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What are organic compounds?
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Carbon based molecules
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Distinguish between monomers and polymers
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Monomers are the building blocks of polymers
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Six functional groups in organic molecules
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Hydroxyl HO / Carbonyl C=O Carboxyl COOH(carbolic acids) / Amino NH2 / Phosphate OPO3 / Methyl CH3
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What makes lipids hydrophobic?
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They don't mix with water.
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The difference between saturated and unsaturated fats. How is saturated made from unsaturated?
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Saturated has the maximum number of H / Unsaturated has double bonds that prevent it from the max number of H / To make Unsaturated H are added by hydrogenation to make saturated
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What is primary, secondary, tertiary, and quarternary protein structures?
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Primary is a single strand of amino acids / Secondary is a coiling or folding of a chain called an alpha helix / Tertairy is the interaction of the R groups of the amino acids making up the amino acid / Quarternary is 2 or more chains
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