Macromolecules

2. the energy release of heat
4. the surface on which an organism (eg: plant, fungus, or animal) lives or the substance on which an enzyme can act
6. a monosaccharide or a disaccharide
12. any chemical reaction that absorbs heat from its environment
15. the basic building block of nucleic acids (RNA and DNA)
16. a sugar (a carbohydrate) composed of two monosaccharides
17. the building blocks of the fat in our bodies and in the food we eat
18. proteins that help speed up metabolism, or the chemical reactions in our bodies
19. is a simple triol compound
20. end substances after a biological process has occurred

1. capable of absorbing or dissolving more of something
3. the minimum energy required to cause a process (such as a chemical reaction) to occur.
5. a carbohydrate formed by long chains of repeating units linked together by glycosidic bonds
7. the simplest forms of sugar and the most basic units (monomers) from which all carbohydrates are built
8. naturally occurring chemical compounds that serve as the primary information-carrying molecules in cells
9. large, complex molecules that play many important roles in the body
10. molecules that combine to form proteins
11. fatty compounds that perform a variety of functions in your body
13. being a solution that is unable to absorb or dissolve any more of a solute at a given temperature and pressure
14. are sugar molecules