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| cellular organization, metabolism, homeostasis, growth and reproduction, heredity |
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| making individual decisions by applying a guide of accepted general principles |
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| discovering general principles by careful examinations of specific cases |
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| formed by living organism. has a carbon based core which is attatched to a group of atoms called funtional groups |
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| polymers built of monomers. building materials of the body |
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| the process of tearing down a polymer by adding a molecule of water. a hydrogen is attached to one subunit and a hydroxyl to the other which breaks down the covalent bond |
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| a chemical nond formed by the sharing of one or more pairs of electrons |
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| small monomers or dimmers |
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| long polymer chains that contain many C-H bonds to stoe a lot of energy. the chains are called POLYSACCHARIDES |
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| consists of only one monomer subunit. glucose |
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consist of two monosaccharides
sucrose |
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| the glucose polysaccharide that plants use to store energy |
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| highly insoluble macromolecule formed of flucose polysaccharides that are very long and highly branched (where animals energy is formed) |
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| a type of structural polysaccharide found in the external skeletons of many invertebrates. modified form of cellulose with a nitrogen group added to the glucose units |
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| structural polysaccharide found in the cell wall of plants its clucose subunits are joined in a way that cannot be broken down readily |
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| monosaccharide that consists of a linear six carbon molecule that forms a ring when added to water |
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| formed from glucose and fructose in dehydration reaction |
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| lipids composed of two kinds of subunits, fatty acids and glycerol |
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| fatty acids that contain double bonds between one of more pairs of carbon atoms. liquid at room temp |
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| fatty acids with single bonds between all carbon pairs. solid at room temp |
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| long chain of carbon and hydrogen atoms |
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| 3 fatty acids redulting fat molecule |
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| the membranes of cells that are made of a modified fat |
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| the membranes of cells that are made of a modified fat |
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| kind of lipid. many of the molecules that funtion as messengers and pass across cell membranes are steroids such as male and female sex hormones and cholesterol |
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| covalent bond linking two amino acids together |
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| structural protein in which cartilage, bones, and tendons all contain |
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| another structural protein forms the horns of a rhino and the feathers of a bird |
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| carrier of oxygen from your lungs to the cells of your body |
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| chemical messenger often a steroid or peptide, produced in a small quantity in one part of an organism and then transported to another part of the organism where it brings about a psychological response |
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| one of the two major proteins that make up myofilaments (the other is MYOSIN). it provides the cell with mechanical suppport and plays major roles in determining cell shape and movement |
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| proteins capable of speeding up specific chemical reactions by lowering the energy and required to activate or start the reaction but that remains unaltered in the process |
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| very long polymers that store information, comprised of monomer called nucleotides |
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| components of a nucleotide |
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| 5carbon sugar, phosphate group, an organic nitrogen containing base |
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