Macromolecules Vocabulary

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A macromolecule found in food that includes sugars, starches and celluloses that helps to build cell walls, gives energy to animals and stores energy in plants.

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Carbohydrates

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These macromolecules are used to store long term energy, waterproof, make up the cell membrane and communicate within the body.

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Lipids

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A macromolecule that is used to build cell structures, fibers, and muscle. It also makes enzymes which are proteins that help reactions take place in the body.

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Proteins

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Macromolecules containing hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, and phosphorus that make up DNA and RNA

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Nucleic Acids

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A single molecule of a carbohydrate

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Monomer

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Complex structure made of monomers

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Polymer

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Large molecules that come from our food; used to build the body, create energy and provide us with nutrients we need to survive

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Macromolecules

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A molecule that fits into the active site of the enzyme. Can be called a reactant.

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substrate

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Made up of sub-units of fatty acids and used for structure and stored energy. Examples are fats, oils, and waxes.

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lipids

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a nucleic acid that carries genetic material, present in all cellular organisms

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DNA

(Deoxyribonucleic Acid)