Chemical Context of Life
Bond type between Na+ and Cl-
What is ionic?
Attraction of like molecules
What is cohesion?
Functional group characteristic of alcohols
What is hydroxyl?
Reaction that forms polymers
What is a dehydration reaction?
Energy cannot be created or destroyed
The first law of thermodynamics
The number of valence electrons Oxygen has
What is 6?
The solvent in salt water
What is water?
The number of covalent bonds a C atom can make
What is 4?
Both are purines
What is adenine and guanine? (A and G)
What is energy?
Same number of protons but a different number of neutrons
What is an isotope?
Specific heat of water
What is 1 calorie?
The same number of atoms, but different arrangement
What is an isomer?
Formed out of multiples of CH2O
What are sugars?
Enzymes lower this
What is activation energy?
Equal sharing of electrons
What is a nonpolar covalent bond?
Quantity of heat a liquid must absorb for 1g to be
converted from liquid to gas
What is the heat of vaporization?
Acidic functional group
What is carboxyl?
Structural lipid found in cell membranes
What are phospholipids?
Reaction type that results in a net release of free energy
What is exergonic?
The 4 elements that makeup 96% of living matter
What is O, C, H and N?
Minimizes changes in pH
What is a buffer?
Mirror images
What are enantiomers?
Structure that results from hydrogen bonds between amino acid backbones
What is the secondary structure of a protein?
Inhibition of enzyme via binding to the active site
What is a competitive inhibitor?