Lipids
What are the building blocks of lipids?
Fatty Acids
What is the building block of of a nucleic acid?
nucleotide
What is the building block of carbohydrates
sugar
What are the building blocks of proteins?
Amino acids
Which type of these is smaller and less complex?
Prokaryotes
What are the two subgroups of Lipids?
Saturated and Unsaturated fats
What is the structure of DNA (hint, it looks like a twisted ladder)
Double helix
What is another name for the sugar that makes up a carbohydrate
monosaccharide
What type of bond joins together amino acids?
peptide bonds
Plant cells and animal cells
List two examples of Lipids
fats and oil
Name two examples of Nucleic acids
DNA and RNA
disaccharide
That can proteins form?
muscles
Which of these is typically more complex and has membrane bound organelle?
Eukaryotes
Which of the two subgroups of Lipids tend to be healthy?
Unsaturated fats
Name something that RNA can do the DNA cannot do?
RNA can leave the nucleus, RNA is single stranded, ect
When more than two monosaccharides bond, they form a...
polysaccharide
What can proteins transport
o2 or hemoglobin
List three examples of specialized cells
sperm cell, muscle cell, nerve cell
Which of the two types of fats tend to be unhealthy?
Saturated fats
What does a nucleotide consist of?
a sugar, a phosphate, a nitrogen base
What are the three main types of polysaccharides
starch, glycogen, and cellulose
What can proteins act as?
hormones or enzymes
What is the difference between the DNA in a prokaryote and a Eukaryote?
Prokaryote- circular
Eukaryote- linear