Life
This is the smallest unit of life
what is a cell?
The building block of carbohydrates
What is monosaccharide?
This type of lipid is used to send signals throughout the body
What is a steroid?
These molecules are the building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
The building block of Nucleic Acids
What is a nucleotide?
In the definition of life, being "programmed" refers largely to organisms having these inherited biological instructions.
What is DNA/Nucleic Acids?
This monosaccharide is an important source of energy for cells.
What is Glucose?
A typical triglyceride is constructed from one glycerol and three of these.
What are fatty acids?
Proteins that speed up chemical reactions are called these.
What are enzymes?
The two major types of nucleic acids
What are DNA and RNA?
A plant growing toward a window is an example of this part of our definition of life because the organism is responding to its environment.
What is Interactive?
Starch, glycogen, and cellulose all belong to this class of carbohydrates.
What are polysaccharides?
This form of a fatty acid is generally solid at room temperature.
what is a saturated fat?
How many different amino acids are there?
20
The process that turns RNA into a protein.
What is translation?
According to our definition of life, living things are described as preprogrammed, interactive, adaptative, and this.
What is evolutionary?
What other functions do carbohydrates have other than energy?
What is structure?
This special type of lipid is the major component of the cell membrane.
What is a Phospholipid?
The site in a protein where substates bind.
what is an active site?
This nucleic acid stores genetic information.
What is DNA
A package of nucleic acids that can replicate only by infecting other cells
What is a virus?
Starch and cellulose can both be made entirely from glucose, yet they have very different functions. Explain why.
They are structured differently. one is branched the other is a chain.
The cell membrane allows some substances to pass through while keeping other out. this is called...
What is selectively permeable?
This word describes what happens if a protein loses its shape
What is denature?
How scientists describe the shape of DNA
What is a double helix?