Chapter 5 - The Structure & Function of Large Biological Molecules Flashcards

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What are the most common organic molecule?

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Carbohydrates

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What is the most common thing inside of a cell?

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Water (h2o)

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What are the most diverse organic molecule?

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Proteins

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Condensation reaction works how?

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Pull -OH from carbon chain/ring & H from bother to put the two chains/rings together into 1 bigger chain & loose H2O as a result

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How is it different from a hydrolysis (or dehydration) reaction?

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Split molecules by breaking H2O.

One mole gets the -H & the other gets the -OH

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Carbohydrates =?

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Sugars

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What type of things are sugars (carbohydrates) used for?

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Used to make some structures.

Mainly used as an energy source.

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Who uses cellulose? Starch? Glycogen?l

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Polysaccharides

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Wherein organism or cell & what does Cellulose do in it? Starch? Glycogen?

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Cellulose; plant cell walls (fiber)

Starch; molecule in plants, energy storage

Glycogen; energy storage in animals

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Monosaccharide =?

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Glucose, Fructose, and Ribose & Deoxyribose

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Disaccharide =?

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Sucrose, Lactose, and Maltose

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Polysaccharide =?

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Cellulose, Starch, and Glucose

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Lipids =?

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Hydrophobic
Don’t Dissolve in water
Ball up into globules

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Saturated fats differ from unsaturated fats how?

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Saturated = solid at room temp

Unsaturated = liquid at room temp

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What do all amino acids have in common?

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All have nitrogen and COOH chains (carboxyl)

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How many AA’s are there?

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How many are acidic? Basic? Polar?

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Acidic - 2

Basic - 3

Polar - all acid & base + 5 of the neutral AA’s

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Proteins are made from what?

A

Made of Amino acids

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What are proteins used for?

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Structural materials
Transport proteins
Receptor proteins
Enzymes (alter rate of reactions)
Repair of damaged tissues/structure
Hormones
Immune system defenses (antibodies)
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Why are proteins called polypeptides?

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Linked together via peptide bonds

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What is a primary protein structure?

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Actual order of the amino acids

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What are the two forms that secondary protein structures take?

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B-sheets and A-helix

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What is the Tertiary Protein structure?

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After it folds:
3D Form
Important to how protein functions
Prone to being warped by changes in pH or temperature
Causes decrease or complete stop in protein’s activity

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How does this differ from the quaternary structure?

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Quaternary is:

Not always present
2 or more polypeptides working together to do 1 task
Can have numerous proteins working together

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Nucleotides all have what in common?
Nitrogen containing base 5 carbon sugar Phosphate group(s)
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What are the four molecule bases found in DNA?
Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, and Thymine
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Which nucleotide is not found in RNA? What is found in RNA instead?
Thymine is not found in RNA. Uracil
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What sugars are found in DNA & RNA?
Deoxyribose
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Who discovered the 3D structure of DNA?
James Watson & Francis Criek
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Whose data did they use?
Rosalind Franklin
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What does the 2D & 3D structures of DNA look like?
Double Helix