Chapter 3 of the AP bio Book
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| 860696238 | global warming | an increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes) | 1 | |
| 860696239 | organic compounds | compounds that contain carbon | 2 | |
| 860696240 | hydrocarbons | hydrogen covalently bonded to carbon | 3 | |
| 860696241 | ______ and _______ are examples of hydrocarbons | gasoline and other fossils fuels | 4 | |
| 860696242 | functional groups | particular/cluster of atoms covalently bonded to carbon | 5 | |
| 860696243 | hemoglobin | iron-containing protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen for delivery to cells | 6 | |
| 860696244 | alcohols | organic compounds containing hydroxyl groups | 7 | |
| 860696245 | carbonyl | Building blocks of fats and carbohydrates. Highly reactive and prone to electron transfers | 8 | |
| 860696246 | Carboxyl | amino acids, fatty acids., -COOH | 9 | |
| 860696247 | phosphate | energy carrying function and the backbones of DNA and RNA | 10 | |
| 860696248 | sulfhydryl | helps stabilize protein structure | 11 | |
| 860696249 | monomers | subunits | 12 | |
| 860696250 | polymers | long chains of monomers | 13 | |
| 860696251 | enzymes | proteins that speed up chemical reactions | 14 | |
| 860696252 | functional group transfer | A functional group split away from one molecule is transferred to another | 15 | |
| 860696253 | electron transfer | A electron split away from one molecule is donated to another. | 16 | |
| 860696254 | rearrangement | one type of organic compound is converted to another type through the rearrangement of internal bonds | 17 | |
| 860696255 | condensation | two molecules combine to form a larger molecule | 18 | |
| 860696256 | cleavage | a molecule splits into two smaller ones | 19 | |
| 860696257 | carbohydrates | the most abundant 1 carbon : 2 hydrogen : 1 oxygen | 20 | |
| 860696258 | saccharide | sugar in greek | 21 | |
| 860696259 | monosaccharide | one sugar two (-OH) bonded to the carbon backbone plus an aldehyde or a ketone group. Dissoved easily in water | 22 | |
| 860696260 | ____ and _____ are the sugar unit of RNA and DNA | ribose;deoxyribose | 23 | |
| 860696261 | oligosaccharide | a few bonded monosaccharides | 24 | |
| 860696262 | polysacharides | large macromolecule formed from manosaccharides | 25 | |
| 860696263 | types of polysacharides | cellulose starch glucose chitin | 26 | |
| 860696264 | cellulose | plant cell walls | 27 | |
| 860696265 | starch | chain is spiral , energy storage in plants | 28 | |
| 860696266 | glycogen | human sugar storage equivalent | 29 | |
| 860696267 | chitin | nitrogen containing groups attached to glucose monomers. , A structural polysaccharide, consisting of amino sugar monomers, found in many fungal cell walls and in the exoskeletons of all arthropods. | 30 | |
| 860696268 | lipids | nonpolar hydrocarbons | 31 | |
| 860696269 | fats | 1,2,or 3 fatty acids attached to glycerol. | 32 | |
| 860696270 | unsaturated | bended. oils 2(double bonds) | 33 | |
| 860696271 | saturated | straight single bonds only | 34 | |
| 860696272 | triglycerides | 3(double bonds) most abundant lipids and richest energy source. | 35 | |
| 860696273 | phospholipid | glycerol backbone, two fatty acid tails and a hydrophilic head. | 36 | |
| 860696274 | sterols | lipids with no fatty acids | 37 | |
| 860696275 | waxes | long chain fatty acid. repels water and restricts water loss. | 38 | |
| 860696276 | amino acids | amino group, carboxyl group, a hydrogen atoms, R group | 39 | |
| 860696277 | polypeptide chain | A chain of amino acids linked together by peptide bonds. | 40 | |
| 860696278 | peptide bonds | Bonds between amino acids | 41 | |
| 860696279 | fibrous protein | contribute to a cell's shape and organization | 42 | |
| 860696280 | globular proteins | compact, rounded, readily enter aqueous solution; function only if they remain in solution | 43 | |
| 860696281 | domain | a polypeptide chain, or part of it, that has become self organized as a structurally stable functional unit. | 44 | |
| 860696282 | HLAs | human leukocyte antigen... bodys defending cells aware of an invader | 45 | |
| 860696283 | denaturation | breaking weak bonds of a protein | 46 | |
| 860696284 | nucleotides | made of sugar, one phosphate group, with a nitrogen containt base. building blocs of nucleic acids | 47 | |
| 860696285 | ATP | adenosine triphosphate | 48 | |
| 860696286 | coenzymes | enzymes helper. accepts hydrogen atoms and electrons stripped from molecules at one reaction site and then transfer them to a different sites in the cell | 49 | |
| 860696287 | nucleic acids | complex macromolecules that store and transmit genetic information | 50 |
