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Chemistry Basics
Chemistry Basics II
Water, Solutions, & pH
Organic Chemistry I
Organic Chemistry II
100
This is the basic unit of all matter
What are atoms?
100
These are the 3 subatomic particles.
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?
100
The term neutral indicates that a substance has a pH of...
What is 7?
100
When this element is present in a compound, it is considered to be organic.
What is carbon?
100
An organism's genetic information is stored in this macromolecule.
What is DNA?
200
The process by which atoms or groups of atoms in substances are reorganized into different substances.
What is a chemical reaction?
200
A positively charged subatomic particle.
What is a proton?
200
Substances with pH below 7.
What are acids?
200
These are the three elements found in carbohydrates.
What are carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen?
200
These types of organic molecules serve as the major energy source for humans and other multicellular organisms.
What are carbohydrates?
300
The energy needed to get a chemical reaction to proceed.
What is activation energy?
300
A negatively charged particle located outside the atom's nucleus.
What is an electron?
300
In a salt water solution, this is the solute.
What is salt?
300
The name of an enzyme usually ends in these three letters.
What are ase?
300
This element is lipids but not carbohydrates - is it carbon, nitrogen, or oxygen?
What is nitrogen?
400
A pure substance made up of only one kind of atom.
What is an element?
400
A bond that forms between the hydrogen atoms of one water molecule and the oxygen atom of another.
What is a hydrogen bond?
400
This substance releases equal amounts of hydrogen ions and hydroxide ions into solution.
What is water?
400
This type of macromolecule can fold into different shapes after it is formed. (We demonstrated this with the pipe cleaners and beads!)
What is a protein?
400
A macromolecule made up of long chains of hydrogens and carbons
What is a lipid?
500
This is the number of atoms present in a glucose molecule - C6H12O6.
What is 24?
500
In this type of reaction, energy is released.
What is exothermic?
500
This substance serves as the solvent in many solutions important to biology.
What is water?
500
A macromolecule formed from amino acids linking together by peptide bonds.
What is a protein? (or polypeptide)
500
The number of bonds a single carbon atom can form.
What is four?