Vocabulary
Clue: This small single unit joins together with others to form a polymer.
Answer: What is a monomer?
Clue: This element is essential to life because it has 4 valence electrons that allow it to form long chains and rings.
Answer: What is carbon?
Clue: In the starch breakdown lab, if amylase is functioning properly, iodine will turn this color if starch is present.
Answer: what is Blue-black?
Clue: Molecules composed of many monomers. They also make up macromolecules like carbohydrates and proteins.
Answer: What is polymer?
Clue: Name the four major groups of macromolecules found in living things.
Answer: What are carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, and proteins?
Clue: These two things are never created or destroyed during a chemical reaction.
Answer: What is matter and energy?
Clue: These elements or compounds enter into a chemical reaction.
Answer: What are reactants?
Clue: Glucose, fructose, and galactose belong to this group of macromolecules.
Answer: What are carbohydrates?
Clue: These often end in -ase such as amylase or lactase.
Answer: What are enzymes?
Clue: These elements or compounds are produced by a chemical reaction.
Answer: What are products?
Clue: Fats, oils, and waxes belong to this macromolecule group that is generally not soluble in water.
Answer: What are lipids?
Clue: Chemical reactions involve changes in these chemical structures that join atoms in compounds.
Answer: What are chemical bonds?
Clue: A biological catalyst made of protein that speeds up specific cellular reactions.
Answer: What is an enzyme?
Clue: This macromolecule group functions to store and transmit genetic information.
Answer: What are nucleic acids?
Clue: In the Breakdown of Starch lab, this enzyme was responsible for breaking down starch into simple sugars.
Answer: What is amylase?