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| What are the functional groups? |
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| carboxyl group (-COOH), amino group (-NH2), hydroxyl group (-OH, found in alcohols), phosphate group (-PO4) |
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| What are examples of simple sugars and where they are found? |
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| glucose (produced by plants in photosynthesis), fructose (produced in fruits), galactose (milk sugar) |
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| What is the chemical formula for all sugars, even though they have different structural formulas? |
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| What are some disaccharides? |
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| sucrose and complex carbs (starch- potato) and cellulose (plant cell wall) |
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| way animals store their glucose |
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| fats, oils, waxes (store energy, insulate, and protect) |
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| What percentage in men and women do lipids make up our bodies? |
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| 3 fatty acids and 1 glycerol |
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| What are a type of lipid with rings of carbon? |
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| What is a lipid found in cell membranes, sex hormones? |
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| What is an example of steroids? |
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| most abundant and important organic compound in body (as many as 2 million different types, 20% or body weight) |
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| support, help more cells and muscles, transport, buffer, form enzymes to regulate metabolism, coordinate and control using protein hormones |
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| What are skin hair and nail proteins called? |
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| What causes immune response? |
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| carboxyl group of one amino acid joins with an amino group of another |
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| What in red blood cells is a globular protein? |
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| What kind of protein (major structural protein) is collagen? |
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| What does the substrate join to? |
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| the active sight of the enzyme (lock and key, very specific) |
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| What are usually vitamins and act as cofactors that must bind to the enzyme before the substrate can bind? |
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| How are most vitamins obtained? |
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| Proteins may become denatured. What does denatured mean? |
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| change in structure that makes it nonfunctional (heat, cold, pH variation) |
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| What determines our inherited characteristics, has code for building proteins=our shape, physical characteristics |
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| What controls our metabolism? |
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