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What are the four macromolecules?
Carbohydrates, Lipids, Protein, and Nucleaic Acid
Lipids are found in which foods?
Olive oil, corn oil, and avocado
What is the difference between mono and poly saccharides?
Mono: contains 1 sugar
Poly: contains more than 1 sugar
Name at least two foods that contain protein
Meat
Chicken
Seafood
Fish
Nuts
What is the function of DNA?
Storing genetic info
Which one likes water and which one doesn't polar, non-polar?
Polar: likes water
Non-Polar: doesn't like water
Lipids are made up of which three elements?
Carbon, Hydrogen, and very few oxygen
Another name for Carbohydrates is
Polyccharides
How many different amino acids are used to make a protien?
20
What does RNA do in the nucleaic acid?
It carries info from DNA to the cell.
Which part is polar and which is nonpolar in the molecule? Head and Tail.
Head polar
Tail nonpolar
Phspholipids make up the ____ ________.
Cell membrane
The 3 polysaccharides are:
Cellulose, Starch, and Glycogen
What makes each amino acid different
The r-group
A nucleotide is made of what three things
Nitrogen base
Sugar
Phosphate group
How much carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen molecules do carbohydrates have?
Carbon:1
Hydrogen:2
Oxygen:1
Which is good for you and which is bad? Saturated and unsaturated fats.
Saturated: Bad
Unsaturated: Good
What does burning glucose get you?
A. glycogen
B. Starch
C. Energy
D. nitrogen
Energy
What are 3 of the functions of proteins?
Provide structure
regulate body processes
transport materials
provide energy
Immunity
what does ATP do in the nucleaic acid?
store and transport energy
How are diabetes related to carbohydrates
More carbohydrate than normal amounts can cause diabetes because of high or low glucose levels
What does insulate do and how?
They help maintain body heat by slowing heat flow
what process is used to make multipile monosaccharides into a polysaccharides?
Dehydration synthysis
How does the protien transport material, provide structure, and regulate body processes?
transports material through hemoglobin
Provides structure through keratin or collagen
Regulates body processes through enzyme or hormones
Changes in the sugar and nitrogen base make what changes in the nucleotide?
They change it into differnet neacleotide subunits.