Properties of water
Organic Compounds and Terminology
Carbohydrates and Lipids
Proteins
Nucleic Acids
50
A solution where the solvent is water
What is an aqueous solution?
50
Considering instant coffee as a solution, the coffee powder is considered this....
What is the solute
50
The name of the types of lipids that make up a cell membrane
What are phospholipids?
50
The monomer of proteins
What are amino acids?
50
The term for a section of DNA
What is a gene?
100
Ice is less dense than water due to the spreading out of these bonds when water is subjected to low temperatures
What are hydrogen bonds?
100
The term for the fact that carbon has 4 valence electrons and can therefore create 4 bonds
What is tetravalent?
100
The process by which two monomers are joined, releasing a water molecule
What is dehydration synthesis?
100
The protein structure level consisting of an entire individual protein macromolecule
What is quaternary structure?
100
The three parts of a nucleic acid
What are a phosphate group, a pentose sugar, and a nitrogenous base?
150
The property of water that makes it possible for water to stick to a window when it rains
What is adhesion?
150
Bonds in which atoms share electrons and the subsequent molecule has a low polarity
What are covalent bonds?
150
Butter, a solid fat, is made up of mostly this kind of fatty acids
What are saturated fatty acids
150
The protein structure level consisting of alpha helices and beta-pleated sheets
What is secondary structure?
150
The term for the fact that DNA strands are complementary to one another, but opposite orientations
What is antiparallel?
200
This end of a water molecule has a slight negative charge
What is the oxygen end?
200
The name of this functional group
What is the Methyl group?
200
The name of the main storage carbohydrate in animals
What is glycogen?
200
Name 4 of the 8 protein functions
What are enzymatic, defensive, storage, transport, hormonal, receptor, movement (contractile and motor), or structural?
200
Nucleic acids are built in this direction
What is 5' to 3'?
250
The term for the ability of water to absorb great amounts of energy without increasing temperature at the same rate
What is high specific heat?
250
Identify the TWO function groups in this molecule
What are amino group and carboxyl group?
250
These are the properties of phospholipids that allow them to orient themselves to create the lipid bilayer structure within an aqueous solution
What are hydrophilic heads and hydrophobic tails?
250
In an amino acid chain, amino acids are added to this end of the prior amino acid
What is the C-terminus?
250
Adenine and Guanine are examples of this type of nucleotide base
What are purines?