Macromolecules Word Search
This macromolecules puzzle covers the four big molecules of life, carbohydrate, lipid, protein and nucleic acid, with the monomer and polymer that build them: glucose, amino acid, fatty acid and nucleotide.
Three of the four are chains built from smaller units. Glucose links into starch in plants, glycogen in animals and cellulose in plant cell walls; cellulose is the most common organic compound on earth, yet humans cannot digest it. Twenty kinds of amino acid fold into every protein, and four kinds of nucleotide spell out DNA and RNA. Joining two units gives off a molecule of water, and hydrolysis adds one back to split them.
Frederick Sanger worked out the full amino acid order of insulin in 1955, the first protein ever sequenced, and won a Nobel Prize for it. Shape matters as much as order. Heat an egg white and its proteins denature: the chains unfold and tangle, the clear liquid turns white, and no amount of cooling will turn it back. Keratin in hair and collagen in skin are proteins built to hold their shape.
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
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- Adenine
- Amino Acid
- Carbohydrate
- Carbon
- Cellulose
- Chitin
- Cholesterol
- Collagen
- Cytosine
- Denature
- DNA
- Enzyme
- Fatty Acid
- Fructose
- Glucose
- Glycerol
- Glycogen
- Guanine
- Hemoglobin
- Hydrolysis
- Insulin
- Keratin
- Lactose
- Lipid
- Monomer
- Nitrogen
- Nucleic Acid
- Nucleotide
- Oil
- Peptide
- Polymer
- Protein
- RNA
- Saturated
- Starch
- Steroid
- Sucrose
- Thymine
- Triglyceride
- Wax