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DAT AP BIO CLIFF Chapter 1
Chapter 1 Chemistry
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Biology
Post-Graduate
11/06/2016

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What is an atom?
Definition
  • consists of a nucleus of positively charged protons and neutrally charged neutrons
 
  • Negatively charged electrons are arranged outside the nucleus
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What are molecules?

 

 

 

 

Definition
groups of two or more atoms held together by chemical bonds
Term
Why do chemical bonds form?
Definition
  •  due to the interaction of their electrons
Term

What is electronegativity?

 

Definition
  •  ability of an atom to attract electrons
Term
What are the three kinds of bonding?
Definition
  1. Covalent bonding
  2. Ionic bonding
  3. Hydrogen bonding
Term
What is ionic bonding?
Definition
one or more electrons are transferred from one atom to the other
Term

Which atom gains electron?

 

Definition
Negative charge
Term
Which atom loses an electron?
Definition
Positive charge
Term
What constitutes an ionic bond?
Definition
Attraction of positive ion to negative ion
Term
What is covalent bonding?
Definition
Sharing of electrons
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When do covalent bonding occurs?
Definition
When the electronegativity of two atoms are similar
Term
What are the two types of covalent bonding?
Definition
  1. Non polar
  2. Polar
Term
What is non polar covalent bonding?
Definition
form when electrons are shared equally
Term

What is polar covalent bonding?

 

Definition
  • form when electrons are shared unequally
  • When the two atoms sharing electrons are identical, the electronegativities are identical, and both atoms pull equally on the electrons
Term
Why is polar covalent bonding have unequal electron sharing?
Definition

Due to different electronegativity and unequal distribution of electrons occur.

 

 

Term
When electrons forming the bond are closer to the atom with the greater electronegativity, what does it produce?
Definition
Negative charge or POLE
Term
What is produce in the area of the atom with a weaker pull?
Definition
Positive pole
Term
How many electrons are shared in single, double and triple bond?
Definition
  1. Single bond - 2 electrons
  2. Double bond - 4 electrons
  3. Triple bond - 6 electrons
Term
What are Hydrogen bonds?
Definition
Weak bonds between two molecules
Term
When do Hydrogen bonds form?
Definition
When a positively charged hydrogen atom in one covalently bonded molecule is attracted to a negatively charged area of another covalently bonded molecule
Term
What are the properties of H2O?
Definition
  1. An excellent solvent.
  2. High heat capacity
  3. Ice floats
  4.  Has strong cohesion and high surface tension
  5.  Has strong adhesion
Term
Why are ionic substances soluble in water?
Definition
Because the poles of the polar water molecules interact with the ionic substances and separate them into ions
Term
What is hydrophilic?
Definition
Water loving
Term
What is hydrophobic?
Definition
Water fearing
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What is cohesion?
Definition
Attraction between LIKE substances
Term
What happens when there is high cohesion?
Definition
High surface tension
Term
What is adhesion?
Definition
attraction of UNLIKE substances
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What is an organic molecule?
Definition
Those that have carbon atoms
Term

What is a macromolecule?

 

Definition
Large organic molecules
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What is a polymer?
Definition
molecules that consist of a single unit (monomer) repeated many times
Term

What functional group is this?

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Class name?

Examples?

Characteristics?

Definition
  1. Hydroxyl
  2. Alcohol
  3. Ethanol, Glycerol, Sugars
  4. polar, hydrophilic
Term

What functional group is this?

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Class name?

Examples?

Characteristics?

Definition
  1. Carboxyl
  2. Carboxylic acids
  3. Acetic acid, amino acids, fatty acids, sugar
  4. polar, hydrophilic, weak acids
Term

What functional group is this?

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Class name?

Example?

Characteristics?

Definition
  1. Amino
  2. Amines
  3. Amino acids
  4. Polar, Hydrophilic, weak base
Term

What functional group is this?

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Class name?

Examples?

Characteristics?

Definition
  1. Phosphate
  2. Organic phosphate
  3. DNA, ATP, phospholipids
  4. polar, hydrophilic, acid
Term

What functional group is this?

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Class name? 

Examples?

Characteristics?

Definition
  1. Carbonyl
  2. Ketones
  3. acetone, sugars
  4. polar, hydrophilic
Term

What functional group is this?

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Class name?

Examples?

Characteristics?

Definition
  1. Carbonyl
  2. Aldehydes
  3. formaldehyde, sugars
  4. polar, hydrophilic
Term

What functional group is this?

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Class name?

Examples?

Characteristics?

Definition
  1. Methyl
  2. Methyl
  3. fatty acids, oils, waxes
  4. nonpolar, hydrophobic
Term
Three groups of Carbohydrates
Definition
  1. Monosaccharides
  2. Disaccharides
  3. Polysaccharides
Term
What is a monosaccharide?
Definition
SINGLE sugar molecule
Term
What is the formula of glucose?
Definition
C6H12O6
Term
What is a disaccharide?
Definition
TWO sugar molecules joined by a glycosidic linkage
Term
What is condensation reaction?
Definition
Lost of simple molecule
Term
What is a polysaccharide?
Definition
series of connected monosaccharides
Term
What is the significance of Starch?
Definition
Principal energy storage molecule in PLANT cells
Term
What is the significance of Glycogen?
Definition
Major energy storage molecule in animal cells
Term
What is the significance of Cellulose?
Definition
structural molecule in the walls of plant cells and is the major component of wood
Term
What is the significance of Chitin?
Definition
structural molecule in the walls of fungus cells and in the exoskeletons of insects, other arthropods, and mollusks
Term
What are lipids?
Definition
substances that are insoluble in water (and other polar solvents) but are soluble in nonpolar substances (like ether or chloroform)
Term
What are the three major groups of lipids?
Definition
  1. Triglycerides
  2. Phospholipids
  3. Steroids
Term

What are triglycerides?

 

Definition
  1. fats and oils
  2. consist of three fatty acids attached to a glycerol molecule
Term
What are fatty acids?
Definition
hydrocarbons (chains of covalently bonded carbons and hydrogens) with a carboxyl group (–COOH) at one end of the chain
Term
What is the molecular structure of saturated fatty acids?
Definition
single covalent bond between each pair of carbon atoms, and each carbon has two hydrogens bonded to it (three hydrogens bonded to the last carbon)
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What is the molecular structure of monosaturated fatty acid?
Definition
one double covalent bond and each of the two carbons in this bond has only one hydrogen atom bonded to it
Term
What is the molecular structure of polysaturated fatty acid?
Definition
two or more double covalent bonds and each of the two carbons in this bond has only one hydrogen atom bonded to it
Term
What is the molecular structure of phospholipid?
Definition

 a lipid except that one of the fatty acid chains is replaced by a phosphate group

(–PO3 2–)

Term
What is the characteristic of tail of a phospholipid?
Definition

nonpolar

 

 hydrophobic

Term
What is the characteristic of head of a phospholipid?
Definition

 polar

 

 hydrophilic

Term
What is an amphipathic molecule?
Definition
Has both polar (hydrophilic) and nonpolar (hydrophobic) regions.
Term
What is the importance of phospholipids?
Definition
It provides the structural foundation of cell membranes
Term
What is the molecular structure of steroid?
Definition
backbone of four linked carbon rings
Term

What are the examples of steroids?

 

Definition

cholesterol

 

testosterone

 

estrogen

Term

What are different groups of proteins and purpose?

 

Definition
  1. Structural
  2. Storage
  3. Transport
  4. Defensive
  5. Enzymes
Term
What is the importance of structural proteins?
Definition
It provides structure components like collagen in skin, keratin in hair, silk in spider webs
Term
What is the importance of storage proteins?
Definition
It is for biological reserves like casein in milk, ovalbumin in egg whites.
Term
What is the importance of transport proteins?
Definition
transportation of materials in and out of cells and oxygen carrying hemoglobin in RBC.
Term
What is the importance of defensive proteins?
Definition
Provides antibodies for protection against foreign bodies
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What is the importance of enzymes?
Definition
It regulates the rate of chemical reactions.
Term
What are peptide bonds?
Definition
bonds between the amino acids
Term
What are polypeptides?
Definition
The chain of polymers of amino acids
Term
What are the components of each amino acids?
Definition
  1. Central carbon
  2. Amino group (NH2)
  3. Carboxyl group (COOH)
  4. Hydrogen atom
Term
What are the four levels of structures of protein and describe?
Definition
  1.  primary structure - of a protein describes the order of amino acids.
  2.  secondary structure - areas of folding and coiling within a protein
  3.  tertiary structure - protein includes additional three-dimensional shaping and often dominates the structure of globular proteins
  4.  quaternary structure - multiple polypeptide into a single, larger protein
Term
What are the factors contributing to tertiary structure?
Definition
  1. Hydrogen bonding
  2. Ionic bonding
  3.  hydrophobic effect that occurs when hydrophobic R groups move toward the center of the protein
  4. disulfide bonds when the sulfur atom in the amino acid cysteine bonds to the sulfur atom in another cysteine 
Term
What is the importance of the disulfide bridge?
Definition

helps maintain turns of the amino acid chain

 

Term
What is the importance and function of DNA?
Definition
  1. Where the genetic information of the cell is stored
  2. Passes its genetic instructions to ribonucleic acid (RNA) for directing various metabolic activities of the cell.
Term
What is DNA made of?
Definition
Polymer of nucleotides
Term
What are the three parts of DNA nucleotides?
Definition
  1. nitrogen base
  2. a five-carbon sugar called deoxyribose 
  3. phosphate group
Term
What are the four DNA nucleotides?
Definition
  1. Adenine—a double-ring base (purine)
  2. Thymine—a single-ring base (pyrimidine)
  3. Cytosine—a single-ring base (pyrimidine)
  4. Guanine—a double-ring base (purine)
Term

Which nucleotides bonds together in the DNA?

 

Definition
  1. Adenine - Thymine
  2. Guanine - Cytosine
Term
What is antiparallel in the DNA?
Definition
oriented in opposite directions
Term
Explain antiparallelism in DNA.
Definition

 One strand is arranged in the 5' → 3' direction

 it begins with a phosphate group attached to the fifth carbon of the deoxyribose (5' end) and ends where the phosphate of the next nucleotide would attach, at the third deoxyribose carbon (3').

The adjacent strand is oriented in the opposite, or 3' → 5' direction.

Term
What are the difference of RNA to DNA?
Definition
  1.  sugar in the nucleotides that make an RNA molecule is ribose, not deoxyribose
  2. thymine nucleotide does not occur in RNA. It is replaced by uracil
  3.  usually single-stranded and does not form a double helix
Term
What is a catalyst?
Definition

any substance that accelerates a reaction but does not undergo a chemical change itself

 

 it can be used over and over again.

Term
What is Metabolism?
Definition
Chemical reactions that occur in biological systems
Term
What is Catabolism?
Definition
breakdown of substances
Term
What is Anabolism?
Definition
formation of new products
Term

What is chemical equilibrium?

Definition
condition where the rate of reaction in the forward direction equals the rate in the reverse direction and, as a result, there is no net production of reactants or products
Term
What is the importance of the net of direction of metabolic reactions?
Definition
whether the overall reaction proceeds in the forward direction or in the reverse direction, is determined by the concentration of the reactants and the end products.
Term
What are enzymes?
Definition
globular proteins that act as catalysts (activators or accelerators) for metabolic reactions
Term
What are the characteristics of enzymes?
Definition
  1. Substrate specific
  2. Unchanged as a result of a reaction
  3. Catalyzes a reaction in both forward and reverse directions
  4. The efficiency of an enzyme is affected by temperature and pH
  5. The standard suffix for enzymes is “ase"
Term
What is a substrate?
Definition
substance or substances upon which the enzyme acts
Term
What is the induced fit model?
Definition
there is an active site with which the reactants readily interact because of the shape, polarity, or other characteristics of the active site. The interaction of the reactants (substrate) and the enzyme causes the enzyme to change shape. The new position places the substrate molecules into a position favorable to their reaction. Once the reaction takes place, the product is released.
Term
What are cofactors?
Definition
nonprotein molecules that assist enzymes
Term
What is a holoenzyme?
Definition
union of the cofactor and the enzyme
Term
What is an apoenzyme?
Definition
part of a holoenzyme
Term
What is the function of coenzymes?
Definition
organic cofactors that usually function to donate or accept some component of a reaction, often electrons
Term
What is ATP?
Definition
  1. common source of activation energy for metabolic reactions
  2. an RNA adenine nucleotide with two additional phosphate groups.
Term
What are the four common ways of regulating an enzyme?
Definition
  1. Allosteric enzymes
  2. Competitive inhibition
  3. Non competitive inhibition
  4. Cooperativity
Term
What is allosteric enzymes?
Definition
two kinds of binding sites—one an active site for the substrate and one an allosteric site
Term
What are two types of allosteric effector?
Definition
  1.  Allosteric activator - induces the enzyme’s active form
  2.  Allosteric inhibitor - induces the enzyme’s inactive form
Term
What is feedback inhibition?
Definition
end product of a series of reactions acts as an allosteric inhibitor, shutting down one of the enzymes catalyzing the reaction series
Term
What is competitive inhibition?
Definition

 a substance that mimics the substrate inhibits an enzyme by occupying the active site

 

 mimic displaces the substrate and prevents the enzyme from catalyzing the substrate

Term
What is noncompetitive inhibition?
Definition

 substance inhibits the action of an enzyme by binding to the enzyme at a location other than the active site

 

 inhibitor changes the shape of the enzyme which disables its enzymatic activity

Term
Describe cooperativity.
Definition

 enzyme becomes more receptive to additional substrate molecules after one substrate molecule attaches to an active site.

 

 

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