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Proteins Chemistry Potpourri

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The building blocks

(monomers) of carbohydrates

What are monosaccharides?

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Two sugars

What are disaccharides?

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The two functions of

carbohydrates

What are

1. Quick Energy

and

2. Structure?

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The polysaccharide found in an animal’s

liver and muscle (Hint: not starch)

What is glycogen?

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The hydrolysis of this molecule (with the help of enzymes)

breaks a bond and releases energy for

the cell to use.

What is:

ATP ADP

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A polysaccharide that makes up plant cell walls; a linear structure of thousands of linked glucoses;the most common organic molecule on Earth

What is a cellulose?

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Building block (monomer) of

most lipids

What are fatty acids?

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The function of lipids

What is a long term energy storage?

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Fatty acids that are straight chains, solid at room

temperature and usually unhealthy

What are saturated fatty acids?

SATURATED UNSATURATED

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This diagram is an example of a special

“class” of lipids (without a fatty acid / glycerol

structure)

What are steroids?

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Testosterone: an androgen, male sex hormone synthesized in the testes, responsible for secondary male sex characteristics, produced from progesterone

Estradiol: an estrogen, principal female sex hormone, produced in the ovary, responsible for secondary female sex characteristics

The building block (monomer)of nucleic acids; made of a 5

carbon sugar, a phosphate group and a

nitrogenous base

What is a nucleotide?

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The two major types of

nucleic acids

What are DNA and RNA?

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The four types of nitrogenous bases

(found in RNA)

What are (A)denine, (G)uanine, (C)ytosine,

and (U)racil

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The function of nucleic

acids

What is

1)Store information and/or 2)Transfer information

(to make proteins)?

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(Of carbohydrates and lipids), the one

that is soluble in water

What are carbohydrates

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There are 20 different types of these that make

up proteins.

What are amino acids?

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The bond that joins the

polypeptide building blocks

together

What is a peptide bond?

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A type of protein that changes the rate

(lowers the activation energy)of chemical

reactions in the body

What is an enzyme?

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This is the basic structure (draw it) for all amino acids

What is:

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All organic molecules contain

this element

What is Carbon?

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The type of reaction that breaks

polymers down into monomers (by adding water)

What is a hydrolysis reaction?

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The four types of organic molecules (macromolecules)

What are carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and

nucleic acids

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An example of a lipid found in cell membranes

What is

A phospholipid

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It is the word that describes the ability

of a substance to dissolve in another

What is solubility?

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It determines the behavior

and the function of a protein

What is the sequence of amino acids

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Daily Double

It is the part of the amino acid that determines

its shape

What is the variable “R” group

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