Carbon and Organic Chemistry
This element has 4 valence electrons and forms the backbone of life
What is Carbon?
The small building blocks of macromolecules are:
What are monomers?
This macromolecule provides quick energy for the body:
What are carbohydrates?
The monomer of proteins is called:
What is an amino acid?
What are nucleic acids?
The ability of carbon to bond with other carbon atoms is called:
What is catenation?
A long chain made of repeating monomers is called:
What is a polymer?
This macromolecule is hydrophobic, not a true polymer, and forms cell membranes:
What are lipids?
Proteins that speed us chemical reactions are called:
What are enzymes?
The monomer of nucleic acids is called:
What is a nucleotide?
What is Carbon?
This reaction joins monomers together by removing water:
What is dehydration synthesis?
What is a monosaccharide?
The sequence of amino acids in a protein is its ______ structure.
What is primary?
This nucleic acid has a double-helix structure:
What is DNA?
Carbon can form these three types of bonds with other atoms:
What are single, double, and triple bonds?
This reaction breaks polymers apart using water
What is hydrolysis?
This lipid forms the main structure of the cell membrane:
What are phospholipids?
This level of proteins structure is the full 3D shape of one polypeptide:
What is tertiary structure?
This nucleic acid helps make proteins:
This is the maximum number of covalent bonds one carbon atom can form:
What is four?
What is dehydration synthesis?
This polysaccharide is used by plants to build cell walls:
What is cellulose?
What is quaternary structure?
What are a sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base?