Honors 6.4 Assessment
1. What is the name of the element that is found in all living things?
2. How many bonds can this element’s atom form with other atoms?
3. What kind of bond does it form?
4. What is the name of the type of chemistry that studies only this element?
5. What is a macromolecule?
6. What are some other names that are used in place of macromolecules?
7. What is a monomer?
8. What is polymerization?
9. What are the four major categories of macromolecules?
10. What monomer makes up the macromolecule carbohydrate?
11. What elements make up a carbohydrate?
12. What is it called when you have 2 monosaccharides together? What about 100?
13. One of the functions of a carbohydrate is to store energy. What are the two types of polysaccharides discussed that
store energy?
14. Which types of polysaccharides provide structural support to organisms?
15. What is the formula for a carbohydrate?
16. Give some examples of lipids.
17. What is the monomer for a lipid.
18. Lipids are nonpolar. What does that mean?
19. What is a phospholipid and where can it be found?
20. What are the elements found in lipids?
21. What is a saturated fat?
22. What is an unsaturated fat?
23. What is a polyunsaturated fat?
24. What are the monomers for the macromolecule protein?
25. What are the elements found in proteins?
26. What are the components of an amino acid? There are 5.
27. How many different amino acids are there?
28. Why do proteins have so many more functions than any of the other macromolecules?
35. What are the two levels of structure I mentioned in class?
36. What type of protein is responsible for speeding up a reaction? How does it speed up the reaction?
37. What is the molecule hemoglobin responsible for doing under protein function?
38. What is the monomer for a nucleic acid?
39. What are the three components for the monomer of nucleic acids?
40. What are the three examples of nucleic acids?
41. What is the function for DNA?
42. What is the function for RNA?
43. What is the function for ATP?