Chapter 4/5 - The Building Blocks Flashcards
Living organisms build long chains of structures called
Macromolecules
What four categories can macromolecules be divided into
- Carbohydrates
- Nucleic Acids
- Proteins
- Lipids
Basic chemical building blocks from which all organisms are composed
Macromolecules
Carbohydrates /nucleic acid’s: proteins /and lipids
Macromolecules are built around
Carbon Atoms
What can carbon carbon atoms bound too
H, N, O, S, P
Oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, hydrogen
Molecules containing carbon have very diverse structures and can form
Chains, balls, branches, rings, tubes, and coils
****Because carbon atoms can form of too for covalent bonds
Molecules consisting of only carbon and hydrogen are called
hydrocarbons
True or false
Carbon and hydrogen atoms have very similar electronegativities
True
Electrons in C—C and C—H are evenly distributed.
Hydrocarbons are nonpolar
A molecular group attached to a hydrocarbon that confers chemical properties or reactivities
Functional group
1) —OH
2) O=C
3) O=C; —OH
4) N—H; N—H
5) O=P; O—P; P—O- ; P—O-,
6) H—C; C—H; C—H
These are all examples of
Functional groups
Molecules with the same empirical or molecular formula that can exist in different forms
Isomers
What is significant about structural isomers
Carbon molecules are structurally arranged in a different way
Stereo isomer
Molecules differing in there spatial arrangement of their atoms
Same carbon skeleton would differ and how the groups attached to the skeleton are arranged in space
Name one type a stereoisomer with a chiral or mirror image
Enantiomers
What enantiomer to biological systems use?
D-sugars, L-amino acids
D= rotate right
L= rotate left or lower
How many enantiomers do biological systems use
1
A molecule that has mirror image versions is called
A chiral molecule
**Exist when carbon is bound to four different molecules
Monomer
The most basic and simple list molecule
Monomers join other monomers with similar subunits to form
Polymers
What must occur to FORM a polymer from a monomer
Dehydration reaction
A type of chemical reaction in which two molecules join to form one larger molecule, simultaneously splitting out a molecule of water
Dehydration reaction
What must occur to BREAK a polymer to FORM monomers
Hydrolysis reaction
Add H2O
Provide electrons
Polymer breaks into monomer
Carbohydrates contain 1)___________ , 2)____________, and 3)_____________ in the molar ratio 4)_____, 5)_____, 6______
Carbohydrates contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen in the molar ratio 1 : 2 : 1
Is the empirical formula for carbohydrates?
(CH2O)n
N= # of C atoms
In a chain of carbons, anytime we oxidize CH from the chain of carbons energy is
Released
True or false
Carbs are well-suited for energy storage
True
In a monosaccharide the 6C molecule is the FORM used for
Energy storage
In a monosaccharide the # of C atoms range from
3-6
Name all 6- carbon sugars
Glucose
Fructose
Galactose
Glucose is an important 6C sugar used for
Energy storage
What is the empirical formula for 6C sugar
C6 H12 C6
Or
(CH2O)6
True or false
6C sugars generally form a coil structure
False
6C sugars generally form a ring structure
What type of isomer are glucose, fructose, and galactose?
Structural isomers
What sugar can exist as a structural or stereoisomer?
6C sugars
***Fructose, glucose, galactose
True or false
Complex carbs are broken down into glucose
True
Name two types of glucose that glucose can form
Alpha glucose
Beta glucose
**They differ in placement of OH, thus being stereoisomers
Serves as a transport molecule in plants and provides nutrition in animals
Disaccharide
Glucose is stored as a
Disaccharide
Why is glucose stored as a disaccharide
Because enzymes used in metabolism of glucose cannot be used on disaccharides. Enzymes won’t recognize the disaccharide, the binding site is just for monosaccharides.
Two monosaccharides linked together via dehydration reaction
Disaccharides
Glucose + fructose =
Sucrose
**The form most plants use to transport glucose and is the sugar that most humans and other animals eat
Glucose + Glucose =
Maltose
Glucose + Galactose =
Lactose
**milk sugar
** can result in lactose intolerance in humans, because humans often have greatly reduce levels of lactase (enzyme)
**Primary energy source for offspring in mammals
More than two monosaccharides linked together via dehydration reactions
Polysaccharide
What forms our complex carbohydrate
Polysaccharides
Starch
Consist of a very long chains of alpha glucose
Bonded by oxygen after the hydration reaction has occurred
A storage polysaccharide
Can humans digest cellulose?
No
Cellulose
A structural polysaccharide
Contains a long chain of beta glucose connected via C1 and C4
What type of linkages the starch have
a linkages
**because it is built from a glucose
What type of linkages does cellulose have
B linkages
**because it is built from b glucose
And cellulose be glucose is connected via
C1 and C4
Outer layer in plants or makes up tough fibers in plants, used for structural support
Cellulose
Starches simplest structure is called
Amylose
Amylose
Long simple chain of a glucose
each linkage occurs between C1 and C4 (where dehydration reaction occurs)
As chain gets longer it will form a curl
** called a -(1—>4) linkages
Unbranched polysaccharide
Amylopectin
Found in plants
Branched polysaccharide, forms simple branch
Branching occurs due to bonds between a-glucose at C1 of one molecule and C6 of another molecule
Where do plants destroy glucose?
Amylopectin
Or
Amylose
Glycogen
Where animals store sugars
C1-C4 , C1-C6 linkages
Forms long chains that are curled
Forms branching at C1-C6
More branched than amylopectin
True or False
A-glucose is what humans use?
True
Makes up outer shell of Arthropods, crabs, and insects
Chitin
What is chitin made of?
N- acetylglucosamine (version of glucose)
Sequence that carries information in living organisms/ forms polymers DNA and RNA
Nucleic acid’s
Two main varieties of nucleic acids are
Deoxyribonucleic acid
Ribonucleic acid
Stores genetic information
DNA
Short-lived or temporary copies of DNA used to synthesize proteins
RNA
During cell division and reproduction genetic information can be preserved because
Nucleic acid’s in the form of DNA can produce exact copies of themselves
Nucleic acid’s are long polymers of repeating subunits called
Nucleotides
Nucleotides consist of three components which are
- Pentose (5-C sugar)
- ribose in RNA /OH group
- deoxyribose in DNA / H group - Phosphate
- coming off 4 carbon - Organic Nitrogenous Base
- coming off 1C
How do nucleotides form together to form a strand of RNA or one side of the DNA strand
Phosphodiester bonds
3C hydroxyl will form with what to create a phosphodiester bond?
5C phosphate
*****process will continue until there is a nice long strand of DNA or RNA
A nucleotide chain formed from joining phosphate (coming off 5C) with hydroxyl (coming off 3C) group on sugar ring
Phosphodiester bonds
Nucleotides, to their phosphodiester bonds will form
Nucleic acid’s
How do you number of carbons?
+’(prime)
1’ , 2’, 3’
Phosphate is found it coming off
5’ carbon