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Lipids/Nucleic Acids
questions about lipids and nucleic acids, their purpose and what they contain
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| lipids are | fats, oils, and waxes |
| lipids are made of | mostly hydrogen and carbon atoms |
| lipids are not solute in.. | water |
| lipids are used to | store energy |
| saturated fats are | all the C atoms in fatty acids joined by single bonds |
| unsaturated fats have | one double carbon bond |
| polysaturated fats have | more than one doble bond |
| polysaturated fats are usually in | plant oils |
| Nucleic acids are | macromolecules |
| what elements do macromolecules in nucleic acids contain? | hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, and phosphorus |
| polymers are made from | nucleotide monomers |
| nucleotides are made of | 5-C sugar, phosphate group, and nitrogen group |
| what do nucleic acids do? (what's their purpose? what do we use them for?) | they store and transmit heredity information |
| RNA has...(what kind of sugar?) | ribose sugar |
| DNA has...(what kind of sugar?) | deoxyribose |
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