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What is incorrect in reference to carbohydrates?

They are replete with nitrogen atoms

Proteins are composed of how many commonly occurring amino acids?

21

Amino acids frequently become joined by?

Peptide bonds

What is not a type of carbohydrate?

Megasaccharides

What is not an example of a protein?

Urine

A structural lipid found in a cell membrane is a?

Phospholipid

Which of the following is the correct example of DNA base pairing?

Adenine-thiamine

A DNA molecule contains?

Sugar, nitrogenous base, phosphate

DNA differs from RNA because?

RNA contains ribose instead of deoxyribose

High-density lipoproteins (HDL) is also called?

The good cholesterol

What are functional proteins that bring molecules together or split them apart in chemical reactions?

Enzymes

What are called "tissue hormones"?

Prostaglandins

All proteins have four elements what are they?

Carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen

The building blocks of all proteins are called?

Amino acids

The most common type of coil in a polypeptide secondary structure is called?

Alpha helix

The final, functioning shape for a protein is often called its?

Native state

The nucleic acid molecule that can act as either an information molecule or as a regulatory molecule is what?

RNA

Ribose is a what?

Carbohydrate

Steroids are?

Lipids

Amino acids are?

Proteins

Glycerol is what?

Lipid

Monosaccharides are?

Carbohydrates

Phospholipids are?

Lipids

Enzymes are?

Proteins

Produced from amino acids readily available to the body cells are called?

Non-essential amino acids

Binds the carboxyl group of one amino acid to the amino group of another amino acid

Peptide bond

The formation of glycogen from simple sugar building blocks is an example of?

Dehydration synthesis

A pattern of alpha helices and or beta sheets within the secondary structure of a protein?

Motif

Several complicated "knots" in a tertiary protein structure

Domains

An example of a functional protein

Antibodies

Shape of a protein

Denatures

When these bonds are broken during catabolic reactions the energy released is used to form new compounds

High energy bonds

Steroid found in the plasma membrane surrounding every body cell

Cholesterol

What is an abnormally high concentration of triglycerides in the blood called?

Hypertriglyceridemia