elements and atoms
Anything that takes up space and has mass
What is matter?
The property of water that allows water striders to walk on water
What is surface tension?
The breaking of water
What is hydrolysis?
Sugar molecule, nitrogenous base, and a phosphate group
What are the four elements that make up 96% of all living matter?
Substance that does not like water
What is hydrophobic?
Monosaccharides relationship to carbohydrates
What are monomers?
The 4 components of a lipid
What are 3 fatty acids and 1 glycerol molecule?
Molecule consisting of 2 amino acids joined by a single peptide bond
Substance that cannot be broken down into other substances by chemical reactions
What is an element?
A substance that reduces the hydrogen ion of a solution
What is a base?
Storage and structure
What are the two main functions of carbohydrates?
Type of lipids that make up the cell membrane
What are phospholipids?
Contains instructions needed for the organism to develop, survive, and reproduce
What is the function of DNA?
What is a hydrogen bond?
What is a solute?
Two monomers are covalently bonded to each other with the loss of a small molecule
Two examples are butter and lard
What are saturated fats?
Made of coils and folds of polypeptide chains. The result of hydrogen bonds between repeating constituents of a polypeptide backbone
What is the secondary stage?
Bond between same element in which the electrons are shared equally because the elements have the same charge
What is a non polar covalent bond?
Oxygen has 2 partial negative charges and hydrogen has 1 partial positive charge
What is why water is polar?
Reaction in which each reactant contributes to a water molecule (polymers into monomers)
What is a dehydration reaction?
Lipid that has one or more double bonds with one fewer hydrogen atom on each double bonded carbon
What is an unsaturated fat?
The overall shape of a polypeptide resulting from interactions between side chains of various amino acids
What is tertiary structure?