HS Bio.5 - Molecules of Life Vocab

H₂O, two hydrogens and one oxygen. The universal solvent required for all of life.

• Water

• Hydrophilic

• Hydrophobic

• Lipid

Water rising in a small space against the pull of gravity

• capillary action

• universal solvent

• hydrogen bond

• hydrophillic

the ability water has to dissolve many substances

• universal solvent

• hydrophillic

• hydrogen bond

• polar molecule

water loving

• hydrophillic

• hydrophobic

• polar molecule

• monomer

water hating

• hydrophobic

• hydrophillic

• universal solvent

• polar molecule

a molecule that has one positive end and one negative end

• polar molecule

• monomer

• polymer

• hydrogen bond

molecules important for life based on the element carbon

• organic molecules

• hydrogen bond

• water

• monomer

large molecules important for life

• macromolecules

• micromolecules

• water

• monomers

the building block of a polymer or macromolecule

• monomer

• polymer

• hydrogen bond

• macromolecule

many monomers put together to make a large molecule

• polymer

• monomer

• hydrogen bond

• polar molecule