Study of Science
A variable that is manipulated by the scientist to produce a result.
What is the independent variable?
Name of the bonding that occurs between molecules of water.
What is hydrogen bonding?
The ratio of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in a carbohydrate.
What is 1:2:1?
The name of the monomer for proteins.
What are amino acids?
An enzyme lowers this in order to catalyze a reaction.
What is activation energy?
An educated prediction about what will happen in an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
Type of charge found on the hydrogen atoms in water.
What is a partial positive charge?
Steroids are this type of macromolecule.
What are lipids?
The number of strands involved in DNA molecules.
What is 2?
This site on an enzyme allows for high specificity.
What is an active site?
The variable that is graphed on the y-axis.
What is the dependent variable?
Tendency of water to stick to itself or other molecules.
What is cohesion and adhesion?
The third type of common fatty acid in addition to saturated and unsaturated.
What is trans fatty acid?
The nitrogenous base found in RNA and not DNA.
What is uracil?
The primary component in the cell membrane is this type of macromolecule.
What are lipids?
The smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
Valence electrons are this during covalent bonding.
What is shared?
Lipids have less of this element compared to carbohydrates.
What is oxygen?
The level of protein structure that involves alpha helices and beta pleated sheets.
What is secondary structure?
The name for when a protein loses it's shape and thus its function.
What is denaturing?
An organism's tendency to remain in a stable state.
What is homeostasis?
The number of stable bonds formed by the element found in all organic molecules.
What is four?
The molecule released when two glucose molecules bind together.
What is water?
The number of common amino acids found in humans.
What is 20?
The name of the type of double bond found in unsaturated fatty acids.
What is cis double bond?