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| organic compounds | a compound that contains carbon, usually associated w/living things |
| monomer | a molecule that acts as a building block for larger molecues |
| polymer | a molecule formed by linking 2 or more monomers |
| carbohydrate | an organic compound composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms attached in approximately a 1:2:1 ratio |
| monosaccharide | a symple carbohydrate having 1 ring of carbon atoms |
| disaccharide | a sugar made of 2 covalently bonded monosaccharides |
| polysaccharide | a giant polymer w/ thousands of monosaccharide are linked together |
| lipid | a family of compound made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen that is inscoluble in water |
| hormone | an organic compound made and released by 1 part of an organism in order to affect another part of the organism |
| fat | a polymer composed of glycrerol and 3 fatty acids |
| fatty acid | a compound consisting of a chain of carbon atoms and acid group at one end |
| protein | a compound composed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and sometimes sulfur that is ess. to living things |
| amino acid | a compound that contains an amino, carboxyl, and side group. |
| peptide bond | a covalent bond between the amino group on 1 amino acid and the carboxyl group on the other in a protein |
| enzyme | a protein that speeds up the chemical reaction of cells to biologically useful rates |
| catalyst | a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction w/out being changed by the reaction |
| substrate | the reactant in an enzyme |
| active site | the site on an enzyme where the subtrates attaches and a reaction takes place |
| nucleic acid | a large, complex biological molecule made of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and phorphorus |
| nucleotide | a monomer that makes up a nucleic acid |
| deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) | double-stranded nucleic acid whose nucleotides contain the sugar deoxyribose |
| ribonucleic acid (RNA) | a single-stranded nucleic acid molecule that acts as a messenger between DNA and ribosomes in the production of proteins. |
