Week 3 Flashcards
How many covalent bonds can carbon form?
4
Orbital hybridization
Allows carbon to form 4 covalent bonds
Tetrahedron
Lopsided orbitals with electrons on different planes but similar distances
Hydrocarbons
Molecules in a carbon chain
Hydrocarbons are formed through
Orbital hybridization
Are hydrocarbons polar or nonpolar?
Non polar, their electronegativities are very similar
Functional groups
Groups of atoms in an organic molecule
Elements commonly bonded w carbon
Hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur
What kind of molecules is carbon a defining factor in?
Organic
Organic molecules
Mostly made up of carbon bonded w other elements
Dehydration uses what kind of metabolic process?
Anabolism
Byproduct of dehydration
Water
During what reaction does water break into its molecular components
Hydrolysis
Which reaction requires an input of energy and creates a covalent bond
Dehydration
Starch
Carb polymer chain made up of glucose monomers
1-4 Glycosidic link shape
Straight chain
1-6 glycosidic link shape
Branching chains
Where is free energy stored in dehydration
Glycosidic links
What is a catalyst
Substance that is added to a reaction to increase the reaction rate without getting consumed in process
What is an enzyme
Proteins that act as catalysts in biochemical reactions
Dimer
(Aka polymer) 2 monomers bonded, simple carb
Polysaccharides
3 monomers bonded, complex carb
Entropy
Disorder
Disaccharides
Dimers of carbs
Cellulose
Carb polymer chain of B glucose
Which reaction raises entropy?
Hydrolysis, makes more disorder due to breaking down
Which reaction releases free energy?
Hydrolysis
Which reaction lowers entropy?
Dehydration, builds together
Peptide bond
Covalent bond between carbon and nitrogen after dehydration
Polypeptide
Linear chain of amino acids
Hydrophobic exclusion
Substance condensing and excluding water
Protein folding
Disulfide bridge
Covalent bonds between R groups
Van der waals attractions
Weak attraction among molecules close together
Denaturation
Protein that lost its shape making it inactive