Carbohydrates
This is the monomer of carbohydrates.
What is a monosaccharide (simple sugar)?
This is the monomer (building block) of most lipids.
What are glycerol and fatty acids?
The monomers of proteins.
What are amino acids?
The monomers of nucleic acids.
What are nucleotides?
These are the four types of macromolecules.
What are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids?
The primary function of carbohydrates in the body.
What is quick energy (short-term energy storage)?
Main function of lipids in the body.
What is long-term energy storage?
The type of bond that connects amino acids.
What is a peptide bond?
Two examples of nucleic acids.
What are DNA and RNA?
This test is used to detect starch in food.
What is the iodine test?
Glucose, galactose, and fructose are examples of this.
What are monosaccharides?
Lipids that make up the cell membrane.
What are phospholipids?
Proteins that speed up chemical reactions.
What are enzymes?
The sugar in DNA nucleotides.
What is deoxyribose?
The amount of energy needed to start a chemical reaction.
What is activation energy?
The polysaccharide used by plants to store energy.
What is starch?
This type of fat has no double bonds and is solid at room temperature.
What are saturated fats?
The sequence of amino acids in a protein determines this.
What is its shape (structure) and function?
The base that pairs with cytosine in DNA.
What is guanine?
This element is found in all macromolecules.
What is carbon?
The polysaccharide that makes up plant cell walls.
What is cellulose?
This lipid-based molecule helps send chemical signals in the body.
What are steroids (hormones)?
This level of protein structure describes how multiple polypeptide chains join together to form one functional protein.
What is quaternary structure?
The function of DNA.
What is storing genetic information?
These proteins lower the activation energy of reactions in cells.
What are enzymes?