Chapter 1,2,3,4,6, & 7 Flashcards
What are the 4 major classes of biomolecules?
- Protein
- Nucleic Acid
- Lipids
- Carbohydrates
What amino acid is most versatile of the biomolecules and is constructed from 20 amino acid building blocks?
Protein
What biomolecule signals molecules, receptors, structural roles, mobility, immune system, and enzyme?
Protein
______ are the information molecules of the cell.
Nucleic Acid
What biomolecule’s function is to store and transfer information and is constructed from 4 nucleotides?
Nucleic Acids
Nucleic Acid is formed by either ______, Deoxyribonucleic acid, or ______, Ribonucleic acid.
DNA, RNA
Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, Thymine makes up
DNA
Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, Uracil makes up
RNA
Which biomolecule is much smaller than proteins or nucleic acid and is both hydrophilic and hydrophobic?
Lipids
Lipids function as cell membranes and ________
Energy storage
_________ fuels and informs molecules
carbohydrates
The most common fuel source of carbohydrates is ______, which stores as glycogen or starch(from plants)
Glucose
Information flows from DNA to RNA, then to ______
Protein
Copying genome to the newly formed daughter cells is _______
DNA replication
DNA is transcribed into RNA, know as _____-
DNA Transcription
Deciphering RNA info into protein is ______
DNA translation
Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic are the two basic types of ______
cells
_______ consists of membrane-enclosed compartments (organelles)
Eukaryotic
Cell with no organelles is _____
Prokaryotic
What is the largest organelle and the information center of the cell?
Nucleus
The background substance of the cell, the material that is surrounded by the plasma membrane is the ______
Cytoplasm
Genomic information is selectively expressed at the proper time and in the proper amount in the ____
nucleus
What separates the inside of the cell from the outside and one cell from another?
Plasma membrane
In the plasma membrane the lipid bilayer is what?
Impermeable