Water, Carbs, Lipids, Nucleic Acid Review

Water

100

The type of bond water forms that is responsible for adhesion and cohesion

hydrogen bond

200

what types of substances are attracted to water and form intermolecular bonds with it

hydophilic/polar substances

300

It takes a lot of energy to raise the temperature of 1kg of water. This is called: 

high specific heat capacity

400

Water has a ______ viscosity than air

higher

500

What makes water an important solvent for living organisms? 

1. All of the metabolic reactions like cellular respiration and photosynthesis happen in a water based environment 

2. Water dissolves polar substances needed for life processes, like glucose 

3. Substances can be transported through water-based solutions

Carbs

100

What is the monomer of a polysaccharide?

monosaccharide

200

What type of bond forms between two glucose molecules to form maltose? 

glycosidic linkage

300

What type of glucose is in starch and glycogen?

alpha glucose

400

What type of glucose is in cellulose? 

beta glucose

500

What type of reaction breaks down a disaccharide into 2 monosaccharides? 

hydrolysis

Lipids

100

Which part of a phospholipid is hydrophilic? 

the phosphate head

200

Oestradiol and testosterone are examples of this type of lipid

steroid

300

A triglyceride is made of 1 __________ molecule and 3 _______ molecules

glycerol, fatty acid 

400

This type of fatty acid has double bonds between the carbons

unsaturated

500

This type of lipid is great for building membranes, like the cell membrane

phospholipid

Nucleic Acids

100

The backbone of DNA is made up of ________ and _______ linked together

phosphate groups, deoxyribose sugars

200

Adenine is complementary to ________ in DNA

Thymine

300

Name one similarity between DNA and RNA

1. They both have phosphate groups

2. They both have pentose sugars

3. They both have nitrogenous bases

400

Name one difference between DNA and RNA

1. DNA is double stranded, RNA is single stranded

2. DNA has thymine, RNA has uracil

3. DNA functions as the blueprint and RNA functions as a messenger to build proteins

500

Hershey and Chase used radioactive isotopes to investigate

Trace which elements were incorporated into the cell to see if protein or DNA was injected into the bacteria cell. To tell which was the genetic material of the cell. 

Random/Mixed

100

Cytosine is complementary to ________ 

Guanine

200

Glycogen is made up of _______ and _______ glycosidic bonds

1-4 and 1-6

300

Purines have a ______ ring structure

2

400

The strands of DNA run in opposite directions. The vocab word for this is __________

antiparallel

500

Why is the directionality and orientation of DNA and RNA important? 

The enzymes used in DNA replication and RNA transcription only work in one direction.