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The building block of carbohydrates.
What is monosaccharide?
Lacking any affinity to water.
What is hydrophobic?
What are amino acids?
Enzymes are a special class of _______.
What are proteins?
These are the building blocks of nucleic acids.
What are nucleotides?
The polysaccaride consisting of many glucose molecules stored in plants.
What are starches?
This is the scale to understand the level of acid/base something is.
What is the pH scale?
Protein makes up hair, muscles, chemical signals (hormones), nutrient storage, and more.
This is the category of the above.
What is the functions of proteins?
A substance that alters the speed of a chemical reaction but is not used up in the process.
What is a catalyst?
DNA is a double chain of nucleotides that twists around to from a double ______.
What is helix?
Sucrose is a combination of 2 monosaccharides - glucose and fructose. This is the more formal name for a substance containing 2 monosaccharides.
What are disaccharides?
This word describes 8-14 on the pH scale.
What is alkaline?
What is a peptide bond?
The amount of energy required to get a reaction started.
What is activation energy?
Nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA, are made up of three parts: a phosphate group, a sugar group, and this other part.
What is a nitrogenous base?
A chemical reaction in which molecules combine by removing water.
(ex. glucose + fructose --> sucrose + water)
What is a dehydration reaction?
This type of fat does not form any double bonds.
What is saturated fat?
This is the function of an enzyme.
What is chemical catalyst?
The theory that each enzyme has an active site that complements the shape of one substrate molecule.
What is the lock and key theory of enzyme action?
This is the unabbreviated word for DNA.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
Breaking down complex molecules by the chemical addition of water
(ex. sucrose + water --> glucose + fructose)
What is a hydrolysis reaction?
The building blocks of lipids.
What are glycerol and fatty acids?
This is when the normal shape of a protein is altered, primarily due to heat.
What is denaturation?
The area of an enzyme to which a specific substrate binds.
What is the active site?
The four nucleotide bases in DNA are thymine, guanine, and cytosine and this other base
What is adenine?