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This method is used by many researchers to find answers to questions
What is the scientific method?
This double stranded molecule holds genetic information in the form of nucleotides
What is DNA?
The monomer for building proteins
What are amino acids?
Lipids are this, also known as "water fearing"
What is hydrophobic?
These sugar monomers link together to form sugar polymers
What are monosaccharides?
A proposed explanation for an observed phenomenon
What is a hypothesis?
These nitrogenous bases have a double ring structure
What are purines?
This level of protein structure refers to localized foldings, examples are alpha helices and beta-pleated sheets
What is secondary structure?
Steroids are derived from this molecule
What is cholesterol?
The chemical formula for all monosaccharides
What is (CH2O)n ?
This variable is manipulated by the researcher in an experimental study
What is the independent variable?
Name 3 common types of RNA and their function
What are mRNA, tRNA, and rRNA? They can be instructions to translation, read codons to add specific amino acids, and make up the ribosome respectively.
This, commonly referred to as the N-terminal
What is the amine terminal?
The most common/defining constituent of a lipid
What is a hydrocarbon?
This long branched polymer is the storage from of glucose in mammalian muscle cells
What is Glycogen?
In this study you manipulate variables and record the responses
What is an experimental study?
Adenosine to Thymine and Cytosine to Guanine are examples of
What is Complementary Pairing?
This bond links two amino acids together
What are peptide bonds?
These bonds link fatty acids to the gylcerol backbone in triglycerides
What are ester bonds?
This linkage holds polysaccharide monomers together
What is a glycosidic linkage?
This order of thinking is when you take many specific examples and arrive at a broad, general conclusion
What is Inductive Reasoning?
This bond links nucleotides, on the same strand, together
What is Phosphodiester bonds?
Name 3 functions of proteins
What is transport, enzymatic processes, structure, storage, motor processes, signaling molecules?
Name the three most common lipids in biology
What are fats, phospholipids, and steroids?
Name 2 functions of Sugars (monosaccharides and polysaccharides)
What is energy, structure, and cell communication?