2. 100 200 300 400 500 Polymers Amino Acids ProteinCHO Lipids Nucleic Acids

3. The repeating units of a polymer that serve as the individual building blocks.

4. Monomers

5. The individual units of a polymer are connected by this reaction.

6. Dehydration or Condensation Reaction

7. Polymers are disassembled by this reaction or the addition of water.

8. Hydrolysis

9. The polymer usually found to contain the element Nitrogen.

10. Proteins

11. During the dehydration reaction, this is given off.

12. Water (H 2 O)

13. The monomers of carbohydrates.

14. monosaccharides

15. C 6 H 12 O 6

16. Glucose

17. The simplest carbohydrates.

18. sugars

19. The type of bond that forms by dehydration in carbohydrates.

20. Glycosidic linkage

21. The three storage polysaccharides.

22. Starch, Glycogen, & Cellulose

23. The central carbon of an amino acid.

24.  carbon

25. The side chain of an amino acid.

26. R group

27. These amino acids contain the element sulfur.

28. cysteine & methionine

29. Amino acids are joined together by dehydration reactions forming this bond.

30. Peptide bond

31. Which amino acid lacks an asymmetric carbon?

32. glycine

33. The unique sequence of amino acids in a protein.

34. Primary Structure

35. A slight change in this structure of a protein can lead to mutations like sickle-celled hemoglobin.

36. Primary structure

37.  Helix or  pleated sheet

38. Secondary structure

39. Formed when two cysteine amino acids are brought in close together by the folding of a protein.

40. Disulfide bridge

41. Clustering of hydrophobic R groups away from water.

42. Hydrophobic interactions and van der Waals interactions

43. The trait that is shared by all lipids.

44. They have little or no affinity for water.

45. A long carbon chain with a carboxyl group at one end.

46. Fatty acid

47. A fat is constructed of two kinds of smaller molecules:

48. Glycerol and fatty acids

49. A fat that has double bonds along its carbon chains.

50. unsaturated

51. The compound that has a phosphate and two fatty acid chains attached to the glycerol molecule.

52. phospholipid

53. The process by which DNA copies itself.

54. replication

55. Pyrimidines

56. Cytosine, thymine, uracil

57. purines

58. Adenine & guanine

59. In 1951, the structure of DNA was found to be this.

60. Double helix

61. The difference between deoxyribose and ribose

62. An oxygen atom located on carbon 2 of deoxyribose.