L1: molecules of life
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What are the 4 families of biomolecules?
carbohydrates
proteins
nucleic acids
lipids
What are monomers?
Small, simple molecules that can join together with other similar molecules to form a polymer.
What are the monomers of carbohydrates?
What are the functions of carbohydrates?
What are the monomers of proteins?
What are the functions of proteins?
What are the monomers of nucleic acids?
What are the functions of nucleic acids?
What are the monomers of lipids?
What are the functions of lipids?
What makes a molecule polar?
What is the structural formula of a hydroxyl?
What is the structural formula of a carbonyl?
What is the structural formula of a carboxyl?
What is the structural formula of an amino?
What is the structural formula of a phosphate?
What is an aldose?
What is a ketose?
What do carbons 5 and 6 in glucose do in aqueous solutions?
How common are linear glucose molecules in aqueous solutions?
What is a hemiacetal?
How does ring formation occur?
What are isomers?
What are optical isomers?
What are enantiomers?
What are D-isomers?
What are L-isomers?
Why are most naturally occurring sugars D-isomers?
What are stereoisomers?
What are epimers?
What are structural isomers?
What are diastereomers?
What is alpha glucose?
How is alpha glucose formed?
What is beta glucose?
How is beta glucose formed?
Why can cellulose not be digested?
What are glycosidic bonds?
What happens when glycosidic bonds form between monosaccharides?
What are condensation reactions?
What are hydrolysis reactions?
What are disaccharides?
What are polysaccharides?
What are the properties of starch?
What are the properties of glycogen?
What is the difference between amylose and amylopectin?
What are oligosaccharides?
What are the uses of oligosaccharides?
What are fatty acids?
What are the properties of fatty acids?
What are triacylglycerols?
What are glycerophospholipids?
What is amphipathic?
What is the steroid template?
What is the function of cholesterol?
What is a nucleotide and what does it consist of?
What is displayed formula of pyrimidine?
What is displayed formula of cytosine?
What is displayed formula of thymine?
What is displayed formula of uracil?
What is displayed formula of purine?
What is displayed formula of adenine?
What is displayed formula of guanine?
How do nucleotides join together?
Where does ATP carry its chemical energy in?
How are the strands of a double helix held together?
What determines protein folding?
What is the structure of as amino acid?
What is the R group of Glycine?
What is the R group of Alanine?
What is the R group of Phenylalanine?
What is the R group of Tryosine?
What is the R group of Cysteine?
What is the R group of Proline?
What is the R group of Lysine?
What is the R group of Arginine?
What is the R group of Histidine?
What is the R group of Aspartic Acid?
What is the R group of Glutamic Acid?
What is the R group of Serine?
What is the R group of Asparagine?
What is the R group of Glutamine?
What do the side chains of amino acids determine?
What are the different types of R groups of amino acids?
What R groups are hydrophilic?
What is physiological pH?
What are positively charged side chains referred to and why?
What are negatively charged side chains referred to and why?