Water & Elements of Life
This property of water helps organisms maintain stable temperatures.
What is high specific heat?
This reaction joins monomers together by removing water.
What is dehydration synthesis?
Lipids are generally this type of molecule: polar or nonpolar?
What is nonpolar?
DNA and RNA are made of repeating units called these.
What are nucleotides?
Proteins are made of monomers called these.
What are amino acids?
Water molecules stick to each other because of this type of bond.
What are hydrogen bonds?
This reaction breaks polymers apart using water.
What is hydrolysis?
Fatty acids with only single bonds are called these.
What are saturated fatty acids?
In RNA, adenine pairs with this nitrogenous base.
What is uracil?
The bonds connecting amino acids are called these.
What are peptide bonds?
Water sticking to other surfaces is called this.
What is adhesion?
Simple sugars are also known as these.
What are monosaccharides?
These fatty acids contain at least one double bond.
What are unsaturated fatty acids?
DNA strands run in opposite directions, which is described by this term.
What is antiparallel?
The sequence of amino acids determines this level of protein structure.
What is primary structure?
These three elements are the most common in biological molecules.
What are carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen?
Starch, glycogen, and cellulose are examples of these large carbohydrates.
What are polysaccharides?
This lipid helps stabilize animal cell membranes.
What is cholesterol?
DNA contains this sugar, while RNA contains ribose.
What is deoxyribose?
Alpha-helices and beta-pleated sheets are examples of this protein structure level.
What is secondary structure?
This element is important in phospholipids and nucleic acids.
What is phosphorus?
The process of connecting many monomers together is called this.
What is polymerization?
These lipids form the bilayer of cell membranes.
What are phospholipids?
During nucleic acid synthesis, nucleotides are added to this end of the strand.
What is the 3’ end?
This protein structure level results from interactions between multiple polypeptides.
What is quaternary structure?