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Carbohydrates
Lipids
Proteins
Misc
100
The simplest carbohydrate
What is a monosaccharide?
100
All lipids share this important trait
What is they are hydrophobic?
100
Proteins are polymers consisting of this monomer
What is an amino acid?
100
A large macromolecule consisting of many similar building blocks
What is a polymer?
200
The covalent bond formed between two monosaccharides during a condensation reaction
What is a glycosidic linkage?
200
The three families of lipids
What are fats, steroids and phospholipids?
200
Carboxyl, amine group and a r group attached to a center carbon
What is the basic structure of an amino acid?
200
The subunits that serve as the building blocks of a polymer
What is a monomer?
300
The two types of polysaccharides that plants and animals use
What is storage and structural polysaccharides?
300
The difference between a saturated and an unsaturated fatty acid
What is saturated has no double bonds-un has double bonds?
300
This level of protein structure is the unique amino acid sequence
What is the primary structure?
300
A reaction in which two molecules become covalently bonded to one another through the loss of water
What is a condensation reaction?
400
the two different storage polysaccharides(plant and animal)
What is glycogen and starch
400
The basic structure of a phospholipid
What is a molecule with a phosphate head and two fatty acid tails?
400
These two types of protein folding are mainly due to hydrogen bonding
What is alpha helix and beta pleated sheet?
400
DNA and RNA
What are the two types of nucleic acids?
500
The alpha and beta configurations of glucose differ by the placement of this functional group attached to the number 1 carbon
What is hydroxyl?
500
The basic structure of a steroid
What is four interconnected rings?
500
disulfide bridges, hydrogen bonds hydrophobic interactions and ionic bonding are all occurring at this level
What is tertiary?
500
a specific example of hydrolysis
What is Digestion?