Nucleic Acids
What 5 elements make up Nucleic Acids?
What are carbon, hydrogen oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus
When you put together monomers of glucose, by taking out water, what is this process called?
What is dehydration synthesis
What 4 elements make up proteins
What are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen
What 3 elements make up Lipids
What is carbon, hydrogen and oxygen
How many groups of carbohydrates are there?
What are Nucleic Acids made of?
What is nucleotides
What would you do if you needed to break maltose back into monomers of glucose?
What is add water
What are the building blocked of proteins?
Amino Acids
What are the building blocks of lipids?
glycerol, carboxyl group, fatty acid, and double bond
What are monosaccharides used for?
what is quick energy
What are Nucleic Acids used for in your body?
what are storing genetic information and transmitting genetic information
What is the process of breaking maltose back into two monomers of glucose called?
What is hydrolysis
What are proteins used for?
Control and regulate chemical reactions (enzymes) Structural purposes (muscle and bone)
Transportation (hemoglobin)
Fighting disease (anitbodies)
Messengers (hormones)
What shape of unsaturated fats?
what is curvy
What are disaccharides used for?
what is quick energy
What are the parts of a Nucleotide?
What are phosphate, base and sugar
What is to split or separate
What are the parts of the amino acids
What are amino group, carboxyl group, and side chain
What shape are saturated fats
what is straight
What are polysaccharides used for?
Stored energy that is slowly released
What are two types of Nucleic Acids?
What are DNA and RNA
What does Synthesis mean?
What is to put together or combine
What is a primary structure like?
What is a sequence of chains of amino acids
What shape is trans fats?
What is glycogen found in?
What is animals