Quiz: Organic Molecules

1. Many organic molecules are made of repeating units of individual

molecules called __________.

 monomers
 polymers
 carbon rings

2. Organic compounds, such as carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic

acids, within the human body are often referred to as __________.

 complex molecules
 macromolecules
 polymers

3. Starch is made of numerous repeating units of glucose. All the glucose

molecules are bonded together forming a large molecule of starch. Each
individual glucose unit is called a __________.

 monomer
 polymer
 polysaccharide

4. If a carbohydrate had this basic formula (C nH 2nO n), the overall

molecular formula would be (if n = 8) __________.

 CH 16O
 CH 2O
 C 8H 16O 8

5. If two organic molecules bond together forming a carbon to oxygen to

carbon bond, they form an ester bond. If two organic molecules bond
together forming a carbon to nitrogen to carbon bond, they form a peptide
bond. What type of bond is formed when two carbohydrates bond
together?

 saccharide
 peptide
 ester
 6. Which of the following is a dissacharide?

 fructose
 glucose
 sucrose

7. Which of the following is the stored form of a polysaccharide in humans in

liver and muscle cells?

 glucose
 starch
 glycogen

8. Which of the following consists of at least one double bond between two
carbon atoms?

 triglycerides
 saturated fatty acids
 unsaturated fatty acids

9. All fatty acids have a __________ group at the end of the molecule nearest
the glycerol molecule to which it is bonded.

 covalent
 carboxyl
 saturated

10. A saturated fatty acid has maximum number of __________ atoms in its
chain.

 oxygen
 hydrogen
 carbon

11. Phospholipids and triglycerides have a commonality between them. Which

of the following is one of the commonalities?

 both have fatty acids bonded to a glycerol molecule

 both have saturated fatty acid chains
 both have a double bond between two carbon atoms within the fatty acid chains
 12. A molecule of fat has __________ fatty acid chains and a phospholipid has
__________ fatty acid chains.

 2; 3
 3; 2
 3; 3

13. Cholesterol is a __________ molecule.

 protein
 steroid
 carbohydrate

14. Which of the following is a characteristic of all lipids?

 fatty acid chains

 nitrogen
 insoluble in waterinsoluble in water

15. Which of the following describes the main structural backbone

characteristic of all steroids?

 4 six‐carbon rings
 3 six‐carbon rings and 1 five‐carbon ring
 four rings bonded to fatty acids

16. All proteins are made of repeating units of __________.

 glucose
 amino acids
 nitrogen

17. The amino acids in a protein are bonded together, and the glucose units in
a carbohydrate are bonded together. What kind of bonds do proteins and
carbohydrates have?

 hydrogen
 covalent
 ionic
 18. Amino acids are bonded together in different sequences to create
thousands of different proteins in the body. How many different amino
acids are used to create the hundreds of thousands of protein molecules
manufactured in the body?

 twenty
 hundreds
 thousands

19. Which of the following do all amino acids have in common?

 a sulfur atom
 the same “R” group
 an amine group and a carboxyl group

20. Which of the following is not a part of the nucleotides that make up DNA?

 nitrogenous base
 sugar unit
 amino group

21. Adenine, for example, is the __________ of a DNA molecule.

 nitrogen base
 polymer
 sugar

22. What type of bond is formed between adenine and thymine and between
cytosine and guanine?

 ionic
 hydrogen
 covalent

23. What is the name of the sugar molecule that makes up DNA?

 ribose
 deoxyribose
 uracil

24. RNA consists of __________ instead of __________.

 uracil; thymine
 adenine; thymine
 guanine; cytosine