Hey, everybody, welcome back to school.
I thought I would go ahead and post your first window pane word list for the semester and give you a few reminders about supplies you'll need.
First the supplies:
two notebooks- one should be a composition notebook that you will hand in to me when your "window panes" are due. It should be like one of these:
The second notebook can look like whatever you like :).
You need colored pencils (not markers of any kind) to do your drawings in your notebooks.
You need regular pencils
You need something to keep handouts in.
First word list for window panes ( organic compounds/ bio-molecules / macro-molecules).
window panes for Organic compounds:
1. Carbohydrates- organic compounds made up of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms whose primary job is to provide a quick source of energy to the organisms that consume it.
2. Lipids- organic compounds made up of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. It has three main purposes in organisms: provides storage for energy, builds membranes ( thin covering around all of your cells)and is a form of insulation (blubber in a whale).
3. Proteins- organic compounds made up of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and sometimes sulfur atoms. The main types of proteins are: tissues in the body, hormones and enzymes.
4. Nucleic acids- organic compounds made up of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and phosphorous. The main job of these compounds is to carry our genetic code which determines everything made in our bodies. Examples are DNA ( deoxyribonucleic acid) and RNA ( ribonucleic acid)
5.Hormone- a chemical signal (made out of proteins) that travels through our bloodstream and lets other parts of our body know how to grow or what to make. (ex. progesterone- a hormone that is active in pregnant women and helps to prepare the mom's body to hold and care for a baby).
6. Enzyme- a type of protein that is responsible for helping to speed up chemical reactions in our body. In chemistry, or in reactions outside of our body, this is called a catalyst.
7. monosaccharide- a simple sugar (carbohydrate), this is a sugar composed of only one molecule- glucose is a monsaccharide. (mono=one)
8. polysaccharide- a type of sugar made up of a long chain of single sugars. (poly = many)
9. cellulose- a type of sugar found only in plants, it helps to build outer coverings of vegetation ( the yellow shell of each little piece of corn is made of this). we can not digest cellulose.
10. Starch- a complex carbohydrate made up of a long chain of glucose molecules attached to each other. This is a form of stored energy in plants.
11.Insulin- a hormone made in the pancreas that helps regulate the amount of sugar in your body.
12.Hemoglobin- a protein in your blood, it carries iron and oxygen ( you can normally carry 4 molecules of oxygen on each cell).
13. Glycogen- stored glucose (short term) in animals, it is stored in our liver.
14.monomer- a molecule that exists by itself - only one molecule of something = glucose
15. polymer- a molecule that exists as a long chain of monomers connected by bonds= starch
16. Organic compounds- compounds that have the element carbon as the central/ essential connection.
17. atom- smallest unit of an element.
18. nucleotide- smallest functional unit (or piece) of a nucleic acid. It consists of a sugar, a phosphate and a nitrogen base.
19. double helix- the shape of a DNA molecule, it resembles a twisted ladder.
20. single helix- the shape of a RNA molecule, it resembles half of a twisted ladder
