Carbohydrates
The monomer of carbohydrates.
What are monosaccharides.
The monomer of proteins.
What are amino acids?
The monomer of nucleic acids.
What are nucleotides?
What are fatty acids?
Macromolecule used as the body's preferred source of energy.
What are carbohydrates?
The polymer of carbohydrates.
What are polysaccharides?
The polymer of proteins.
What are polypeptides?
The polymer of nucleic acids.
What are nucleic acids?
The polymer of lipids.
What are triglycerides?
Proteins speed up the rate of biochemical reactions.
What are enzymes?
The main function of carbohydrates in the body.
The main function of proteins.
What is SO MANY THINGS? (transport, structure, signaling, enzymes, storage, movement, regulatory, immune, etc.)
The main function of nucleic acids.
What is storing and transmitting genetic information?
The main function of lipids.
What is long-term energy storage?
One polysaccharide used for structure in plants.
What is cellulose?
Plants store extra glucose in this polysaccharide.
What is starch?
Bonds that link amino acids together.
The sugar found in DNA.
What is deoxyribose?
Makes up the cell membrane.
What are phospholipids?
Two macromolecules that contain elements C, H, O, but in different ratios.
What are carbohydrates and lipids?
Animals store extra glucose in this polysaccharide.
What is glycogen?
The importance of protein folding.
What is structure determines function?
The nucleotide found in RNA but not DNA.
What is uracil?
The components/structure of phospholipids.
What is a hydrophilic head and hydrophobic tails?
The two macromolecules are directly involved in turning that DNA into traits you can see.
What are DNA and proteins?