Chemistry of Life
Water
Enzymes
Macromolecules
Scientific Method
100
The acronym for carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sulfur.
What is CHNOPS?
100
One side of the molecule is negative, the other side is positive.
What is a polar molecule?
100
An enzyme is a biological _________________.
What is a catalyst?
100
The nucleotide is the monomer for this macromolecule.
What is a nucleic acid?
100
Sally observed that every time she cooked rice it turned out soggy.
What is qualitative data?
200
The particles inside the nucleus of an atom.
What are protons, neutrons and electrons?
200
Water is referred to as the universal this, because it dissolves so many things.
What is solvent?
200
The purpose of an enzyme.
What is speed up a reaction?
200
glucose, fructose, sucrose, cellulose, glycogen
What are carbohydrates?
200
Sally likes to cook rice, but it always turns out soggy. She thought she was adding to much water. She decided to test her idea and changed her observation into this statement, if I put less water in my rice, then the cooked rice will be less soggy.
What is an hypothesis?
300
The number of bonds an oxygen atom can form.
What is 2?
300
The oceans do a wonderful job of regulating temperature due to this property of water.
What is high heat capacity?
300
Enzymes can be affected by two things. pH and this.
What is temperature?
300
A long term energy storage molecule.
What is a lipid?
300
Sally prepared two sauce pans of rice. One had three times the amount of water as rice (what she usually did), the other sauce pan contained twice the amount of water as rice.
What is the experiment?
400
The type of bond that molecules have in living things.
What is covalent?
400
The reason why water runs down your arm when you’re washing your hands or face.
What is adhesion?
400
The place on an enzyme where the substrate will attach.
What is the active site?
400
Each of these have a unique R group.
What is an amino acid?
400
Sally prepared two pots of rice. One had three times the amount of water as rice (what she usually did) the other pot contained twice the amount of water as rice. The water.
What is the independent variable?
500
The element in CHNOPS rarely found in any macromolecule except nucleic acids.
What is phosphorus?
500
The reason water droplets look like little spheres on a leaf.
What is cohesion?
500
The enzyme that catalyzes the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen.
What is catalase?
500
The versatile element. It can form 4 chemical bonds.
What is carbon?
500
Sally prepared two pots of rice. One had three times the amount of water as rice (what she usually did) the other pot contained twice the amount of water as rice. The cooked rice.
What is the dependent variable?