Properties of Water
What causes a water molecule to be polar?
Electronegativity of oxygen (unequal sharing of electrons)
What is the monomer of carbohydrates?
Monosaccharides
What are the building blocks of triglycerides?
Glycerol & fatty acids
What is the monomer of a protein?
Amino Acid
The nucleus
During the winter the lake freezes over but the fish still survive.
What property of water is this an example of?
Expanding while freezing
(less dense while freezing)
Dehydration synthesis
What is the structural difference between a saturated and unsaturated fat?
Presence of double bond
Where are the instructions for assembling proteins found?
DNA
What is the monomer of a nucleic acid?
Nucleotide
Sweating and evaporation helps reduce a human's body temperature.
What property of water is this an example of?
What sugar is the component of cell walls and cannot be digested by animals?
Cellulose
Why can lipids not dissolve in water?
Hydrophobic/nonpolar
What is another name for a long chain of amino acids?
Polypeptide
name the base pairs of DNA
A = T
G = C
Water is able to defy gravity while moving from roots to leaves in plants
What properties of water is this an example of?
Cohesion and adhesion
Name the polysaccharide that is stored in the liver of animals
Glycogen
What is the lipid that makes up cell membranes?
Phospholipids
What type of bond holds the building blocks of proteins together?
Peptide bond
Name the 3 differences between DNA and RNA
Double vs single strand
Thymine vs Uracil
Deoxyribose vs Ribose
Oxygen dissolved in the water allows for animals to breath under water. Carbon dioxide dissolved in the water allows plants to perform photosynthesis.
Universal solvent
Glucose is able to dissolve in water. What chemical property makes this possible?
What molecule are steroids derived from?
Cholesterol
What makes each amino acid different?
The different R groups
What happens when there is a mutation in your DNA? How does it affect cells?
It can affect the shape of proteins