Chemistry of Life

2. Complex carbohydrate that is a polymer of glucose and that makes up the cell wall of plants
4. Class of biochemical compounds that includes DNA and RNA.
6. Class of biochemical compounds that includes sugar, starch, glycogen, and cellulose.
7. Anything that has mass and takes up space.
8. Smallest particle of an element that still has the properties of that element.
9. Bond sharing electrons between two atoms that holds the atoms together.
12. Sum of all the biochemical reactions that take place in a living organism, including reactions that build up molecules and reactions that break down molecules.
14. Class of biochemical compounds that includes fats, oils, and phospholipids.
15. called products.

1. Process in which some substances, called reactants, change chemically into different
3. Any carbon-based compound that is found in living organisms.
5. . Any chemical reaction that takes place inside living things.
9. unique type of matter in which two or more elements are combined chemically in a certain ratio
10. One of more than 100 pure substances that cannot be broken down into other substances.
11. Class of biochemical compounds that consist of chains of amino acids.
13. Smallest particle of a compound that still
16. Protein that increases the rate of a biochemical reaction.