3.2-3.3 Study Guide

Question 1

Protein: Monomer and Polymer names

Answer 1

Amino Acid and Protein

Question 2

Carbohydrate: Monomer and Polymer names

Answer 2

Monosaccharide and Polysaccharide

Question 3

Lipid: Monomer and Polymer names

Answer 3

Fatty Acids and Triglycerides

Question 4

Nucleic Acid: Monomer and Polymer names

Answer 4

Nucleotides and DNA and RNA

Question 5

Protein function?

Answer 5

Structure, cell death and repair

Question 6

Carbohydrate function?

Answer 6

Storage of sugars

Question 7

Lipid function?

Answer 7

Moving and storing energy and making bodily chemicals

Question 8

Nucleic Acid function?

Answer 8

Expression of genomic information

Question 9

What is protein denaturation?

Answer 9

The process of proteins unfolding

Question 10

Explain the four levels of protein structure.

Answer 10

Primary: Amino Acids linked to form polypeptide chain
Secondary: Chains held together by hydrogen bonds forming the backbone
Tertiary: The three dimensional polypeptide chains all together
Quaternary: Several tertiary structures in one place balled up together

Question 11

What would happen if you replaced a hydrophobic amino with a hydrophilic one? What would happen to the structure?

Answer 11

The structure would fold differently and the protein would have a slightly different effect, having different polarity then it did before.

Question 12

What is cysteine?

Answer 12

An important structural component of a protein with a sulfhydryl group on the end