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| hydrocarbon | an organic compound that contains only carbon and hydrogen | |
| cracking | the controlled process by which hydrocarbons are broken down or rearranged into smaller, more useful molecules | |
| polymer | a very large molecule formed by the colvalent bonding of repeating small molecules, known as monomers | |
| monomer | a simple molecule that repeatedly combines to form a monomer | |
| alcohol | an organic compound having a -OH group | |
| amino acid | an organic compound having amino and carboxylic acid groups in the same molecule | |
| aromatic compound | a name originally given to the arenes because many of them have pleasent odors | |
| carbohydrate | the name given to monomers and polymers of alehydes and ketones that have numerous hydroxyl groups | |
| enzyme | proteins that act as biological catalysts | |
| lipid | a member of a large class of water in soluble organic compounds | |
| nucleic acid | a polymer of ribonucleotides or deoxyribonucleotides found promarily in cell nuclei | |
| nucleotide | one of the monomers that makes op DNA and RNA | |
| protein | any peptide with more than 100 amino acids | |
| saponification | the process used to make soap | |
| saturated compounds | an organic compounds in which all carbon atoms are joined by single covalent bonds | |
| unsaturated compounds | an organic compound with one or more double or triple carbon-carbon bonds |
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