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Protein
Lipid
Carbohydrate
Nucleic Acid
It's Aliiiiiiive!
100
The monomer subunit of a protein.
What is an amino acid?
100
The monomer subunit of a lipid.
What is a fatty acid?
100
The monomer subunit of a carbohydrate.
What is a monosaccharide?
100
The monomer subunit of a nucleic acid.
What is a nucleotide?
100
A cell.
What is the smallest structure that is considered alive?
200
A covalent bond.
What is the type of bond that connects two amino acids?
200
One function performed by lipids.
What is *forming the cell membrane, *energy storage, *intracellular signaling, *energy absorption, *insulation?
200
The chemical formula for a monosaccharide.
What is C6H12O6?
200
The two major types of nucleic acid used by living organisms.
What are deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA)?
200
The body's process of keeping its internal environment within a constant, narrow range of conditions.
What is homeostasis?
300
These characteristics vary between R groups.
What are size, polarity and charge?
300
A fatty acid whose carbons are bonded to the maximum possible number of hydrogens.
What is a SATURATED fatty acid?
300
An example of an animal whose skeleton is made of carbohydrate.
What is a *any crustacean, *any arthropod?
300
The three different parts of a nucleotide.
What are phosphate, nitrogen-containing base and sugar?
300
Heritability
What is the ability to pass on precise instructions to ones offspring?
400
Heat, pH and chemical concentrations.
What are factors that can alter the folding pattern of a protein?
400
The covalent bonds between carbon and hydrogen atoms.
What is the bond in fats that stores metabolic energy?
400
Starch and glycogen.
What are the polysaccharides produced by plants and animals that store glucose monosaccharides for later use?
400
Thymine and Uracil.
What are the pyrimidine bases that differ between DNA and RNA?
400
Sensation & Response
What is capabilities allow organisms to understand and interact with their environment?
500
The 3D shape of a complex composed of MULTIPLE individual proteins.
What is quaternary structure?
500
The presence of this bond in an unsaturated fatty acid will cause that molecule to form a kink.
What is a double bond between two adjacent carbon atoms?
500
The polysaccharide that forms the rigid cell wall of plant cells.
What is cellulose?
500
The bonds that hold parallel DNA polymers together to form a double helix.
What are hydrogen bonds?
500
Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP)
What is the molecule that supplies energy to biological reactions?