A few days ago
Rina

Studying Tips??? I’m desperate!!!?

I have this Biology test tomorrow and I’m having trouble remembering some of the definitions for the terms. Is there a way that can help me remember?

Terms are like:

-lipid

-protein

-carbohydrate

-monosaccharide

-disaccharide

-polysaccharide

-monomer

-polymer

-amino acid

-peptide bond

-enzyme

-DNA

-RNA

-nucleotide

-macromolecule

-hydrolysis reaction

etc……….There are quite a few more……….

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A few days ago
Sarah N

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It helps if you know the Latin or Greek roots of the words. For example, “macromolecule” is a combination of “macro” (meaning “big”) and “molecule”, so a macromolecule is a molecule that’s big compared to other molecules. “Monomer” and “polymer”: “mono” means one and “poly” means many, a polymer is a molecule put together of many pieces.

Words with similar Latin or Greek roots also have similar meanings. “Lipid,” for example, has the same root as “liposuction”, which is a surgery that sucks fat from people’s bodies. Lipo… suction. Sucking of lipids (fats). “Polysaccharide”: “poly” means many, “saccharide” sounds like “saccharin”, a sugar substitute. The root “-sacchar-” means sugar. So a polysaccharide is a sugar made up of many sugar molecules.

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A few days ago
Laura G.
Do you anything about roots, prefixes, and suffixes?

Like monosaccharide.

Mono- means one, and a monosaccaride consists of one sugar, so its simple, and easy to break down.

Get it?

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