Atoms, elements, and more
Chemical Bonding
Functional Groups
Macromolecules
Diversity of Lipids
100
The sum of Protons and Neutrons is equivalent to the _____ _________ of the cell.
What is the mass number?
100
Consists of two or more atoms held together by covalent bonds.
What is a molecule?
100
When carbon is double bonded to oxygen and attached to a hydrogen the compound name is either _______ or ______
What is an aldehyde or a ketone?
100
The four classes of biological molecules that all living things.
What are nucleic acids, carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins?
100
The three most biologically significant lipids.
What are fats, steroids, and phospholipids?
200
The electrons in the outer most shell of the atom is called this.
What are valence electrons?
200
Bond that results from sharing two pairs of valence electrons.
What is a double bond?
200
This type of compound is created when an -OH group is attached to a hydrocarbon.
What is an alcohol?
200
These macromolecules are made out of monomers.
What are Carbohydrates, Nucleic Acids, and Proteins?
200
Lipids have little to no affinity to water: they are _________.
What is hydrophobic?
300
These subatomic particles of the atom have no electrical charge.
What are neutrons?
300
This is the name for a negatively charged ion.
What is an anion?
300
When a -COOH group (Carbon double bonded to oxygen and linked to OH) is added to a hydrocarbon this type of compound is formed.
What is a Carboxylic acid?
300
This is formed when joins two monosaccharides join together.
What is a disaccharide?
300
Fats are composed of these two smaller molecules.
What are fatty acids and glycerol?
400
These are the most common elements of living organisms.
What is hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen?
400
This is the bond that forms as a result of a cation being attracted to an anion.
What is an ionic bond?
400
This functional group is found in sugar.
What is a carbonyl?
400
When two monomers bond together through the loss of a water molecule.
What is a dehydration reaction?
400
A three carbon alcohol with a hydroxyl group attached to each carbon.
What is glycerol?
500
Elements required by an organism in minute quantities are called this.
What are trace elements?
500
Interactions caused by uneven distribution of electrons in orbital.
What are van der Waals interactions?
500
Addition of this functional group to DNA molecules alters the expressions of genes.
What is a methyl group?
500
A storage polysaccharide of animals. In humans it is found mostly in the muscles and the liver.
What is Glycogen?
500
Unsaturated fats can be converted to saturated fats through this process.
What is hydrogenation?