Question | Answer |
CH2O | Carbohydrate |
Glucose,galactose,fructose | Monosaccharides |
Same type & Number of Atoms, but different structure | Isomers |
Table sugar (sucrose) | Disaccharides |
Glycogen | Polysaccharide |
C12H24O2 | Lipid |
long chains with hydrogen atoms attached will a COOH tail | Fatty acids |
Lipids derived from arachidonic acid | Eicosanoids |
short chained fatty acids in which 5 carbon atoms are joined in a ring | Prostaglandins |
Fatty acids attached to a modified simple sugar o< | Glycerides |
Have 4 distinctive carbon rings with an attached side chain | Steroids |
A phosphate group links a diglyceride to a non lipid group | Phospholipid |
A carbohydrate attached to a diglyceride | Glycolipid |
Large numbers of phospholipids and glycolipids | micelles |
ion or molecule that must bind to the enzyme before substrates can also bind | cofactor |
Non protein organic molecules that function as cofactors, ie vitamins | Coenzymes |
large proteins with small carbohydrates groups attached | Glycoproteins |
Large polysaccharide molecules linked by polypeptide chains | Proteoglycans |
Glycoprotein secretions that absorb water to create mucous | Mucins |
Large organic molecules of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and phosphorus that store and process information at the molecular level | Nucleic Acids |
Individual subunits of of nucleic acid | nucleotides, adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, uracil |
Adenine, Guanine | Purines |
Cytosine, Thymine, Uracil | Pyrimidines |
Complementary base to adenine | Thymine |
Complementary base to cytosine | Guanine |
when a covalent bond (potential energy) is broken and kinetic energy is released | catabolism |
total number of protons plus the number of neutrons | mass number |