Lipids
A 3 carbon compound with a hydroxide on each carbon. Fatty acids connect to its hydroxides.
What is glycerol?
What are phospholipids?
A protein that spans the phospholipid bilayer.
What is a transmembrane protein?
The elements that make up carbohydrates.
What are C, O, H?
The kind of bond that connect fatty acids to an -OH.
The name for a compound containing for hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions.
What is amphipathic?
The bond that links amino acids.
What is a peptide bond?
The bond that binds two carbohydrate monomers.
What is a glycosidic bond?
The handedness of the DNA double helix.
What is right-handed?
What is a phospholipid?
The functional group that makes up the polar part of cell membranes.
What is phosphate?
The sequence of amino acids.
What is primary structure?
That kind of bond that glycogen has.
What is an alpha 1,4 glycosidic bond?
What is transcription?
The number of double bonds (excluding -COOH) in the fatty acid C20 H32 O2.
What is 4?
The kind of fatty acid that is thought to contribute to atherosclerosis.
What is a trans unsaturated fatty acid?
The type of secondary structure that results in H-bonding between an amino acid and the one 3-4 amino acids away from it.
What is an alpha helix?
The macromolecule with an added carbohydrate that is found in the membrane and is critical for cell-to-cell recognition and adhesion, as well as serving as receptors for other types of molecules.
What is a glycoprotein?
Humans have 23 pairs of these.
What are chromosomes?
A solid, cholesterol rich portion of the plasma membrane that moves as a unit and carries transmembrane proteins.
What is a lipid raft?
The reason for the word 'acid' in 'fatty acid.'
The general structure of an amino acid.
What is
A central carbon bound to:
H (except proline)
Carboxyl group
Amine Group
R- Group
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The dimer of glucose and galactose.
What is galactose?
The carbons on the 5 carbon ribose that are closest to the nitrogenous base, the phosphate group, and the next monomer's phosphate group, respectively.
What are 1, 5 , and 3?