What is polar covalent bond?

300

Cells that have an organized nucleus

What is eukaryotic cell?

400

Smallest functional unit of life

What is the cell?

400

A type of unsaturated fatty acids that is considered much healthier than other fatty acids.

What is a cis-fat? cis-unsaturated fatty acids

400

A glycerol backbone and three fatty acids 

What is triglyceride molecule?

400

Total number of protons and neutrons in an atom

What is atomic mass?

400
Molecules that catalyze reactions, they are not used up in the process

What are enzymes?

500

List out stages of scientific method

What are: 

Make Observation
Ask Question
Form Hypothesis
Test Hypothesis- Experiment
Analyze Results
Report Results

500

Polysaccharide in animals used for storage

What is glycogen?

500

A type of lipid that is made up of four fused carbon rings

What is a steroid?

500

Something that is capable of doing work or causing change

What is energy?

500

The year astronauts landed on the moon for the first time

What is 1969?

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