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What are macromolecules?
Lipids, carbohydrates,proteins and nucleic acids go under this category.
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What are carbohydrates?
Thes are compounds made up of oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon atoms usually in a ratio of 1:2:1.
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What is a lipid?
This macromolecule stores energy.
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What is a nucleic acid?
This macromolecule contains hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and phosphorus atoms.
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What is is a protein?
A macromolecule that contains nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen.
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What is a polymer?
When monomers join together.
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What is a monosaccharides?
Another word for single sugar molecules.
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What are carbon and hydrogen atoms made up?
A lipid is made up of these atoms.
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What is a phosphate group?
A nucleotide consists of a 5-carbon sugar, a nitrogen base and a___________.
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What is an amino acid?
These smaller units make up a protein.
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What is polymerization?
Macromolecules are formed by this process.
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What are polysacchrides?
This forms when more one monosacchrides join together.
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What is a saturated lipid?
This lipid is solid at room temperature?
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What is is information?
Nucleic acids store_______.
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When do peptide bonds form?
Form between the amino group of one amino acid and the carboxyl group amino acid.
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What is a monomer?
The smaller units oin a polymer.
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What is cellulose?
Plants make this polysacchride.
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What is an unsaturated lipid.
This lipid has a fatty acid chain that contains a least one double bond between two carbon atoms.
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What is RNA?
There are 2 ncleic acids: deoxyribonucleic (DNA) and ________,
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What is hemoglobin?
A protein found in red blood cells that helps to transport oxygen in the bloodstream.
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What is a chemical compostition?
Biochemists sort the macromolecules based on their_____.
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What is Biology?
The study of life.
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What are the common categories of lipids?
Waxes, oils and fats
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What is ATP?
This nicleic acid has 3 phosphate groups.
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What are covalent bonds?
All amino acids are idenical in the regions where they may be joined together by _________.
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