Thursday, October 13, 2011

AP bio: Biochemistry Wordle

link to biochemistry wordle: http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/4207814/Untitled

I made organic chemistry the largest word because different chemical levels greatly affect the internal conditions of living organims.  One compound that is essential to life is water.  Its electronegativity causes polarity which causes hydrogen bonding which is responsible for the various properties of water (cohesion, adhesion, high specific heat).  These properties, in turn, allow water to be the universal solvent (the substance that can dissolve nearly every element/compound) and also allows life to exist on earth.  The properties of organic molecules are determined by their functional groups such as the hydroxyl group, the carbonyl group, the carboxyl group, the amino group, the sulfhydryl group, and the phosphate group.  These organic molecules can be joined together to form macromolecules, which includes carbohydrates (made of monosaccharides), lipids (made of fatty acids), proteins (made of amino acids), and nucleic acid (made of nucleotides).

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