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any of a large group of organic compounds occurring in foods and living tissues and including sugars, starch, and cellulose.

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carbohydrate

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any of a class of organic compounds that are fatty acids or their derivatives and are insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents.

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lipid

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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.

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proteins

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a complex organic substance present in living cells, especially DNA or RNA, whose molecules consist of many nucleotides linked in a long chain.

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Nucleic acid

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a part or aspect of something abstract, especially one that is essential or characteristic.

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elements

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a thing that is composed of two or more separate elements

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compounds

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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.

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organic compounds

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an atom or molecule with a net electric charge due to the loss or gain of one or more electrons.

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ions

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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.

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isotopes

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a thing used to tie something or to fasten things together.

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chemical bonds

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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.

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chemical reactions

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a substance produced by a living organism which acts as a catalyst to bring about a specific biochemical reaction.

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enzyme

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the chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.

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metabolism

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the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological processes.

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homeostasis

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a liquid mixture in which the minor component (the solute) is uniformly distributed within the major component

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solution

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a molecule or other entity that can donate a proton or accept an electron pair in reactions

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acid

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a conceptual structure or entity on which something draws or depends.

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base

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A measure of acidity or alkalinity of water soluble substances

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ph scale

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the mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass units.

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Atomic mass

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the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom, which determines the chemical properties of an element and its place in the periodic table.

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Atomic Number

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protons, neutron, and electrons.

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Parts of an atom

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is a process where one or more substances are altered into one or more new and different substances.

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chemical reaction

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form of matter is altered but one substance is not transformed into another.

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physical change

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any of several species of the same chemical element with different masses whose nuclei are unstable and dissipate excess energy by spontaneously emitting radiation in the form of alpha, beta, and gamma rays.

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radioactive isotopes

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has four measurable properties that are commonly used to characterize its chemistry.

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water