A 6 unit chain of monosaccharides.
What is a polysaccharide.
Name the four types of lipids.
What are phospholipids, fats/oils, waxes and steroids?
The monomer of carbohydrates.
What is monosaccharide.
Name the monomer of lipids.
What are triglycerides?
***DAILY DOUBLE*** Name two functions of lipids.
What are energy, insulation, chemical messaging, cell membrane?
The purpose of the sugar phosphate backbone is this
What is to hold bases in place to allow them to hydrogen bond with the opposite strand?
Long chains of amino acids are called this.
What are polypeptides?
Name the four polysaccharides.
What are cellulose, glycogen, chitin & starch?
Name three functions of proteins.
What are transport, enzymes, support, structure, defense, signals?
Nucleotides are made up of these 3 parts
Sugar, nitrogenous base, phosphate group
***DAILY DOUBLE*** Name the ways in which a protein can denature and what denaturation does
Temperature and pH, protein loses 3D shape and therefore its function
Animals store energy in the form of the polysaccharide ____________ in the ___________.
What is glycogen in the liver?
Explain the difference between saturated and unsaturated fats.
What is saturated fats are linear, solid at room temperature, and full of H-C single bonds; unsaturated fats are liquid at room temperature, bent shape and contain C=C double bonds.
Name the type of protein that lowers the activation energy of chemical reactions and give an example
Enzymes; lactase, sucrase, lipase, peptidase, pepsin, amylase, catalase, alcohol dehydrogenase, etc.
List the four macromolecule tests from lab and what they test for are
Sudan: Lipids, Benedicts: Monosaccharides, Biuret: Proteins, Iodine: Starch