Proteins
Amino Acids
Carbohydrates
Lipids
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100
This is one of the most common posttranslational modifications that alter the side chain of amino acids.
What is Phosphorylation?
100
The single letter nickname for Histidine
What is H
100
The stereoisomers formed by rotation around carbon 1, for glucose.
What is alpha and beta steroisomers?
100
A lipid is formed by a glycerol head and _____________ tails.
What is fatty acid?
100
This atom, between N, C, O and Cl, is most electronegative.
What is O?
200
A non competitive inhibitor binds to the ______ site of an enzyme
What is Active Site
200
An amino acid with a sole methyl group as its R group.
What is Alanine?
200
These bonds cannot be broken by human enzymes that normally digest glucose polymers.
What is B(1-4) linkage?
200
A fatty acid chain with a double bond somewhere along the line
What is unsaturated fatty acid?
200
Humans and chimpanzees diverged approximately
What is 5 million years ago?
300
Amino groups have a pK of ~9.0. At a basic pH of 10, most amine groups in solution would have this net charge.
What is zero?
300
The three-letter code for Aspartic Acid
What is Asp?
300
The term for a sugar with the carbonyl group at the end of the carbon chain.
What is an Aldose?
300
An omega-3 fatty acid has a double bond here.
What is the third carbon from the end (omega) carbon.
300
Eubacteria and Archaea are what kind of cells?
What is prokaryotes?
400
This attempts to measure the speed of enzymatic reaction against the substrate concentration
What is Km or the Michaelis-Menton Constant?
400
The main role of Histidine in the hydrolysis of a peptide bond catalyzed by Chymotrypsin.
What is accepting and donating Hydrogen at different stages
400
A glucose polymer with a(1-4) glycosidic linkages and a(1-6) branched chains.
What is glycogen?
400
Where does glycogen enter glycolysis?
What is dihydroxyacetone phosphate (or DHAP)?
400
This is a pathogenic misfolded protein that causes Creutzfeld-Jakob disease.
What is a Prion?
500
This level of structure in proteins is held together by intermolecular side chain interactions.
What is Quaternary?
500
The a-Helix is characterized by orientation of _________ bonds ________ to the molecular axis of the polypeptide backbone.
What is H, parallel
500
A polymer of N-acetylglucosamine
What is Chitin?
500
This is the carrier for fatty acid chains synthesized from pyruvate at the end of glycolysis.
What is Acetyl-CoA
500
This type of phospholipid movement occurs very slowly in artificial membranes.
What is flip-flop?
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