Biology Quiz 3
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| 5077851298 | Macromolecules | giant molecules | 0 | |
| 5077856334 | Polymerization | the process in which macromolecules are made large compounds are built by joining smaller ones together | 1 | |
| 5077864333 | Monomers | smaller compounds | 2 | |
| 5077869115 | Polymers | made up of monomers joined together | 3 | |
| 5077876097 | What are the four groups of organic compounds? | Carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids | 4 | |
| 5077886967 | Carbohydrates | compound known as sugar living things use carbohydrates as main source of energy carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen |  | 5 |
| 5077972146 | Dehydration Synthesis | joining of two sugars joining of two single sugars: disaccharide | 6 | |
| 5077993194 | Hydrolysis | polysaccharides split apart to form monosaccharides hydrolysis means water splitting | 7 | |
| 5077898279 | Monosaccharides | simplest carbohydrates ex: glucose, galactose, and fructose | 8 | |
| 5077910322 | Polysaccharides | formed from monosaccharides living things store excess sugar important: starch: plants store excess sugar | 9 | |
| 5077925336 | Plant Starch | amylose | 10 | |
| 5077920450 | Animal starch | glycogen | 11 | |
| 5077944580 | Lipids | not soluble with water, can be used to store energy made mostly from carbon and hydrogen atoms |  | 12 |
| 5077949225 | Common categories of lipids | fats, oils, waxes, steroids | 13 | |
| 5077961258 | Saturated fat | each carbon atom in lipid's fatty acid chain joined to another carbon atom by single bond fatty acids contain maximum number of H atoms | 14 | |
| 5078023269 | Nucleic Acids | polymers assembled from monomers known as nucleotides store and transmit genetic information DNA and RNA |  | 15 |
| 5078050277 | Proteins | polymers of molecules called amino acids most diverse macromolecules 20 amino acids found in nature | 16 | |
| 5078062252 | Amino Acids | compounds with amino group NH2 on one end and carboxyl group -COOH on other end |  | 17 |
