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BIO ch 3
Chapter 3 Final
Question | Answer |
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Nucleic acid is considered a ___? | macromolecule |
What are the four most common elements found in living organisms? | CHON....carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen |
Is salt a primary organic molecule | NOPE |
What are organic molecules | has carbon |
the process by which polymers are tuned into monomer is called | hydrolysis |
What is a dehydration reaction | loss of H2O |
The molecule that stores the info about the order of amino acids in a protein is | DNA |
The three-dimensional shape of a polypeptide is associate with its | tertiary structure |
the nucleotide that supplies energy for dehydration synthesis is | adenosine triphosphate (ATP) |
The two strands of DNA are held together by ___ ____ between the purine and pyrimidine bases. | hydrogen bonds |
The bond between two amino acids is | known as a peptide bond |
After hydrolysis of a triglyceride, we would have ____ ____ and ____. | fatty acids and glycerol |
The DNA molecule thymine is always paired to ____ | adenine |
The action of disrupting the three-dimensional shape of a protein is termed ____. | denaturation |
What denatures a protein? | Acid, Heat |
What are the 4 levels of proteins ? | primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary |
What are steroids? What are waxes? | 4 fused carbon rings, long fatty acid attache to alcohol |
lipids are ____ | hydrophobic |
Fats that have one or more double bonds within their fatty acid tails are labeled as ___ fats. | unsaturated |
Polysaccarides, the complex carbohydrates, break down into reduce/simple sugars during which of the following processes? | hydrolysis |
Is an enzyme action a functional benefit of the body's fat stores | NO |
DNA and RNA both belong to what group of organic compounds | nucleic acids |
Carbon can share pairs of electrons with as many as ___ other ___. | 4, atoms |
complex carbohydrates are stored in animals in the form of | glycogen |