Across
- 1. fats, oils and waxes
- 7. energy carrying molecule
- 8. means to split with water
- 11. a single sugar molecule
- 13. starches and sugars
- 14. the double-stranded nucleic acid that is the instructions for building proteins
- 16. many sugars
- 18. the building blocks of proteins
- 20. a large organic molecule composed of smaller molecules
- 22. a protein that speeds up chemical reactions in a living thing
- 23. ending materials in a chemical reaction
Down
- 2. the reactant an enzyme changes
- 3. starting material in a chemical reaction
- 4. a long molecule made of monomers
- 5. a chemical reaction that uses the removal of water to put molecules together
- 6. monomer of nucleic acids
- 9. a process that combines monomers into polymers
- 10. word used to describe carbon-based molecules
- 12. a polymer made of amino acids
- 13. changes one set of chemical into another
- 15. two sugars
- 17. a single molecule that can be bonded together to form a polymer
- 19. molecules that transmit hereditary information
- 21. a single stranded nucleic acid