Characteristics of Life

Any organic molecules produced by a living organism that is essential for a biological process like growth, development, and metabolism

Biomedicule

An chemical element that is essential to life

Carbon

A source of quick energy

Carbohydrate

A complex molecule made of long chains of amino acids that performs vital work in every living cell. Needed to help gain muscle

Protein

An organic molecule that acts as the basic building block of proteins

Amico Acid

A fatty, oily, or waxy organic compound that does not dissolve in water

Lipids

A large, naturally occurring biomedicule that store and transmit genetic information in all living cells and viruses

Nucleic Acid

A simple sugar that is the primary source of energy for the body’s cells

Glucose

A small, simple molecule that can chemically bond with other similar or identical molecules to form a long chain or network that is called a polymer

Monomer

A very large molecule made of many smaller, identical repeating units called monomers chained together

Polymer

An organic molecule that serves as the basic building block and structural unit of nucleic acids like DNA and RNA

Nucleotide