Key Terms Unit 1 Chapter 1

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Organic
Molecules that have a high proportion of carbon atoms
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Inorganic
Molecules or ions that have no more than one carbon atom
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Dipole
A polar molecule, with a positive and a negative charge separated by a very small distance
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Hydrogen bond
The weak attractive force between a hydrogen atom with a partial positive charge and an atom with a partial negative charge, usually oxygen or nitrogen
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Monosaccharide
An individual sugar molecule
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Isomers
Molecules with the same chemical formulae but different arrangement of atoms
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Polymer
A large molecule comprising repeated units, monomers, bonded together
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Ester Bond
An oxygen atom joining two atoms one of which is a carbon atom attached by a double bond to another oxygen atom
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Peptide bond
The chemical bond formed by a condensation reaction between the amino group of one amino acid and the carboxyl group of another
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Molecules or ions that have no more than one carbon atom

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Inorganic

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A polar molecule, with a positive and a negative charge separated by a very small distance

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The weak attractive force between a hydrogen atom with a partial positive charge and an atom with a partial negative charge, usually oxygen or nitrogen

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An individual sugar molecule

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