Biochemistry Overview

What is the basic unit of carbohydrates?

Which type of chemical bond involves the donation or acceptance of electrons?

What best describes stereoisomers?

Which property makes carbohydrates like polysaccharides nonsoluble and tasteless?

What does stereochemistry primarily study?

What characterizes chiral centers in organic molecules?

What type of carbohydrate cannot be broken down into simpler sugars?

Which of the following statements about biomolecules is correct?

Which type of sugar contains more than 10 monosaccharides?

What functional group characterizes aldoses?

Which of the following sugars is found in milk?

What is the primary function of triglycerides in the body?

Which component is described as having a hydrophilic head and a hydrophobic tail?

Which of the following is NOT a functional group found in simple sugars?

Which type of lipid is primarily involved in forming cell membranes?

Some sugars can convert into glucose in the body. Which of the following is one of them?

Which structure refers to a long chain of carbon atoms with attached functional groups?

What type of bond links amino acids together to form proteins?

What are nucleic acids primarily composed of?

What is the most abundant molecule in the human body, comprising about 65% of its weight?

What characteristic of water molecules contributes to its polarity?

Which process is primarily controlled by mRNA during protein synthesis?

Which type of fatty acid contains one or more double bonds in its hydrocarbon chain?

Which component of nucleotides distinguishes different nucleic acids?

What property of water enables it to dissolve most biomolecules?

What causes the higher melting and boiling points of water compared to other similar molecules?

Which of the following statements is true about the electronegativity of oxygen in water?

What is the term for the energy required to break a chemical bond, such as those in water?

How does water interact with sodium chloride (NaCl) when dissolved?

What characteristic of water makes it 'water-hating'?

What is the significance of the partial positive charge in water molecules?

What does the term 'hydrophilic' refer to regarding substances in water?

What characterizes a supersaturated solution?

Which factor does NOT affect the rate of solubility?

What is the primary method for separating a mixture using differences in boiling points?

In a closed system, what is exchanged?

What does the term 'diluted solvent' refer to?

Which statement about polar solvents is correct?

What describes a closed system in thermodynamics?

Which process involves separating substances by particle size?

What is the first law of thermodynamics about energy?

What does the second law of thermodynamics state about entropy?

At absolute zero, what is the entropy of a perfect solid?

What does a higher enthalpy indicate about a system at constant pressure?

What is Gibbs free energy used to measure?

What indicates that a reaction is non-spontaneous in terms of Gibbs free energy?

How does the freedom of movement change when a solid substance turns into a liquid?

What happens to the Gibbs free energy at equilibrium?