The chemistry of life. Flashcards
What is a organic compound?
Organic Compounds contain carbon and Mandy include oxygen and hydrogen.
What are inorganic compounds?
Inorganic compounds do not contain carbon but are contained in living organisms.
What Are the four groups of macro molecules that make up living things in organic compounds?
Carbohydrates, Lipids, proteins, nucleic acids
What are monomers?
Smallest Unit of a large molecule.
What Are polymers?
Are the large molecule formed by joining monomers which form the product.
Is carbohydrates in organic or organic?
Organic because they contain oxygen, carbon and hydrogen.
What Are the three classes of carbohydrates?
Monosaccharides, Disaccharides and polysaccharides.
What Are the characteristics of monosaccharides?
Monosaccharides Are single sugar molecules which include glucose, fructose, galactose. They are simple sugars and soluble in water. Monosaccharides are used as primary energy source.
What Are disaccharides and what do they do?
Disaccharides provide a convenient way to transport glucose. They are water soluble and are used as energy sources for larger molecules.
What Makes up sucrose?
Glucose and fructose. It is simple sugar found in plant sap.
What Makes maltose?
glucose and glucose. It is commonly found in grains like barley.
What Makes lactose?
Glucose and galactose.
What is a polysaccharide?
Large molecules, normally glucose and consists of thousands of monomers.
What are examples of polysaccharides?
Starch, glycogen and cellulose.
What Is carbohydrate condensation?
Monosaccharides or join together to form disaccharides and polysaccharides. Water is released in the process. Energy is supplied by nucleotide sugar such as ADP glucose.
What Are lipids?
Lipids are a group of organic compounds with an oily greasy or waxy consistency. Lipids contain carbon hydrogen and oxygen but the ratio of lipid is more than 2:1. There are relatively insoluble in water. Typical lipids such as natural fat consist of fatty acids and glycerol.
What Can leopards be classified ads?
Simple Lipids, faits, oil and waxes. Phospholipids and related molecules. Steroids.
What are some lipids roles?
Structural Components of membranes. Fats provide twice as much energy as carbohydrates
What Do stored lipids provide ?
Provide Installation.
What are phospholipids composed of?
A glycerol molecule, to fatty acid chains, a phosphate group.
What Are proteins
Proteins are macro molecules, consisting of many amino acids linked together as a polypeptide chains.
What Are amino acids?
Amino acids are the basic units of which protein are made from.
What Are the importance of protein?
Reserve source of energy, protects the body against disease, some hormones are proteins, building material in the body.
What Is protein denaturation
Poutine denaturation refers to the loss of the proteins three-dimensional structure. Example may be cooking food do you natures proteins and makes it easy to digest.
