Biology Quiz

negatively charged particle; located outside the atomic nucleus

• electron

• cohesion

• reactant

• solution

energy needed to get a reaction started

• activation energy

• suspension

• covalent bond

• chemical bond

substance in which a solute is dissolved to form a solution

• solute

• compound

• catalyst

• solvent

macromolecule containing hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, and phosphorus

• ionic bond

• nucleic acid

• lipid

• nucleotide

a slight attraction that develops between the oppositely charged regions of nearby molecules

• van der Waals forces

• chemical reaction

• ribonucleic acid (RNA)

• amino acid

protein that acts as a biological catalyst

• solute

• polymer

• enzyme

• element

mixture of two or more substances in which the molecules of the substances are evenly distributed

• nucleotide

• adhesion

• solution

• suspension

smallest unit of most compounds

• substrate

• molecule

• cohesion

• monomer

nucleic acid that contains the sugar deoxyribose

• polysaccharide

• product

• activation energy

• deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)

substance consisting entirely of one type of atom

• catalyst

• element

• polymer

• solvent