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100 200 300 400 500 Polymers Amino Acids ProteinCHO Lipids Nucleic Acids
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The repeating units of a polymer that serve as the individual building blocks.
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Monomers
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The individual units of a polymer are connected by this reaction.
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Dehydration or Condensation Reaction
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Polymers are disassembled by this reaction or the addition of water.
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Hydrolysis
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The polymer usually found to contain the element Nitrogen.
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Proteins
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During the dehydration reaction, this is given off.
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Water (H 2 O)
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The monomers of carbohydrates.
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monosaccharides
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C 6 H 12 O 6
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Glucose
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The simplest carbohydrates.
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sugars
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The type of bond that forms by dehydration in carbohydrates.
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Glycosidic linkage
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The three storage polysaccharides.
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Starch, Glycogen, & Cellulose
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The central carbon of an amino acid.
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carbon
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The side chain of an amino acid.
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R group
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These amino acids contain the element sulfur.
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cysteine & methionine
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Amino acids are joined together by dehydration reactions forming this bond.
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Peptide bond
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Which amino acid lacks an asymmetric carbon?
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glycine
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The unique sequence of amino acids in a protein.
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Primary Structure
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A slight change in this structure of a protein can lead to mutations like sickle-celled hemoglobin.
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Primary structure
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Helix or pleated sheet
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Secondary structure
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Formed when two cysteine amino acids are brought in close together by the folding of a protein.
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Disulfide bridge
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Clustering of hydrophobic R groups away from water.
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Hydrophobic interactions and van der Waals interactions
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The trait that is shared by all lipids.
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They have little or no affinity for water.
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A long carbon chain with a carboxyl group at one end.
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Fatty acid
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A fat is constructed of two kinds of smaller molecules:
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Glycerol and fatty acids
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A fat that has double bonds along its carbon chains.
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unsaturated
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The compound that has a phosphate and two fatty acid chains attached to the glycerol molecule.
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phospholipid
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The process by which DNA copies itself.
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replication
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Pyrimidines
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Cytosine, thymine, uracil
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purines
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Adenine & guanine
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In 1951, the structure of DNA was found to be this.
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Double helix
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The difference between deoxyribose and ribose
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An oxygen atom located on carbon 2 of deoxyribose.
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