QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. LATEST VERIFIED UPDATE.
What are the four big molecules? Correct Answer: - Lipids, proteins, carbohydrates, nucleic acids
are important to structure and function in the cell? Correct Answer: - Macromolecules
What is the most abundant biological molecule? Correct Answer: - Water
What plays a large role in determining how macromolecules assemble to form structures in the cell?
Correct Answer: - Aqueous environment
Water is Correct Answer: - Polar
What is the strongest bond? Correct Answer: - Covalent
What does water interact with? Correct Answer: - Itself and other polar molecules and ions
Water does not interact with what? Correct Answer: - Non polar molecules
A non-polar molecule is also considered? Correct Answer: - Hydrophobic
A polar molecule is also considered? Correct Answer: - Hydrophilic
Carbon and Hydrogen form what type of bonds? Correct Answer: - Non-polar covalent bonds
Hydrocarbons are what and what? Correct Answer: - Hydrocarbons and hydrophobic
What is an amphipathic molecule? Correct Answer: - Have both hydrophobic and hydrophilic
properties
What is an example of amphipathic molecule? Correct Answer: - Soap, phospholipid (found in
membranes)
Autoclave time and temperature Correct Answer: - 121 degrees for 15 minutes
What are organic chemicals? Correct Answer: - Compounds containing both C and H atoms
What is the fundamental element of life? Correct Answer: - Carbon
Carbon contains how many electrons in its outermost orbital? Correct Answer: - 4
What kinds of bonds can Carbon for? Correct Answer: - Single, double or triple covalent bonds
What kind of shapes can Carbon take? Correct Answer: - Linear, branched, ringed
Carbohydrates usually take the form of what shapes? Correct Answer: - Linear and branched
Carbon can form how many bonds? Correct Answer: - 4
Types of carbohydrates? Correct Answer: - Monosaccharides, disaccharides and polysaccharides
Types of lipids? Correct Answer: - Triglycerides (fats and oils), phospholipids and steroids