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Polymers are long molecule chains made out of |
Monomers |
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How many classes of organic molecules are there? |
Four |
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What three Organic Molecule classes are polymers? |
Carbohydrates Proteins Nucleic acids |
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Polymers are made through________ |
Dehydration reactions |
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Two monomers bonded together through the loss of a monomer is called a |
Dehydration Reaction |
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Polymers are broken down or disassembled through a |
Hydrolysis reaction |
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What are enzymes? |
Macromolecules that speed up dehydration process |
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Carbohydrates serve as ____ and _____ |
Fuel, Building Material |
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Simple Carbohydrates are called |
Simple Sugars, Monosaccharides |
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What is included in Carbohydrates? |
Sugars/Polymers of sugars |
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The molecular formulas of simple sugars are multiples of |
CH2O |
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The most common Monosaccharide is |
Glucose |
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Monosaccharides are Classified by two things |
Location of carbonyl group # of carbons in carbon skeleton |
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Monsaccharides are |
Major fuel, building blocks |
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Glycosidic linkage forms |
Disaccharides |
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Two monosaccharides joined in a dehydration reaction is called |
Glycosidic Linkage |
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What is the role of Polysaccharides? |
Storage and Structure |
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Plants store surplus sugars in the form of |
Starch/Polysaccharides |
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Storage Polysaccharides in animals is called |
Glycogen |
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Hydrolysis of Glycogen creates |
Glucose |
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Celluose is the major component of the ____ of plants |
Cell wall |
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Cellulose is a polymer of ____ |
Glucose |
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Lipids mix ____ with water |
poorly |
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Lipids consist mostly of |
Hydrocarbons |
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Hydrocarbons are made of _____ bonds |
Non polar covalent |
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The most biologically important lipids are |
Fats Phospholipids Steroids |
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What are fats constructed from? |
Glycerol and Fatty Acids |
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An ester linkage creates |
Triglyceride |
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And ester linkage is |
Three fatty acids joined to a glycerol |
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Energy storage is the major function of ___ |
Fats |
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Adipose cells are |
Long term food reserves |
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The maximum # of hydrogen and no double bonds describes |
Saturated fatty acids |
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Cardiovascular Disease can be attributed to |
Saturated fat |
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Saturated fat is _____ at room temp. |
Solid |
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Unsaturated fatty acids have ____ double bond(s). |
1 or more |
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Plant and fish fat is usually |
Unsaturated |
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The process of converting unsaturated to saturated fats is called |
Hydrogenation |
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Hydrogenation veggie oils creates |
trans fat |
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Two fatty acids and a phosphate group are attached to glycerol creating |
Phospholipids |
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Phospholipids are arranged in a structure called a ____ To create the cell membrane. |
bilayer |
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The existence of cells is dependent on |
Phospholipids |
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Steroids are _____ |
Lipids |
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Cholesterol is an example of a |
steroid |
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Steroids have a ____ skeleton in the shape of four fused ____ |
Carbon, Rings |
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Proteins account for 50% of ____ in most cells |
Dry mass |
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What are some functions of Proteins? |
Antibodies, Digestive enzymes, storage, transportation, and more |
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Proteins are _____ all constructed from the same 20 amino acids |
POLYPEPTIDES |
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Organic molecules with amino and carboxyl groups are |
Amino acids |
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R groups are |
differing side chains in amino acids |
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Amino acids are linked by covalent bonds called _____ to form ____ |
Peptide, Polypeptide |
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Primary structure of in protein is |
Sequence of amino acids in a protein |
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The coils and folds of secondary structureresult from |
hydrogen bonds between repeating constituents of the polypeptide backbone
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Typical secondary structures are a coil called an_____ and a folded structure called a ___________ |
α helix, β pleated sheet
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R groups relates to |
Tertiary structure and hydrophobic interactions |
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Disulfide bridges are covalent bonds that reinforce |
Protein structure |
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Quaternary structure results from |
2 or more polypeptide chains for one macromolecules |
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Collagen has how many polypeptides? |
3 |
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How many polypeptides exist in hemoglobin? |
4 |
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What is a polypeptide bond? |
amino acids bonded together to form protein |
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Loss of a proteins native structure is called |
denaturation |
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A denatured protein is biologically ____ |
inactive |
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Enzymes |
Speed up chemical reactions |
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Examples of nucleic acids |
DNA and RNA |
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Nucleic acids are |
polynucleotides Monomers: Nucleotides |
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Nucleotide consists of |
Nitrogenous Base, Pentose sugar, Phosphate groups |
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Pyrimidine |
Cytosine, Thymine, Uracil |
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Purines |
Adinine, Guanine |