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A disaccharide is formed when two monosaccharides bond together, by what reaction and what is the bond?

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A condensation reaction occurs (water molecule eliminated) to form a glycosidic bond.

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What is a long chain of monosaccharides called and how?

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A polysaccharide which is formed by lots of condensation reactions, held together by glycosidic bonds.

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What is a glycosidic bond?

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A sugar bond

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What is a hydrolysis reaction?

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Using a molecule of water to break a chemical bond (opposite of a condensation reaction)

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Why are carbohydrates/monosaccharides a good energy source?

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  • Contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
  • Large number of carbon-hydrogen bonds
  • Monosaccharides are hydrates of carbon
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What is the difference between alpha and beta glucose structure (hexose sugar)?

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In alpha, the -OH on carbon 1 is below, but its above in beta.
ABBA

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What makes maltose?

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Two glucose monomers

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What makes sucrose?

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Glucose and fructose

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What makes lactose?

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Glucose and galactose

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What is the molecular formula of glucose?

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C6 H12 O6

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Describe glycogen

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  • A polysaccharide made from a-glucose monomers
  • Is branched with 1-4 and 1-6 glycosidic bonds
  • Compact, dense and insoluble
    in a spiral shape
  • An energy store and source in animal cells
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What types of starch are there?

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Amylopectin: 70-80%
Amylose: 20-30%

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Describe amylopectin (starch)

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  • Polysaccharide of a-glucose monomers
  • Is branched, therefore as it makes up around 80% of starch, starch is classed as branched
  • Has 1-4 and 1-6 glycosidic bonds
  • Compact with spiral shape
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Describe amylose (starch)

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  • Polysaccharide of a-glucose monomers
  • Unbranched
  • 1-4 glycosidic bonds
  • Compact with spiral shape
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Describe cellulose

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  • Polysaccharide of b-glucose monomers
  • Polymers joined by hydrogen bonds, creating bundles called fibrils.
  • 1-4 glycosidic bonds
  • Is linear and every other one is rotated 180º to prevent spiralling
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What is the function of starch?

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Energy store and source for plant cells

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What is the function of cellulose?

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Is a structural unit for plants within the cell wall.

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What is ribose?

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A pentose sugar that is involved in respiration as it makes up ATP

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What is deoxyribose?

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A pentose sugar that is a component of a DNA nucleotide monomer

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Briefly explain how you would test for a reducing sugar

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  • Add an excess of Benedict’s solution to the sample
  • Gently heat in a water bath at about 80℃ for 5 minutes
  • A positive result would show a colour change from blue→ green, yellow, or brick-red depending on the concentration
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Briefly explain how you would test for a NON-reducing sugar

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  • Add and equal volume of and acid (HCL) to the sample
  • Heat at 80℃ where the acid will hydrolyse the disaccharide
  • Leave to cool and slowly add an alkaline (sodium hydrogen carbonate) to neutralise the acid
  • Add in Benedict’s solution and heat again
  • Sugar is non-reducing if there is a blue to green, yellow, or red change.
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What sugar is NOT a reducing sugar?

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Sucrose

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Why is it easier and faster to hydrolyse a carbohydrate that has branched glycosidic bond (1,4 and 1,6)?

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There are more ends to cut off from.

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Why is it useful for a molecule to be insoluble?

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It won’t decrease the water concentration inside of the cell, so water activity does not occur through osmosis

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What can we use to test for starch, and what is the colour change?

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Iodine
Orange→ Black

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What is a triglyceride?

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-Macromolecule
-Lipid

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27
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What is the structure of a triglyceride?

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One glycerol molecule bonded to 3 fatty acids

28
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Explain the structure of a fatty acid

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A carboxyl group with a hydrocarbon tail known as the ‘R’ group or variable group.

29
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What is a saturated fatty acid?

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There are no double bonds is the hydrocarbon tail/’R’ group -Cn H2n O2
e.g C5 H10 O2

30
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What is an unsaturated fatty acid?

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There are double bonds in the hydrocarbon tail/’R’ group
e.g C5 H8 O2

31
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What is monounsaturated?

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One double bond in fatty acid

32
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What is polyunsaturated?

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More than one double bond in a fatty acid

33
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Why do polyunsaturated fatty acids have lower melting points?

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Double bonds give a ‘kink’ in the hydrocarbon which pushes them slightly further apart making the fatty acid more fluid - ?

34
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What reaction occurs to join the glycerol and the fatty acids in a triglyceride?

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A condensation reaction

35
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What bond holds the glycerol and the fatty acids together in a triglyceride?

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Ester bonds

36
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What is the difference between a triglyceride and a phospholipid?

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The glycerol is bonded to only 2 fatty acids and one phosphoric acid at the top called a phosphate head. (the phospholipid)

37
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Is the phosphate head of a phospholipid Hydrophilic or Hydrophobic?

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Hydrophilic
-polar
-attracted to water

38
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Is the fatty acids in a phospholipid Hydrophilic or Hydrophobic?

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Hydrophobic
-non polar
-repelled by water

39
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How are the phospholipids arranged in the cell membrane (phospholipid bi-layer)?

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Drawn as a circle with two lines (fatty acid tails)

O O O O O
l l l l l l l l l l
O O O O O

So that the hydrophobic tails don’t meet the water in/surrounding the cell.

40
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What are triglycerides used for?

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Energy storage molecules -as they have long hydrocarbon tails with lots of chemical energy that is released when broken down

41
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Why are triglycerides good energy stores?

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-Long hydrocarbon chains that release lots of chemical energy
-They are insoluble so don’t affect water potential; they clump together in droplets so that they are arranged in a ring with the so the hydrophobic fatty acids are protected by the glycerol.

42
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What are proteins made up of?

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Long chains of amino acids (monomer)
2 amino acids= dipeptide
more than 2=polypeptide
- Proteins are made up of one or more polypeptides

43
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Explain the general structure of an amino acid

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Has an Amine group (NH2), a variable (R) group, and a carboxyl group (COOH)

The variable group determines what amino acid it is.

44
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How many amino acids are there?

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20

45
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What bonds hold amino acids together?

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Peptide bonds via condensation reactions

46
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Name the 4 structural levels of a protein

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Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Quaternary

47
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What is the primary structure of a protein?

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The sequence of amino acids in a polypeptide chain.
-e.g each gene has a unique base sequence so the primary structure will be different that determines its function.

48
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Explain the secondary structure of a protein

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Hydrogen bonds form between the amino acids in the polypeptide chain which makes it coil or fold.
-Coils form an alpha helix structure
-Folds form a beta pleated sheet that zig-zags

(bonds between the -NH group and -CO group)

49
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Describe the tertiary structure of a protein

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The precise 3D shape the protein held by bonds between the ‘R’ groups that lie close to each other.
-Hydrogen bonds
-Ionic bonds (between charged R groups)
-Weak hydrophobic interactions (between non-polar R groups)
-Disulphide bonds/bridges (only occurs between cysteine amino acids)

50
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What is the quaternary structure of a protein?

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Proteins that consist of more than one polypeptide chain bonded together.
-Each polypeptide chain is a subunit of the protein
-e.g haemoglobin

51
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How many bases does a codon have?

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3
aka a DNA triplet

52
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What is activation energy?

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The minimum amount of energy needed to get a reaction to start

53
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What is the name of the compound made when and active site meets a substrate?

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Enzyme-substrate complex

54
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Describe the Lock and Key model

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The substrate and the active site are complementary to each other and fit, which then creates an enzyme-substrate complex, that splits the substrate.

55
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Describe the Induced-fit Model

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The active site moulds to fit the substrate, changed by the ‘R’ group

56
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Explain the optimum temperature for enzyme activity

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Adding more temp increases kinetic energy and increases collisions, yet too far, the enzymes will denature as bonds will break

57
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Describe what a Competitive Inhibitor is

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Fits the enzymes active site creating an enzyme-inhibitor complex, preventing any substrates.

-Decrease rate of reaction
-Effect can be overcome by increasing substrate conc

58
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Describe what a Non-competitive Inhibitor is

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They don’t fit the active site, therefore will find an alternative binding site called the Allosteric Site.
This will disrupt the tertiary structure and change the active site.

-Irreversible
-Can’t increase the substrate conc to reach normal rate, as the enzyme won’t work

59
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What is the ‘Law of the Minimum’ by Justus Von Liebig?

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States growth is dictated not by total resources available, but by the scarcest resource, known as the ‘limiting factor’

60
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What is a monomer?

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Monomers are the smaller units from which larger molecules are made.

61
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What is a polymer?

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Polymers are molecules made from a large number of monomers joined together.

Monosaccharides, amino acids and nucleotides are examples of monomers.

62
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Name 2 polysaccharides of a-glucose

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Glycogen
Starch

63
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Name a b-glucose polysaccharide

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Cellulose

64
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What are two groups of lipid?

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Triglycerides and phospholipids

65
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What are the bonds in triglycerides between glycerol and fatty acids?

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Ester bonds

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