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What is an element?
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Any substance that can not be broken down into simpler substances.
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What is a compound?
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When two or more elements combine chemically, they form a compound.
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What are some important organic and inorganic compounds found in?
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Some important groups of organic compounds found in living things are carbs, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids.
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What is a carbohydrate?
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An energy-rich organic compound made of the elements carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
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What are Lipids?
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Fats, oils and waxes are examples.
They are energy-rich organic compounds made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. They contain even more energy than carbs. |
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What are proteins?
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Large organic molecules made of carbon , hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sometimes sulfur.
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What are Amino Acids?
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Protein molecules make them up.
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Enzyme
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A type of protein that speeds up a chemical reaction in a living thing. Without them, many checical reactions that are necessary for life would either take too long or not occur at all. For example, enzymes in your saliva speed up the digestion of food by breaking down starches into sugars in your mouth.
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Nucleic Acids
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Very long organic molecules made of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and phosphorus. They contain the instructions that cells need to carry out all the functions of life.
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Dna
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Genetic material that carries info about an organism that is passed though a perent to their off spring.
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ATOM
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SMALLEST PEICE OF ELEMENT USUALLY HOOKED TO OTHER ATOMS |
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ELEMENT
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1 COLOR
PURE SUBSTANCE CANT BE BROKEN DOWN INTO THER THINGS ORGANIZED ON THE PERIODIC TABLE |
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MOLECULES
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MULTIPLE SHERES
2 OR MORE ATOMS COMBINED MAKE UP COMPOUNDS |
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COMPOUND
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2 DIFFRENT COLORS
2 OR MORE DIFFRERNT ATOMS COMBINED ORGANIC VS. INORGANIC |
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ATOM
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VERY SMALL INVISSABLE, SMALLEST OF ALL MATTER, HAS ALL OF THE PROPERTY OF AN ELEMENT, EX. HYDROGEN AND NITROGEN
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