Biology: Chapter 3 Vocabulary

Question	Answer
Chitin- polysaccharide	Strenghthens external skeletons and other hard body parts of many animals and fungi.
glycogen- polysaccharide	Muscle cells tap this compoundsfor a burst of energy.
Lactose- disaccharide	Sugar present in milk; fromed from glucose and galactose.
Ribose- monosaccharide	Five-carbon sugar occuring in RNA.
cellulose- polysaccharide	Structural material of plant cell walls; formed from glucose chain.
Glucose- monosaccharide	Used by cell as an energy source, a structural unit, or a precursor for other organic compounds.
deoxyribose- monosaccharide	Five-carbon sugar occuring in DNA.
Sucrose-disaccharide	Most plentiful sugar in nature; formed glucose and fructose.
Electron transfer	An electron splits away from one molecule is donate to another.
Condesation	Covalent conding between two small molecules results in a longer molecules.
Cleavage	A molecule splits into two smaller ones.
Rearrangement	One type of organic compound is converted to another by a juggling bonds.
condensation reaction	Covalent bonding between two small molecules results in a larger molecules.
enzymes	They are proteins that make substances react faster then they would on their own.
functional groups	They are lone atoms or clusters of atoms that are covalently bonded to carbon atoms of organic compound.
organic compounds	They have a precise number of atoms arranged in specific ways. The contain carbon and one hydrogen atom.

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