Proteins
Nucleic Acids
Carbohydrates
Lipids
Basic Chemistry
100
Monomers of proteins
What are amino acids?
100
Monomers of nucleic acids
What are nucleotides?
100
The monomer of carbohydrates.
What are monosaccharides?
100
This is what lipids are made of
What are fatty acids
100
When water is pulled out of monomers to join them into polymers
What is dehydration synthesis or Condensation?
200
The name for a polymer in this category.
What is a polypeptide or protein?
200
Nucleic acids are made up of these elements...
What are Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen and sometimes Phosphorous?
200
These are the two shapes that a carbohydrate may take.
What are rings or chains?
200
Foods that have lipids?
Fats like butter and oil.
200
There are ___ amino acids that build up into proteins.
What is 20?
300
A type of protein that speeds up chemical reactions by lowering the activation energy.
What are Enzymes?
300
Three components of a nucleotide.
What are phosphate group, sugar, and a nitrogenous base?
300
Examples are the monomers glucose, fructose and galactose.
What are monosaccharides?
300
This is what separates a lipid from carbohydrates.
What is the number of OH groups?
300
The bonds that form between different water molecules.
What are hydrogen bonds?
400
This line in the graph represents a reaction without an enzyme.
What is the higher line?
400
Names for the two polymers of nucleic acids.
What are DNA and RNA?
400
Foods that are carbohydrates.
What are plants- wheat, vegetables, fruits?
400
Elements found in lipids.
What are Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen?
400
The property of water that is due to the uneven distribution of charges.
What is polarity?
500
The part of the amino acid that makes one amino acid different from the other.
What is the R group?
500
The distinguishing element found in the ring structure of nucleic acids
What is nitrogen?
500
The process by which a polysaccharide is broken into monosacharrides by adding water.
What is hydrolysis?
500
The process that brings fatty acids together by removing water.
What is dehydration synthesis?
500
The bonds between water that cause surface tension
What are hydrogen bonds?