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Chapter 3
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
08/31/2012

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Alanine, Valine, Isoleucine, Leucine, and Glycine
Definition
What five amino acids are found in the nonpolar group?
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Serine, Theronine, Asparagine, Glutamine
Definition
What four amino acids are found in the polar uncharged group?
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glutamic acid, aspartic acid, histidine, lysine and arginine
Definition
What five amino acids are found in the charged group?
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phenylalanine, tryptophan, tyrosine
Definition
What three amino acids are found in the aromatic group?
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proline, methionine, cysteine
Definition
what four amino acids are found in the special function group?
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it obtains carbon molecules
Definition
What does organic mean?
Term
carbs, proteins, lipids, and nucleicacid
Definition
What are the four major macromolecules?
Term
lipids
Definition
Which of the four macromolecules is NOT a polymer?
Term
repeating small subunits
Definition
What are polymers?
Term
proteins- amino acids, carbs- monosaccharids, lipids-fatty acids/ glycerol
Definition
What are the monomeric subunits for each macromolecule?
Term
building
Definition
What happens in anabolic reaction?
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breaks down
Definition
What happens in a catabolic reaction?
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It breaks the covalent bond and is splitting with water
Definition
What happens hydrolysis?
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anabolic and catabolic reactions
Definition
What is metabolism the combination of?
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proteins
Definition
All enzymes are made up of what?
Term
Storage, defense, catalysis, transport, support, motion and regulation.
Definition
What are the seven main functions of a protein?
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Toxins such as venom
Definition
What is an example of something that proteins defend themselves from?
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Hemoglobins latch onto oxygen
Definition
What is a way that proteins transport?
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They are used as structural purposes, such as keratin found in hair. 
Definition
What is a way that proteins support?
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Through actin and myosin
Definition
What is a way proteins use motion?
Term
Insulin and as intercellular messenger
Definition
How do proteins "regulate?"
Term
an "R" group, hydrogen, carboxyl, and an amino
Definition
What four groups do amino acids consist of?
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special function, polar uncharged, nonpolar, aromatic, and charged 
Definition
what are the five groups of amino acids?
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a dipeptide
Definition
What do two amino acids form?
Term
many amino acids linked together
Definition
What is a polypeptide?
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peptide bond (amide bond) is a covalent chemical bond formed between two molecules when the carboxyl group of one molecule reacts with the amino group of the other molecule
Definition
What is a peptide bond?
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Primary, secondary, tetriary, and quatanary
Definition
What are the four levels of protein structure?
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This determines the order and type of amino acid, and consists of a polypeptide chain
Definition
What happens in the "primary structure" of a protein?
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partial folding, loops- alpha helix, zig-zag- beta pleat, held together by hydrogen bonds
Definition
What happens in the "secondary structure" of a protein?
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holding of entire protein (3d folding), must be folded properly to work, contains: hydrogenm ionic, hydrophobic, and VW bonds
Definition
Term
arrangment of two or more polypeptide chains
Definition
What happens in the "quatanary structure" of a protein?
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help proteins fold into shape 
Definition
what is a molecular chaperone?
Term
unfolding of a protein
Definition
What is denatured?
Term
folding spontaneously of small polypeptides
Definition
What is renaturation?
Term
deoxyribonucleic acid
Definition
What does DNA stand for?
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ribonucleic acid
Definition
What does RNA stand for?
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nitrogenous base, deoxyribose, and phosphate
Definition
What three things are nucleotides made up of?
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purines and pyrimidines
Definition
What are the two classes of nitrogenous bases?
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adenine and guanine
Definition
What are the purines?
Term
cytosine, thymine and uracil
Definition
What are the pyrimidines?
Term
the OH is moved
Definition
What happens in a phosphodiester bond?
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RNA 
Definition
What is Uracil found in?
Term
a double helix
Definition
What shape is DNA
Term
hydrogen bonds
Definition
Nitrogenous bases are held together by what?
Term
DNA
Definition
What is thymine only found in?
Term
DNA (transcription), RNA, (translation), Protein 
Definition
What is flow of the central dogma?
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The copying of some kinds of DNA information into RNA 
Definition
What happens in transcription?
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 Genes are transcribed into mRNAs which are then translated into polypeptides (or proteins).
Definition
What happens in translation?
Term
ATP
Definition
What is adenine attached with three phosphates called?
Term
monosaccahrides
Definition
What is the simplest form of carbs?
Term
carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
Definition
What are carbs made up of?
Term
glucose, fructose, and galcatose
Definition
What are the three 6-carbon sugars?
Term
the way their atoms are arranged
Definition
What makes the 6-carbon sugars different?
Term
Molecules with the same emperical formula, but different arrangment of atoms. 
Definition
What are isomers?
Term
covalent bonds
Definition
What holds together disaccharides?
Term
they store energy and are used as a structural role
Definition
What do polysaccharides do?
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can form ATP
Definition
Long chains of gluclose can do what?
Term
in a plant 
Definition
Where is starch formed?
Term
amloyse, alpha 1-4
Definition
What is a long, unbranched chain called? and what kind of linkage does it have?
Term
amylopectin and alpha 1-6
Definition
What is a branched chain called and what kind of linkage does it have?
Term
liver and muscele cells
Definition
where is glycogen stored?
Term
b-14 linkages
Definition
what kind of linkage is celloulouse?
Term
Tney are insoluble in water and cannot form hydrogen bonds
Definition
Give two characteristics of lipids.
Term
1 glycerol and hydroxyl group
Definition
What do fats contain?
Term
about 14 to 20
Definition
How many carbons are in a fatty acid chain?
Term
one hydrocarbon group with a carboxyl group.
Definition
what do fatty acids contain?
Term
surronded by H's completely and a straight line 
Definition
What should a saturated chain look like?
Term
bend in chain, double bonded
Definition
What does an unsaturated fat chain look like?
Term
animals, plants
Definition
What organisms store saturated fat? unsaturated?
Term
the cell membrane 
Definition
What do phospholipids make up?
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differences in structure
Definition
What are structural isomers?
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they depend on how the group attaches
Definition
What are steroisomers?
Term
a carbon bound to four different groups and has a mirror image?
Definition
What is a chiral?
Term
a mirror image of a chiral 
Definition
What is an enantiomers?
Term
Starch grains, starch, monosaccharides
Definition
What is a cell structure, polymer, and monomer of a carb?
Term
chromosome, DNA strand, nucleotide
Definition
What is a cell structure, polymer, and monomer of a nucleic acid?
Term
intermediate filament, polypeptide, and an amino acid
Definition
What is a cell structure, polymer, and monomer of a protein?
Term
adipose cells, triglyceride, and a fatty acid
Definition
What is a cell structure, polymer, and monomer of a lipid?
Term
there is a removal of OH from one monomer and H from another
Definition
What happens in a dehyrdration reaction?
Term
There is an adding of OH and H 
Definition
What happens in a hydrolysis reaction?
Term
deoxyribose and ribose
Definition
What are the 5-carbon sugars?
Term
to transport glucose
Definition
What is sucrose used for in plants?
Term
long polymers made up of monosaccharides
Definition
What are polysaccharides?
Term
it converts monosaccharides into disaccharides
Definition
What does metabolic energy do?
Term
a 5 carbon sugar held together by a phosphate bond
Definition
what is a nucleic acid?
Term
transports across the membrane, and regulates movement of cells
Definition
what does atp do?
Term
a particular region of a protein that has a particular function
Definition
what is the domain?
Term
they detach into smaller subunits
Definition
What happens in dissociation?
Term
glycerol, two fatty acid, and a phosphate
Definition
what are phospholipids made up of?
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