2.3 Carbon Compounds

What makes carbon unique to living things?

• It can bond with many elements to form the molecules of life

• It is dense

• It is water soluble

• It only has 1 electron

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What kind of bonds can carbon form?

• single

• double

• triple

• single, double, or triple

_________ are joined together in a process called polymerization to build ________.

• Monomers, polymers

• Polymers, monomers

Compounds made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms, usually in a ratio of 1:2:1 that living things use as a primary energy source.

• lipids

• carbohydrates

• proteins

• nucleic acids

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Carbon based molecules can be ring shaped.

• True

• False

Many of the organic compounds in living cells are _____________, or “giant molecules,” made from thousands or even hundreds of thousands of smaller molecules.

• monomers

• macromolecules

• hydrophobes

• covalent bonds

Most macromolecules are formed by a process known as _____________, in which large compounds are built by joining smaller ones together.

• protein synthesis

• recombination

• monomerization

• polymerization

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The four major groups of macromolecules found in living things are ___________________________________________.

• starches, waxes, DNA, and amino acids

• steroids, carbohydrates, waxes, and water

• solid, liquid, gas, plasma

• carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, and proteins

The picture is a representation of:

• polymers forming monomers through polymerization

• monomers forming polymers through polymerization

• water forming hydrogen bonds

• proteins forming amino acids

Pictured is:

• a lipid molecule

• a glucose molecule

• an amino acid molecule

• a nucleotide