Carb your Enthusiasm
The main 3 elements comprising carbohydrates
What is carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen?
The monomers that comprise proteins (the building blocks)
What are amino acids?
The building blocks of a triglyceride
What are glycerol and fatty acids?
The monomer of nucleic acids
What are nucleotides
The most expensive substance on earth, costing approximately $62.5 trillion per gram.
What is antimatter?
The name for a simple, single sugar molecule
What is a monosaccharide?
These types of proteins acts as catalyst to speed up chemical reactions
What are enzymes
The reason fats (oils) and what do not mix with water.
What is nonpolar or hydrophobic nature?
The primary function of DNA
What is storing/controlling genetic information?
The smallest country in the world by land area.
What is the Vatican City?
The process that breaks down polymers into monomers by adding water.
What is hydrolysis?
The specific term for the site at which a substrate binds to an enzyme.
What is an active site?
These fatty acids contain one or more double bonds.
What are unsaturated fats?
The type of bonds responsible for holding 2 different water molecules together.
What is a hydrogen bond?
The first person to win two Nobel Prizes in different fields.
Who is Marie Curie?
The polysaccharide stored in the liver and muscles.
What is glycogen?
The term that describes the loss of a protein's 3D structure due to heat or pH changes.
What is Denaturation?
The enzyme responsible for releasing fatty acids from triglycerides.
What is lipase?
The 3 major parts of a nucleotide.
What is are a phosphate group, a pentose sugar, and a nitrogenous base?
The first film to gross over $2 billion at the box office.
What is Avatar?
The type of bond formed between two monosaccharides, often named by the carbons involved.
What is a glycosidic bond?
The iron and oxygen binding protein found in cardiac and skeletal muscle.
What is myoglobin?
The number of carbons that comprise a sterol
What is 17.
The 4 nitrogenous bases found in DNA.
What are Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine?
The term for the irrational fear of the number 13.
What is triskaldekaphobia?