Unit 1: Chemistry of Life

1. a storage polysaccharide found in potatoes and pasta
4. one of the two types of nitrogenous bases found in nucleotides, (A) adenine & (G) guanine
6. a fat that is solid and at room temperature
10. chemical reaction that breaks bonds between two molecules by the addition of H2O
12. one of the two types of nitrogenous bases found in nucleotides, (G) guanine, (C) cytosine, & (U) uracil
13. lipid characterized by a carbon skeleton composed of four fused rings
14. long molecule consisting of many similar or identical monomers
15. a storage polysaccharide found in the muscles and liver of animals
16. a fat that is liquid at room temperature and "kinky"
18. a chemical compound containing carbon
19. the building blocks of polymer
21. a steroid found in animals' cell membranes
22. the loss of a protein's shape due to a breakdown of the weak chemical bonds and interactions

2. a long chain of hydrogen and carbon
3. a structural polysaccharide of plant cell walls
5. bond between the amino group and carboxyl group of two amino acids
7. a functional group that contains a carbon double bonded to an oxygen and single bonded to an OH group, abbrev. -COOH
8. a lipid that makes up cell membranes, amphipathic
9. organic molecule containing the functional groups -NH2 & -COOH, monomer of polypeptide
11. monomer of carbohydrates (mono), can also be a di- or poly-
12. biological molecule consisting of one or more polypeptides folded into a 3D structure
17. chemical reaction in which two molecules become covalently bonded to each other with the removal of H2O
19. giant molecule formed by the joining of smaller molecules, usually by dehydration reaction
20. building block of nucleic acids