Polymers
This is the building block of a polymer.
What is a monomer?
This is the simplest form of carbohydrate and includes glucose.
What is a monosaccharide?
This is the key characteristic of lipids that distinguishes them from other macromolecules.
Non-Polar hydrophobic
Proteins are made of these monomers.
What are amino acids?
This is the basic building block of a nucleic acid.
What is a nucleotide?
This reaction links monomers together to form polymers by removing a molecule of water.
What is a dehydration reaction?
This type of bond forms between two monosaccharides during a dehydration reaction.
What is a glycosidic linkage?
Recognize glycerol as the “backbone” and fatty acids as the “building blocks” of this...
What are triglycerides?
The bond that forms between two amino acids during protein synthesis is called this.
What is a peptide bond?
The two families of nitrogenous bases found in nucleic acids are called these.
What are purines and pyrimidines?
These are one of the 4 large biological Molecules, are called macromolecules, and are "huge".
What are carbohydrates?
Glycogen, starch, and cellulose are examples of these types of carbohydrates that serve distinct functions in animals and plants.
What are polysaccharides?
This bond forms between glycerol and fatty acids during triglyceride formation.
What is an ester bond?
All amino acids share a common structure. What part of the structure makes each on unique?
what is the "R-Group" (side chain)
This is the term for the structure of DNA, consisting of two antiparallel strands wound into a shape resembling a twisted ladder.
What is a double helix?
These 2 biological macromolecules are considered polymers
What are Proteins and Carbohydrates?
These functional groups would typically be found on a monosaccharide.
What are hydroxyl (-OH) and carbonyl (C=O)?
These fatty acids have no double bonds between carbons, but these types of fatty acids do.
what are saturated, unsaturated.
Names of the 4 levels of protein structure
primary, secondary, tertiary, quarternary
Differentiate between the purines and pyrimidines and their specific base pairing in DNA.
What are purines (adenine, guanine) and pyrimidines (cytosine, thymine), with adenine pairing with thymine and guanine pairing with cytosine?
Describe the structural role of phospholipids in cell membranes.
What is forming a bilayer with hydrophilic heads facing outwards and hydrophobic tails inward?
Differentiate among primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structures of a protein.
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