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1
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How are polymers built?

A

Dehydration synthesis

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2
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Dehydration synthesis

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Monomers bond to form polymers; water is released

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3
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How are polymers broken down?

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Hydrolysis

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Hydrolysis

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Water is added causing polymers to break down into its monomers

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Monomer

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A molecule that can bond with other monomers to form a polymer

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Polymer

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A macromolecule comprised of many small repeating subunit, or function groups

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7
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How many valence electrons does carbon have?

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4

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8
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How many bonds can carbon make?

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4 covalent bonds

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9
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What is a hydrocarbon?

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Molecules containing only carbon and hydrogen

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10
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What are properties of hydrocarbons?

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Hydrophobic and non polar

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11
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What is a function group?

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Components of organic molecules involved in chemical reactions

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12
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Organic compound

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Compounds containing carbon

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13
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O 
        ||
- O- P- O(-)
         |
        O
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Phosphate group

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-OH

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Hydroxyl group

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15
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H
      /
- N 
      \ 
       H
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Amino group

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O 
       //
   -C
       \
        OH
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Carboxyl group

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17
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What do all macromolecules have in common?

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All contain H, C, and O, and covalent bonds

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18
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Why is carbon important to living organisms?

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It’s ability to bond with many types of elements allows it to form large and complex macromolecules

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19
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What elements are in carbohydrates?

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C, H, O

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20
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What is an example of a carbohydrate?

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Glucose

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21
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What types of elements are in lipids?

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C, H, and O

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22
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What is an example of a lipid?

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A triglyceride

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23
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What elements are in proteins?

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C, H, O, N, S

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24
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What is an example of a protein?

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Antibodies and enzymes

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25
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What elements are in nucleic acids?

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C, H, N, O, P, S

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26
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What is an example of a nucleic acid?

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DNA and RNA

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27
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What is the function of Amylose and what type of organism uses it?

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Stores energy, plants

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28
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What is the function of glycogen

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Stores energy in animals

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29
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What is the function of cellulose?

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Forms cell walls in plants

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30
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What is the function of chitin?

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Forms external skeletons in some animals

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31
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What does R stand for in a molecular diagram

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Variable

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32
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What is deoxyribonucleic acid?

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DNA

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33
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What is a disaccharide?

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A small carbohydrates such as sucrose that consist of two monosaccharides

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34
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What is a double helix

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The normal shape of a DNA molecule in which two chains of nucleotides are intertwined

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35
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What are essential amino acids

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Amino acids that the human body needs but cannot make and must consume in food

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36
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What are essential fatty acid’s?

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Fatty acids the human body needs that cannot make and must consume in foods

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37
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What is a function group

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A small group of elements of the organic compound that determine the nature and function of the organic compound

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38
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What is a fatty acid?

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Organic compounds found in lipids that has the general formula CH3(CH2)COOH

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39
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What is a monosaccharide

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Small carbohydrates such as glucose with the general formula (CH2O)n

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40
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What is a nucleic acid

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Type of organic compound that consists of smaller units called nucleotides

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41
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What is a nucleotide

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small organic molecule that is the building block of nucleic acid

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42
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What is a peptide?

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Short chain of amino acids

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43
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What is a phospholipid

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Type of lipid that is a major component in cell membranes

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44
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What is a polysaccharide

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A large carbohydrate they consist of more than two monosaccharides

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45
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What is DNA

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Double-stranded nucleic acid that consist of genetic instructions for proteins

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46
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Is RNA?

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Single-stranded nucleic acid that uses information contained in DNA to assemble amino acids and make proteins

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47
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What is a saturated fatty acid?

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A type of fatty acid which all the carbon atoms are bonded to as many hydrogen Atoms as possible

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48
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What is a simple sugar

A

Monosaccharides or disaccharides

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49
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What is a steroid

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A type of lipid that performs several functions such as forming cell membranes and acting as sex hormones

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50
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What is a triglyceride

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Type of lipid that is the main form of stored energy in animals

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51
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What is an unsaturated fatty acid

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A type of fatty acid in which some carbon atoms are not bonded to as many hydrogen atoms as possible

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52
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Finish the equation

Monosaccharide + monosaccharide =

A

Disaccharide + H2O

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53
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What is the reaction that takes place between two smaller biological molecules to form one larger biological molecule?

A

Dehydration synthesis

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54
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What monomers make up sucrose?

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Glucose + fructose

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55
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What monomers make up lactose?

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Galactose + glucose

56
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What two monomers make up maltose?

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Glucose + glucose

57
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What are the two functions of carbohydrates?

A

Producing and storing energy and structural support

58
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What is the element ratio of monosaccharides?

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1:2:1
C:H:O

59
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What are the monomers of carbohydrates?

A

Monosaccharides

60
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What are another name for monosaccharides?

A

Simple sugars

61
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What shape is fructose’s structure?

62
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What shape is glucose’s structure?

63
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What shape is galactose’s structure?

64
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When are polysaccharides formed?

A

When three of more monomers (monosaccharides) bond together

65
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When are disaccharides formed?

A

When two monomers (monosaccharides) bond

66
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What bonds are present in carbohydrates?

A

Glycosidic linkage

67
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What type of bond is glycosidic linkage?

A

Covalent bond

68
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What is the function of glycosidic linkage?

A

To bond one sugar molecule to the next

69
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What does a glycosidic linkage look like?

A

(M) (M)
\ /
O

M = monomer

70
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Describe the structure of glycogen

A

Tree-like, w/ branching segments

71
Q

Describe the structure of cellulose

A

Long linear chain

72
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Describe the structure of starch

A

Long kinked chain

73
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What reaction would remove a glucose molecule from a polysaccharide that’s 100 molecules long?

A

Polysaccharide + H2O = glucose + 99 molecule polysaccharide

74
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What are the functions of lipids?

A

Long-term energy storage, make up cell membranes, as hormones, provide insulation

75
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What elements are present in lipids?

A

Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus

76
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How common is phosphorus in lipids?

77
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What is the element ratio in lipids?

A

1C:2H:fewO

78
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What are physical properties of lipids?

A

Hydrophobic, nonpolar

79
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What are the monomers of lipids?

A

No specific monomers. Building blocks vary based on lipid

80
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What are the different types of lipids?

A

Fats/triglycerides, phospholipids, steroids

81
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What is the structure of a triglyceride?

A

A glycerol head attached to three fatty acid tails

82
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What type of bond connects to the fatty acid tails to its glycerol head?

A

Ester bond

83
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What type of bond is an ester bond?

84
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What are the two types of fatty acids?

A

Saturated, and unsaturated

85
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What is a saturated fatty acid?

A

A fatty acid that contains all single carbon to carbon bonds; saturated with the maximum amount of hydrogen atoms bonded to each carbon atom

86
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What is an unsaturated fatty acid?

A

A fatty acid that contains one or more double carbon to carbon bonds

87
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Which functional group can be found on most fatty acid’s?

A

Carboxyl group

88
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What happens at the site of a double carbon to carbon bond?

A

The fatty acid chain kinks

89
Q

At room temperature saturated fatty acid’s are at what state?

A

Solid

Butter

90
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Room temperature and saturated fatty acid’s are at what state?

A

Liquid

Vegetable oil

91
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What is the structure of a phospholipid?

A

A glycerol head attached to two fatty acid tails and a phosphate group

92
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How are triglycerides represented in a diagram?

A 
|--------------
|
|--------------              /
|                                     /
|--------------          O ----- 
                                      \
                                       \
93
Q

How are phospholipids are represented in a diagram?

94
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What are the function of phospholipids?

A

To make up the cell membrane of all cells

95
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Describe the polarity of phospholipids

A

They are amphipathic, meaning they have both polar and nonpolar regions

96
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Are phospholipids hydrophilic or hydrophobic?

A

Heads or hydrophilic and tails or hydrophobic

97
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Are the tails of phospholipids kinked?

A

Usually one is kinked

98
Q

Describe how phospholipids arrange themselves

A

Side-by-side with heads next to heads with another row underneath the tales of the bottom row touching the tales of the top row

99
Q

Which part of the phospholipid is touching water

A

The hydrophilic head

100
Q

What is the function of steroids?

A

Make up hormones

101
Q

What is the job of hormones

A

to act as chemical messengers of the cell

102
Q

Describe the structure of steroids

A

Fused carbon rings with different functional groups attached

103
Q

What is the difference trams fats and cis fats?

A

In trans fats hydrogens connected to the double bonded Carbons on opposite sides. In cis fats they are on the same side

104
Q

What reaction is used to build a triglyceride?

A

Dehydration synthesis

105
Q

What are the functions of nucleic acid’s?

A

To store genetic information, or to help make proteins

106
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Are the two types of nucleic acid’s

A

DNA, and RNA

107
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What elements make up nucleic acid’s?

A

Carbon, Oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosphorus

108
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Are the monomers of nucleic acid’s?

A

Nucleotides

109
Q

What makes up nucleotides?

A

A five carbon sugar, and nitrogen base, a phosphate group

110
Q

Name the types of nitrogen bases

A

Adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, uracil

111
Q

What is the difference between purines and pyrimidines?

A

Purines have two rings, while pyrimidines one ring

112
Q

A purine must always pair with a (blank)

A

Pyrimidine

113
Q

Type of bond connects the bases with their partner in nucleotides?

A

Hydrogen bonds

114
Q

In DNA what bases pair together?

A

adenine + thymine

cytosine + guanine

115
Q

In RNA what bases pair together?

A

Adenine + Uracil

Cytosine + Guanine

116
Q

What type of sugar does DNA have?

A

Deoxyribose

117
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What type of sugar does RNA have?

118
Q

How many strands does DNA have?

119
Q

Many strands does RNA have?

120
Q

Of bond holds nucleotides to one another?

A

Phosphodiester bonds

121
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The difference tween hydrogen bonds in phosphodiester bonds in nucleic acid

A

Hydrogen bonds are found with in nucleotides, while phosphodiester bond I found holding nucleotides to each other

122
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What determines if a nucleotide is is DNA or RNA?

A

The type of sugar that’s present

123
Q

What are the functions of proteins?

A

Structure, transport proteins, hormones, antibodies, and enzymes

124
Q

What elements are present in proteins?

A

Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulfur

125
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What are the monomers of proteins?

A

Amino acids

126
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What is a chain of amino acids called?

A

Polypeptide

127
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What are the structural components of a protein?

A

An amino group, carboxyl group, central carbon, and a variable side chain

128
Q

How many types of proteins are there?

129
Q

What will result when a protein is hydrolyzed?

A

A mixture of various amino acids

130
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What is a proteins primary structure?

A

The order of amino acids in the polypeptide chain

131
Q

What is a proteins secondary structure?

A

The formation of an alpha helix of beta pleated sheets

132
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What determines a proteins secondary structure?

A

Hydrogen bonds linking certain areas of the chain

133
Q

What is a proteins tertiary structure?

A

Involves reactions of the side chains - now considered a protein

134
Q

What is a proteins quaternary structure?

A

The interaction of 2+ amino acids

135
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What do fructose, glucose, and galactose have in common?

A

They all have the same Formula (C6H12O6), and are therefore isomers

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