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Proteins
Nucleic Acids
Carbohydrates
Lipids
More Macromolecule Mischief
100
The monomer
What are amino acids?
100
Monomers
What are nucleotides?
100
The monomer of carbohydrates.
What are monosaccharides?
100
The two major parts of a lipid.
What are the glycogen and fatty acid chains.
100

One unit of a macromolecule.

What is a monomer?

200

Proteins are made up of these elements:

What are Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen and Nitrogen? (CHON)

200

Nucleic acids are made up of these elements:

What are Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen and Phosphorous? (CHONP)

200
The major function of carbohydrates.
What is short term energy?
200
Has only single bonds and is solid at room temperature.
What is saturated lipid (fat)?
200

A strand of many monomers.

What is a polymer?

300
A type of protein that speeds up chemical reactions.
What are Enzymes?
300
Three components of a nucleotide.
What are phosphate group, sugar, and a nitrogenous base?
300
Examples are glucose, fructose and galactose.
What are monosaccharides?
300
Two major functions of a lipid.
What are long term energy (stored energy) and to make cell membrane?
300

Forms the cell membrane of cells.

What are phospholipids?

400
When water is pulled out of monomers to join them into polymers
What is dehydration synthesis or Condensation?
400
Name for the polymer of nucleic acids.
What is DNA and RNA?
400

Carbohydrates are made up of these elements:

What are Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen? (CHO)

400

Lipids are made up of these elements:

What are Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen? (CHO)

400

The process of adding a water molecule to break a bond.

What is hydrolysis?

500
The functions of proteins
What are for Structural support, membranes, protection, catalysts (enzymes), transport, defense (anti-bodies), non-steriod hormones, regulation, movement (remember MEANS)
500
There are ___ amino acids that build up into proteins.
What is 20?
500
the storage unit of carbohydrates in animals. Stores excess carbs in the liver.
What is glycogen?
500
This is an important lipid that is the precursor to many other lipids such as vitamin D.
What is cholesterol?
500

The process of removing a water molecule to create a bond.

What is dehydration synthesis?