Lab Design
The variables that stay the same in a scientific experiment.
What is control variables?
The number of protons in an atom.
What is atomic number?
The scientific word for repelling water
What is hydrophobic?
The purpose of carbohydrates in living things.
What is energy?
The breaking down of biomolecules.
What is hydrolysis?
The variable that is changed/manipulated in a scientific experiment.
What is independent variable?
The number of protons and neutrons in an atom.
What is atomic mass?
The tendency of water to stick to other substances, like on a window.
What is adhesion?
The purpose of nucleic acids in living things.
What is storing genetic information?
The part of an enzyme that attaches to the substrate.
What is active site?
The variable that is measured/tested in a scientific experiment.
What is dependent variable?
The type of bond that holds together the hydrogen and oxygen atoms in one water molecule.
What is covalent bond?
The type of bond that occurs between many water molecules due to the uneven distribution of electrons.
What is hydrogen bond?
The monomer of carbohydrates.
What is monosaccharide?
What is protein?
Ms. Janecko sets up an experiment to see how the mass of a ball affects the distance it rolls. Identify the independent variable.
Mass of the ball
The ability of an atom to react with another atom is dependent on its number of
What is valence electron?
The charge of oxygen atoms in a water molecule.
What is negative?
This biomolecule helps with immunity by creating antibodies
What is protein?
The substance on which an enzyme acts.
What is substrate?
Ms. Janecko wants to test the question, "Does heating a cup of water allow it to dissolve more sugar?"
Identify the IV and the DV.
IV: Temperature of water
DV: Amount of sugar dissolved
The chemicals that are formed from the break down and rearrangement of the reactants
What are products?
Because of water's shape, more electrons are likely to concentrate around this part of the molecule.
What is oxygen?
Polypeptide is to protein, as ____ is to carbohydrate.
What is polysaccharide?
This is the scientific term for what will happen to enzymes placed in an environment of the wrong pH.
What is denatured?