Carbohydrates
Have the general formula (CH2O)n
Carbohydrates
A fatty acid with no double bonds
Saturated fatty acid
Adenine - (A), Cytosine - (C), Guanine - (G), Thymine - (T)
The nucleic acids that make up DNA
The building blocks of proteins
Amino acids
The bond between two carbohydrates
Glycosidic bond
Fatty acid with double bonds
Unsaturated fatty acid
mRNA, tRNA, rRNA
The three types of RNA
Alpha helix or Beta sheet
Secondary Structures
An enzyme-assisted reaction where water is added to a covalent bond, splitting it
Hydrolysis
Amphipathic compound making up cell membrane
Phospholipid
A successive run of non-overlapping codons, starting with AUG and ending with UAA, UAG or UGA.
Open Reading Frame
When a protein has their structure changed, through disruption or alteration of their side-chains.
Denaturation
Starch, Glycogen, Cellulose, Chitin
Polysaccharides
The use of lipids in seeds
As an energy reserve
Replication, transcription and translation
The Central Dogma of Gene Expression
pH change, temperature change, addition of polar and addition of non-polar
Conditions for denaturation