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Chemical Principles

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What is the strongest of the three chemical bonds?   Covalent Bonds  
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What is an uncharged particle in the atomic nucleus?   Neutron  
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What is a hydrogen ion?   Proton  
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What is the number of protons in the nucleus?   Atomic Number  
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What are the particles with a negative charge that move in shells around the nucleus?   Electron  
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What is the bond formed by sharing electrons in the outermost shell?   Covalent bond  
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When a weak bond is formed, e.g. by the slight positive charge at the hydrogen end of the water molecule reacting with the negative end of other molecules   Hydrogen bond  
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What bond is formed by the gain or loss of electrons from the outer electron shell?   Ionic Bond  
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What is the substance upon which an enzyme acts?   Substrate  
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A protein that lowers the activation energy required for a reaction   Enzyme  
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What is the sum of the atomic weighs of a molecule's atoms?   Molecular weight  
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what is the collective term for all decomposition reactions   Catabolism  
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Grams equal to molecular weight   Mole  
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collective term for all synthesis reactions   anabolism  
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combining capacity of an atom   Valence  
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ion with a positive charge   Cation  
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one of two molecules with the same chemical formula but different structures   Isomer  
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prevents drastic change in pH   buffer  
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substance that dissociates into ions that are neither OH- no H*   Salt  
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a proton donor   Acid  
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dissociates into one or more negative hydroxide ions, such as OH   Base  
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Combinations of atoms that have gained stability by completing the full complement of electrons in the outermost shell   molecule  
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eight or more glucose molecules in a chain   polysaccharide  
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sterol   lipid  
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fat   lipid  
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production of a molecule of water during synthesis   condensation  
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formed a chain of amino acids   protein  
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lipoprotein   conjugated proteins  
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results from the release of energy of separation of the terminal phosphate group   adenosine triphosphate  
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DNA   Nucleic acid  
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Same number of protons in the nucleus but different weights   Isotope  
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A molecule containing at least two kinds of atoms, such as water (H2O).   Compound  
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An atom that is stable because it has its full complement of electrons.   Molecule  
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The D and L forms of an amino acid   Stereoisomer  
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The substance formed by a reaction   Product  
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Sucrose   Disccharide  
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Soluble in solvents such as ether or alcohol, but not in water   lipids  
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purines or pyrimidines attached to a pentose sugar, but without a phosphate group   Nucleoside  
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Have a hhydrogen-to-oxygen ratio 2:1, a general formula of CH2O   Carbohydrate  
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In DNA, with will pair with guanine   Cytosine  
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In RNA, replaces thymine   Uracil  
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The five-carbon sugar in DNA   Deoxyribose  
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Bonds between amino acids in proteins   Peptide  
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Atoms with the same atomic number are classified as the same...   Chemical Number  
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When discussing synthesis, the combinging substance are called ______________, and the substance formed is the product.   reactants  
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carbon has a valence of?   Four  
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the principle energy-carrying molecule in all cells is called   ATP  
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RNA differs from DNA in being usually ________ stranded   single  
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In a protein, the order of the amino acid sequence is the ___________ level of organization   Primary  
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Thymine and cyosine are single-ring structures called   Pryimidines  
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An example of a nitrogen-containing base in a nucleotide is   Adrenal, uracil  
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The _________ level of protein organization provides it with a three-dimensional shape.   Tertiary  
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About ________ different kinds of amino acids occur naturally in proteins   20  
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some important characteristics of water are its high _________ and its capacity as a temperature ____________   buffer  
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cations are positively charged ions; their outer electrons shell is __________ than half filled and they lose electrons   less  
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the minimum collision energy required for a chemical   activation energy  
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neutrons and protons have a weight about 1840 times that of   electrons  
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decomposition yields energy, which is called an __________ reaction   exergonic  
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eight or more glucose molecules in a chain would be described as a   polysaccharide  
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bridges together basic and acidic extremities of amino acids ex. GLYCYLALAN   peptide bond  
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sharing of elements in a chemical bond ex: methane   covalent bond  
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a hydrogen atom covaently bonded to one oxygen or another nitrogen atom :h2o   hydrogen bond  
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gaining or losing of elements on outside shell to gain positive or negative charged atoms   Ionic Bond  
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What are the building blocks of proteins   amino acids  
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what are the building blocks of DNA & RNA   Nucleotides  
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results from the release of energy by separation of the terminal phosphate group   ADP  
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What might be added to a solution to keep the pH from having drastic changes   Buffer  
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What substance or element differentiates organic from inorganic material   Carbon  
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