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Bob Jones Chpt 2.5
Key Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| carbohydrate | An organic compound that contains only carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. |
| monosaccharide | A simple sugar |
| glucose | A common six-carbon simple sugar |
| disaccharide | A sugar composed of two monosaccharides. |
| starch | A poysaccharide; often used for energy storage by plants. |
| glycogen | A polysaccharide; animal starch; branching chains of glucose molecules |
| cellulose | Chains of glucose molecules;found in plant cell walls |
| lipid | An organic compound that is insoluble in water but soluble in certain organic solvents. |
| fatty acid | A common lipid composed of a chain of 14-28 carbon atoms with a carboxyl group on the end. |
| hydrophilic | Attracted to or having an affinity for water |
| hydrophobic | Not having an affinity for water |
| triglyceride | fats |
| saturated | Describing a fatty acid molecule with only single bonds between carbon atoms. |
| unsaturated fat | A fatty acid molecule in which some of the carbon atoms are double bonded to each other. |
| steroid | A lipid composed of a carbon backbone of four carbon rings and a side chain of carbon atoms; many function as hormones. |
| monomer | One of the repeating units within a polymer or macromolecule. |
| polymer | a macromolecule made up of a chain of monomers, sometimes identical. |
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