Proteins
What is amino acid?
monomer of carbohydrates
What is monosaccharide?
monomer of nucleic acids
What are nucleotides?
three main groups of lipids
What are steroids, triglyccerides, and phospholipids?
three molecules found in all four macromolecules
What are hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon?
functions of proteins
function of carbohydrates
function of deoxyribonucleic acid
What is storing, transmitting, and expressing genetic information?
four fused carbon rings with varying functional groups
What is steroid?
the process of removing the equivalent of a water molecule to combine monomers
What is dehydration synthesis?
four components attached to the central carbon in an amino acid
What is hydrogen atom, carboxyl group, amino group, and R group?
the two polysaccharides responsible for storage in plants and animals
What are starch and glycogen?
function of ribonucleic acids and the three main types
What is protein synthesis and messenger, transfer, and ribosomal?
attached to glycerol to form phospholipid?
What are two fatty acids and a phosphate group?
ratio of carbons to hydrogen to oxygen in carbohydrate
What is 1:2:1?
level of structure resulting from hydrogen bonds along back bone; results in alpha helix or beta pleated sheets
What is secondary structure?
the three polysaccharides responsible for structure in plants, fungi, and some bacteria
What are cellulose, chitin, and peptidoglycan?
three components of a nucleotide
three fatty acids joined to a glycerol by what linkage
What is ester?
the polarity of lipids
What is nonpolar?
level of structure resulting from aggregation of 2+ polypeptide subunits.
What is quaternary structure?
monosaccharide + monosaccharide = disaccharide via what linkage?
What is glycosidic?
What is adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil?
1) no carbon-carbon double bonds in fatty acid
2) one or more carbon-carbon double bonds
What is 1) saturated and 2) unsaturated?
two macromolecules that contain nitrogen
What are proteins and nucleic acids?