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BIO120-Macromolecule
BC-Structure & Function of Large Biological Molecules
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the 2 types of nucleic acids? | RNA and DNA |
| What makes up the primary structure of proteins? | Amino Acid Sequence |
| The portion of a phospholipid that is polar and hydrophyllic. | Glycerol Head |
| What are the triglyceride molecules that are liquid at room temperature, due to carbon to carbon double bonds in the fatty acid tails which create kinks in the tails? | Unsaturated |
| Name 2 types of secondary strucures in proteins. | Beta Pleated Sheet and the Alpha Helix |
| Which group of lipids has ring structures instead of fatty acid tails? | steroids |
| The building blocks of proteins are _____. | Amino Acids |
| An example of an unsaturated fat. | salad oil |
| An example of a saturated fat. | butter |
| What does RNA stand for? | Ribonucleic Acid |
| The portion of the phospholipid that is non-polar and hydrophobic. | Fatty Acid Tails |
| What does DNA stand for? | Deoxyribonucleic acid |
| Name the 3 parts of an amino acid. | Carboxyl group, amino group and a side "R" chain. |
| The building blocks of polysaccharides. | monosaccharides |
| What makes the different amino acids unique? | Side "R" chains |
| Name the covalent bond which holds the amino acids together in proteins. | Peptide Bonds |
| Name a polysaccharide which is indigestible by humans; also known as "fiber"; the cell wall component of plants. | cellulose |
| What are the 4 classes of organic molecules? | carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids |
| What are the building blocks of nucleic acids? | Nucleotides |
| Name one example of a monosaccharide. | glucose |
| Dissarcharides are named with the "di" prefix because of the number of subunits of sugars. How many would there be? | Two |
| What are the 3 parts of a nucleotide? | Phosphate, Sugar & Base |
| What are the triglyceride molecules that are solid at room temperature, due to carbon to carbon single bonds in the fatty acid tails? | Saturated |
| Name one example of a polysaccharide which is a storage form of glucose in animals. | glycogen |
| Long molecules which consist of numerous subunits which are very similar are: | Polymers |
| The building blocks that are the subunits of polymers are known as: | Monomers |
| Biosynthetic reactions which combine monomers and release water are what type of reaction? | Dehydration Synthesis |
| Degradative reactions that use up water to break bonds holding monomers together are: | Hydrolytic Reactions |
| This is the formula for glucose. | C6H12O6 (numbers are subscripts) |
| This is a storage form of glucose in plants. | Starch |
| A structural polysaccharide found in the exoskeletons of arthropods and cell walls of fungi. | Chitin |
| This lipid is considered a type of: | Steroid |
| Which level of protein structure occurs due to the interactions among the R side chains of the amino acids? | Tertiary |
| Which level of protein structure occurs when there are repeating subunits? | Quaternary |
| This type of protein has a quaternary structure with 4 polypeptides, two alpha and two beta subunits. | Hemoglobin |
| This inherited blood disorder results from a single amino acid change in the hemoglobin protein. | Sickle Cell Disease |
| Changing the shape of a protein through environmental conditions such as high temperature or a change in pH is known as: | Denaturation |
| ______ are regions of DNA which code for the amino acid sequence of proteins. | Genes |
| Sugar found in DNA is: | Deoxyribose |
| Sugar found in RNA is: | Ribose |
| What are the two groups of nitrogenous bases found in DNA and RNA? | Pyrimidines and Purines |
| The bases found in nucleic acids which are single ringed: | Pyrimidines |
| The bases found in nucleic acids which are double ringed: | Purines |
| Adenine and Guanine are in which class of nitrogenous bases? | Purines |
| Cytosine, Thymine and Uracil are in which class of nucleic acids? | Pyrimidines |
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