Food Flashcards

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What are the six most commmon elements in food?

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  • Carbon
  • Hydrogen
  • Oxygen
  • Nitrogen
  • Phosporus
  • Sulfur
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What five elements are present as salts in food?

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  • Na(Sodium)
  • Mg(Magnesium)
  • Cl(Chlorine)
  • K(Potassium)
  • Ca(Calcium)
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What are the three trace elements?

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  • Fe(Iron)
  • Cu(Copper)
  • Zn(Zinc)
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What are boimolecules?

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Biomolecules are chemicals that are made inside a living thing

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What are the four main biomolecule types

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  • Carbohydrates
  • Lipids(fats,oils)
  • Proteins
  • Vitamins
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What is the carbohydrate general formula?

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Cx(H2O)y

(where x=y)

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What are monosachrides?They are sweet to taste and soluble in water

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Monosachrides are the smallest carbohydrate units. They are soluble in water. The consist of a single sugar unit(essentially a ring of carbons)

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Name two monosachrides?

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  • Glucose: Common carbohydrate from which most organisms get energy. Made during photosynthesis
    • Fructose: Stuctural isomer of glucose. Sweeter than glucose and found in fruit
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What are disaccharides?

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They consist of two monasaccharides joined together. They are soluble in water

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Name three common disaccharides

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  • Sucrose(table salt): glucose+glucose
  • Maltose(found in germinating seeds): glucose + fructose
  • Lactose(in milk): glucoes + fructose
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What are polysaccharides

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They are many monosaccharides linked together. They are insoulbe in water

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Name three polysaccharides.

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  • Starch(amylose): Composed of branched and unbrachned chains of glucose. Carbohydrate stored by plants. Easily digested because glucoes is in a straight line
  • Cellulose: Long chains of glucose with more cross bonding than starch. Plant structural carboydrate. Harder to digest. Promotes peristalis. Very strong ( suitable for cell walls)
  • Glycogen: Chains of glucose molecules that are more branched than starch. Stored in liver and muscle.
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What is the test for reducing sugars

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What is he test for starch?

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What are the catabolic and anabolic roles of carbohydrates

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  • Anabolic:
    • Glucose is made in photsynthesis
  • Catabolic
    • Glucose releases energy in respiration
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What are the uses of carbohydrates

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  • Store energy
  • Supply energy
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What are the elements in lipids?

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  • Carbon
  • Hydrogen
  • Oxygen
18
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What is the difference between fats and oils?

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  • Fats are solid at room temperature (293.15K)
  • Oils are ;iquid at room temperature (293.15K)
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What is the structure of a lipid?

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Lipids are made of molecules called triglyceride. A triglyceride is made up of a glycerol molecule and three fatty acids.

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What is a phospholipid?

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A phospholipid is a fat-like substance where one fatty acid is replaced by a phosphate group or has had a phosphate group added to it

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What is the test for fat?

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What is the catabolic role of lipids

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Release energy is respiration

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What is the strucutre of a protein?

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  1. Ammino acid
  2. Peptide(less than twenty aminio acids)
  3. Polypeptide(more than twenty ammino acids)
  4. Protein(more than 200 amino)
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What are the elements in protein

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  • Carbon
  • Hydrogen
  • Oxygen
  • Nitrogen

(And sometimes Sulfur, Phosphorus and other elements)

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What is the test for protein?
*[Insert photo]*
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What are the structural roles of proteins
* Form structures such as: * hair * skin * nails * muscles (*Keratin*)
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What are the metabolic roles of proteins?
* Enzymes * Some hormones * Antibodies
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What are vitamins?
They are complex carbon based substances the body cannot make.
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Name a water soluble vitamin, a defiency associated with it and its sources.
* **Vitamin C** is water soluble(easy way to *remeber which vitamin is water soluble, "_C sounds like sea")_* * Lack of vitamin C causes **S****cury** * Found in **Fruit** and **Vegtables***(especially citritus fruit)*
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What are the catabolic roles of Vitamin C
* **_To form:_** * Connective tissue * Bones * Teeth * **_Helps:_** * Healing * The immune system
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Name a fat soluble vitamin, a defiency caused by it and it's sources.
* **Vitamin D** is fat soluble * Lack of it causes **Rickets(*****in children*****)** and **Osteomalica(*in adults)*** (*a weakness in the bones)* * **Liver**, **fish oils**,**milk** and **egg yolk** are good sources. Vitamin D is also made by a reaction between **ultraviolet light** and chemcials the **skin**
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What is the metabolic role of vitamin D
Helps absorb calcium for the bones and teeth
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Give examples of why plants need minerals.
* **Calcium**(*absorbed from the soil)*to hold **cell walls** together * **Magnesium** for **chlorophyll**
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Give examples of why animals need minerals
* **Calcium**(*in milk and cheese)* form **bones** and **teeth** * **Iron***(liver and green vegtables)* for **haemoglobin**
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Why is water important to living things
* Makes up the bulk of **cytoplasm** and is found in **blood** and **tissue fluid** * Good **solvent** which allows**:** * *cell reactions* * *transport* * Participates in **chemical reactions** * **moves in/out** of **cells** giving them the **correct shape** * **Regulates temperature**
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What is a structural role of a carbohydrate
**Cellouse** forms plant **cell walls**
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What are the structural roles of a lipid
* Insulate * Form membranes * Store energy