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Lecture 2 Flashcards

1
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What are the 4 main elements of biological importance?

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Carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, and proteins

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Why are the biological elements important?

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Makes up the structure of cells/tissues,

transmits info, regulates and participates metabolic reactions, and provides energy for life

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What do carbohydrates include?

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Sugars, starches and glycogen, cellulose, and chitin

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4
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What is the main function of a starch?

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Energy source found in plants

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What is the main function of sugars (glycogen)?

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Energy source for animals

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6
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What are amyloplasts and what is stored in them?

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Where plants store their starch (a-amylose and amylopectin)

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What is the structure of a-amylose?

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It is a single long unbranched chain of glucose, linked by a(1-4) bonds

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8
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What are micelles?

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Balls of water, formed by a-amylose

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9
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How does the starch, a-amylose, get broken down in animals?

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It first gets broken down (hydrolysed) by the a-amylase enzyme. The products from this are glucose and single maltose units. The enzyme, B-amylase, then breaks down the single maltose units to glucose.

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How does the starch, amylopectin, get broken down in animals?

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It first gets broken down (hydrolysed) by the a-amylase enzyme. The products from this are glucose, single maltose units, and dextrin. The enzyme, B-amylase, then breaks down the single maltose units to glucose, and the enzyme glucosidase breaks down dextrin into limit dextrin

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11
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What is the structure of amylopectin?

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Highly-branched polymer

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12
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Monosaccharide?

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Single sugar unit (glucose)

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13
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Two sugar units?

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Disaccharide (sucrose)

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Polysaccharide?

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Many sugar units (glycogen and starch) joined by glycosidic linkages

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What is the most abundant monosaccharide?

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Glucose

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16
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Glycosidic bonding?

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Joins/links sugars together through hydrolysis

17
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What two monosaccharides make up sucrose?

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glucose-a(1-2)-fructose

18
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What two monosaccharides make up lactose?

A

galactose-B(1-4)-glucose

19
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What two monosaccharides make up maltose?

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glucose-a(1-4)-glucose

  • A homodimer of glucose units
  • Occurs as a byproduct of starch hydrolysis
20
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What does the alpha and beta mean?

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If the OH group is pointing down (alpha), and if the OH group is pointing up (beta)

21
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What enzymes hydrolysis sucrose, maltose, and lactose?

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Sucrose=invertase
Maltose=maltase
Lactose=lactase
All breakdown through hydrolysis (breaking bonds using water)

22
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Where is amylase, which is used to break down starch, found in humans?

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In our saliva and pancreatic juices

23
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What is the function of cellulose and chitin?

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Cellulose (plant) and chitin (animal) are both structural components

24
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Homopolysaccharides?

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One type of monosaccharide linked together

25
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Heteropolysaccharides?

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Different types of monosaccharide linked together

26
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How do polysaccharides get broken down into monosaccharides? What one is more effective?

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Either through enzymatic or acid hydrolysis. Enzymatic is more effective

27
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What are glycoproteins? What is the process of making a glycoprotein called?

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When a sugar (oligosaccharide) links to a protein through glycosidic linkage. This process is called glycosylation

28
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What is the purpose of glycoproteins?

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To provide protection or adhere to produce mucus (waste removal)

29
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Phosphorylation?

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This makes sugars anionic and allows some of them to participate in glycosidic bonding as reactive intermediates

30
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What are glycolipids?

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Carbohydrate combined with lipids to form glycolipids - compounds on the surfaces of animal cells that allow cells to recognise and interact with one another

31
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How are cellulose and starch different?

A

Cellulose contains beta glucose monomers joined by beta 1-4 linkages where as glucose subunits are joined by alpha 1-4 glycosidic linkages

32
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What is glucose?

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  • Most abundant monosaccharide
  • A hexose sugar (C6H12O6)
  • Energy source in most organisms
  • Used as a component in the synthesis of other compounds like fatty acids and amino acids
33
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What are two storage polysaccharides and where can you find them?

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Plants - starch
Animals - glycogen
Deposited as granules in the cytoplasm

34
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What is a starch?

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  • homopolymer of alpha-glucose units joined by glycosidic bonds
  • storage polysaccharide
  • in plants
  • a-amylose and amylopectin
35
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Can animals break down cellulose?

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No, bc we don’t have the enzymes needed to break the bonds. Cellulose only provides roughage in the diet

36
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Where is chitin found?

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The cell wall of fungi, the external skeleton of insects (arthropods) and as various structural components in animals

37
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Where is glycogen stored?

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Liver and muscle cells

38
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What digests glycogen?

A

alpha-glucosidase enzyme

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