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Organic Compounds |
Compounds that are made up of carbon atoms and other elements. |
A compound that was once thought to have been formed only by living cells. |
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Macromolecules |
A molecule that contains a very large number of atoms. |
A type of molecule that forms a carbon skeleton in large complex molecules. |
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Carbohydrates |
A group of organic compounds occurring in food, living tissue, and sugar. |
A compound of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen that make CH2O. |
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Monosaccharides |
The simplest form of a carbohydrate. |
A single sugar molecule that is a type of carbohydrate. |
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Disaccharides |
A sugar composed of two monosaccharides. |
Another type of carbohydrate that joins two sugar molecules. |
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Polysaccharides |
Monosaccharides joined together by glycosidic bonds. |
A type of carbohydrate that joins many sugar subunits. |
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Lipids |
Naturally occurring hydrophobic molecules. |
Basically a fat or oil that does not dissolve in water. |
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Fatty acids & glycerd |
A chain of hydrocarbon derived from the breakdown of fats. |
Building blocks of lipids that are most commonly found in diets. |
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Saturated & unsaturated fats |
Unsaturated fats are sometimes oils at room temp. Saturated fats are sometimes solids at room temp. |
A hard or soft triglyceride at room temperature and are a form of energy storage. |
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Proteins |
Thousand different macromolecules in living cells that help a cells structural component. |
An important enzyme that fights diseases, and is part of the skeleton. |
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Amino acids |
Cells make proteins that are linked by amino acids. |
An acid that has a central carbon atom that connects to three other groups and a hydrogen atom. |
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Peptide bond |
A dehydration synthesis reaction that usually occurs between amino acids. |
A covalent bond that is formed between amino acids. |
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Polypeptide |
Long polypeptide chains form proteins. |
Chains of amino acids that use peptide bonds. |
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Primary, secondary, tertiary & quaternary structures |
The sequence of amino acids in a polypeptide chain. |
Steps to creating a protein by making a chain, then it folds, twists, then creates folding spherical chains. |
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Enzymes |
A catalyst to bring about a specific biochemical reaction. |
Molecules that help complex reactions occur. |
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Nucleic acids |
Macromolecules that decide the amino acid sequence of proteins. |
An acid that controls the basic life process and is the source of genetic information. |
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Nucleotides |
A simple unit of nucleic acids. |
Ribose and deoxyribose are two sugars found in this nucleic acid. |
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Deoxyribose |
Deoxyribose is like ribose, but is missing one oxygen. |
Almost like ribose, but a part in the name means "minus oxygen". |
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Double helix |
A two long chain of nucleotides that run next to each other. |
a model that was constructed by James Watson and Francis Crick. |
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Single helix |
Adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine are attached to a phosphate and a deoxyribose to form a backbone. |
What a normal helix is. |
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DNA |
Nucleotides containing deoxyribose that form DNA. |
Another name for this is deoxyribonucleic acids. |
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RNA |
Nucleic acids that contain ribose in their nucleotides are RNA. |
Another name for this is ribonucleic acids. |
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Ribose |
One of the two sugars found in nucleotides that has OH connected to it.
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Organic compound with a fomula of C5H10O5. |
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Nitrogen bases |
Symbols used to represent the four different nucleotides. |
The four ________ bases that occur in nucleotides. |
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Gene |
Units of genetic information. |
What DNA forms that pass from parent to off spring. |
