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Biosynthesis
What is materials made from living beings
Hydrophilic means?
What is to attract water
The ability to do work or cause change
What is energy
An atom with the same number of protons, but different number of neutrons
What is an isotope
On top of a roller coaster, the coaster would have mostly ___________ energy
What is potential
C6H12O6 would be considered what kind of formula?
What is a molecular formula
The hereditary material of living things consist of
What are nucleic acids
The three subatomic particles
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons
This substance is often called a universal solvent
What is water
Baseball team
Cubs Team Go
A compound that donates hydrogen ions when dissolved in water
What is an acid
All organic compounds contain what three elements(usually)?
What are carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
The basic building block of proteins
What are amino acids
Activation energy is
The energy needed to start a reaction
The three most common elements found in living beings
What are carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
When only water is diffused through a selectively permeable membrane
What is osmosis
The increase in randomness and loss of usable energy
What is Entropy
Name 2 of carbons 3 unique traits that make it great for making molecules
What are, can form 4 different bonds
Likes to bond to itself
Can form double and triple bonds
Watson and Crick are famous for?
What is discovering the structure of DNA
Steroids are considered lipids because
What is they are hydrophobic
In DNA ________always bonds to _________and ________always bonds to _________
What is Adenine to Thymine and Cytosine to Guanine
Name the three types of polysaccharides
What are glycogen, starch, and cellulose
Difference between ionic and covalent bonding
What is covalent bonding, electrons are shared between atoms while in ionic one takes the electron from the other and creates two ions in the process
Difference between saturated and unsaturated fats
What is saturated has only single bonds and unsaturated has at least one double bond
Why do people store energy as fat instead of carbohydrates
What is, fats takes up less room