CH2:Chemistry
When reactants and products are being formed at equal rates
What is chemical equilibrium?
The most common type of covalent bond in a cup of water
What is a polar covalent bond?
The amount of bonds carbon can create
What is 4?
Glycogen is made of this basic monosaccharide for energy storage in animals
What is glucose?
Enzymes speed up chemical reactions, making them perform this.
What is catalysis?
4 elements make up 96% of all living matter. Oxygen, Nitrogen, Hydrogen, and...
What is carbon?
The amount of energy needed to raise 1 kg of water 1 degree Celsius.
What is a kilocalorie? (also accept calorie with a capital C).
the 3D shape created when carbon has 4 single bonds
Testosterone and steroids are examples of this macromolecule.
Deoxyribose is like ribose, but it's missing this one atom
What is oxygen?
An example of this would be nitrogen with 8 neutrons instead of 7.
The ability for water's hydrogen bonds to form a film against the hydrophobic air
What is surface tension?
What is a trans-isomer?
Peptide bonds release release a water molecule, making them this type of reaction
What is a dehydration reaction?
Amylopectin is extensively more this quality than amylose, but glycogen is more this quality than amylopectin
What is branched?
A weak bond between the partial charges of a whole molecule by chance interactions
What is evaporative cooling?
What is chirality?
Uracil and Guanine both bond with this kind of nucleic acid
What is purine?
This molecule becomes more solid and unhealthy the more hydrogen it has
What is fatty acid?
What is covalent bonds?
The reason why coasts are more moderate in temperature than inland regions
What is specific heat?
What is a carboxyl group?
pH changes affect the structure of which macromolecule the most?
What is a protein? (also accept nucleic acid if no one can guess protein)
MSG is classified as what type of macromolecule? (Hint: I mentioned this in the last meeting >:)
What is a nucleic acid?