Unifying Truths
Does this make me look fat?
Very stable, very reactive, very cutesy
That other white powder they got y'all addicted to
Lost in translation
100
Plus likes...
What is Minus?
100
The two primary lipid types found in a cell membrane are...
What are phospholipids and cholesterol?
100
The functional monomers of a protein are...
What are amino acids?
100
The functional monomeric unit of a carbohydrate is the...
What is a monosaccharide?
100
The functional monomeric unit of a nucleic acid is the...
What is a nucleotide?
200
Polar and non-polar compounds don't like each other because of this kind of difference in the C-C bonds in the non-polar compounds and C-O covalent bonds in the polar ones...
What is the unequal sharing of electrons?
200
The primary monomeric unit of a lipid is the...
What is a fatty acid?
200
The name of the amino acid shown in the picture.
What is glycine?
200
Branched carbohydrate polymers made in the muscles of animals are called...
What is glycogen?
200
This atomic property makes the terminal phosphate of ATP unstable and good for transferring energy to chemical reactions that need it.
What is electronegativity?
300
Detergents can bring some hydrophobic proteins into a polar solution because of the existence of these two regions of the molecule.
What are polar and non-polar regions?
300
The primary transport and storage form of lipids are...
What are triglycerides?
300
The backbone of a protein is composed of repeats of these three atoms (in the correct order).
What is NCC?
300
The process shown in the figure is called...
What is dehydration synthesis?
300
The connections/bonds between deoxynucleotide monomers in a DNA molecule are called...
What are phosphodiester bonds?
400
This is the difference between electrostatic interactions between a protein and another protein, and a protein with a nucleic acid.
What is, there is no difference?
400
Describe the polar and non-polar regions of a phospholipid (correctly assigned).
What are head-group/phosphate polar, and fatty acids tails non-polar?
400
These bonds connect neighboring amino acids in a polypeptide chain and are formed through dehydration synthesis.
What are peptide bonds?
400
The two monosaccharides that compose sucrose are...
What are a-glucose and fructose?
400
The interactions between bases "inside" the DNA double-helix structure, if they are on the same strand.
What are base-stacking, Pi interactions, or hydrophobic interactions?
500
The SARS-CoV2 virus has increased its ability to bind to and infect human cells by tightening its interactions with glycosylated proteins on the surface of cells. Name the unifying truth exhibited in this example.
What is, plus likes minus?
500
Linoleic acid shown above disrupts these non-covalent interactions by having multiple double bonds in its structure.
What are hydrophobic interactions?
500
If a soluble protein folds to obey the polar/non-polar rule, but still contains some hydrophobic amino acids, those amino acids will be located in this part of the spherical protein.
What is in the middle?
500
Polar carbohydrates that decorate the ends of lipids and proteins add specificity to cell-cell and cell-microbe interactions through these unifying truths of biochemistry.
What are plus likes minus, like charges repel each other, and polar and non-polar don't like each other?
500
Protein interactions with nucleic acids that DO NOT depend on the sequence of bases have this overall charge on the interacting surface.
What is positive?