Functional Groups and Carbohydrates
Across
- 3. Compounds with identical formulas but different structures (7 letters)
- 5. Functional group NH₂ found in amino acids (10 letters)
- 9. A simple sugar that is an important energy source in living organisms (7 letters)
- 11. Having an affinity for water (11 letters)
- 13. Functional group COOH found in organic acids like amino acid and fatty acid (13 letters)
- 14. Functional group OH found in alcohols (13 letters)
- 15. Sugar molecule made of two monosaccharides (12 letters)
- 16. Small units that combine to form polymers (8 letters)
- 17. Large carbohydrate molecules made up of many sugar units (15 letters)
- 19. Biological catalysts that speed up chemical reactions (7 letters)
- 21. Structural polysaccharide in plant cell walls (9 letters)
- 23. Process that removes water to bond molecules together (19 letters)
- 25. Functional group C=O found in aldehydes and ketones (13 letters)
- 26. Chemical group CH₃ (11 letters)
Down
- 1. Compounds made of only hydrogen and carbon (12 letters)
- 2. Single sugar molecules, the building blocks of carbohydrates (14 letters)
- 4. Carbon-based molecules essential to life (15 letters)
- 6. Sugars and starches that provide energy (13 letters)
- 7. Specific clusters of atoms within molecules that influence chemical reactions (16 letters)
- 8. Long chains of monomers, forming complex molecules (8 letters)
- 10. Functional group found in DNA structure (14 letters)
- 12. Energy storage polysaccharide in animals (8 letters)
- 18. Polysaccharide found in the exoskeletons of arthropods and fungi (6 letters)
- 20. Large, complex molecules essential for life, like proteins and carbohydrates (14 letters)
- 22. Energy storage polysaccharide in plants (6 letters)
- 24. reaction in which molecules are broken down by addition of water (10 letters)