Chemistry
The basic unit of a chemical element
The monomer of a carb
What is a monosaccharide?
What is a fatty acid?
What is a nucleotide
The monomer of a protein
What are amino acids
The subatomic particle that is neutral
What is a neutron?
The most common example of a monosaccharide
What is glucose?
the elements present in lipids
What is carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
The two polymers of N.A.
What is DNA and RNA
The bond that holds together amino acids in a protein
The subatomic particle that is negative in charge
What is an electron?
The polymer of a carbohydrate
What is a polysaccharide
This polymer is found on leaves and helps with water retention
What is a wax?
The structure or shape of DNA
What is a double Helix
The polymer of proteins
What are proteins or polypeptides
The type of bond that donates or receives electrons
What is an ionic bond?
What is Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen
This lipid is commonly mistaken for a protein. It has a ring structure instead of fatty acids
What is a steroid?
The three parts of a nucleotide
What is a sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base
This protein is known for speeding up chemical reactions
What is an enzyme
The type of bond that shares electrons
What is a covalent bond?
This polysaccharide makes up fungi and the exoskeletons of some organisms
What is chitin?
this polymer makes up the cell membrane. It has two fatty acid tails with a phosphate group
What is a phospholipid
The elements present in Nucleic Acids
What is Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and Nitrogen
The elements present in proteins
What are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus