Chapter Two Flashcards
What are the tenets of the chemistry of life
Based on carbon compounds, requires aqueous solutions, complex chemistry, polymeric molecules, tightly regulated
Atoms are the
Smallest particle of en element
What is the atomic number
Number of protons in nucleus
What are isotopes
Number of neutrons change making element radioactive
What is Avogadro’s number
6 x 10^-23 atoms/gram of hydrogen
What do we have to worry about with angle bonds
Steric henderance
Single bonds share how many electrons
2
Double bonds share how many electrons
4
What links water molecules together
H bonds
What links hydrogen to oxygen in water
Covalent bond
Acids release what
Protons
Protons from acids that are released form
Hydronium ion
Bases do what
Accept protons
Monosaccharides use what bond to make polysaccharides
Covalent bonds
Example of oligosaccharides
Sucrose, maltose, lactose
Examples of polysaccharides
Starch, glycogen and fiber
Hydrolysis requires what for reaction
Water
By product of condensation
Water
Function of sugars
Energy, storage, structural support, and cell membrane components
How is sugar stored
Glycogen
What is the sugar circulating in the blood
Glucose
How is glucose trapped inside of cell
Becomes phosphorylated
What phosphorylated glucose that is irreversible
Hexokinase
What enzyme is used to phosphorylated glucose that is reversible
Glucokinase
What is the structure of fatty acids
Long hydrophobic hydrocarbon tail, polar hydrophilic head
What is the classification of lipids
Triglycerides, phospholipids and sterols
Triglycerides are also known as
Neutral fats
Example of sterols
Cholesterol
Fatty acids are also called
Amphipathic molecules
Are saturated tails straight or kinked
Straight
Are unsaturated tails straight or kinked
Kinked
Fatty acids are stored as
Triacylglycerol
Function of fatty acids
Concentrated food reserve, steroid/ hormones and for cell membranes
Fatty acids are transported by
Chylomicrons
What enzyme helps lipids into cell
Lipoprotein lipase
Fatty acids are used for
Energy or stored
What are lipoproteins
Lipid containing droplets to shuttle fats
Are peptide bonds covalent or non covalent
Covalent
Function of nucleotides
Energy in form of ATP and formation of DNA/RNA
Condensation reaction forms
Peptides
Noncovalent bonds control what
Shape
Weak non covalent bonds cause
Conformation
What are the non colalent bonds
Ionic, h bond, van der waals, hydrophobic
Human body contains how many cells
10^13
How many different type of cells
Over 200
What is the total amount of body of water
42 liters
Extracellular fluid makes up how much fluid in body
14 L
How many liters of fluid in body make up intracellular fluid
28 L
Capillary membrane is what type of barrier
Semi-permeable
Cellmembranes have what type of barrier
Selective