Biochemistry Flashcards

Biology Quiz 3

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