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Connors vocab 1
chapters 123
Question | Answer |
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Polar | having a positive charged side and a negative charged side |
cohesion | particles of the same substance sticking together |
adhesion | water molecules attracting to other molecules |
hydrogen bond | a weak bond two molecules resulting in electrostatic attraction |
hydroxide ion | one oxygen and one hydrogen ion |
hydronium ion | consisting of pronated water |
acid | measured on the PH scale 0-6 have a sour taste ex.lemon juice |
base | measured on the ph scale 8-14 ex.soap drain |
PH scale | scale that measures how acidic or basic something is |
buffer | control the PH for living systems |
organic compound | made of carbon atoms and are in most living things |
monomer | what makes carbon compounds |
polymer | the result of bonding between monomers |
condensation reaction | the chemical reaction of when a monomer bonds with a polymer |
atp | the abbreviation for adosiene triphospate used by the cell to provide energy for the body to function |
carbohydrate | food compound used as energy made of C H O |
monosaccharide | a monomer of a carbohydrate |
disaccharide | when two monosccharides combine through the condensation reaction. |
polysaccharide | three or more monosaccharides |
protein | food source formed from amino acids made of C H N O |
amino acid | building blocks of protein made centrally of carbon and combined with four other fuctional groups |
peptide bond | in the condensation reaction the two amino acids form a covalent bond called |
polypeptide | A chain of peptide bonds |
enzyme | protein molecules |
substrate | the reactant being catalyzed |
active site | folds in an enzyme |
lipid | large non polar organic molecules |
steroid | composed of four fused carbon rings with various functional groups |
nucleic acid | transfer important imformation in a cell very large and complex |
nucleotide | complementary RNA nucleotides resulting in RNA strands |
cell | makes up organisms |
cytoplasm | hols celltogether |
cytosol | cytoplasm that includes molecules and small particles |
prokaryote | cell without a nucleus and membrane bound cells |
eukaryote | cells that have a nucleus |
organelle | organ in a cell |
cytoskeleton | tubes in the cytosol |
microtubule | hollow tubes made of protein in cells |
microfilament | long threads of protein |
cilium | hair like substance on the surface of a cell _l_l_l |
flagellum | propels the cell in moving its tail |
plastid | important to plants one type is chloroplast |