Life
Greek for bios, this word describes a unique entity instilled within organisms from a creator
These four elements make up 96% of living organisms.
What are C, H, O, and N?
This term describes water's ability to stick to other water molecules.
What is cohesion?
Miller and Urey failed to arrive at this in their experiment - but they did make some amino acids.
What is life?
To attach a monomer to another monomer forming a water molecule along the way describes this process
What is dehydration synthesis?
One of these is correct, the rest are not:
(A) Lactobacillus acidophilus
(B) Escherichia Coli
(C) Drosophila Melanogaster
What is choice (A)?
These substances are crystalline solids that melt at high temperatures, conduct electricity, and are water-soluble.
What are ionic substances?
Water can stick to itself, or stick to other substances such as glass, using this property.
What is adhesion?
Friedrich Wohler was so excited to make this molecule without using a dog or human kidney.
What is urea (what is urine)?
The bond that holds amino acids together to form a polypeptide
What is a peptide bond?
Bacteria belong to this domain.
What is Bacteria?
These are composed of a right-hand and a right-hand element off the periodic table and have low melting points, not water-soluble and are amorphous.
What are covalent substances?
There is a lopsided-ness to a water molecule making it become this up-end, down-end molecule.
What is polar?
Carbon is so versatile as it has an electronegativity of 2.55, can single, double, and triple bond with itself, and it also has this many available bonding sites.
What is 4?
To join to monosaccharides to form a disaccharide relies on this type of bond
What is a glycosidic bond?
An organism or a population, which is larger?
What is a population?
What is pH or per Hydronium?
What is density?
We would likely name this single-bonded, 5-carbon, compound as...
C - C - C - C - C
What is pentane?
What is chaperonin?
Structure dictates ___
This type of bonding is not a true bond, but a strong attraction between this element and Oxygen or Nitrogen.
What is hydrogen (or hydrogen bonding)?
Water may be considered the universal one of these, but it may be better stated it is the most versatile one...
What is a solvent?
This functional group has a C=O double bond and 'two' other groups hanging off the remaining two bonds carbon allows
What is a Ketone?
A hydrophilic glycerol head with three hydrophobic 'legs' hanging down describes this macromolecule
What is a lipid? (or a phospholipid)?