Chapter 1: Biomolecules

Question 1

Nucleic acids are polymers of what?

Answer 1

Nucleotides

Question 2

Proteins are polymers of what?

Answer 2

Amino acids

Question 3

Polysaccharides are polymers of what?

Answer 3

monosaccharides (sugars)

Question 4

Organelles consists of supramolecular assemblies such as ____ organized how?

Answer 4

Supramolecular assemblies such as membranes or fibers that are organized clusters of macromolecules.

Question 5

Living things in general contain only a few different types of macromolecules?

Answer 5

• Proteins
• nucleic acids
• polysaccharides

Question 6

Macromolecules have what construction?

Answer 6

A modular construction; They consist of linked monomeric units that occupy the lowest level of our structural hierarchy.

Question 7

Lipids are the fourth major class of biomolecules but are not classified as macromolecules why?

Answer 7

Too small

Question 8

What structure does lipids have?

Answer 8

Modular construction like macromolecules

Question 9

Proteins are synthesized by the same what?

Answer 9

20 amino acids

Question 10

Nucleic acids are made from what?

Answer 10

8 types of nucleotides (4 in DNA and 4 in RNA)

Question 11

There are ~ how many occuring types of sugars in polysacchardies?

Answer 11

8

Question 12

proteins undergo what to fold into their native conformations?

Answer 12

self-assembly

Question 13

A protein’s amino acid sequence specifies what?

Answer 13

Their 3D structure.