Fat Amy
Sugar Ain't So Sweet Anymore
What's In Those Genes
Between the Beta-Pleated Sheets
"I just have a slow metabolism.."
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The name given to a long chain hydrocarbon with a carboxylic acid tail.
What is a fatty acid?
100
The name given to a monosaccharide that consists of 5 carbon atoms, one of which is aldehyde group.
What is an aldopentose?
100
The name given to a nitrogen base + a sugar.
What is a nucleoside?
100
The "building blocks" of proteins.
What are amino acids?
100
The citric acid cycle operates under a) aerobic conditions b) anaerobic conditions c) either aerobic or anaerobic conditions
What is A?
200
The type of fatty acid that is the target for NSAIDS.
What are prostaglandins?
200
The two monosaccharides that make up the disaccharide maltose.
What is glucose and glucose?
200
A mutation caused by deletion of one base in a DNA sequence.
What is a frameshift mutation?
200
Collagen, a component of cartilage and tendons, is classified as this type of protein.
What is structural?
200
The "reverse" of glycolysis in which glucose is synthesized from lactate.
What is gluconeogenesis?
300
An adrenal corticosteroid that regulates blood sugar, carbohydrate and fat metabolism.
What is cortisol?
300
A polysaccharide that is a major structural component of wood and plants. Human bodies do not possess the necessary enzyme to digest it.
What is cellulose?
300
The process in which mRNA is synthesized using the information from DNA.
What is transcription?
300
The amino acid tyrosine is classified as this.
What is polar neutral?
300
The number of ATP molecules generated from one FADH2 in the electron transport chain.
What is 2 ATP?
400
The most abundant lipids in cell membranes.
What are glycerophospholipids?
400
The reduction of a monosaccharide yields this.
What is a sugar alcohol?
400
Type of bond that holds two strands of DNA together in a double helix.
What are hydrogen bonds?
400
This process, carried out by enzymes in vivo, breaks peptide bonds to give smaller peptides or single amino acids.
What is hydrolysis?
400
The fate of pyruvate under anaerobic conditions.
What is lactate?
500
The number of ATP molecules that can be generated from the beta-oxidation of palmitic acid (C16).
What is 129?
500
Monossaccharides with an aldehyde group that can be oxidized to a carboxylic acid.
What are "reducing sugars"?
500
The sequence of bases in the start codon AND the AA it codes for.
What is AUG and methionine?
500
These are the 4 things that stabilize the tertiary structure of a protein.
What are salt bridges, hydrogen bonds, disulfide bonds, and hydrophobic/hydrophilic interactions?
500
The process by which amino acids are degraded in the liver.
What is transamination?
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