Carbohydrate
What are examples of nucleic acids?
DNA/ RNA
What elements make up proteins
What is carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen
What is process of adding water to break up a polymer into monomers?
hydrolysis
What are the lipid monomers?
Fatty acid and gycerol
What do nucleic acids do?
What is store information.
Blueprint for life
What does saccharide mean?
Sugar
How many amino acids are there? How many does the body make?
20 total
Body makes 12
How are carbohydrates and lipids similar? How are they different?
Both carbohydrates and lipids are made up of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. They differ in the way they provide organisms energy: Carbs provide short term energy, and lipids provide long term energy.
What are 3 parts of a nucleotide?
Sugar, phosphate group, Nitrogen containing base
What are the 4 parts of an amino acids?
Hydrogen atom
Carboxyl Group
Amine Group
R group
What special kind of bond links the amino acids together in a protein?
Peptide Bond
Which fat has a kink in the tail? Why does it have a kink ?
Unsaturated
The double bonds
Explain how both nucleic acids and proteins are polymers. Be sure to describe the monomers that make up the polymers.
Nucleic acids are made up of the monomers called nucleotides and proteins are made up of the monomers called amino acids. Therefore they are both polymers.
What do enzymes do? Give an example.
Speed up chemical reactions
dehydration synthesis/ hydrolysis
Describe the unique characteristics of carbon that allow it form biological macromolecules
Carbon has 4 valence electrons which gives carbon unique bonding properties. Carbon can make rings, chains, branches. They can also form single and double bonds. Lastly, carbon is a small molecule so it ‘fits’ between larger molecules