7775275579 | Monosaccharide | single sugar acts as a building block of carbohydrates | ![]() | 0 |
7775275580 | Fatty Acid Tails | Composed of a carbon backbone, and hydrophobic | ![]() | 1 |
7775275581 | Deoxyribose | The sugar found in DNA | ![]() | 2 |
7775275584 | Lipid | cholesterol, cell membrane, blubber, long term energy storage | ![]() | 3 |
7775275585 | Carbohydrate | makes up the cell wall of a plant and fungus, stores energy in plants as glucose, and stores energy in humans as glycogen | ![]() | 4 |
7775275586 | Polysaccharide | Complex carbohydrate composed of many monosaccharides | ![]() | 5 |
7775275587 | Protein | builds everything about you, including cell parts, hair, skin, and nails. They can even act as a pump in the cell membrane to move substances in and out of the cell! | ![]() | 6 |
7775275588 | Amino Acids | The building block of proteins | ![]() | 7 |
7775275590 | Nucleotides | A single unit that makes up DNA and RNA | ![]() | 8 |
7775275591 | Atom | smallest unit of matter | ![]() | 9 |
7775275597 | Polymer | a large structure made of many single units | ![]() | 10 |
7775275598 | Monomer | single units that build together to make polymers | ![]() | 11 |
7775275599 | Dehydration synthesis | the removal of a water molecule in order to bond monomers | ![]() | 12 |
7775275600 | Hydrolysis | the use of water to break apart polymers | ![]() | 13 |
7775508281 | Saturated Fat | Saturated fats are found in food such as butter | 14 |
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