Cells : Lectures 4 and 6 (No blood)

Question 1

What are monosaccharides made of?

Answer 1

Hydroxylated aldehydes and ketones

Question 2

When drawing polysaccharides what do the squiggly cut-off lines represent?

Answer 2

When polysaccharide units can repeat

Question 3

Uses of sugars in the body

Answer 3

Scaffold for cell attachment

Transmits information to cells that are growing, differentiating, migrating etc.

Hydrolysis of glycogen to maintain healthy blood sugar

Used in glycosylation

Question 4

What is the basic shared structure of steroids

Answer 4

4 ring cholesterol structure

Question 5

Name of a transporter that transports molecules in opposite directions via ATP

Answer 5

Antiporter

Question 6

What are the 3 different types of bacteria?

Answer 6

Eubacteria

Archaebacteria

Cyanobacteria

Question 7

What are eubacteria?

Answer 7

“True bacteria”, the archetypal bacteria that we think of

Question 8

What are archaebacteria?

Answer 8

Genetically and biochemically distinct from eubacteria, often found in more extreme environments

Question 9

What are cyanobacteria?

Answer 9

Blue-green algae, photosynthetic bacteria

Question 10

What’s the difference between the cytosol and the cytoplasm?

Answer 10

Cytosol is the liquid part, cytoplasm is the entire intracellular space