Carbohydrates
Monomers of Carbohydrates
What are monosaccharides?
Monomers of Lipids
What are fatty acids?
Monomers of Proteins
What are amino acids?
Monomers of Nucleic Acids
What are nucleotides?
Biomolecules
What are carbon based macromolecules essential to life?
The reason why unsaturated fats are unable to stack
Double covalent bonds
The reason why unsaturated fats are unable to stack
What are double covalent bonds between fatty acids?
Converts genetic information into functional proteins
What is protein synthesis?
The structural components of a nucleotide
What is a phosphate, a sugar, and a nitrogenous base?
The process that makes carbohydrates during photosynthesis
What is carbon fixation?
The main function of lipids
What is insulation, energy storage and protection of organs?
Starch, cellulose and glycogen
What are poly saccharides?
Indications of a unique side chain
What are R-Groups?
Purines
What are adenine and guanine?
The measure of how much atoms attract electrons
What is electronegativity?
A lipid structure essential to the cell membrane
What is the phospholipid bi-layer?
What makes lipids different from other marcomolecules
What is being hydrophobic/non-polar?
Covalent bonds between amino acids
What are peptide bonds?
The strongest base pair
What is the bond between Guanine and Cytosine?
Possible causes of denaturing
What is pH, temperature, mechanical overuse, and chemical agents?
They are chemical messengers
What is the unique purpose of the lipids Steroids?
Structural component in cell walls
What is cellulose?
The two types of secondary structure
What is alpha helix and beta folded sheet?
The unique quality of nucleic acids
What is the inability to be consumed through food and the carrying of genetic information?