Unit 3- Biological Molecules/ Nutrition In Humans Flashcards

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What are polymers

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They are made up from small units (molecules made up of lots of little substances)

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2
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What is starch made from

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Glucose, and glucose is a simple sugar (it is a small souble molecules)

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3
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What does two glucose makes

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Maltose

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4
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What does lots of glucose linked together make

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Starch

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5
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What are protein made form

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Amino acid, there are twenty different amino acids (each amino acids have similar structures)

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6
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Which elements would you find in carbohydrates

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Carbon, hydrogen and oxygen

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Which elements would you find in protein

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Nitrogen, oxygen, carbon and hydrogen

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Which elements would you find in lipids

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Carbon, hydrogen and oxygen

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How would you test a substance for starch

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  • Take a sample of the substance you will test
  • Add a few drops of iodine
  • If starch is present it will go blue/ black
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How would you test a substance for glucose

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  • Take a sample of the substance you will test
  • Add an equal volume of Benedict solution and heat to 95
  • Positive results (that glucose is present) then it will change to a brick red colour
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11
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What else can Benedict solution tell us about glucose

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It can tell us how much glucose is present
💚= low amont of glucose
💛= medium
❤️= high

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12
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What does a balance diet contain

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It contains all 7 food groups and in the correct proportions

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13
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What are the 7 different food groups

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  • Carbohydrates
  • Proteins
  • Lipids
  • Vitamins
  • Minerals
  • Water
  • Fibre
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14
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What is malnutrition

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  • if any of the seven food groups are missing you are malnutristed
  • or if they are eaten in the wrong proportions
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What is a common food source and use in the body for protein

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  • eggs, milk, cheese, fish and meat

* Growth and repair of cells

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What is a common food source and use in the body for fat

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  • Oil, butter, cheese, oily fish

* To maintain body temperature and to store energy

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What is a common food source and use in the body for sugar

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  • Sweets, chocolate and fruit

* Short term energy source

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What is a common food source and use in the body for starch

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  • Potatoes, rice, bread, cereals

* release energy in our cells to enable all the life process

19
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What is a common food source and use in the body for calcium

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  • cheese, milk, yogurt

* helps produce healthy teeth and bones

20
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What is a common food source and use in the body for iron

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  • Red meats, spinach

* makes haemoglobin in red blood cells

21
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What is a common food source and use in the body for vitamin C

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  • Citrus fruits, green veg

* healthy teeth, skin, gums, heathy blood vesselling

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What is a common food source and use in the body for fibre

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  • Leafy veg, grains

* gives your digestive system something to push against

23
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What does the mouth do

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Teeth and tongue break down food into smaller pieces saliva from salivary glands moisten food so it is easily swallowed and contains the enzyme amylase begin breakdown the starch

24
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What does the oesophagus do?

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Each lump is swallowed food is moved from the mouth to the stomach by waves of muscle contraction call peristalysis

25
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What does the stomach do

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Food enter through a ring of muscle known as a sphincter
Acid and protease enzymes are secreted to start protein digestion
Movements of the muscular wall churn up food into a liquid known as chyme (kime)
The party digested food passes a little at a time through another sphincter into the small intestine

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What does the liver do?

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Cells in the liver make bile. Amino Acids not used for making proteins are broken down to form urea which passes to the kidneys for excretion. Excess glucose is removed from the blood and stored as glycogen in liver cells

27
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What does the Gall bladder do

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Stores Nile from the liver which makes bile. The bile is passes along the bile duct into the small intestine where it neutralises the stomach acid in the chyme

28
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What does the pancreas do

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Secretes amlase, lipase and protease enzymes as well as sodium hydrogen carbonate, into the small intestine

29
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What does the small intestine do

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Secretion from the gall bladder and pancreas as well as carbohydrase, protease and lipase enzymes from the wall of the small intestine completes digestion . Digested food is absorbed into the blood through the villi

30
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What does the large intestine do

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Water and some vitamins are absorbed from remaining materials

31
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What does the rectum do

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The remaining material (faeces) made up of indigestible food, dead cells from the lining of the alimentary canal and bacterial is compacted and stored

32
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What does the anus do

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Faeces is egested through sphincter

33
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What are enzymes

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They are proteins

34
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What do enzymes do

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They speed up the reaction in the body

35
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Can you reused an enzyme

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Yes but if they are over heated they will become denatured and you will not be able to use it again, this happen when you have heat stroke also extream acidics and alkaline will denature certain enzymes

36
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What does ingestion mean

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Taking food into the body (through the mouth for humans)

37
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What does digestion mean

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Breaking down of large food molecules into smaller molecules

38
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What does absorption mean

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Of digested food molecules into the blood

39
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What does assimilation mean

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Converting food molecules to other food molecules for use in the body

40
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What does egestion mean

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Removal of u digested material (faeces) from the body

41
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What are Lipids made up of

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Glycerol and fatty acids

42
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How many fatty acid does a glycerol have attach to it

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3

43
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How many different fatty acids are there

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Lots