Chapter 3

Question 1

What are fatty acids made up of?

Answer 1

Hydrocarbon chains with a carboxyl group

Question 2

Difference between saturated and unsaturated fatty acids?

Answer 2

Saturated- no double bonded Carbons

Unsaturated- one or more double bonds

Question 3

Difference between dehydration reaction ad hydrolysis?

Answer 3

Dehyd- monomers form polymers by removal of water

hydro- polymers are broken down my addition of water

Question 4

How many carbons to monosaccharides have?

Answer 4

3-6

Question 5

What is the covalent bond between two monosaccharides called?

Answer 5

glycosidic

Question 6

3 classes of lipids?

Answer 6

fats, phospholipids, steroids

Question 7

Names of purines?

Answer 7

Adenine (A)

Guanine (G)

Question 8

Names of Phyrimidines?

Answer 8

Thymine (T) Cytosine (C) and Uracil (U)

Question 9

What makes nucleic acids acidic?

Answer 9

Phosphate

Question 10

What is denaturation?

Answer 10

the loss of a protein’s conformation which usually renders the protein biologically inactive

Question 11

What are chaperone proteins?

Answer 11

Help newly-formed proteins fold properly and help renature proteins that are denatured