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Building Blocks
Biomolecules
Proteins
Lipids and Nucleic Acids
Carbohydrate
100
a chain of amino acids
What is a protein?
100
It is the cental element in all organic molecules.
What is carbon?
100
the characteristic of a protein that must be formed correctly for the protein to do its job correctly
What is shape?
100
It is the element that is found in nucleic acids but not in carbohydrates, lipids or proteins.
What is phosphorus?
100
They are the elements that all carbohydrates are made of.
What are carbon, hydrogen and oxygen?
200
Disaccharides and polysaccharides are made of these smaller molecules.
What are monosaccharides?
200
This kind of reaction is a building reaction.
What is a synthesis reaction?
200
the number of different amino acids that humans use to build proteins
What is 20?
200
It is a fatty acid that has one or more double bonds.
What is an unsaturated fatty acids?
200
It is another name for milk sugar.
What is lactose?
300
Three of these long carbon chains are found in triglycerides.
What are fatty acids?
300
Energy is stored in this part of a molecule.
What is a bond?
300
It is the protein that carries oxygen in the blood.
What is hemoglobin?
300
It is the abbreviation for deoxyribonucleic acid.
What is DNA?
300
It is the molecular formula for glucose.
What is C6H12O6?
400
They are the building blocks of nucleic acids
What are nucleotides?
400
When living things break down food, they get smaller molecules and this.
What is energy?
400
It is the bond between two amino acids.
What is a peptide bond?
400
Cell membranes are made out of this lipid.
What is phospholipid?
400
They are the last three letters at the end of many carbohydrate names.
What is "ose"?
500
Starch, glycogen and cellulose are made of this molecule.
What is glucose?
500
It is a chemical reaction that breaks large molecules down into smaller molecules when water is present.
What is hydrolysis?
500
It is the correct sequence of amino acids in a protein.
What is the primary structure?
500
Testosterone and cholesterol are examples of this kind of lipid.
What is a steroid?
500
It is the polysaccharide that animals make when they want to store glucose.
What is glycogen?