Lessons 1&2
An interchangeable term for proton.
What is a hydrogen ion?
This name means there is a double bond 3 carbons up from the bottom of the chain.
What is Omega-3?
The structural make up of liposomes, vesicles, and miceles.
What are phospholipids?
Greek meaning is few.
What is oligo?
An amino acid that your body cannot make.
What is an essential acid?
An electrically unbalanced atom or molecule.
What is an ion?
When two molecules are joined and water is formed as a byproduct of this reaction.
What is dehydration synthesis?
A membrane.
Greek meaning is across.
What is trans?
A peptide bond.
The bond that joins two amino acids.
The number of electrons carbon wants in its outer shell.
What is 8?
A fatty acid not attached to a glycerol molecule.
What is a free fatty acid?
Cell membrane permeability.
What is selectively permeable?
What is NH2?
Number of different amino acids.
What is 20?
A hydrocarbon chain and a carboxyl group.
What are fatty acids made of?
The hydrophobic end of the phospholipid.
What is the tail?
Simple diffusion, facilitate diffusion and osmosis.
What are forms of passive transport?
Left-handed.
What is the handedness of all amino acids in the body?
Contains alpha helices and beta sheet.
What is secondary structure?
This makes water good at dissolving many things (the universal solvent).
What is polarity?
Number of bonds for Carbon atoms, Oxygen atoms, and Phosphorus.
What are 4 bonds, 2 bonds, and 5 bonds.
It is going down its concentration gradient.
What is something diffusing from one side of a membrane to the other?
What are 3?
Hemoglobin.
What is a a quaternary structure?