Biology crossword
Across
- 2. large group of organic compounds occurring in foods and living tissues and including sugars, starch, and cellulose.
- 4. arge molecule, or macromolecule, composed of many repeated subunits
- 8. acid:organic compounds containing amine (-NH2) and carboxyl (-COOH) functional groups, along with a side chain (R group) specific to each amino acid
- 11. sugars, are the most basic units of carbohydrates
- 14. the sugar formed when two monosaccharides (simple sugars) are joined by glycosidic linkage
- 15. molecule that carries the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, functioning and reproduction of all known living organisms and many viruses
Down
- 1. acid:DNA
- 3. polymeric carbohydrate molecules composed of long chains of monosaccharide units bound together by glycosidic linkages and on hydrolysis give the constituent monosaccharides or oligosaccharides
- 5. a molecule containing a very large number of atoms, such as a protein, nucleic acid, or synthetic polymer
- 6. fruit sugar, is a simple ketonic monosaccharide found in many plant
- 7. substance of biological origin that is soluble in nonpolar solvents
- 9. molecule that, as a unit, binds chemically or supramolecularly to other molecules to form a supramolecular polymer.[2][3] Large numbers of monomer units combine to form polymers in a process called polymerization
- 10. simple sugar with the molecular formula C6H12O6
- 12. large biomolecules, or macromolecules, consisting of one or more long chains of amino acid
- 13. acid: biopolymers, or small biomolecules, essential to all known forms of life