Water World
Across
- 3. Molecules that have hydrophilic and hydrophobic properties
- 6. Primary solvent for life
- 8. A weak acid-base pair that maintains pH stability in solutions
- 9. The main intermolecular interactions occurring between non-charged, non-polar molecules
- 12. These bonds are essential for maintaining the double-helix structure of DNA, holding the strands together
- 13. The property that water molecules are able to stick together
- 15. [BLANK] interactions are good in the context of biochemistry because they allow for dynamic and reversible interactions between molecules
Down
- 1. Electrostatic interactions are strongest in this medium, with a dielectric constant of 1
- 2. in Coulomb's law, this constant accounts for the medium's effect on electrostatic interactions
- 4. Phospholipids form these structures in aqueous environments due to the hydrophobic effect
- 5. In Brownian motion, molecules bounce randomly based on a rate determined solely by [BLANK]
- 7. In protein folding, these amino acids tend to fold into the center of the protein, away from the aqueous environment
- 10. Hydrophobic molecules disrupt the [BLANK] of water
- 11. Scale used to simplify pH calculations
- 14. The atom in water that has a partial negative charge