Water
Carbohydrates
Lipids
Proteins
Nucleic Acids
100

Compare the density of ice and water

What is less dense?

100

Which element is double the oxygen in a carbohydrate?

What is hydrogen?

100

This type of lipid is formed when a dehydration reaction links 3 fatty acids to one glycerol molecule.

What is a triglyceride?

100

The monomer of a protein is called this.

What is an amino acid?

100

Name all 5 letters that stand for the 5 nitrogenous bases.

What is C-G-T-U-A?

200

Surface tension is another term for this property of water

What is cohesion?

200

The name for the process when two monosaccharides combine and form a disaccharide.  Water is given off. 

What is a dehydration reaction?

200

This portion of a phospholipid is hydrophilic.

What is the head?

200

A protein has this many levels of organization.

What is four?

200

Name 2 of the 3 parts of a nucleic acid.

What are phosphate group, sugar, and nitrogenous base.

300
Capillary action allows water to defy this

What is gravity?

300

Iodine will turn a polysaccharide this color.

What is dark blue/black?

300

This is found in ears and on plant leaves and is an example of a category of fats.

What is wax?

300

In a peptide bond the C needs to share electrons with what atom?

What is the N (nitorgen)?

300
A lot of dehydration reactions link a lot of nucleotides together and a strand forms.  This is at the 5' end of a strand.

What is a phosphate? (longer name and bigger number)

400

What is the rule of thumb when thinking about what substances dissolve in water?

What is like dissolves like?
400

In sugars, the atoms bond together to form this shape.

What is a ring? (hexagon)

400

This type of fat is liquid at room temperature.

What is unsaturated fat?
400

Name one of two environmental factors that can affect the effectiveness of proteins.

What is pH and temperature?

400

Transcription occurs in this part of the cell.

What is the nucleus?

500

If the same amount of heat is added to water, alcohol, and oil, which will be the coolest at the end of the experiment

What is water?  (it has a high heat capacity)

500

The name of the process that is the opposite of a dehydration reaction.

What is a hydrolysis reaction?

500

The process of hydrogenation creates this type of fat.

What is a trans fat?

500

There are 20 ammino acids with different side chains.  The name of the side chain is also called the ____ group.

What is the "R" group?

500

mRNA has this sequences of bases  G-U-A-C.  Name  the bases on the DNA strand that was produced.

What is C-A-T-G?