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Food Flashcards

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What are the six most commmon elements in food?

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  • Carbon
  • Hydrogen
  • Oxygen
  • Nitrogen
  • Phosporus
  • Sulfur
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What five elements are present as salts in food?

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  • Na(Sodium)
  • Mg(Magnesium)
  • Cl(Chlorine)
  • K(Potassium)
  • Ca(Calcium)
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What are the three trace elements?

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  • Fe(Iron)
  • Cu(Copper)
  • Zn(Zinc)
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4
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What are boimolecules?

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Biomolecules are chemicals that are made inside a living thing

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5
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What are the four main biomolecule types

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  • Carbohydrates
  • Lipids(fats,oils)
  • Proteins
  • Vitamins
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6
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What is the carbohydrate general formula?

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Cx(H2O)y

(where x=y)

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What are monosachrides?They are sweet to taste and soluble in water

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Monosachrides are the smallest carbohydrate units. They are soluble in water. The consist of a single sugar unit(essentially a ring of carbons)

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Name two monosachrides?

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  • Glucose: Common carbohydrate from which most organisms get energy. Made during photosynthesis
    • Fructose: Stuctural isomer of glucose. Sweeter than glucose and found in fruit
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What are disaccharides?

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They consist of two monasaccharides joined together. They are soluble in water

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Name three common disaccharides

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  • Sucrose(table salt): glucose+glucose
  • Maltose(found in germinating seeds): glucose + fructose
  • Lactose(in milk): glucoes + fructose
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What are polysaccharides

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They are many monosaccharides linked together. They are insoulbe in water

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Name three polysaccharides.

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  • Starch(amylose): Composed of branched and unbrachned chains of glucose. Carbohydrate stored by plants. Easily digested because glucoes is in a straight line
  • Cellulose: Long chains of glucose with more cross bonding than starch. Plant structural carboydrate. Harder to digest. Promotes peristalis. Very strong ( suitable for cell walls)
  • Glycogen: Chains of glucose molecules that are more branched than starch. Stored in liver and muscle.
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What is the test for reducing sugars

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14
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What is he test for starch?

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What are the catabolic and anabolic roles of carbohydrates

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  • Anabolic:
    • Glucose is made in photsynthesis
  • Catabolic
    • Glucose releases energy in respiration
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16
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What are the uses of carbohydrates

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  • Store energy
  • Supply energy
17
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What are the elements in lipids?

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  • Carbon
  • Hydrogen
  • Oxygen
18
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What is the difference between fats and oils?

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  • Fats are solid at room temperature (293.15K)
  • Oils are ;iquid at room temperature (293.15K)
19
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What is the structure of a lipid?

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Lipids are made of molecules called triglyceride. A triglyceride is made up of a glycerol molecule and three fatty acids.

20
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What is a phospholipid?

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A phospholipid is a fat-like substance where one fatty acid is replaced by a phosphate group or has had a phosphate group added to it

21
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What is the test for fat?

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22
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What is the catabolic role of lipids

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Release energy is respiration

23
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What is the strucutre of a protein?

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  1. Ammino acid
  2. Peptide(less than twenty aminio acids)
  3. Polypeptide(more than twenty ammino acids)
  4. Protein(more than 200 amino)
24
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What are the elements in protein

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  • Carbon
  • Hydrogen
  • Oxygen
  • Nitrogen

(And sometimes Sulfur, Phosphorus and other elements)

25
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What is the test for protein?

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26
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What are the structural roles of proteins

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  • Form structures such as:
    • hair
    • skin
    • nails
    • muscles

(Keratin)

27
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What are the metabolic roles of proteins?

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  • Enzymes
  • Some hormones
  • Antibodies
28
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What are vitamins?

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They are complex carbon based substances the body cannot make.

29
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Name a water soluble vitamin, a defiency associated with it and its sources.

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  • Vitamin C is water soluble(easy way to remeber which vitamin is water soluble, “C sounds like sea”)
  • Lack of vitamin C causes Scury
  • Found in Fruit and Vegtables(especially citritus fruit)
30
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What are the catabolic roles of Vitamin C

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  • To form:
    • Connective tissue
    • Bones
    • Teeth
  • Helps:
    • Healing
    • The immune system
31
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Name a fat soluble vitamin, a defiency caused by it and it’s sources.

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  • Vitamin D is fat soluble
  • Lack of it causes Rickets(in children) and Osteomalica(in adults) (a weakness in the bones)
  • Liver, fish oils,milk and egg yolk are good sources. Vitamin D is also made by a reaction between ultraviolet light and chemcials the skin
32
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What is the metabolic role of vitamin D

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Helps absorb calcium for the bones and teeth

33
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Give examples of why plants need minerals.

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  • Calcium(absorbed from the soil)to hold cell walls together
  • Magnesium for chlorophyll
34
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Give examples of why animals need minerals

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  • Calcium(in milk and cheese) form bones and teeth
  • Iron(liver and green vegtables) for haemoglobin
35
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Why is water important to living things

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  • Makes up the bulk of cytoplasm and is found in blood and tissue fluid
  • Good solvent which allows:
    • cell reactions
    • transport
  • Participates in chemical reactions
  • moves in/out of cells giving them the correct shape
  • Regulates temperature
36
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What is a structural role of a carbohydrate

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Cellouse forms plant cell walls

37
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What are the structural roles of a lipid

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  • Insulate
  • Form membranes
  • Store energy

Biology (Irish leaving Cert) (5 decks)

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