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This organic polymer is made up of small molecules called amino acids and functions to do work in cells.
What are proteins?
100

The monomers of carbohydrates.

What are monosaccharides (simple sugars)?

100
This class of organic compounds include substances such as fat or oil and are used as a long-term energy molecule as well as a water resistant membrane.
What is a lipid?
100
The millions of organic compounds can be grouped into these four major types of compounds.
What are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids?
100

The spontaneous flow of liquid into a narrow tube.

What is capillary action?

200

Subatomic particle with a positive charge.

What is a proton?

200
Water is known to have a difference in electrical charge between different parts of the same molecule, this water is this type of molecule.
What is a polar molecule?
200

A substance that can't be broken down by non-nuclear reactions.

What is an element?

200

The valence electrons of an element of Carbon.

What is 4?

200
Enzymes bind both reactant molecules (called the substrate), tightly and specifically, at a site on the enzyme molecule called the this.
What is the active site?
300
This class of organic compounds include sugars or starches, and are used to store energy.
What are carbohydrates?
300
Acidity is measured on this scale.
What is the pH scale?
300
A solution with a pH lower than 7 is called this.
What is an acid?
300

A solution that has a high concentration of hydronium ions.

What is a base?

300
The type of bond that forms between polar molecules like water is known as this.
What is a hydrogen bond?
400

An element that has an atomic number = 11.

What is Na (sodium)?

400
These are proteins that speed up chemical reactions in cells in temperatures that are far below that of burning flesh.
What are enzymes?
400
A solution with a pH higher than 7 is called this.
What is a base?
400
This class of organic polymers include molecules such as DNA or RNA, are built of small units called nucleotides, and serve as information molecules.
What are nucleic acids?
400
This organic polymer is a complex carbohydrate that forms when simple sugars bind together in a chain and serve as energy and structural molecules.
What are polysaccharides?
500

 Chemical bond in which electrons are shared.

What is a covalent bond?

500
The sum of all the biochemical reactions in an organism is called this.
What is metabolism?
500

Elements that have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons.

What is an isotope?

500

A chemical that dissolves most substances.

What is a universal solvent (water)?

500

The attraction of molecules of one kind for molecules of a different kind.

What is adhesion?