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What are the four basic organic macromolecules produced by ANABOLIC reactions?

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  • carbohydrates
  • proteins
  • lipids
  • nucleic acids
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What are macromolecules?

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large and complex, play an important role in CELL STRUCTURE and FUNCTION

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What are the four basic building blocks involved in catabolic reactions?

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Monosaccharides, amino acids, fatty acids, nucleotides

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Where does the primary source of energy come from and how?

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Carbohydrates since they can be easily converted into glucose

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Glucose can be broken down by what?

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respiration or fermentations by GLYCOLYSIS

- involved in photosynthesis and respiration

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Carbohydrates take form of some variation of…

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CH2O

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What are the types of monosaccharides?

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Glucose, fructose, sucrose

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The simple sugars can be grouped into what two groups?

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monosaccharides and disaacharides

- belong under carbohydrates

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Monosaccharides have ____ carbon for every ____ water molecule

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1,1

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What is the funtion of carbohydrates?

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  • structural functions
  • providing energy
  • recognition molecules
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Lipids _____ mix well with water solutions.

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Do NOT

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Which macromolecules can be polymers?

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Carbohydrates, proteins, and nucleic acids

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What is the function of lipids?

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  • energy storage

- structural functions

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What does lipid have?

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many C-H bonds

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Example of lipids

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  • fat
  • phospholipids
  • steroid
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Fats are made of long chains of…

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Three fatty acids bound to a glycerol

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What are chains with reduced carbon at one end and a carboxylic acid group at the other?

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fatty acids

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phospholipids (structure)

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  • lipids

- have two fatty acids molecules bonded to 1 glycerol (have a phosphate group)

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Glycerides are formed from…

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Fatty acids and glycerol

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Fat and oil are examples of what kind of lipid?

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Glycerides

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What type of lipid is derived from cholesterol?

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steroids

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What are macromolecules formed from amino acids?

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proteins

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Amino acids bind to form…

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Peptides (10-100 linked together is polypeptide)

- they are a compound of 2 or more amino acids

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Peptide connections are the result of _________

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Condensation reactions

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What is a condensation reaction?
Loss of water when two molecules are joined together
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What is a hydrolysis reaction?
ADDITION of water when two molecules are joined
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____ is added to the smaller molecule and _____ is aded to the other molecule during a hydrolysis reaction.
Hydrogen, hydroxide
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What are formed by the partial hydrolysis of a protein?
Amino acids
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Partial hydrolysis involves what two things?
Amine group and a carboxylic acid
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In the carbon chain of amino acids, what is included?
Carboxylic acid group, Amine group, central carbon atom, attached hydrogen, and an attached "R" group (side chain)
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What determines the properties of protein?
The "R" group, or the side chain
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Which protein have hydrophilic properties?
Globular proteins
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Enzymes
- proteins with strong catalytic power | - accelerate speed with at which specific reactions approach equilibirum
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How do enzymes speed up reactions?
By lowering the energy required by the system to initiate the reaction
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Each type of enzyme deals with reactants, also called ______
substrates
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Enzymes only interact with what kind of substrates?
Only with substrates that are a match.
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Are enzymes selective or open?
selective
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Which type of macromolecule are composed of nucleotides?
Nucleic acids
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Nucleic acids are broken down by enzymes to produce __________
Shorter strings of RNA and DNA
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oligonucleotides
-are broken down into smaller sugar nitrogenous units (aka nucleosides)
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Nucleosides
- can be digested by cells since the sugar is divided from the nitrogenous base
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Macromolecular nucleic acid polymers
- are monomeric units joined by phosphodiester bonds
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nitrogen fixation
used to synthesize nucleotides for DNA and amino acids for proteins
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What uses the enzyme nitrogenase in the reduction of dinitrogen gas to ammonia?
nitrogen fixation
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What catalyzes the transfer of genetic information into protein coded information?
RNA
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_____ contains nucleotides composed of a deoxyribose sugar, a nitrogenous base, and a phosphate molecule.
DNA
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triglycerides (structure)
made of 1 glycerol molecules attached to 3 fatty acid molecules
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What is the function of triglycerides?
- source of energy when carbs not available - helps with absorption of certain vitamins - help insulate body and maintain normal core temperature
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phospholipids (function)
protects cells; which allows them to mix with aqueous solutions
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steroids (structure)
made up of 4 fused carbon rings
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steroids (functions)
- often mixed into phospholipids bilayers to maintain structure of cell membrane and aid in cell signaling - essential for regulation of metabolism and immune response
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nucleic acid (structure)
made up of 5-carbon sugar molecules with nitrogen-containing base and 1+ phosphate groups attached
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DNA
in charge of long-term storage of genetic info that can be passed on to generations
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RNA
single-stranded and responsible for directing construction of proteins within cells
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protein (function)
- help maintain and repair body tissue - provide source of energy - form antibodies to aid immune system - large component in transporting molecules within body

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