Chemistry of Life
Large Biological Molecules
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Metabolism
100
Fairly weak bonds formed between a positive hydrogen and an adjacent negative oxygen.
What are hydrogen bonds
100
The complex shape that is acquired due to interactions between R groups.
What is the tertiary structure?
100
The network of fibrous proteins that can be found throughout the cytoplasm.
What is the cytoskeleton?
100
More simply explained as the molecular message.
What is a ligand?
100
The chemical reaction for cellular respiration.
C6H12O6 + 6O2 ---> 6CO2 + 6H2O
200
The amount of energy required to raise the temperature of an object 1°C.
What is specific heat
200
The four parts of a protein monomer.
What are the R group, carboxyl group, amino group and central carbon atom.
200
The powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
200
The three types of cell receptors on or in cells.
What are G-protein linked receptor, receptor tyrosine kinase and ion channel?
200
This is the number of ATP molecules produced in one cycle of cellular respiration.
What is 36?
300
Found in ethanol and methanol and helps to dissolve certain molecules such as sugars.
What is hydroxyl group - OH?
300
Considered to be the four basic types of biological molecules.
What are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids?
300
Responsible for the detoxification of alcohol through the transfer of hydrogen to oxygen.
What are the peroxisomes?
300
An enzyme responsible for moving a phosphate from an ATP to another molecule.
What is protein kinase?
300
The organelle where cellular respiration takes place.
What is the mitochondria?
400
What are considered to be the six most important/abundant elements of life.
What are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur and phosphorus?
400
This carbohydrate plays a key role in a dominant feature in arthropods and the cell walls of some fungi.
What is chitin?
400
The site for the formation of protein factories using rRNA.
What is the nucleolus?
400
Cell suicide.
What is apoptosis?
400
The enzyme responsible for turning ADP into ATP.
What is ATPase?
500
Are known to be the four emergent properties of water due to the formation of hydrogen bonds.
What are cohesion, high specific heat, solid insulation and solvent properties?
500
A four ring lipid that is found in the cell membrane that helps regulate the level and constancy of fluidity of the cell membrane.
What is cholesterol?
500
A organelle that can make up to 80% of a plant cell.
What is the central vacuole?
500
The three steps of cellular communication.
What are reception, transduction and response?
500
The two molecules that are reduced and later release hydrogen in cellular respiration.
What are NADH and FADH2
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