Key Terms
- Benedicts Test
- a laboratory test used to detect the presence of simple carbohydrates
- Biuret Test
- a laboratory test used to detect peptide bonds, and thus proteins
- monomers
- smallest unit of larger molecules that are polymers
- negative control
- a group in an experiment that receives a treatment that is expected to have no effect, to be used as a standard of comparison with future results.
- paper spot test
- a simple laboratory test for the presence of lipids
- polymers
- chain of monomers that covalent bonds link; polymerization is the process of polymer formation from monomers by condensation
- positive control
- a group in an experiment that receives a treatment, to provide an example of what a positive result of that treatment would look like, to be used as a standard of comparison with future results.
