Molecules to Organisms Crossword Puzzle Creation

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Across
  1. 4. Acid molecules that combine to form proteins.
  2. 7. Cycle a process that plants and algae use to turn carbon dioxide from the air into sugar, the food autotrophs need to grow
  3. 9. are the most abundant carbohydrate found in food.
  4. 11. Respiration the process by which organisms combine oxygen with foodstuff molecules
  5. 15. Compound contain ions and are held together by the attractive forces among the oppositely charged ions.
  6. 16. made up of chemical 'building blocks' called amino acids.
  7. 17. is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy
  8. 19. is a chemical substance composed of many identical molecules
  9. 20. Acid Nucleic acids are biopolymers, macromolecules, essential to all known forms of life.
  10. 21. Triphosphate is an organic compound and hydrotrope that provides energy to drive many processes in living cells
  11. 22. the basic building block of chemistry
  12. 23. is the sugar formed when two monosaccharides are joined by glycosidic linkage.
Down
  1. 1. a type of sugar you get from foods you eat, and your body uses it for energy.
  2. 2. a group of atoms bonded together, representing the smallest fundamental unit of a chemical compound that can take part in a chemical reaction.
  3. 3. Group A functional group characterized by a phosphorus atom bonded to four oxygen atoms
  4. 5. a cytoplasmic pathway which breaks down glucose into two three-carbon compounds and generates energy.
  5. 6. In biology and biochemistry, a lipid is a macro biomolecule that is soluble in nonpolar solvents.
  6. 8. also called simple sugars, are the simplest form of sugar
  7. 10. Acid is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other
  8. 12. Acid is a polymeric molecule essential in various biological roles in coding
  9. 13. Cycle the main source of energy for cells and an important part of aerobic respiration.
  10. 14. Compound typically a chemical compound that lacks carbon–hydrogen bonds
  11. 18. Compound any of a large class of chemical compounds in which one or more atoms of carbon are covalently linked to atoms
  12. 19. any of a large group of organic compounds occurring in foods and living tissues and including sugars, starch, and cellulose