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Life and Basic Biochemistry Flashcards

1
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What is life?

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Essentially, self sustaining and they preserve themselves.

  1. Self-organization
  2. Autopoietic
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What is the genome and what is DNA

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Genomes are a collection of DNA

DNA stores genetic information necessary to build the parts a cell needs to survive.

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What are the 2 steps of Central Dogma called

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  1. Transcription

2. Translation

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What is phylogenetics?

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A field where life is classified by the similarities in their DNA

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5
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Which are more diverse, Bacteria/Archaea or Eukarya?

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Bacteria/Archaea!

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6
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What are the main branches in the phylogenetic tree of life?

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Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya

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How are organisms classified?

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  1. where they get their energy
  2. how they acquire their electron for redox reactions
  3. if they use oxygen or carbon
  4. where they live
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What is ATP

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  • Adenosine triphosphate is a common organic compound that provides energy used in biological reactions.
  • Hydrolysis of ATP is used as a chemical potential energy to drive other reactions in the cell.
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What are phototrophs?

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Organisms that uses from sunlight make ATP (energy)

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What are chemotrophs?

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Organisms that use redox reactions to make ATP (energy) from performed molecules

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What are the main types of chemotrophs and what are their terms?

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  1. Lithotrophs - uses redox reactions of inorganic molecules to make ATP
  2. Organotrophs - uses redox reactions of organic molecules to make ATP
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12
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What are aerobic organisms?

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organisms that use oxygen to live

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What are anaerobic organisms?

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Organisms that don’t depend on oxygen to live.

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What are the types of anaerobs?

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  1. Obligate - cannot grow in an environment with oxygen
  2. Facultative - can grow with or without oxygen
  3. Aerotolerant - can grow in an environment w oxygen
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What are autotrophic organisms?

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  • Organisms that create complex molecules from inorganic sources.
  • Their energy can come from sunlight or inorganic redox reactions
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16
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What are heterotrophic organisms?

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  • Can ONLY creates complex molecules from other complex molecules
  • All heterotrophs are chemotrophs, and most are organotrophs
17
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What are organisms that grow under standard conditions?

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Mesophilies

18
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What are organisms that grow in high temperatures?

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Hyperthermophile (90-115 °C))

19
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What are organisms that grow in low temperatures?

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Pschorophile (0-12 °C)

20
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What are organisms that grow in High pH?

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Alkaliphile (8.5 - 12 pH)

21
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What are organisms that grow in low pH?

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Acidophile (0-4 pH)

22
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What are organisms that grow in high pressures?

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Barophile (500-1000 atm)

23
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What are organisms that grow in high salt concentrations?

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Halophile (15-32% NaCl)

24
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1.1 Chemistry Review

25
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What is the electronegativity difference range in a covalent bond and ionic bond?

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Less than 1.7 - covalent

More than 1.7 - ionic

26
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Why is water known as the universal solvent?

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Water acts as a solvent in biological system because it dissolves most of the compounds and proteins needed for the reaction to occur in the cell (due to its polarity and hydrogen bonding).

27
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What are the requirements for a solvent to dissolve?

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It must collide with the correct orientation and speed to react (which is more likely to happen in a liquid)
It also must break some of the hydrogen bonds

28
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What interaction occurs between water and nonpolar molecules?

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Hydrophobic interactions. Nonpolar molecules are not attracted to polar water molecules. So, they aggregate in water and orient themselves to minimize their contact with water.

29
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What interaction occurs between oppositely charged molecules?

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Electrostatic interactions 
(also known as: coulombic forces, ionic pairing, salt-bridge)
30
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Whats the relative attraction strength of ionic bonds?

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hundreds of kcal/mol

31
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Whats the relative attraction strength of covalent bonds?

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40-160 kcal/mol

32
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Whats the relative attraction strength of hydrogen bonds

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1-10 kcal/mol

33
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Whats the relative attraction strength of van der Waals bonds?

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0-10 kcal/mol

34
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Whats the water percentage of a cell?

35
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What are the 3 things to consider if a solute will dissolve in a solvent?

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  1. Inter/intramolecular interactions within solutes molecules
  2. Intermolecular interactions within solvent molecules
  3. Intermolecular interactions with solute and solvent molecules
36
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What are compounds that will dissolve in water?

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Hydrophillic

37
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What are compounds that contain both hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions?

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Amphipathic

38
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What are the carbon skeleton of molecules types?

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  1. Straight-chain alkanes
  2. Branched alkanes
  3. Cyclic alkanes

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