The attraction of a particular atom for the electrons of a covalent bond.
What is electronegativity?
100
The study of carbon compounds.
What is organic chemistry?
100
A long molecule consisting of many similar or identical building blocks linked by covalent bonds.
What is a polymer?
100
Serve as fuel and buiding material
What are carbohydrates?
100
These molecules assist in the proper folding of other proteins.
What are chaperonins?
200
It is less dense when frozen.
What is water?
200
Carbon has a valence of...
What is 4?
200
The facilitators of processes in cells.
What are enzymes?
200
Store, transmit and help express heriditary information.
What are nucleic acids?
200
An inherited blood disorder that is caused by the substitution of one amino acid (valine) for the normal one (glutamic acid) at a particular position in the primary structure of hemoglobin.
What is sickle-cell disease?
300
The linking together of like molecules - often by hydrogen bonds.
What is cohesion?
300
Compounds with the same molecular formula but different structures and properties.
What are isomers?
300
A chemical reaction in which two molecules become covalently bonded to each other with the removal of a water molecule.
What is a dehydration reaction?
300
C6H12O6
What is glucose?
300
The structural level that is least affected by a disruption in hydrogen bonding.
What is the primary level?
400
The sphere of water molecules around each dissolved ion.
What is a hydration shell?
400
Chemical groups attached to the carbon skeletons of organic molecules participate in chemical reactions or contribute to the function by affecting the shape.
What are functional groups?
400
Polymers are disassembled to monomers via this.
What is hydrolysis?
400
A diverse group of hydrophobic molecules.
What are lipids?
400
A mole of table sugar and a mole of vitamin C are equal in this.
What is the number of molecules?
500
This is responsible for water's surface tension.
What is hydrogen bonding?
500
The chemical makeup of ATP.
What is adenosine attached to three phosphate groups?
500
Carbohydrates, proteins and nucleic acids
What are polymers?
500
This enzyme can break glycosidic linkages between glucose monomers only if the monomers are in the alpha form.
What is amylase?
500
The molecular formula for a polymer made by linking ten glucose molecules together by dehydration synthesis.