General
Name the two properties of water that give water its unique characteristics of high specific heat, cohesion and adhesion, capillary action, and surface tension.
Hydrogen Bonding and Polarity
What are the elements found in carbohydrates?
CHO
What are the two monomers of lipids?
Glycerol and fatty acids
What are the elements found in protein?
CHON
What are the monomers of nucleic acids called?
Nucleotides
What is the difference between cohesion and adhesion?
Cohesion = water to water
Adhesion = water to another substance
What are the monomers for carbohydrates called?
Monosaccharides
What elements are found in lipids?
CHO
What are the monomers of protein?
Amino acid
Name the two types of nucleic acids
DNA and RNA
Define pH.
The concentration of Hydrogen and Hydroxide ions in a solution/How alkaline or basic a substance is.
Name the levels of organization for carbohydrates.
Monosaccharide
Dissachraide
Polysaccharide
True or False.Lipids are soluble in water.
False! They are insoluble (aka they don't break down)
What are the four components of amino acids?
Hydrogen attached to a central carbon, Amino group, carboxyl group, and R group or Side Chain
Name the FIVE nucleotides.
Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine, and Uracil
Name two substances that are acidic and two substances that are alkaline.
Name three examples of carbohydrates.
glucose, lactose, maltose, sucrose
Name three examples of lipids.
Triglyceride, steroids, waxes, cholesterol (multiple right answers)
Provide three examples of a protein.
Keratin, lactase, hemoglobin, and collagen (multiple right answers)
What are the three components of all nucleotides?
Phosphate group, sugar, and nitrogenous base
What is the process that builds polymers and what is the process that breaks down polymers?
Dehydration synthesis (Build up) and Hydrolysis (Break down)
Name an example of a monosaccharide, disaccharide, and a polysaccharide.
Glucose, Sucrose, Cellulose/Starch
What are three differences between saturated and unsaturated fats?
Saturated, single, solid
Unsaturated, double, liquid
What is the type of bond that joins the amino acids of a protein?
Peptide bond
Name three differences between DNA and RNA.
Double stranded/single stranded, U/T, Nucleus/Ctyoplasm, Hydrogen Bonds/Phosphodiester bonds