Carbohydrate
What are the building blocks of nucleic acids?
What are nucleotides.
What are many sugar molecules linked together in a long chain called?
Complex Carbohydrate or polysaccharide
What carbohydrate is the main type of sugar in our blood?
What is glucose
What kind of fat is good for you?
What is unsaturated fat.
What do nucleic acids do?
What is store information or provide instructions for building proteins.
List 2 functions of proteins.
Builds muscle
Repairs muscle
Energy source
What type of biomolecule is bread and pasta?
Complex Carbohydrate
List all 3 functions of Fat.
Growth and development
Fuels the body (Energy Source)
Absorbs Vitamins
Stores and Builds Hormones
Insulates the body
What are the building blocks of protein?
What is amino acids
What is another name for one sugar molecule?
What is a monosaccharide
What are two types of fats that are bad for you?
Saturated and Trans Fats
What organelle reassemble's amino acids into new proteins?
Ribosomes
What are 2 examples of simple carbohydrates? (not food sources!)
What is sucrose, glucose, fructose, lactose
What cell organelle is made of lipids?
What is a cell membrane
What are nucleotides made of?
Sugar, phosphate and a base.
What kind of protein breaks down food?
What are enzymes?
What chemical allows sugar to pass from the bloodstream into your cells and where is it produced?
Insulin produced in the pancreas.