Biomolecules & Chirality
Sugars such as glucose belong to this class of biomolecules.
What are carbohydrates?
This is the most common monosaccharide.
What is glucose?
Fats and oils belong to this class of biomolecules.
What are lipids?
This molecule is the body’s main immediate source of usable energy.
What is ATP?
Proteins are made from these smaller building blocks.
What are amino acids?
Proteins are polymers of these smaller organic compounds.
What are amino acids?
This word means that a molecule has a different mirror-image form.
What is chiral?
A sugar made of one simple sugar unit is called this.
What is a monosaccharide?
These molecules are made from glycerol and three fatty acids.
What are triglycerides?
This pathway breaks glucose down into pyruvic acid.
What is glycolysis?
This bond joins amino acids together.
What is a peptide bond?
Amino acids contain these two key functional groups.
What are an amine group and a carboxylic acid group?
These are two mirror-image forms of the same molecule.
What are enantiomers?
A sugar made of two monosaccharides is called this.
What is a disaccharide?
A fatty acid with no carbon-carbon double bonds is called this.
What is a saturated fatty acid?
Under anaerobic conditions, pyruvic acid is converted into this.
What is lactic acid?
A chain of many amino acids is called this.
What is a polypeptide?
hese bonds join amino acids into polypeptide chains
What are peptide bonds?
This mixture contains equal amounts of two enantiomers.
What is a racemic mixture?
This common table sugar is made from glucose and fructose.
What is sucrose?
A fatty acid with at least one carbon-carbon double bond is called this.
What is an unsaturated fatty acid?
This process breaks fatty acids into two-carbon units.
What is beta oxidation?
This protein carries oxygen in the blood.
What is hemoglobin?
This level of protein structure is the association of multiple globular proteins, such as in hemoglobin.
What is quaternary structure?
Etomidate is supplied as this single isomer.
What is the R(+) isomer?
Humans can usually digest this type of glycoside bond
What is an alpha glycoside bond?
These lipids are major components of cell membranes.
What are phospholipids?
Acetyl CoA enters this cycle to help produce energy.
What is the Krebs cycle?
Most enzymes belong to this class of biomolecules.
What are proteins?
During protein synthesis, mRNA codons pair with these complementary three-base sequences on tRNA.
What are anticodons?