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Biochemistry

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What is the weakest type of bond?   hydrogen bonds  
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What are hydrophilic interactions?   interactions with H2O  
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What is the strongest type of bond?   covalent bonds  
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What is the chemistry of water?   polar covalent bonds; H2O molecules form H-bonds with each other  
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Why are we studying water   All life occurs in water; inside and outside of cell  
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What is cohesion & adhesion   surface tension & capillary action cohesion: the bonding of water molecules that pull each other along adhesion: the attraction of water molecules to other substances  
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What does it mean that water is the greatest solvent of life?   many molecules dissolve in H2O, hydrogen bonds can break up substances  
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What property describes why ice floats   lower density as a solid  
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What is moderation of a temperature   high specific heat = water stores heat high heat of vaporization = heats & cools slowly  
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How does water get to the top of trees?   transpiration is built of cohesion and adhesion; water goes through cell walls and permeable membranes  
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What makes water a good solvent   polarity  
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What is hydrophilic   substances that have an attraction to water; mainly polar.  
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What is hydrophobic   substances that do not dissolve in water, usually non-polar  
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What is polar   unevenly charged  
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Why is it important that ice floats?   so that bodies of water don't freeze solid, allows ice to survive in water.  
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How does freezing affect the layers of the ocean   water freezes on top so if ice sank than the water would freeze bottom up and kill life inside water  
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How is ice formed?   Hydrogen bonds form a crystal lattice  
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What is specific heat?   H2O is resistant to change in temperature  
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What does it mean that water moderates temperature   water stores heat and releases it.  
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more hydrogen ions?   acidic  
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less hydrogen ions   basic  
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[H+] and [-Oh] is equal   neutral  
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what is the pH of a solution that is 10^(-7)   seven  
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what do buffers do in our bodies   keep our body at a certain pH  
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Why is it important that our body maintains a certain pH   we would die if it didn't  
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What are some ways that buffers maintain that body's pH?   donates [H+] when falls, absorbs when too high.  
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What are the six most abundant elements of life (CHNOPS)   carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphate, sulfur  
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What do we study carbon   all life is built on carbon  
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What is organic chemistry   the study of carbon compounds  
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What are the properties of carbon?   bonding properties, 4 stable covalent bonds, basis of all life, different forms in which it exists  
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What are hydrocarbons?   combination of carbon and hydrogen  
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What are properties of hydrocarbons   non-polar, stable, very little attraction between molecules, gas at room temperature  
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What are macromolecules   smaller organic molecules join together to form large molcules  
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What are the four major classes of macromolecules   lipids, proteins, nucleic acids and carbohydrates  
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What are polymers and what are their building blocks?   long molecules built by linking repeating blocks in a change; monomers are building blocks  
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Which type of bonds hold together monomers   covalent bonds  
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What is the name of the process that binds together monomers   dehydration synthesis  
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What is the name of the process that breaks about monomers   hydrolysis  
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Which process loses a water molecule   dehydration synthesis  
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which process adds a water molecules   hydrolysis  
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What does hydrolysis require   energy and enzymes  
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What is an example of hydrolysis   digestion  
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What is an example of dehydration synthesis   condensation reaction  
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What does dehydration reaction require   energy and enzymes  
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What are the building blocks of carbohydrates   monosaccharides  
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What are that functions of carbs   energy, raw materials, energy storage, structural compounds  
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Most of the names of sugars end in what?   -ose  
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How are sugars classifies   by the number of carbons  
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When is the energy stored in carbon bonds harvested?   in cellular respiration  
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example of monosaccharide   glucose  
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example of disaccharide   sucrose  
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polysaccharides   starch  
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are polysaccharides reversible   yes; easily  
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How do certain polysaccharides polysaccharides differ?   molecular structure, isomers,  
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what is a structural isomer   same elements, different structure  
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What is cellulose   most abundant organic compound on earth, cell walls and such  
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What are ruminants?   able to digest cellulose through four chamber stomach and chew on cud  
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Hind-gut fermenters   eat waste  
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What is the most structurally &functionally diverse group   proteins  
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What are the monomers of proteins   amino acids  
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What make up amino acids   central carbons, amino groups, carboxyl gropus, r groups  
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What are r groups   variable groups that are different for each amino acids (side chain)  
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How is sulfur important   it forms disulfide bridges, (covalent crosslinks between sulfhydryls/stabilizes 3D structure)  
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What are peptide bonds?   covalent bonds between two amino acids/ carbon-nitrogen bond  
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What does it meant that polypeptide chains have direction?   can only grow in one direction  
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What does function depend on?   structure  
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primary structure   amino acid sequence-peptide bonds determined by DNA  
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secondary structure   k groups H bonds  
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What is tertiary structure   r groups hydrophobic interactions and disulfide bridges  
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quaternary structure   multiple polypeptide chains, hydrophobic interactions  
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What is protein denaturation   unfolding a protein,  
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What are some causes of protein dneaturation   extreme conditions of temperature pH and salinity  
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what does protein denaturation destroy   functionality  
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function of nucleic acids   genetic materials, stores info, genes, blueprint for making proteins  
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What are the two main nucleic acids   DNA & RNA  
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difference between deoxyribose and ribose   deoxyribose lacks an oxygen atom on the second carbon in the ring  
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What is the monomer of nucleic acids   nucleotides  
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What makes up a nucleotide   pentose sugar, nitrogen base and phosphate group  
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What elements are in lipids   carbon, hydrogen and oxygen  
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What are the "family groups" of lipids   fats phopholipids and steroids  
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lipids do not form   polymers  
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What makes up fats   glycerol + fatty acid (long hydrocarbon chain)  
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what do fats store   energy  
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what are other functions of fats   cushion organs, insulate body  
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What are saturated fats   no double carbon bonds, straight, solid at room tempurature  
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What are unsaturated fats   double bonds, kinks, liquid at room temperature  
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What are pohpholipids   glycerol and 2 fatty acids  
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How are phospholipids assembled when they are by water   hydrophilic heads attracted to H2O and hydrophilic tails "hide" from H2O  
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What is the structure of steroids?   4 fused C rings  
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How are different steroids crated?   by attaching different functional groups to rings  
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How is cholesterol important   important cell component: animal cell membranes, precursor of all other steroids  
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What are some important sex hormones?   estradiol, and testosterone  
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How much energy transfers from one trophic level to the next?   10%  
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Life is built on what?   chemical reactions; transforming energy from one form to another  
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What is metabolism   chemical reactions of life  
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What some examples of metabolic pathways   dehydrations synthesis and hydrolysis  
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catabolic reactions   braking down  
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anabolic reactions   building  
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exeronic reactions   release energy/ catabolic  
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endergonic reactions   require input of energy/ anabolic  
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What is coupling   exergonic reactions with endergonic reactions give required energy to organisms  
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Why don't downhill reactions happen spontaneously   because covalent bonds are stable bonds  
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What is activation energy   energy required for the reaction  
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What helps reduce activation energy   catalysts  
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Why are catalysts important   activation energy required would kill us without them  
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What are enzymes   biological catalysts required for most biological reactions  
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What is a substrate   reactant that binds to enzyme  
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what is a product   end result  
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What is the active site   where te subtrate goes  
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What tare the properties of enzymes   reactions specific (each enzyme works with a specific substrate), not consumed in reaction, affected by cellular conditions  
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What is induced fit   substrate binding causes enzyme to change shape leading to a tighter fit; conformation fit  
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What factors affect enzyme function   enzyme concentration, substrate concentration, temperature, pH, salinity, activators, and inhibitors  
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What does it mean that the reaction rate levels off (enzyme concentration)   substrate becomes limiliting factor, not all enzyme molecules can find substrate  
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What does it mean that the reaction rate levels off (substrate concentration)   all enzymes have active site engage; enzyme is saturated; maximum rate of reaction  
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What is optimum   different enzymes function in different organisms in different environments  
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What are cofactors   non-protein small inorganic compounds that bind within enzyme molcule  
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what are coenzymes   non-protein organic molecules, bind temporarily or permanently to enzyme near active site  
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What compounds regulat enzymes   competitive inhibitor, noncompetitive inhibitor, reversible inhibitor, feedbakck inhibition  
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What is a competitive inhibitor   inhibitor and substrate compete for active site  
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how is a competitive inhibitor overcome   increasing concentration  
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noncompeitive inhibitor   inhibitor binds to site other than active site; causes enzyme to change shape  
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irreversible inhibition   competitor permantently binds to active site;  
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What is allosteric regulation   conformational changes by regulatory molecules;  
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inhibitors   keeps enzyme in inactive form  
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activators   keeps enzyme in active form  
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what are metabolic pathways   cahin of reactions  
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what do metabolic pathways link   endergonic and exergonic reactions  
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what is feedback inhibition   regulation and coordination of production  
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What is cooperativity   substrate acts as an activator; substrate causes conformational change in enzyme; favors binding of substrate at 2nd sit; makes enzyme more active and effective.  
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