Exam 2: Some Basic Chemistry

Sodium bicarbonate is a ____________________ base that will only slightly ____________________ pH.

The mineral necessary for blood clotting is ____________________.

The name for the water around cells is ____________________.

Two polysaccharides made of glucose are ____________________ and ____________________.

Which statement is NOT true of ions?

The undigested part of food that promotes peristalsis is:

The purpose of cell respiration is to produce ____________________ from ____________________.

A synonym for dissociation is:

Which of the following statements are true of the active site theory of enzyme functioning? (Read carefully and select all of the correct statements.)

Amino acids are the subunits of ____________________.

A large organic molecule made of the elements C, H, O, N, and S would most likely be a:

Two minerals that provide strength in bones are ____________________ and ____________________.

For the elements sodium and sulfur respectively, the chemical symbols are ____________________ and ____________________.

A reaction in which the bonds of a large molecule are broken is called a:

For cobalt, copper, calcium, and carbon, the correct chemical symbols, in order, are:

A disaccharide such as sucrose is used by the body for ____________________.

On the pH scale, acids are indicated by numbers ____________________.

A bond in which electrons are shared between two atoms is a(n) ____________________ bond.

Biologically useful energy is released in cell respiration in the form of:

The steroid molecule that is part of cell membranes is ____________________.