Chemistry
Large, organic molecules that do not dissolve in water.
What are lipids?
Contains information that determines the characteristics of an organism and directs its cell activities.
What is DNA?
What is a ionic bond?
In proteins structure = ________
What is function
Water molecules are held together by what type of intermolecular bonds?
What are hydrogen bonds?
Name for a simple sugar, like glucose and fructose.
What is a monosaccharide?
This is changes in the protein structures due to external factors.
What is denaturation?
Unbranched carbon chains that make up most lipids, such as triglycerides, phospholipids, and waxes.
What are fatty acids?
DNA and RNA are made of thousands of monomers called this.
What is nucleotide?
This group is not a functional group because it is non polar and not reactive.
What is a methyl group? (CH3)
In this stage/ structure of protein folding, multiple polypeptide sequences come together to form large protein complexes
What is quaternary structure
This property of water allows organisms to maintain temperature homeostasis
What is high heat capacity?
Elements with the same number of protons and electrons but a different number of neutrons.
What are isotopes?
The cell membrane is made of this fatty acid, with two fatty acids attached to a molecule of glycerol.
What is a phospholipid?
This base is only found in RNA.
What is uracil?
Water is an example of this type of bond that shares electrons unevenly
What is polar covalent
This stage of protein folding is the sequence of amino acids
What is primary structure
What properties of water allow it to get through a plant from the soil to the leaves?
What is cohesion and adhesion?
Peptide bonds form between these two groups
What are the carboxyl and amino groups?
This connects fatty acids to glycerol
What are ester linkages?
This form of nucleic acid is single stranded.
What is RNA?
When an ionic bond dissociates, it forms positive and negative ions known as
What are cations and anions
Bicarbonate and carbonic acid are this for blood.
What are buffers?
On water molecules the Hydrogen end is _____ and the Oxygen end is ______.
What is positive, what is negative.
The amount of energy needed to convert 1g of liquid to gas is this.
What is heat of vaporization?
What is sickle cell?
Unlike most lipids, this lipid is NOT made of fatty acid, but instead, carbon.
What is a steroid?
A nucleotide is made up of these three components.
What are nitrogenous bases, phosphate groups, and pentose sugar?
The type of bonds that hold the "backbone" of DNA together.
What are covalent bonds?
This structure or stage of folding forms beta sheets or alpha barrels
What is secondary structure
Name the 5 functional groups.
What are Carbonyl, carboxyl, phosphate, amino, and hydroxyl?