Lipids
Proteins
Carbohydrates
Nucleus Acids
General
100

What elements are found in Lipids?

What are CHO?

100

What elements are found in proteins? 

What are CHONS?

100

What elements are found in carbohydrates?

What is CHO?

100

What elements are found in nucleus acids?

What are CHONP?

100

What is a monomer?

What is A smaller subunit of a larger molecule or polymer?

200

What are the two main structural components of lipids? 

What is a glycerol backbone and fatty acids?

200

Name the type of bond that forms between two amino acids. 

What is a peptide bond?

200

What do you call the monomers of carbohydrates? 

What are Monosaccharides?

200

Name the two nucleic acids and one difference between each. 

What is DNA and RNA? DNA is double stranded and contains a deoxyribose sugar and RNA is single stranded and contains a ribose sugar. 

200

What is the difference between an ionic and a covalent bond?

What is electrons are shared in a covalent bond and gained or lost in an ionic bond?

300

What type of bond forms between a glycerol and fatty acid?

What is An eater linkage?

300

Name three examples of proteins. 

What is keratin, insulin, collagen, hemoglobins, lactase? (Multiple correct answers)

300

What are the three levels of carbohydrate structure? (From smallest to largest)

What are Monosaccharide, disaccharide, and polysaccharide? 

300

What do you call the monomers of nucleic acids? 

What are nucleotides?

300

What are the two processes used to build and break polymers?

What is Dehydration Synthesis (removal of water to build) and Hydrolysis (addition of water to break)?

400

Describe the structure of a phospholipid. 

What is a phosphate attached to a glycerol to form a hydrophilic head and two hydrophobic fatty acid tails? 

400

What are the four main structural components of an amino acid? 

What are an amino group, carboxyl group, a hydrogen attached to a central carbon, and an R-group?

400

What type of bond forms between two monomers of carbohydrates?

A glycosidic bond

400

What are the three structural components of every nucleotide? 

What is a phosphate, a sugar, and a nitrogenous base?

400

Name the types of bonds that occur in the monomers or subunits of lipids, carbohydrates, and protein. 

What are ester linkages, glycosidic bonds, and peptide bonds?

500

Name three differences between a saturated and unsaturated fat. 

What is saturated fats are solid at room temperature, contain single bonds, and come from animal sources?

500

What are the four levels of protein structure and provide a molecular example for each?

What are primary (genes), secondary (keratin), tertiary (cell membrane proteins), and quarternary (hemoglobin, collagen) structures? 

500

Name an example of a monosaccharide, disaccharide (including the two monomers), and polysaccharide (including the monomer(s)).

What is glucose, sucrose (glucose + fructose), and starch (repeating sequence of glucose)?

500

Name the two groups or categories of nucleotides and the corresponding nucleotides for each (five nucleotides in total). 

What are purines (adenine and guanine) and pyrimidines (thymine, cytosine, uracil)?

500

Name at least five functional groups. 

What are hydroxyl, carboxyl, carbonyl, methyl, amino, and phosphate?