Biology Crossword

A giant molecule formed by the joining of smaller molecules, usually by a dehydration reaction.
An extensively branched glucose storage polysaccharide found in the liver and muscle of animals.
Any group of large biological molecules, including fats, phospholipids, and steroids, that mix poorly with water.
The subunit that serves as the building block of a polymer.
A structural polysaccharide of plant cell walls, consisting of glucose monomers joined by glycosidic linkages.
Any of several membrane-enclosed structures with specialized function, suspended in the cytosol of eukaryotic cells.
The contents of the cell bounded by the plasma membrane; in eukaryotes, the portion exclusive of the nucleus.
A membranous sac that helps move excess water out of certain freshwater protists
An atom's central core, containing protons and neutrons.
The disruption of a cell and separation of its parts by centrifugation at successively higher speeds.
A stack of membrane-bounded thylakoids in the chloroplast.
The complete or partial loss of electrons from a substance involved in a redox reaction.
An iron-containing protein that is a component of electron transport chains in the mitochondria and chloroplasts of eukaryotic cells and the plasma of prokaryotic cells.
The electron donor in a redox reaction.
A series of reactions that ultimately splits glucose into pyruvate.
A catabolic process that makes a limited amount of ATP from glucose without an electron transport chain and that produces a characteristic end product, such as ethyl alcohol or lactic acid.
A metabolic sequence that breaks fatty acids down to two carbon fragments that enter the citric acid cycle as acetyl CoA.