Ultimate AP Biology Vocabulary Review 2023

polar - Molecule with partial charges. Mixes with water. nonpolar - No partial charges. Do not mix with water. electronegativity - Attraction of an atom for electrons in a covalent bond. cohesion - Water molecules sticking to each other. adhesion - Water molecules sticking to other surfaces. solute - Something dissolved in a solution. solvent - Dissolving agent of a solution. isomers - Same atoms but different arrangement. structural isomers - Differ in arrangement of atoms. geometric isomer - Differ in arrangement around a double bond. enantiomers - Structures that are like a mirror-image. alpha glucose - Monomer for starch and glycogen. beta glucose - Monomer for cellulose and chitin. cellulose - Carbohydrate component of plant cell walls. starch - Storage polysaccharide of plants. glycogen - Extremely branched polymer of glucose. chitin - Polysaccharide found in arthropod exoskeletons and fungal cell walls. ose - Suffix of a sugar. triacylglycerol - Glycerol and three fatty acids. steroids - Made of four rings of carbon. cholesterol - Steroid common in cell membranes, also in many hormones. peptide bond - Bonds that connect amino acids. Fredrick Sanger - Determined amino acid sequence of