Question: In the pharmaceutical industry, two enantiomers of a drug …

Answer: may not be equally effective.

Question: The chemical group that is involved in regulating DNA is the

Answer: methyl group (-CH3)

Question: Enantiomers are

Answer: Mirror images

Question: In Miller’s 1953 laboratory experiment, __________.

Answer: abiotic compounds cycled through the apparatus and were sampled for organic compounds

Question: Life’s most important Molecules

Answer: Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Hydrogen, Phosphate, and sulfer

Question: The chemical group that acts as an acid is the __________.

Answer: Carboxyl Group (-COOH)

Question: Inorganic carbon such as CO2 differs from organic carbon because __________.

Answer: organic carbon always has a hydrogen atom covalently attached to it

Question: Although the structures of the functional groups that are most important to life vary, they share one thing in common: They __________.

Answer: all are hydrophilic and increase the organic compound’s water solubility

Question: Structural isomers have __________.

Answer: The same formula, but different covalent arrangements

Question: When three phosphate groups are covalently attached to adenosine, __________ is formed.

Answer: ATP