Unit 1: Chemistry of Life (part 1)

All 17 questions and answers

1. Small, repeating chemical subunits that serve as building blocks?

   Answer: Monomers

2. Long molecules consisting of many similar building blocks linked by covalent bonds?

   Answer: Polymers

3. Chemical reaction that bonds monomers together by losing a water molecule?

   Answer: Dehydration Synthesis

4. Chemical reaction that breaks bonds between monomers by adding water?

   Answer: Hydrolysis

5. The heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 g of a substance by 1 °C?

   Answer: Specific Heat

6. Attraction between water molecules due to hydrogen bonding (causes surface tension)?

   Answer: Cohesion

7. The cooling effect on a surface when liquid evaporates?

   Answer: Evaporative Cooling

8. Monomer of nucleic acids?

   Answer: Nucleotide

9. Molecules built on a carbon skeleton, usually with C–H bonds?

   Answer: Organic Compounds

10. Ecological benefit of ice floating; prevents ponds from freezing solid?

    Answer: Surface Insulation

11. Loss of protein shape (and function) due to heat or pH changes?

    Answer: Denaturation

12. Elements found in all four types of macromolecules?

    Answer: CHO

13. The "backbone" element that forms 4 covalent bonds?

    Answer: Carbon

14. Monomer of carbohydrates (e.g., glucose)?

    Answer: Monosaccharide

15. Storage polysaccharide in plants?

    Answer: Starch

16. Storage polysaccharide in animals (stored in liver/muscles)?

    Answer: Glycogen

17. Structural polysaccharide found in plant cell walls?

    Answer: Cellulose

Play it as a class game

Play this set opens it in splycr, where you can host it for your class straight away. Hosting needs no account: put the room code on the projector, and students join from a phone with the code and their first name. Each question plays as multiple choice, and the three wrong options are other answers from the same set.

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• Racer
• Kaboom
• Sabotage
• Throne
• Splycr
• Cryo
• Outbreak