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| 13492641014 | nonpolar | electrons shared equally |  | 0 |
| 13492641015 | polar | electrons shared unequally |  | 1 |
| 13492641016 | dehydration synthesis | condensation; joining compounds together with water released |  | 2 |
| 13492641017 | hydrolysis | breakdown of a compound by adding water |  | 3 |
| 13492641018 | polysaccharide | polymers of carbohydrates |  | 4 |
| 13492641019 | cellulose | structural polysaccharide that makes up plant cell walls |  | 5 |
| 13492641020 | starch | storage polysaccharide found in plants |  | 6 |
| 13492641021 | fatty acid | hydrocarbon chain with a carboxyl group at one end; majority portion in lipids |  | 7 |
| 13492641022 | saturated fat | fat without double bonds |  | 8 |
| 13492641023 | unsaturated fat | fat with double bonds |  | 9 |
| 13492641024 | peptide bond | bond creating amino acid chains or polymers |  | 10 |
| 13492641025 | primary structure | linear sequence of amino acids; peptide bonds |  | 11 |
| 13492641026 | secondary structure | protein formed with hydrogen bonds |  | 12 |
| 13492641027 | tertiary structure | 3D conformation formed; determines specificity |  | 13 |
| 13492641028 | quaternary structure | protein with more than one polypeptide chain |  | 14 |
| 13492641029 | alpha helix | secondary structure form of a protein; human hair (keratin) |  | 15 |
| 13492641030 | beta pleated sheet | secondary structure form of a protein; spider webs and silk |  | 16 |
| 13492641032 | metabolism | sum of all chemical reactions that take place in cell | 17 | |
| 13492641033 | cohesion | capacity to resist tension to rupture |  | 18 |
| 13492641034 | polymer | long molecule consisting of many similar or identical monomers linked together |  | 19 |
| 13492641035 | monomer | building block for polymers; only made by producers | | 20 |
| 13492641036 | adhesion | attraction between different kinds of molecules | | 21 |
| 13492641037 | surface tension | measure of how difficult it is to stretch or break the surface of a liquid |  | 22 |
| 13492641038 | evaporative cooling / heat of vaporization | property of a liquid where the surface becomes cooler during evaporation due to the loss of molecules |  | 23 |
| 13492641039 | disulfide bridge | tertiary structure; strong covalent bond formed when one sulfur of one cysteine monomer bonds to the sulfur of another |  | 24 |
| 13492641040 | hydrophobic interaction | tertiary structure; weak chemical bond formed when molecules that do not mix with water change to exclude the water |  | 25 |
| 13492641041 | hydrocarbon | organic molecule consisting of only hydrogen and carbon |  | 26 |
| 13492641042 | macromolecule | giant molecule formed by the joining of smaller molecules |  | 27 |
| 13492641043 | glycosodic linkage | covalent bond formed between two monosaccharides by a dehydration synthesis reaction | 28 | |
| 13492641044 | nucleotide | building block of a nucleic acid; five carbon sugar covalently bonded to a nitrogen base and a phosphate group |  | 29 |
| 13492641045 | pyramidine | cytosine, thymine, and uracil; six-membered ring |  | 30 |
| 13492641046 | purine | adenine and guanine; six-membered ring fused to a five-membered ring |  | 31 |
