Gen Bio Flashcards
How many different amino acids are there in the protein fround in the human body?
twenty
The sugar in RNA is _____, the sugar in DNA is _____.
ribose, deoxyribose
Potatoes have a large amount of _____.
Starch
Maltose, a disaccharide is composed of two simple sugar bonded together by what kind of bond?
Glycosidic bond
Proteins are made up of chains of what?
Amino Acids
Glucose molecule linked to a glucose molecule will produce a disaccharide _____.
Maltose
During photosynthesis, plants capture sunlight energy to make glucose. Then they are able to store that glucose energy as what macromolecule?
Starch
The monomers used to synthesize proteins are called _____.
amino acids
The storage form of carbohydrates in animals is _____ and in plants it is _____.
glycogen; starch
These polysaccharides are the major substance in the exoskeleton of arthropods and mollusks.
Chitin
Which of the ff is not a macromolecule?
a. nucleotide
b. DNA
c. lipid
d. starch
nucleotide
A disaccharide is formed when two monosaccharides are joind together by _____.
a dehydration reaction
Neutral fats, oils, and waxes are ______.
Lipids
Gives rigidity to cell membrane
cholesterol
_____ is when secondary structure of a protein is folded and twisted into a rounded, three dimensional shape.
tertiary structure