Carbohydrates
These are examples of carbohydrates.
What is bread, pasta, starch, and glucose?
These are examples of lipids.
What are fats, oils, and waxes?
These are examples of foods high in protein.
What are meats, eggs, beans, and soy.
This double-stranded nucleic acid contains the master instructions for building all of an organism's proteins.
What is DNA?
These simple sugars, are the monomers used to build more complex carbohydrates.
What are monosaccharides?
While carbohydrates provide quick energy, lipids are used by the body for this type of energy storage.
What is long term?
These are the 20 different monomers that link together in a specific order to create a protein chain.
What are amino acids?
This is the function of nucleic acids.
What is to store and pass on genetic information?
The two functions of carbohydrates.
What is short term energy and plant structures?
Many lipids, like triglycerides, are made of a glycerol head attached to three of these long hydrocarbon chains.
What are fatty acids?
This special type of protein speeds up chemical reactions in the body without being used up in the process.
What are enzymes?
These are the monomers of nucleic acids, each consisting of a sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base.
What are nucleotides?
This molecule is created by plants during photosynthesis and provides short term energy.
What is glucose?
Phospholipids are the primary component of this, forming a bilayer that controls what enters and leaves the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
These are chemicals messages created by the endocrine system that help the body maintain homeostasis.
What are hormones?
Unlike its double-stranded relative, this nucleic acid is usually single-stranded and helps carry the genetic code to the ribosomes.
What is RNA?
Plants store their complex carbs in this form, which humans commonly eat in foods like corn, rice, and potatoes.
What is starch?
Arctic organisms often have a layer of blubber made out of fats due to this function of lipids.
What is insulation?
These help larger or charged molecules move across the lipid bilayer in and out of the cell.
What are transport proteins?
In a DNA molecule, Cytosine always pairs with Guanine, while Adenine always pairs with this nitrogenous base.
What is thymine?