Biology Chapters 5-6
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- Most carbon-based molecules.
- Organic Molecules.
- Non-carbon-based molecules.
- Inorganic Molecules.
- Organic molecules composed of only carbon and hydrogen.
- Hydrocarbons.
- A group of atoms within a molecule that interacts with other moleules in predictable ways.
- Functional group.
- Attract water molecules.
- Hydrophilic.
- Large molecules built from many similar, smaller molecules.
- Monomers.
- Long chains of monomers.
- Polymers.
- Organic compound made up of sugar molecules.
- Carbohydrate.
- Simple sugars that contain just one sugar unit.
- Monosaccharides.
- Two monosaccharides.
- Disaccharide.
- Long polymer chains made up of simple sugar monomers.
- Polysaccharides.
- Polysaccharide found in plant cells that consists entirely of glucose monomers.
- Starch.
- The polysaccharide that animals use to store excess sugar is...
- Glycogen.
- Polysaccharide in plants that serves as building material.
- Cellulose.
- Class of water-avoiding compounds.
- Lipids.
- Water-avoiding molecules.
- Hydrophobic.
- Three-carbon backbone called glycerol attached to three fatty acids.
- Fat.
- Fat in which all three fatty acid chains contain maximum number of hyrdrogen atoms.
- Saturated fat.
- Contains less than maximum number of hydrogen atoms in one or more of its fatty acids.
- Unsaturated fat.
- A lipid molecule in which the carbon skeleton forms four fused rings.
- Steroid.
- Essential molecule found in membranes that surround your cell.
- Cholesterol.