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Organic Compund |
Any class of compund whose molcules contain carbon. |
Carbides, carbonates, and simple oxides of carbon are _________________.
The simplest _____________________ is methane. |
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Macromolecules |
It is a very large molecule. |
It is created by polymerization. Biopolymers are the most common ________________. |
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Carbohydrates |
It is a molecule created out of carbon, hyrogen and oxygen. |
Other name for it is hydrates of carbon. It´s formula is CH2O. |
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Monosaccharides |
It is the simplest form of sugar. |
Basic units of carbohydrates.
Colorless, water soluble and crystalline. |
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Disaccharides |
Combination of two monosaccharides. |
They are soluble in water. Refered also as sucrose, lactose, and maltose. |
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Polysaccharides |
It is a macromolecule carbohydtrate composed by monosaccharides. |
Glycogen is a good example of these. They repeat molecules but it also modifies them. |
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Lipids |
It is a molecule whose base function is store energy. |
They have applications in cosmetics. Nanotecnology uses them. |
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Fatty acids & glycerol |
Carbohydrates that come from glucose that help metabolism. |
It exists in tryglicerids. ____________ supply more energy that _____________. |
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Saturated & unsaturated fat |
Fat is one of ou main nutrients, saturated fat hurts our body while unsaturated fat is what we need to make our lives. |
other name for ________________ is fatty acid. ________________ consists on tryglicerids. |
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Protein |
One of the main macromolecules that help our body do its main functions. |
Some of it´s uses are DNA replication and carrying one molecule from one place to another. It consists of ne or more chains of amino acids. |
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Amino Acids |
It is an organic compound made out of amine and carboxylic acids. |
They are made out of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen. The nomber of __________ known is over 500. |
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Peptide Bond |
It is a covelant bond made out of two amino molecules. |
When two amino acids form a dipeptide through a______________ it is called condensation.
The formation of the ___________________ consumes energy. |
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Polypeptide |
It is a contineous peptide chain. |
__________ fall under the broad chemical classes of biological oligomers and polymers. _______________ are divided into several classes, depending on how they are produced. |
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Primary, seundary, tertiary, & quatermary structures |
They are the biometrical structure of protein. |
Protein structures range in size from tens to several thousand amino acids.
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Enzymes |
Catalysts that help in the creation and destruccion of biological substrades. |
__________ accelerate chemials reactions. |
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Nucleic Acids |
Biomolecules essentiol to all living creatures. |
_____________________ are made from monomers known as nucleotides. |
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Nucleotides |
They are molecules that serve as subunits for nucleic acids. |
_____________ are composed of a nitrogenous base. |
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DNA |
It is a molecule that has most of our genti essence. |
_________________ is a nucleic acid.
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Deoxyribose |
A deribation of sugar ribose by loss of an oxygen atom. |
Their actual name is 2-deoxyribos. |
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Double Helix |
Structure formed by double stranded molecules. |
The term entered popular culture with the publication in 1968 of The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA, by James Watson.
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Nitrogen Bases |
The bond of nucleid acids. |
They are the building blocks of DNA. |
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RNA |
A molecule with the task of coding, decoding regulate and express genes. |
________ is a nucleid acid. |
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Ribose |
It is an organic compound that conforms simple sugar. |
It´s formula is C5H10O5. |
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Single Helix |
t is a curve that complets the double helix. |
Many proteins have this form. |
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Gene |
It is a region of the DNA. |
It is the molecular unit of heredity. |
