Lecture 1 Flashcards
What is required for natural selection
Variation
Inheritance
Selection
Time
Three domains of life
Bacteria
Eukarya
Archaea
Building blocks
Amino acids
Nucleobases
Simple carbohydrates
Glycerol,fatty acids, hydrocarbon rings
Macromolecules
Proteins
DNA
RNA
complex carbohydrates
Lipids
Monosaccharides
1 single unit building block of carbohydrates
Disaccharide
2 single unit building blocks
Polysaccharides
Large number of single unit building blocks
Starch
Found in plants, made up of two different structures, large chain of glucose monomers
Cellulose (fibre)
Made up of glucose monomers only, arrangement very different. Large number stacked on top of each other, chemical bond is different
Makes up a nucleotide
Phosphate
Ribose sugar
Base
Bases
Thymine
Adenine
Cytosine
Guanine
Uracil
Functional DNA molecule
Need to take two strands, and link them together
Lipids
NOT polymers
Heterogeneous
Functions of lipids
Structural
Regulatory functions
Energy
Functions of carbohydrates
Recognition
Energy source
Structure
Dietary fibre
Proteins
Polymer of amino acids
Molecules at which cells perform their functions in the whole organism
Inside of a cell
Living and is live
Outside of cell
Not alive
Plasma membrane
Keeps the inside in and outsides out (separates inside and outside the cell)
Semi-permeable barrier
Plasma membrane allows
Passage of oxygen, nutrients, waste
Plasma membrane controls
Movement of substances in and out of the cell
Phospholipid bilayer
Double layer of phospholipids with various embedded or attached proteins
Phospholipid bilayer inside and outside
Inside the cell lots of water outside the cell lots of water
Viscous
Hard for anything to get through
Signal transduction
Relay messages from the body (or environment) into the cell
Membrane proteins
Signal transduction
Cell recognition
Intercellular
Linking cytoskeleton & extracellular matrix
Membrane transport
Passive transport
No energy required
Molecules move down concentration gradient
Active transport
Energy required
Molecules move against concentration gradient
Diffusion
The movement of particles of any substance so that they spread out into the available space