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Connors vocab 1
chapters 123
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |