The Nature of Matter
Properties of Water
Carbon Compounds
Chemical Reactions
Biotech Grab Bag
100

The basic unit of matter

What is an atom?

100

Chemical composition of water.

What is H2O (2 hydrogens and 1 oxygen)?

100

Macromolecule whose subunits are monosaccharides (i.e. glucose).

What is carbohydrates?

100

The process that changes one set of molecules into another set of molecules.

What is chemical reaction?

100

Method to measure how much a substance absorbs light by measuring the intensity of light as a beam of light passes through sample solution

What is spectrophotometry?

200

Bond formed when oppositely charged ions are attracted to each other

What is an ionic bond?

200

Partial charge of oxygen atom in water due to unequal sharing of electrons?

What is negative?

200

Macromolecule that stores and transmits genetic information.

What is nucleic acid?

200

Energy needed to get a reaction started.

What is activation energy?

200

Laboratory practices and procedures designed reduce the contamination from microbes

What is aseptic technique?

300

Strong bond formed when electrons are shared by atoms

What is a covalent bond?

300

Partial charge of hydrogen atom in water due to unequal sharing of electrons

What is positive?

300

Monomer of nucleic acid.

What is nucleotide?
300

Speeds up the rate of a chemical reactions in living things.

What is enzyme (catalyst)?

300

Technique used to separate DNA based on size

What is agarose gel electrophoresis?

400
An atomic calcium has 20 protons.  How many electrons does it have?

What is 20?

400
Chemical bond formed due to the attraction of a partially positive hydrogen atom and a partially positive oxygen atom.

What is hydrogen bond?

400

Group that differs among 20 amino acids

What is side chain (R-group)?

400

Area of enzyme where substrates bind

What is active site?

400

Technique in which bacteria are hijacked by DNA (plasmid) introduced by scientist

What is bacterial transformation?

500

Strongest chemical bond

What is covalent?

500

A molecules that has uneven distribution of charge across their geometry resulting in one side being positive and the other side negative

What is polar?

500

Four levels of protein structure.

What is primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary?

500

Effect of enzymes on activation energy of chemical reaction

What is lower?

500

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