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Elements
Functional Groups
Sub-components
Functions
Miscellaneous
100
Elements always found in a protein.
What are C, H, O, N?
100
The molecular formula for the methyl functional group.
What is CH3?
100
The subcomponent to which fatty acids are attached in fats, oils, and waxes.
What is glycerol?
100
The function of nearly all carbohydrates.
What is to serve as an energy source?
100
The only type of organic molecule that is not a polymer of monmers.
What is a lipid?
200
Element found in the lipid that makes up cell membranes but not in other lipids.
What is phosphorus?
200
Lack of exposed, hydrophilic functional groups on lipids results in this characteristic.
What is being hydrophobic?
200
The monomer that makes up cellulose, starch, and glycogen.
What is glucose?
200
The function of the proteins actin and myosin that make up muscle tissue.
What is contraction?
200
The type of secondary structure of a protein which could be described as coiled.
What is the alpha helix?
300
Elements found in ribonucleic and deoyribonucleic acids.
What are C, H, O, N, P?
300
Functional groups present in carbohydrates.
What are carbonyl and hydroxyl?
300
The number of different amino acids types are found in proteins.
What is 20 (9 essential)?
300
Role of cholesterol in cell membranes at low temperatures.
What is to maintain fludity?
300
The polymer-forming reaction in which water is lost.
What is dehydration synthesis?the name of the polymer-forming reaction in which water is lost?
400
Element involved in making covalent bonds between the cysteine amino acids, affecting the tertiary structure of keratin.
What is sulfur?
400
The two functional groups are involved in making a peptide bond.
What are carboxyl and amino groups?
400
Type of lipid that does NOT contain fatty acid chains.
What are steroids? 4 fused carbon rings
400
The function of enzymes.
What is to control chemical reactions within a living organism?
400
Type of nucleic acid unable to exit the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell due to being double-stranded.
Which is deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)?
500
Element unique among the carbohydrates in being found in the polysaccharide composing exoskeletons.
What is nitrogen?
500
Functional group not exposed in a sucrose molecule, resulting in a negative Benedict's test.
What is a carbonyl group?
500
The three subcomponents comprising a nucleotide.
What are a 5-carbon sugar, phosphate, and a nitrogenous base?
500
The function of nucleic acids WITHIN an organism.
What is to direct protein synthesis?
500
The type of interaction that can occur between R groups of a protein that affects shape but does not create a bond.
What are hydrophobic interactions?