A single sugar molecule such as glucose or fructose, the simplest type of sugar.
100
What is triglyceride?
Most common monomer of lipids
100
What is the monomer of proteins?
What is amino acids?
100
Monomers
What are nucleotides?
100
Enzymes lower the _________ _______ to speed up the chemical reaction.
What is activation energy?
200
What is short term energy and cell wall?
Cellulose
200
What is saturated lipid (fat)?
Has only single bonds and is solid at room temperature.
200
The bond between the monomers.
What is a peptide bond?
200
Nucleic acids are made up of these elements...
What are Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen and sometimes Phosphorous?
200
Carries oxygen in the blood to the rest of the body
What is hemoglobin?
300
How animals store carbohydrates.
What is gylcogen?
300
What are the two main functions of lipids?
What are long term energy (stored energy), insulation of heat and to make cell membrane?
300
A type of protein that speeds up chemical reactions by lowering activation energy.
What are Enzymes?
300
Three components of a nucleotide.
What are phosphate group, 5 carbon sugar, and a nitrogenous base?
300
Two main components of the cell membrane.
What are phospholipids and proteins?
400
What are polysaccharides?
Examples are cellulose, starch and glycogen.
400
What are Elements found in lipids?
Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen.
400
Function that proteins have that overlaps with lipids.
What is the cell membrane?
400
structure of DNA
What is double stranded double helix?
400
Process of making a polymer.
What is polymerization?
500
What is starch?
The storage unit of carbohydrates in plants.
500
What is cholesterol?
This is an important lipid that is the precursor to many other lipids such as vitamin D.
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 and ___ of them are essential