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Chemical Compounds in Cells
PEARSON PRENTICE HALL LOUISIANA: chapter 3 lesson 1
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10/06/2013

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compounds
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form when two or more elements combine
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elements
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any substance that can't be broken down into simpler substances
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carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids
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some important groups of organic compounds that living things need are:
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carbohydrate
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energy rich organic compounds made of the elements carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
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lipids
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compounds that contain mostly carbon and hydrogen and SOME oxygen
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proteins
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large organic molecules made of carbon, hydrogen,oxygen, nitrogen, and, in some cases, sulphur
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enzymes
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a group of proteins that speed up chemical reactions that are necessary for life would take too long
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nucleic acids
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very long organic molecules
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DNA
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is the genetic material that carries info about an organism and is passed form parent to offspring
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doube helix
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the shape of a DNA molecule is described as a what?
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deoxyribonucleic acid
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what does DNA stand for?
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