A | B |
What are examples of compounds that would be polymers? | carbohydrates, nucleic acids, proteins, amino acids |
What are some descriptions of a polymer? | 1. made of monomers 2. large molecules 3. usually formed by covalent bonding |
Carbon compounds that come from living things are what? | organic compounds |
How many electrons can a carbon atom share? | 4 |
What is a chemical formula? | H2O = yes H = no O = no |
What does the nucleus of an atom contain? | protons and neutrons |
Electrons can move around in a region known as what? | 1 orbitals 2. electron cloud 3. energy levels |
What are the basic building blocks of proteins? | amino acids |
Water dissolves many ionic and molecular compounds because of what? | polarity |
Glucose and fructose combine by what process? | condensation reaction |
The various enzymes in our body are what? | proteins |
Two things with the same formula differ in what? | three dimensional structure or the arrangment of atoms |
A strong acid would have a pH of what? | close to one |
A strong base would have a pH of what? | close to fourteen |
Carbon-12 and Carbon-13 are examples of what? | isotopes |
How many atoms are found in H2O3Fe7 | 12 |
When working with the periodic table, how many electrons do you place in each energy level | 2 in first and 8 from then on |
An unsaturated lipid contains what? | double bond |
Unlike carbs and fats, proteins contain what? | nitrogen |
Diffusion continues until what? | dynamic equilibrium or there is no concentration gradient |
Brownian motion is evidence of what? | random movement of particles |
An organic compound with the ratio of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom for each carbon atoms is a ___. | carbohydrate |
the smaller subunits that make up nucleic acids are ____ | nucleotides |
Any substance that forms hydrogen ions in water is a _____ | acid |
Two atoms that share electrons are held together by ____ bonds | covalent bonds |
Atoms of two or more elements chemically combined are ______ | compounds |
Atoms of the same element with different numbers of neutrons are ____ | isotopes |
This is a glucose polymer that forms the cell walls of plants | cellulose |
Large molecule formed when many smaller molecules bond together | polymer |
Molecule with unequal distribution of charge | polar molecule |
Protein that speeds up a chemical reaction | enzyme |
Bond formed between amino acids | peptide bond |
All the chemical changed that occur within an organism | metabolism |
Mixture is which one substance is distrubuted evenly in another | solution |
Center of the atom is called what? | nucleus |