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| Removal of water to form bonds between subunits to build a more complex structure for building |
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| Addition of water to break bonds, digesting polymers in into smaller subunits for breakdown |
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| Basic unit for storage of genetic information |
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| Cytosine - C, Uracil - U (in RNA), Thymine - T (in DNA) |
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| Name the 3 nitrogenous bases that are Pyrimidines |
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| Guanine (G) & Adenine (A) |
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| Phosphate group, 5-Carbon Sugar, Nitrogenous base which is bonded to 1 carbon of sugar |
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| Nucleotide is made up of: |
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| Removal of oxygen in dan makes it more reliable and stable because there is no extra oxygen |
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| How is DNA better than RNA |
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| Sugar backbone for RNA, less stable due to the extra oxygen |
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| Antibodies and complement proteins |
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| Defense - destruction of disease-causing viruses and bacteria |
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| Contractile proteins and motor proteins |
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| Catalyze chemical reaction |
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| Act as signals that help coordinate the activities of many cells |
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| Receive chemical signals from outside cell and initiate response |
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| Newly formed monomer-monomer bond results in the loss of a water molecule |
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| Breaks down carbohydrates |
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| Level in which the sequence of amino acids in a polypeptide |
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| Level in which the formation of a a-helices and B-pleated sheets in a polypeptide |
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| Level in which the overall three-dimensional shape of a polypeptide includes contribution from secondary structures |
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| Level in which the shape is produced by combinations of polypeptides |
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| Process of protein unfolding |
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| Process of refolding a denatured protein and often this is not successful |
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| Produced in response to high temperature, "heat shock" proteins |
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| Complex carbohydrates, are polymers of monosaccharide monomers |
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Plants store sugar as:
-Mixture of branched and unbranched a-glucose polymer |
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Animals store sugar as:
- Highly branched a-glucose polymer |
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A structural polymer found in plant cell walls
-Polymer of B-glucose monomers |
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A structural polymer found in fungi cell walls, some algae, and many animal exoskeletons
-Comprised of B-linked N- acetylglucosamine |
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