Carbohydrates
Which smaller molecules are carbohydrates made from?
simple sugars
Fatty acids
Which smaller molecules are proteins made from?
amino acids
Which smaller molecules are nucleic acids made from?
nucleotides
What is semipermeable?
And what did we read about that is semipermeable?
Semipermeable only allows some things to go through.
Cell membranes are semipermeable. They are highly selective about allowing only certain substances to enter or leave the cell. (ie; oxygen and nutrients can be let in and wastes can be transported out)
Carbohydrate molecules are made only from which 3 elements?
Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen
Lipids are also known as what?
Fats
Protein is the most plentiful substance in the body, 2nd to what?
water
Nucleic Acids are the most __________ of all the chemicals of life.
complex
What are considered the power houses of the cell?
Mitochondria
Carbohydrates are one of the main sources of ________ energy for most animals.
Food
Lipids do not like to be near to what?
water
What in the body are mostly made up of protein?
muscles and organs
Nucleic Acids include ______ which stores all the info for making structures of living things and ______ which is also an important nucleic acid.
DNA and RNA
True or False: Eukaryotic cells are like a one-room cabin.
False.
Prokaryotic cells are like the one room cabin with no internal membranes to separate structures rather they have different assigned sections within the cell where different processes happen.
Carbohydrates are one of the main sources of food energy for most _________.
animals
Lipids contain over ______ the amount of energy as compared to carbohydrates.
2X
Proteins are complex molecules, larger than which two chemicals of life?
Carbohydrates and Lipids
Nucleic Acids are involved in creation, repair and ________ of proteins.
reproduction
Harmful organisms that live on or inside other organisms, harming them are called what?
Parasites