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| 1739085209 | Macromolecules | Large on molecular scale | 0 | |
| 1739085210 | Polymers | Long molecule made up of building blocks called monomers | 1 | |
| 1739085211 | Monomers | Small molecules that make up long molecules called polymers | 2 | |
| 1739085212 | Enzymes | Macromolecules that make or break polymers in a cell and speed chemical reactions | 3 | |
| 1739085213 | Dehydration reaction | Bonds monomers covalently when water is lost | 4 | |
| 1739085214 | Hydrolysis | Polymers are broken into monomers through this reverse dehydration reaction | 5 | |
| 1739085215 | Carbohydrates | Sugars and polymers of sugars | 6 | |
| 1739085216 | Disaccharides | Two monosaccharides bound by a covalent bond | 7 | |
| 1739085217 | Monosacchirides | A multiple of CH₂O | 8 | |
| 1739085218 | Glycosidic linkage | Joins disacchirides and is a covalent bond between two monosacchirides through a dehydration reaction | 9 | |
| 1739085219 | Polysacchirides | Macromolecues that are a jointing of monosacchirides with glycosidic linkages and store then hydrolyzed to give energy to cells and can be used as structure material | 10 | |
| 1739085220 | Starch | How plants store polysaccharides and is a polymer of glucose monomers stored in plastids | 11 | |
| 1739085221 | Glycogen | How animals store polysaccharides energy in liver or muscle | 12 | |
| 1739085222 | Cellulose | Polysacchiride that creates walls in plant cells | 13 | |
| 1739085223 | Chitin | A polysaccharide that is a carbohydrate used to make exoskeleton of arthropods | 14 | |
| 1739085224 | Lipids | Mix poorly with water and are large molecules | 15 | |
| 1739085225 | Fats | Large molecules made through dehydration synthesis of small molecules include glycerol and fatty acids | 16 | |
| 1739085226 | Fatty acids | Long carbon skeleton with carboxyl group at one end and a hydrocarbon chain that is hydrophobic | 17 | |
| 1739085227 | Triglycerol | Three fatty acid molecules with a glycerol due to an ester link | 18 | |
| 1739085228 | Saturated fatty acid | No double bond in carbon atoms but hydrogen bonded to carbon | 19 | |
| 1739085229 | Trans fat | Unsaturated fat bonded with trans double bonds | 20 | |
| 1739085230 | Phospholipids | Make up cell membrane with two fatty acids connected to glycerol connected to phosphate | 21 | |
| 1739085231 | Steroids | Lipids made of carbon skeleton with four fused rings and what connects to rings makes the steroids distinct | 22 | |
| 1739085232 | Cholestorol | Example of a steroid | 23 | |
| 1739085233 | Catalysts | Speed up a reaction but not consumed by a reaction | 24 | |
| 1739085234 | Polypeptide | Amino acid polymers | 25 | |
| 1739085235 | Protein | A biologically functioning molecule of one or more polypeptides | 26 | |
| 1739085236 | Enzymatic proteins | Speed up certain chemical reactions such as in the digestion | 27 | |
| 1739085237 | Defensive proteins | Protect against disease such as antibodies | 28 | |
| 1739085238 | Storage proteins | Store amino acids | 29 | |
| 1739085239 | Transport proteins | Transport substances such as hemoglobin | 30 | |
| 1739085240 | Hormonal proteins | Coordinate organism's activities such as insulin | 31 | |
| 1739085241 | Receptor proteins | How cell responds to stimuli | 32 | |
| 1739085242 | Contractile and motor proteins | Proteins for movement | 33 | |
| 1739085243 | Structural proteins | Proteins that support | 34 | |
| 1739085244 | Amino acid | Organic molecule with an amino group and carboxyl group | 35 | |
| 1739085245 | Peptide bond | Peptide bonds bond amino acids through dehydration reaction of carboxyl group | 36 | |
| 1739085246 | Primary structure | Linked amino acids with a unique structure and determines second and third structure | 37 | |
| 1739085247 | Helix (weird a) | Hydrogen bonding with every fourth amino acid | 38 | |
| 1739085248 | Pleated sheet (weird b) | Polypeptide chain laying side by side connected by hydrogen bonds | 39 | |
| 1739085249 | Tertiary structure | Overall interactions between side chains | 40 | |
| 1739085250 | Hydrophobic Interaction | Hydrophobic non polar side chains end up in inner clusters due to water avoiding non polar | 41 | |
| 1739085251 | Disulfate bridges | Covalent bonds with two cistine bridges connected to each other with Sulfur bonding to each other | 42 | |
| 1739085252 | Quaternary structure | Structure due to protons of two or more poly peptide chains together in a macromolecule | 43 | |
| 1739085253 | Sickle-cell disease | A blood disorder where amino acids replaces and the change in protein structure can clog blood vessels | 44 | |
| 1739085254 | Denaturation | This occurs with poor chemical or environmental conditions lead to an inactive protein | 45 | |
| 1739085255 | Chaperonins | Protein molecules that help proteins fold and protect folding proteins and check folds and if the folds are wrong destroys protein | 46 | |
| 1739085256 | X-ray crystallography | Help scientists get 3D folding of protein | 47 | |
| 1739085257 | Gene | Programs amino acid sequence in polypeptide | 48 | |
| 1739085258 | Nucleic acids | Polymers made of monomers named nucleotides | 49 | |
| 1739085259 | Deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA | Tells DNA how to replicate and is made up of many genes and proteins read off of DNA | 50 | |
| 1739085260 | Ribonucleic acid or RNA | RNA reads DNA to produce proteins at the ribosomes | 51 | |
| 1739085261 | Polynucleotides | Nucleic acids are macromolecules that exist as polymers | 52 | |
| 1739085262 | Nucleotides | Monomers of polynucleotides made of a nitrogenous base, five carbon sugar, and one or more phosphates | 53 | |
| 1739085263 | Pyrimidines | An example of a nitrogenous base with one six member carbon and nitrogen ring | 54 | |
| 1739085264 | Purines | An example of a nitrogenous base with a six member ring fused with a five member ring | 55 | |
| 1739085265 | Deoxyribose | The sugar in a nucleotide for DNA | 56 | |
| 1739085266 | Ribose | The sugar in to a nucleotide for RNA | 57 | |
| 1739085267 | Double helix | Two polynucleotides that spiral and make DNA structure | 58 | |
| 1739085268 | Antiparallel | The two spirals of a double helix run five prime to three prime and then the opposite on the other | 59 | |
| 1739140761 | Secondary structure | Fold pattern in polypeptide chain due to hydrogen bonds | 60 |
