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Chemical Components of the Cell Flashcards

1
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Amino Acids forms what?

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Proteins

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Nucleotides that contains riboses are called what?

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Ribonucleotides (RNA)

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3
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What is the pH scale of water?

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7 (Neutral)

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Nucleotides are the building block for what?

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Nucleic Acids

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Hydrophobic Force

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Generated by pushing nonpolar surfaces out of the hydrogen- bonded water network

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Each polymer adds a monomer through ________ which a water molecule is lost for each monomer added

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Condensation

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Lipids

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Molecules that are insoluble in water but soluble in fat & organic solvents

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Bases

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Molecules that accept protons when dissolved in water

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Hydrophobic

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Water fearing, have no hydorgens bonds & doesnt dissolve in water

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10
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Nucleotides forms what?

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Nucleic Acids

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Cells are mostly concerned with what type of bases?

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Weak bases

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12
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Where are fatty acid tails formed?

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In the cell membrane

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13
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The bonds created by the ______ can be broken down by the revserse process _______

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Condensatin, Hydrolysis

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14
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If the concentration of the base is high then the concentration of the acid is _______

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Lower

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15
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Buffers

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Mixture of weak acids & bases that will adjust protons concentration around pH scale of 7 by releasing protons or taking protons

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Condensation reaction

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Synthesize larger molecules from smaller subunits & is energetically unfavorable ( during this process a water molecule is removed as a bond is formed )

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17
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A bond is formed between an -OH group on one sugar & an -OH group on another sugar by ________ in which a molecule of water is expelled as the bond is formed

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Condenstation reaction

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18
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_____________ ensure that tge polymer chain adopts one particular conformation, which is determines by the linear sequence of monomers in the chain

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Noncovalent interactions

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Deoxyribonucleic Acids (DNA)

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Based on the deoxyribose & contains the bases A,G,C, & T

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20
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The pre-fix Oligo is used to refer to molecules with what?

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Molecules from 2-10 sugar polymers

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Organic Molecules

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Compounds that contains carbon - carbon

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22
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_______ also stablize associatitions between two macro-molecules & such associatitions allow macro-molecules to be used as building blocks for larger structures

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Noncovalent bonds

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23
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What are the four major families of small organic mnolecules?

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  1. Sugars
  2. Fatty Acids
  3. Amino Acids
  4. Nucleotides
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Amphipathic

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Molecules that have both hydrophobic & hydrophillic regions

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25
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What are the two distinct regions of fatty acid molecules?

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  1. A long hydrocarbon chain which is hydrophobic or very reactive
  2. A carboxyl (-COOH) group which behaves as an acid (Carboxylic acid) in an aqueous solutions
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26
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Glysosidic Bonds

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Covalent bonds that link monosaccharides to form larger carbonhydrates

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27
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Lipid bilayer

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the structure that forms the basis for all cell membranes (Composed of phospholipids)

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28
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Peptide bond

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The covalent bonds between two amino acids in a protein

29
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All amino acids have optical isomers _______ & _______ but only _______ are found in proteins

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Term D - & L- Forms, only L-forms are found in proteins

30
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Fatty Acids forms what?

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Fats & membrane lipids

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Nucleic Acids

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Long polymers in which nucleotides subunits are linked by the formation of covanlent phospodiester bonds between in phosphate group attatched to the sugar of one nucleotide & hydroxyl group on the sugar of the next nucleotide

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Sugars are what?

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Carbonhydrates

33
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Triacylglyercol molecules

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Are compounds made of 3 fatty acids chains convantely joined to a glycerol molecule

34
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Acids

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Substances that release protons when they dissolve in water

35
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_________ bonds allow a macromolecule ot bind other molecules

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Noncovalent Bonds

36
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DNA & RNA are built from ______

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Nucleotides

37
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Unsaturated tails

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One or more double bonds

38
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Saturated Tails

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Has no double bonds between its carbon atoms & contains max number of hydrogens

39
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What are the two main types of nuclei Acids?

40
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Ribonucleic Acids (RNA)

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Based on the sugar ribose & contains A,G,C,& U

41
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The amino group NH2 at the end of a polypetide is called what?

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N-Terminus

42
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________ bonds add up to create a strong attraction between two molecules when they are very close so that many noncovalent bonds occur between them

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Noncovalent bonds

43
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Macromolecules

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Are monomers covantely connected into a chain

44
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Nucleotides that contains deoxyribose are called what?

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Deoxyribonucleotides (DNA)

45
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Optical Isomers

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Mirror image pairs of isomers

47
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Most macromolecules are made from different set of monomers & polymer chains is assembled in a ________

48
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A carboxyl group (COOH) at the other end of a polypetide is called what?

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C- terminus

49
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Pyrimidines

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

51
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Isomers

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Molecules with the same chemical formula but different structures

52
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What are the simplest types of sugar?

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Monosaccharides (Formula CH2O)n n is any positive real #)

53
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Purines

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Guanine (G), Ademine (A)

54
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Hydrolysis Reactions

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Break down larger molecules into smaller subunits & are energetically favorable ( During this process a water molecules is absorb or consumed)

55
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Acid have a pH scale of what?

56
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Hydrophillic

57
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Amino Acids

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They all posses a carboxylic acid group & amino group both attached to central alpha -carbon atom

58
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Peptide bonds are formed by ______ that link one amino acid to the next

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Condensation reaction

59
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Bases have a pH scale of what?

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Higher than 7

60
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Cells use simple polysaccharides composed only of glucose units called ______ in animals cells & _____ in plant as long term stores of glucose held for energy production

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Glycogen & Starch

61
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Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP)

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Particaptes in the transfer of energy in metabolic reactions

62
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Inorganic Molecules

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Compounds that dont contain carbon -carbon

63
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Polypetide

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Resulting chain of amino acids

64
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Polymers

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Molecules that are made of many chemical subunits that are linked end to end whose properties enable the cells & organisms to grow & reproduce

65
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The base in polypetudes are what?

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Is the nitrogen containing rings

66
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Cells use amino acids to build what?

67
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Sugars form what?

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Large organic molecules (Like polysaccharides, glycogen, & starch)

68
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Smaller oligosaccharides can be covalently linked to proteins to form ______ or to lipids to form ______

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Glycoproteins , Glycolipids

69
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Proteins

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Polymers made of amino acid, which are joined head to tail in a long chain that folds up into a 3-D structure that is unique to each tye of protein

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