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What is the solubility of a nonpolar bond?
What is insoluble/hydrophobic?
A small portion of DNA that codes for a trait.
What is a gene?
What element is a part of all Organic Molecules?
What is Carbon?
How many organic molecules are there, and what are their names?
What is 4 & carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids?
What is the monomer of a nucleic acid?
What is a nucleotide?
This type of fat has double bonds.
What is an unsaturated fat?
What is a polypeptide sequence?
Fill in the blank: The shorter a bond, the __________, the bond will be.
What is stronger?
This is a monomer of a Carbohydrate.
What is a monosaccharide?
What are the nucleic acids? What sugars do they represent?
Describe structural isomers.
What are molecules that have the same molecular formula but differ in the arrangement of atoms ?
A molecule of water is lost and a monomer is added to a polymer. What is this called?
What is a hydrolysis reaction?
There are two ends to a polypeptide sequence, what are they and which one is the beginning, and which is the end?
What is the N-terminus and C-terminus? N-terminus is the beginning
A molecule of water is removed to add a new monomer, What is this reaction called ?
What is a dehydration reaction?
What best describes the quaternary structure of a protein?
What is the arrangement of multiple polypeptide chains into a functional protein complex?
This is the functional unit of a gene, it codes for a trait.
What is an exon?
Nucleotides are categorized into two types, what are those types? Which nitrogen bases belong in each type?
What are purines and pyrimidines? A & G are purines. C,T & U are pyrimidines.
Lola fries bacon, then comes back a few hours later, and sees the grease has solidified. What kind of fat does this show?
What is a saturated fat?
This macromolecule comprises about 40% of the organic matter in the human body, it is essential for storing energy.
What is/are (a) lipid(s)?
What best describes the secondary structure of proteins?
What are the local folding patterns (stabilized by hydrogen bonds) such as α helices and β pleated sheets?
Has the chemical formula of Cn(H2O)n.
What is a carbohydrate?
A type of lipid that is amphipathic.
What is a phospholipid?
This is the theory in biology that genetic information flows from DNA to RNA, to RNA to proteins.
What is central dogma?
What are the components of an amino acid?
What is an alpha/central carbon, an amino group, a carboxyl group, and a variable side chain?
Name the components of a nucleotide.
What is a phosphate group, a 5-carbon sugar, and a nitrogenous base?