harry Flashcards
any of a large group of organic compounds occurring in foods and living tissues and including sugars, starch, and cellulose.
carbohydrate
any of a class of organic compounds that are fatty acids or their derivatives and are insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents.
lipid
any of a class of nitrogenous organic compounds that consist of large molecules composed of one or more long chains of amino acids and are an essential part of all living organisms, especially as structural components of body tissues such as muscle, hair, collagen, etc., and as enzymes and antibodies.
proteins
a complex organic substance present in living cells, especially DNA or RNA, whose molecules consist of many nucleotides linked in a long chain.
Nucleic acid
a part or aspect of something abstract, especially one that is essential or characteristic.
elements
a thing that is composed of two or more separate elements
compounds
any member of a large class of gaseous, liquid, or solid chemical compounds whose molecules contain carbon. Carbonates, simple oxides of carbon, and cyanide molecules do have carbon, but they are not regarded as organic.
organic compounds
an atom or molecule with a net electric charge due to the loss or gain of one or more electrons.
ions
each of two or more forms of the same element that contain equal numbers of protons but different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei, and hence differ in relative atomic mass but not in chemical properties; in particular, a radioactive form of an element.
isotopes
a thing used to tie something or to fasten things together.
chemical bonds
a process that involves rearrangement of the molecular or ionic structure of a substance, as opposed to a change in physical form or a nuclear reaction.
chemical reactions
a substance produced by a living organism which acts as a catalyst to bring about a specific biochemical reaction.
enzyme
the chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.
metabolism
the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological processes.
homeostasis
a liquid mixture in which the minor component (the solute) is uniformly distributed within the major component
solution