biomolecules types
and examples of organic biomolecules
and examples of organic biomolecules
What does your body use as quick energy and helps control blood flow, glucose, and more?
Carbohydrates
Corn, Honey, and fruits are an example of what?
Glucose
How many have the elements CHO?
2
True or False: The elements CHO are used in only Carbohydrates
False they are used in both Carbohydrates and in Lipids
Single building block or one molecule is called what?
Monomer
What helps with moving stored energy, making hormones, and absorbing vitamins?
Lipids
lipid cholesterol, estradiol and testosterone, anabolic steroids, and the anti-inflammatory corticosteroid drug dexamethasone.
Steroids
Carbohydrates have what elements in them?
CHO
Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen
True or False: A catalyst rises activation energy, and slows down the reaction
False a catalyst lowers activation energy, and speeds up the reaction
Multiple monomers joined together are called what?
Polymer
What serves as structural support for biochemical catalysts, hormones, enzymes, building blocks, and initiators of cellular death.
Proteins
What speeds up cell and chemical reactions?
Enzymes
Lipids what what elements in them?
CHO
Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen
True or False: Do Nucleic Acids have Nucleotides: Phosphate, Sugar, and Nitrogenous Base as their monomer?
True they do.
What do you call an enzyme that has changed shapes?
Denatured
What acts as the primary storage and transfer mechanism for genetic information within a cell, and is the blueprint for all cellular activities?
Nucleic acid
What moves glucose all around the human body?
Insulin
Proteins have what elements?
CHON
Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen and Nitrogen
True or False: The components of a nucleotide are potassium Group, Nitrogenous Base, and Sugar.
False: The Phosphorus Group, Nitrogenous Base, and Sugar are the three components of a nucleotide
organic molecules such as carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids, that are all used and produced by living things for survival are what?
Biomolecules
What is the messenger that transfers genetic information from DNA to the ribosomes where proteins are synthesized?
RNA
What is the genetic base code that is unique to a specific individual?
DNA
Nucleic Acids have what elements in them?
CHONP
Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen and Phosphorus
True or False: Proteins have Hemoglobin, Insulin, Phospholipids, Steroids
False Protieins have Hemoglobin, Insulin, Enzymes (-ase), and not Phospholipids, Steroids
sugar (a carbohydrate) composed of two monosaccharides. It is formed when two sugars are joined together and a molecule of water is removed is what?
Disaccharides