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| what are clusters of Atoms Called? |
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| What do functional groups do? |
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| They influence the characteristics of the molecules they compose and the chemical reactions the molecules undergo. |
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| what functional group is important to living things? |
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| What can -OH do to a molecule? |
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| What are two characteristics of polar molecules? |
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| They are hydrophilic and soulable in water |
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| What is an example of an organic compound with a hydroxyl group attached to one of its carbon atoms? |
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| What are four functional groups that are important to living things? |
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| carboxyl group,amino group,phosphate group and hydroxyl group |
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| What are Carbon compounds built from? |
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| smaller molecules known as monomers |
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| When momomers bond what do they form? |
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| Can a polymere be identical or structurally related to each other? |
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| What are large polymers called? |
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| How are monomers polymers and macromolecules related to each other |
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| Monomers bond together polymers bond together to make macromolecules |
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| How is a polymer broken down? |
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| What happens each time a monomer is added to a polymere? |
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| A water molecule is released |
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| what type of macromolecules are there? |
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| Carbohydrates, lipids protein and nucleic acids |
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| When monomers link to form polymeres through a chemical reaction, what is it called? |
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| What process breaks down some complex ? |
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| IN a hydrolysis reaction what is used to break down a polymere? |
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| What linking bond does water break? |
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| What is the reverse of a condensation reaction? |
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| Can the addition of water break down some complex molecules? |
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| Name two compounds that store a large amount of energy? |
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| Adenosine and Triphosphate |
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| why are the covelent bonds between phosphate groups more unstable than the other bonds in the ATP molecules? |
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| Because the phosphate groups have negative charges and are close together |
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| Are negative charges easier too break? |
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| What happens when the bond between the phosphate groups are broken? |
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| How do inorganic and organic compounds differ? |
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| Inorganic compounds do not have carbon but organic compounds do |
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| How do carbon's bonding properties contribute to the exsistance of a wide variety of biological molecules? |
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| carbons can bond in a number of ways(straight,chains,rings) these structures form the back bone of many different kinds of organic molecules. |
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What role do functional groups play in
the molecules in which they are found? |
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| They influence the characteristics of the molecules they compose and the chemical reactions the molecules undergo |
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| Why is ATP(Adenosine & Triphosphate)referred to as the energy currency in living things? |
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| Because they store a large amount of energy in their overall structure |
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