Vocabulary
To keep as many variables the same as possible, except the independent variable
What is control or control group?
A hydrogen atom bonded to an oxygen atom
What is a hydroxyl group?
A weak bond crucial to the functioning of a cell within and between molecules
What is a hydrogen bond?
A word to describe the behavior of how lipids react to water
What is hydrophobic?
Coming from the Greek word "indivisible" this is the smallest unit of matter that still retains the properties of an element
What is an atom?
Deoxyribo-nucleic acid
What is DNA?
A phosphorous atom bonded to four oxygen atoms
What is a phosphate group?
An attraction between two atoms resulting from a sharing of outer shell electrons
What is a chemical bond?
Most animal fats are this
What is saturated fat?
An isotope whose nucleus decays sporadically, giving off particles and energy
What is a radioactive isotope?
A process where a protein unravels losing its shape and function
What is denaturation?
A carbon double-bonded to an oxygen atom and a hydroxyl group
What is a carboxyl group?
The transfer of an electron between atoms
What is an ionic bond?
The main function of fat is this
What is to store energy?
Compounds with the same formula but different structural arrangements
What are isomers?
Monomers that make up nucleic acids
What are nucleotides?
A nitrogen bonded to two hydrogens
What is an amino group?
The sharing of an electron between atoms results in this
What is a covalent bond?
A fatty acid whose hydrocarbon chain contains one or more double bonds
What is unsaturated fat?
Specialized macromolecules that speed up chemical reactions in cells
What is an enzyme?
Larger, more complex organelles, with a nucleus containing DNA
What is Eukaryote?
Carbon bonded to three hydrogen atoms
What is a methyl group?
When two atoms differ in electronegativity this occurs
What is a polar covalent bond?
A synonym for fat
What is triglyceride?
Polymers of hundreds to thousands of monosaccharides linked together by dehydration reactions
What are polysaccharides?