Structure
4 hydrocarbon rings
What is a steroid
Short term energy storage
What are Carbohydrates
Simple Sugars/ Monosaccharides
What are carbohydrates
Carboyhdrates, Lipids, Proteins, and Nucleic Acids
What are the 4 macromolecules of life
The main function of cellulose is what
to provide strength to plant cell walls.
The main use for lipids
What is long term energy storage
The bond of amino acids
What is a peptide bond
Made of Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen, contains a glycerol molecule
What are Lipids
Storage of hereditary information
What is DNA
When monomers join together they form?
What are polymers
Speeds up the rate of reactions
What are enzymes
How carbohydrates are stored in plants?
What is starch
The difference between an unsaturated and saturated fat.
What is an unsaturated fat has a double bond between carbons and is missing hydrogens.
Which of the following may cause a protein to denature?
All of the above
Made of Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Nitrogen
What are proteins
Used in protein synthesis
What is RNA
What is the bond that links together 2 monosaccharides?
Is it a covalent or ionic bond?
Glycosidic
Covalent
TRUE/FALSE
DNA strands are antiparallel
True
Phospholipids are made up of?
What is Phosphate head that is polar or hydrophylic,
glycerol molecule,
Fatty acid tails which are non-polar or hydrophobic
This lipid is liquid at room temperature
What is unsaturated fat, example is oil
In what direction are polypeptides built?
"N" terminus to "C" terminus
Made of Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen and Phosphate
What is Nucleic Acid
Used for long-term energy storage
What are Lipids
Nucleotides
What are Nucleic Acids
In a biological membrane, the phospholipids are arranged with the fatty acid chains facing the interior of the membrane. As a result, the interior of the membrane is what?
hydrophobic
Function of Enzymes
What is they speed up chemical reactions, act as a catalyst, provide the activation energy needed to jump start a reaction
What kind of lipids are found in the cell membrane
Phospholipids
The alpha-helix and the beta-pleated sheet are part of which protein structure?
the secondary structure
What are the 3 parts of a nucleic acid
Phosphate group
+ PENTOSE Sugar
+ Nitrogenous base
Name 4 of the 8 functions of proteins
Enzyme, defense, storage, transport, hormonal, receptor, structural, motor
Amino Acids
What are proteins
Which of the following describes lipids?
A) insoluble in water.
B) important for energy storage.
C) hydrophobic.
D) important constituents of biological membranes.
E) All of the above
All of the above
How carbohydrates are stored in animal liver and muscle cells
What is glycogen
TRUE/FALSE
A triglyceride is formed by joining three glycerol molecules to a fatty acid backbone in a dehydration reaction.
False
Tertiary structure is determined by interactions between the _______, rather than interactions between backbone constituents
–BONUS
These interactions include :
Strong covalent bonds called______ may reinforce the proteins structure
Amino Acid side chains (R Groups)
Bonus-
Disulfide bridges