Chapter 6 Flashcards
Metabolism includes…
Both A and B
The molecule that cells use to temporarily store energy is…
Adenosine triphosphate
Why Can’t cells directly use energy from glucose?
Glucose has too much energy
When a cell uses ATP for energy, the ATP molecule is converted to…
ADP
Why do cells have a continuous supply of ATP?
ADP is recycled to make ATP
How is stored energy released for the cell to use?
ATP reacts with water to form ADP
Nucleic acids such as DNA and RNA store…
Protein
The subunits of which nucleic acids are made of are known as…
Nucleotides
Which part of a nucleotide is different in each of the five kinds of nucleotide found in DNA or RNA?
Nitrogenous base
The two sides of the DNA “ladder” are held together by
Hydrogen bonds
In a DNA molecule, adenine always bonds to…
Thymine
The structure of a DNA molecule is known as a…
Double helix
During DNA replication
The two strands in the DNA molecules are unzipped.
Proteins are made by
Assembling chains of codons
The process of making a strand of RNA that is based on a strand of DNA is known as…
Transcription
