Biological molecules Flashcards
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How many bonds does carbon like to make
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4 bonds
- So can join to make complex molecules of different sizes
- called the ‘backbone’ for organic e.g. sugars
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What 4 molecules are found in all living things
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1 carbohydrates = sugars
2 lipids = fats
3 proteins = amino acid
4 nucleic acids = DNA
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What 3 things make up carbohydrates
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Carbon
Hydrogen
Oxygen
The same as lipids but arranged differently
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What 3 things make up lipids
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Carbon
Hydrogen
Oxygen
The same as carbohydrates but arranged differently
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What 5 things make up proteins
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Carbon Hydrogen Oxygen Nitrogen Sulphur
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What 5 things make up nucleic acids
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Carbon Hydrogen Oxygen Nitrogen Phosphorus (usually just 1 in the molecule)
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What does a polymer have?
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A repeating pattern
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What does saccharide mean
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Sugar
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Carbohydrates ➡️ monomer ➡️ monosaccharides
➡️polymers ➡️ polysaccharides
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➡️
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Proteins ➡️ monomers ➡️ amino acids
➡️ polymers ➡️polypeptides
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➡️
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Nucleic acid ➡️ monomer ➡️ nucleotides
➡️polymers ➡️ polynucleotides
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➡️
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Lipids ➡️monomers ➡️ glycerol + fatty acids = a triglicerol
➡️polymers ➡️ diglycerides, triglycerides
not composed of lots of monomers repeating itself
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➡️
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Monomer + monomer =
What is the + reaction called
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Polymer
Through condensation reaction
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What is a condensation reaction
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A reaction that occurs when 2 molecules combine to form a more complex molecule with the removal of water
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What is hydrolysis reaction
And why is it needed
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Needed to break down polymers e.g. when eating food
Hydrolysis - it requires water in order to break the bond between the monomers
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What are condensation reactions needed for
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Metabolic rate
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Carbohydrates are a source and store of energy, what are their function in plants
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Structural function to make the plant cell walls rigid
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What are simple carbohydrates called
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Monosaccharides (mono =1) sugars
Disaccharides (di =2)
Polysaccharides (poly = many)
General formula = (CH2O)n
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What is a molecular formula
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The number of atoms in a formula
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The molecule formula + general formula =
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C3H6O3
The number of C and O are always the same
H is always double the C and O
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What does hexose mean
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Means 6 carbons in their ring
E.g. gluctose, fructose, galactose
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Glucose
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Is the main source of energy in respiration
Glucose + O2 ➡️ CO2 + H2O + ATO ➡️ energy
Is the building block for larger carbohydrates ( there are 2 types of glucose)
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Glucose + spiral structure =
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Amylose
Part of starch
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Glucose have 4 well adaptations that make them useful
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- Glucose can transport in/out of cells easily through carrier proteins
- Small in size - easily transported + soluble in water so can travel through the blood stream in this way
- Less reactive - breakdowns are controlled by enzymes - therefore enzymes control the rate of respiration because can only breakdown by passing through an enzyme (the catalyst )
- Different structural forms = called isomers (have the same chemical formula but different arrangement of atoms in space)
(Double bonds mean the arrangement can’t change)
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There are 2 isomers in glucose, what are they
α - glucose
| β-glucose
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What is the difference between α-glucose and B-glucose
Need diagrams!,!!!
The hydroxy (-OH) is at top for α, bottom for B
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What is both alpha-glucose and B-glucose have in common
Both are polysaccharides
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Why is a ribose called a pentose sugar
Because is has 5 carbon atoms
| Found in ribonucleic acid and ATP
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What is the definition of a disaccharide
Sugars that are composed of 2 monosaccharides joined together in a condensation reaction
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Alpha-glucose + B-glucose =
+ is a condensation reaction
= maltose (found in germinating seeds as more complex carbohydrates + are broken down for energy)
- The seed needs energy so breaks down large carbohydrates to disaccharides (smaller units) (maltose molecules used for energy)
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Alpha-glucose + fructose =
= sucrose – transported in the phloem to provide sugars to other parts of the plant
(Photosynthesis happens in the leaf = makes sugars called sucrose respiration plus other functions – sucrose travels through the plant through phloem tissue)
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Alpha glucose + galactose =
+ means condensation reaction
| = lactose (Mammal milk to provide energy for its young)
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2 monosaccharides =
| And what is the bond called
A disaccharide
| The bond is called a glycosidic bond
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What does a condensation reaction create
A water molecule
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Diagram of CH2OH - the number order of carbon atoms goes clockwise
Diagram
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Glycosidic bond
Between 2 monosaccharides by a condensation reaction therefore the maltose bond is between carbon 1 and carbon 4 so it’s called a 1,4 glycosidic bond
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Hydrolysis of glycosidic bond
Breaking down disaccharides through hydrolysis reaction to 2 monosaccharides equals requires water – give the H2O back to the right that was taken from it in the condensation reaction
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Examples of polysaccharides
Bread, rice, pasta
Needs to have more than 10 monosaccharides in a chain
If the chain has less than 10 monosaccharides it is called a oligosaccharides
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Polysaccharides properties
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They are not:
Not sweet tasting
Not soluble
Not sugars
Have lots of variety because they can change the monosaccharides which changes the whole structure e.g. alpha/B-glucose
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Can change how it is bonded together e.g. 1,4 glycosidic bond = amylose (but a 1,4 + 1,6 = glycosidic bond = amylopectin)
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Alpha glucose = main source of energy in respiration
What is the formula for this
Glucose +02 ➡️ CO2 +H20+ATP (energy)
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Excess chemical energy equals stored in cells by forming polysaccharides of alpha glucose in long chains
Why is alpha glucose well designed for this?
Alpha glucose polysaccharide = are compact so ca store a lot of energy in a small space
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What is the problem with too much water getting into the cell
It can burst and die (cytolysis) because it can’t dissolve the water the water
Polysaccharides are large so don’t diffuse out of the cell or we would lose them quickly (can’t fit through carrier proteins)
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Why are polysaccharides easily hydrolysis to alpha glucose when energy is needed
Because enzymes can easily access the end of the polysaccharide to release energy
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Starch
Starch is found in plants The polysaccharide energy that is stored is called starch
Starch is found in photosynthesising cells (in leaves) + storage cells in seeds/storage organs
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What are amyloplasts
Special organelles that store starch in compact/dense/insoluble grains
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Storage organs
Contain cells with lots of amyloplasts to ensure the plant always has a sufficient supply of energy
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Photosynthesis
Making starch to store as energy
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What two different polysaccharides make up starch
Aminos
Amylopecin
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What are the properties of amalyose
– Long chain of alpha glucose
- Joined by a 1,4 glycogen bond
- helix shaped = more compact
- Only has two accessible ends where enzymes can bind to the molecules/clip of the ends to use for respiration therefore only broken down slowly
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Properties of amylopectin
- has moved branches then amalyose
- has the occasional 1,6 glycosidic bond as well as 1,4 bonds - this is what creates the branching with more accessible ends to enzymes therefore energy is released quicker - for this alpha glucose respiration
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What is glycogen
The polysaccharides energy store found In animals – because in cells with a high metabolic rate more energy is needed with a higher release rate e.g. liver cells + muscle cells
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Which glycosidic bond is found more frequently
1,6 carbon bond
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Polysaccharides organisms sample implants, where
The cell wall is made from polysaccharides called Celulose
Celulose equal very strong stop plant cells from bursting into much water enters by osmosis (turgid) it swells instead of bursting making the plant stand upright opposed to wilting
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What is cellulase made from
Thousands of B-glucose molecules joined by 1,4 glycosidic bonds
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Diagram of CH2OH inverted bond + why is this inversion important
The inversion stops the cellulase from coiling (like the analyse did) results in a long straight chain in parallel lines
This means we get hydroxyl (– OH) groups that are close in proximity to each other – the hydrogens are close to each other because the close parallel lines
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Hydrogen bonds
- each individual hydrogen bond is weak because there are thousands of hydrogen bonds the Celulose is very strong overall. This is good because of the swelling that happens in plant cells
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What makes cellulose strong and rope like
The hydrogen bonds that cross-linked the cellulose chain allow the chain to form into strong rope like fibres
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What is the difference between macrofibres and microfibres
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Microfibres bundle together to form large fibres called macrofibres
Macro fibres (Cellulose) create the strong plant cell wall
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Cellulose is the most abundant material on Earth what is it difficult for most animals to do
Not easily digested food because very hard to break down by hydrolysis - because most animals lack the Cellulose enzyme needed to break down the 1,4 glycosidic bonds between B-glucose molecules
-Sam herbivores have symbiotic bacteria in the gut to produce the enzyme
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Even though humans can’t digest cellulase why is it important
Keep the digestive system healthy
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What is a chitin structure
Structural polysaccharide
Can be found in fungi, insects, plants
Use to strengthen the cell walls and fungi
Strengthen exoskeleton and insects
Is waterproof to prevent water loss from body
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How are chitins similar to cellulose
Composed of many B- glucose molecules
Joint with 1,4 glycosidic bonds - inverted molecules therefore chains are strengthened with H cross-links
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Differences of chitins to cellulose
Chitins also contain acetylamine groups bonded to carbon 2 of the B-glucose monosaccharides
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Glucose + acetylamine =
N-acetylglucoseamine
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Lipids organic molecules with two main types what are they called
1) triglycerides - Provide energy e.g. butter
| 2) phospholipids - structural role in cell membrane
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What are lipids mostly composed
Carbon +hydrogen +oxygen
Need diagram of hydrocarbon chain
A large complex macromolecules but not polymers because they are not made up of individual monomers that can be broken down (instead a long chain)
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What do triglycerides look like
One molecule of glycerol + 3 fatty acids
| get diagram
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Glycerol look like
Organic alcohol ➡️ 3 hydroxyl (– OH) groups
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What does a fatty acid molecule look like
Organic acids ➡️ carboxyl (– COOH) groups - joined to a hydrocarbon tail = type of carboxylic acid
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Do they use the letter R to represent
Rest of the hydrocarbons in the chain
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How does triglyceride form
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Condensation reactions (Ester Bonding)
H2O added during reaction
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Definition of an ester bond
The covalent bond is formed by a condensation reaction between the -OH group and the carboxylic acid and the -OH group of an alcohol
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Triglycerides saturated or unsaturated what does this mean
The different states depend on the presence of a carbon double bond to the fatty acid tail.
No double bond in the hydrocarbon chain = saturated
A double bond in the hydrocarbon chain = monounsaturated (one carbon -carbon double bond)
Many double bonds = polyunsaturated (more than one double bond)
They’re known as fats and oils
fats = solid at room temperature
oils = liquid room temperature
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What does an unsaturated double bond make the fatty acid tail do
Bend
The bending pushes the molecules further part then the saturated molecules - because of the gaps between the unsaturated molecule is the intermolecular forces are weaker - therefore they are liquid form at room temperature
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Grid of types of fatty acids
Grid
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What else can triglycerides be broken down into
Glucose +fatty acids and use for respiration (just like glucose)
Can produce lots of energy because lots of carbon hydrogen bonds can be broken down
Produces a good amount of water from respiration (as a waste product)
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Why is triglycerides an excellent for energy storage (6):
1) provide the most energy per unit of mass of any storage molecule (reduces the mass we would have to carry around if we only use sugar as energy)
2) large nonpolar molecules = don’t dissolve in water therefore don’t affect the osmosis balance of the cell (don’t overload yourself with water until it bursts)
3) what is repel water so aquatic animals produce it on the fur
4) facts as thermal installation
5) that’s protect internal organs e.g. kidneys
6) that’s less dense than water so help aquatic animals float
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In a phospholipid what is 1 fat fatty acid replaced with
1 phosphate molecule
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What type of reaction does phosphate joy to make a phospholipid
Condensation reaction between hydroxyl (– OH) groups on phosphoric acid +glycerol
(Ester bond + extra H2O molecule)
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What is a hydrophilic molecules
A molecule that is attracted to water due to having a charge
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What is the hydrophobic molecules
A molecule that is repelled by water due to not having a charge
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What happens to the hydrogen ions when a phospholipid is surrounded by water
The hydrogen irons disassociate from the phosphoric acid. This is because once the hydrogens are lost it becomes negatively charged meaning the phospholipids heads and now hydrophilic
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If the fatty acid tales are nonpolar and not charged what does this mean
The molecule is hydrophobic
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Because of phospholipids head is hydrophilic and it’s fatty acid tales are hydrophobic what does this mean
The phospholipids will form a layer on the water because the hydrophilic head will attract water but the hydrophobic tail will repell it
(Find diagram)
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What is a micell
A layer of Phospholipids made of a monolayer (heads on the outside tales on the inside squeezing out of the water)
(find diagram)
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What is a bilayer
Form from phospholipids (the heads facing out the tail facing in)
An integral part of all membranes in a cell
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Why is the phospholipid bilayer so important
1) The membrane stays stable because the tails I never exposed to the water (keep their shape tight)
2) Because it’s a barrier it controls the substance in/out of the cell
3) It is electrical insulation ➡️ prevents ions from leaving
4) The middle area is a non-aquatic environment ➡️ forces water to outside the barrier ➡️ therefore things dissolve in water cannot get through the barrier ➡️ therefore only small non-polar molecules can pass through the membrane (e.g. oxygen/carbon dioxide) ➡️ this is important for respiration because its partially permeable to control what enters/leaves the cell
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Why can’t ions get through the phospholipid bilayer
Because ions that dissolve in water cannot get through because they attract water because of their charge
