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28 Cards in this Set
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Water |
Water is a transparent fluid which forms the world's streams, lakes, oceans and rain, and is the major constituent of the fluids of living things. |
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Hydrogen |
A colorless, odorless, highly flammable gas, the chemical element of atomic number 1. |
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Subatomic Particles |
Make up an atom, including Electrons, Protons, and Neutrons. |
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Electron shells |
Arrangement of electrons around an atoms neuclus according. The electrons with the least energy are the closest to the atom |
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Electron Cloud Configuration |
The arrangement of electrons in energy levels around an atomic nucleus. |
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Enzyme |
A protein molecule made by an orginism and used as a catalyst in a specific biochemistry reaction |
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Glucose |
a simple sugar that is an important energy source in living organisms and is a component of many carbohydrates |
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Surcrose |
Sucrose is a sugar, the organic compound commonly known as table sugar, |
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Radioisotopes |
A radioactive isotope |
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Chemical reaction |
A process that involves rearrangement of the molecular or ionic structure of a substance, as opposed to a change in physical form or a nuclear reaction. |
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Chemical Formula |
A set of chemical symbols showing the elements present in a compound and their relative proportions, and in some cases the structure of the compound |
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Dissolve |
For something to become or cause to become incorporated into a liquid so as to form a solution. |
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H+ |
A hydron is the general name for a cationic form of atomic hydrogen, represented with the symbol H+ . The term "proton" refers to the cation of protium, the most common isotope of hydrogen. |
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OH- |
A chemical compound containing the hydroxyl group.
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Carbon Skeleton |
A carbon skeleton refers to the pattern, in which the carbon atoms are bonded together in a molecule, without regard to differences between single and double bonds and atoms of other elements. |
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Starch |
Starch or amylum is a carbohydrate consisting of a large number of glucose units joined by glycosidic bonds. |
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Phospholipids |
A lipid containing a phosphate group in its molecule, |
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Saturated Fats |
A fat that contains only saturated fatty acids, is solid at room temperature, and comes chiefly from animal food products. |
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Unsaturated Fats |
A fat that is liquid at room temperature and comes from a plant, such as olive, peanut, corn, cottonseed, sunflower, safflower, or soybean oil. |
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Peptides |
a compound consisting of two or more amino acids linked in a chain, the carboxyl group of each acid being joined to the amino group of the next by a bond of the type —OC—NH—. |
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Primary Structure |
The characteristic sequence of amino acids forming a protein or polypeptide chain, considered as the most basic element of its structure. |
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Tertiary Structure |
The overall three-dimensional structure resulting from folding and covalent cross-linking of a protein or polynucleotide molecule. |
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Hydrophobicity |
A molecule that is seemingly repelled from a mass of water. |
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Sugar, Phosphate & base |
The sugar-phosphate backbone forms the structural framework of nucleic acids |
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ATCG |
A = Adenine T = Thymine C = Cytosine G = Guanine |
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Double Helix |
a pair of parallel helices intertwined about a common axis, especially that in the structure of the DNA molecule. |
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Rosiland Franklin |
An English chemist and X-ray crystallographer who made critical contributions to the understanding of the fine molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite. |
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Watson & Crick |
Watson, and Maurice Wilkins were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material' |
