Chapter 2
The negatively charged particles of an atom
What is electron?
A result of cohesion and hydrogen bonding in water molecules
What is surface tension?
What is carbon?
Process synthesizing a polymer (joins two monomers together)
What is Dehydration Reaction?
Nitrogenous base only in RNA
What is Uracil?
Elements with the same number of valence electrons are located in the...
What is same group?
Water's ability to absorb heat due to its high heat of vaporization
What is evaporative cooling?
The maximum number of atoms a single carbon atom can bond to
What is 4?
Class of large biological molecules not considered polymers
What is lipids?
Substances that repel water are...
What is hydrophobic?
Atoms of the same element with different numbers of neutrons
What is isotope?
Water's role in the process of dissolving substances (i.e. solute, solvent, solution)
What is solvent?
Molecules consisting only of hydrogen and carbon
What is hydrocarbon?
A fat with one or more double bonds (kinks in the hydrocarbon chain)
What is unsaturated fatty acid?
Forward and reverse reactions occur at the same rate
What is chemical equilibrium?
Bonds in which atoms share electrons
What is covalent bond?
Process allowing plant cell walls to transport water against the force of gravity
What is adhesion?
Isomers differing in the arrangement of a double bond
What is cis-trans/ geometric isomers?
Level of protein structure shared only by some proteins
What is quaternary structure?
Isomers that differ in the arrangement of atoms around an asymetric carbon
What is enantiomers?
Covalent bonds where both the atoms have different electronegativity
What is polar covalent bonds?
The negative atom in a water molecule
What is oxygen?
A functional group consisting a nitrogen atom
What is amino group?
Type of nitrogenous base with two rings
What is purine?
The disaccharide formed from combining a fructose and glucose molecules
What is sucrose?