Properties of H2O
The type of bond water forms with other water molecules.
What is a hydrogen bond.
The nitrogenous base found in RNA but not DNA.
What is Uracil.
The monomer of complex carbohydrates.
What is a monosaccharide.
This part of an amino acid gives it unique properties.
What is the R-Group or Side Chain.
The type of fat that contains one or more double or triple bonds between carbon atoms.
What is unsaturated.
The element in a water molecule has the slightly negative charge.
What is oxygen.
The type of covalent bond that holds one nucleotide to another.
What is a phosphodiester bond or linkage.
A storage polysaccharide found in animals.
What is glycogen.
The two types of structures formed during the formation of a protein's secondary structure.
Consists of one glycerol, a phosphate group and two fatty acids.
What is a phospholipid.
Cohesion and adhesion allow for this to occur in plants, moving water upwards.
What is capillary action.
The 3' end of a polynucleotide has this functional group.
What is a hydroxyl group.
An example of a branching polysaccharide found in plants.
What is starch.
All amino acids have these terminal ends.
What is amino and carboxyl terminals.
Characterized by a carbon skeleton of four fused carbon rings. Example includes estrogen and testosterone.
What is a steroid.
When water dissolves a solute, and there are more H+ ions in solution than OH- ions, the solution is ________.
What is acidic or an acid.
Another name for a 5 carbon sugar.
What is a pentose sugar.
The type of covalent bond that connects carbohydrate monomers.
What is a glycosidic linkage.
The characteristic of an amino acid that would face the interior of globular protein in an aqueous solution.
What is hydrophobic or nonpolar.
The reaction that joins the "monomers" to make a triglyceride.
What is dehydration synthesis.
What two things water dissolves the best.
What are polar molecules and charged molecules.
Hydrolysis if this molecule yields the energy to do cellular work.
What is ATP
Besides both being polysaccharides found in plants, what is a similarity between starch and cellulose.
What is both are made from the monomer glucose.
The strong bond formed between two cysteine amino acids which helps stabilize the 3-D structure of a protein.
What is a disulfide bridge.
This nonpolar molecule is an example of an unsaturated fat produced by animals.
What is Omega 3 Fatty Acid.