Biomolecule Jeopardy

Carbohydrates

100

What elements make up carbohydrates?

What is carbon, oxygen and hydrogen

200

What letters do most carbohydrates end in?

What is -OSE

300

What are carbohydrates used for by the body?

What is short term energy

400

What is the monomer for carbohydrates?

What is a monosaccharide

500

Name 2 types of sugars.

What is surcose, glucose, cellulose, glycogen

Lipids

100

What elements make up lipids?

What is carbon, hydrogen, oxygen

200

Do lipids contain more or less energy per gram?

What is more

300

List 3 functions (jobs) of lipids.

What is long term storage, insulation, cell membrane

400

What is the most important function of lipids?

What is the main component cell membranes?

500

Do lipids have a polymer?

What is no?

Nucleic Acids

100

What does the "NA" in DNA stand for?

What is Nucleic Acid?

200

What do nucleic acids do?

What is store information.

300

What elements make up nucleic acids?

What is carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorous

400

What are 2 examples of nucleic acids?

What is DNA and RNA

500

What is the monomer nucleic acids?

What is nucleotides

Proteins

100

What elements make up proteins

What is carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen

200

List 2 functions of proteins.

What is structure, muscles, transportation, immunity, chemical reactions

300

What are proteins made of (monomer)?

What is amino acids

400

What is the polymer for proteins?

What are polypeptides?

500

Are proteins used for energy?

What is no

Enzymes

100

Enzymes are a special group of what?

What is protein

200

Enzymes reduce the _____ and ______ needed for a chemical reaction (change)

What is time and energy

300

What is the term for when an enzyme stops working?

What is Denaturation

400

What does an inhibitor do?

What is attach to an enzyme and change the shape of the active site

500

What is a substrate?

What is what the enzyme works on