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11.1 Vocabulary
Elements in Living Things
11.2 Vocabulary
Compounds of Living Things
Grab Bag
100
A covalently bonded compound that contains carbon
What is an organic compound?
100
This is an example of which carbon backbone: H H-C-H H-C-H H-C-H H-C-H H-C-H H
What is a straight chain?
100
A class of energy-giving nutrients that includes sugars, starches, and fibers; contains carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
What are carbohydrates?
100
True or false: DNA and RNA are examples of lipids.
What is false?
100
True or False: Petroleum, which is made from organic compounds, came from the remains of living organisms buried in the Earth's crust.
What is true?
200
A covalent bond made up of one pair of shared electrons.
What is a single bond?
200
True or False: Organic compounds can be both made by living things and manufactured.
What is true?
200
A fat molecule or a molecule that has similar properties.
What are lipids?
200
True or False: Oils, waxes, and steroids are examples of carbohydrates.
What is false?
200
__________________ are made up of long chains of sugars.
What is carbohydrates?
300
When carbon atoms form two covalent bonds between them.
What is a double bond?
300
Carbon has a central role in the chemistry of living organisms because it can do this.
What is combine in many ways with atoms of carbon and other elements?
300
Molecules that are made up of amino acids and that are needed to build and repair body structures and to regulate processes.
What are proteins?
300
One function of lipids is _____________.
What is store energy and/or make up cell membranes?
300
Lipids are made up of long chains of ______________.
What are carbon atoms?
400
Three bonds between carbon atoms.
What is a triple bond?
400
All organic compounds are made up of this element.
What is carbon?
400
The largest molecules made by living organisms and are made of nucleotides.
What are nucleic acids?
400
Two functions of proteins are __________.
What is build and repair body structures, regulate body processes, perform different special functions, etc.?
400
The function of DNA and RNA are _________________ and ____________________.
What is store genetic information and store information for making proteins?
500
Three kinds of __________ are straight chain, branched chain, and ring.
What are carbon backbones?
500
Living organisms are largely made up of these six elements.
What are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus?
500
The small molecules that make up proteins.
What are amino acids?
500
We (and other living organisms) cannot exist without water because water does many things, including these three functions.
What is regulates temperature, helps transport substances, and provides lubrication?
500
Living organisms are made up of the same six elements, but are different from one another because _____________.
What is atoms are combined in different ways?