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What is an element?
What is a free radical? Why is it important to control freeradicals in the body?
What is a molecule? An ion?
What are the three types of bonding and what are theirproperties?
What is important about polar covalent bonds? What is adipole?
Why is hydrogen bonding critical in the human body?
What is a cation? An anion? A salt?
What are organic molecules and what are the most common elementsin them? What portion of the organic molecule affects the functionof it?
Compare and contrast the four types of organic molecules. Whatmakes them different? What are their monomers and functions?
Define amphipathic (amphiphilic). Understand the properties ofphospholipids in the function of the plasma membrane.
Know the functions of proteins and understand how they areformed (primary structure, etc.).
What is the importance of ATP?
Define: pH, acid, base. What is the relationship between[H+] and pH?
Define a buffer. Know the carbonic acid/bicarbonate ionbuffering in blood and the normal pH range of blood. Why arebuffers important?
What are the components of a chemical reaction?
What are enzymes? What is a substrate? A ligand? What is the EScomplex? Why is specificity of NZs important? What is affinity?Kd?
Know the factors that affect protein binding.
Understand enzyme regulation through inhibition, allostericregulation, cooperativity, and saturation.
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What is an element?
What is a free radical? Why is it important to control freeradicals in the body?
What is a molecule? An ion?
What are the three types of bonding and what are theirproperties?
What is important about polar covalent bonds? What is adipole?
Why is hydrogen bonding critical in the human body?
What is a cation? An anion? A salt?
What are organic molecules and what are the most common elementsin them? What portion of the organic molecule affects the functionof it?
Compare and contrast the four types of organic molecules. Whatmakes them different? What are their monomers and functions?
Define amphipathic (amphiphilic). Understand the properties ofphospholipids in the function of the plasma membrane.
Know the functions of proteins and understand how they areformed (primary structure, etc.).
What is the importance of ATP?
Define: pH, acid, base. What is the relationship between[H+] and pH?
Define a buffer. Know the carbonic acid/bicarbonate ionbuffering in blood and the normal pH range of blood. Why arebuffers important?
What are the components of a chemical reaction?
What are enzymes? What is a substrate? A ligand? What is the EScomplex? Why is specificity of NZs important? What is affinity?Kd?
Know the factors that affect protein binding.
Understand enzyme regulation through inhibition, allostericregulation, cooperativity, and saturation.
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Unit 2 Organic Chemistry
Organic compounds vs. Inorganic compounds
What makes a compound organic? Inorganic?
Functional groups (phosphate groups, amino groups, carboxyl groups)
Know the structure of each of these groups, and which organic compounds they are found in. You can draw them for your own use.
Hydrolysis
What is it? What is it used for?
Dehydration synthesis
What is it? What is it used for?
Carbohydrates (Monosaccharides, Disaccharides, Polysaccharides and examples)
Know the process of joining two monosaccharides together to create a disaccharide.
Be able to give examples of several monosaccharides, disaccharides and polysaccharides.
Monosaccharide examples (3) | Disaccharide examples (2) | Complex carbohydrates (3) |
Lipids (Saturated vs. Unsaturated; Phospholipids, Steroids)
Define a saturated fatty acid.
Define an unsaturated fatty acid. Draw if it helps.
What process is used to put the fatty acid chain on a glycerol molecule?
Hydrophilic vs. hydrophobic
Define hydrophilic.
What part of the phospholipid is hydrophilic?
Define hydrophobic.
What part of the phospholipid is hydrophobic?
Proteins, types and functions
What is a protein composed of, and what does it do?
Amino acids
Name the three parts of the amino acid that come off the common Carbon.
Identify each of the three parts. (Amino Acid ID game)
Peptide Bonds
How are they formed?
What two parts of each amino acid do they join together?
Enzymes - define.
Levels of Protein structure
Complete the chart below.
Protein structure level | definition |
Primary | |
Secondary | |
Tertiary | |
Quarternary |
Protein Denaturation
What is it and how does it happen?
Define what a Solute is.
Define what a solvent is
Nucleic acids (DNA, RNA, ATP)
Nucleotide
Name its three parts and be able to identify each of them on a diagram. (Nucleotide ID game)
What are the two possible sugars used in a nucleotide?
Complete the Table below.
DNA | RNA | ATP | |
What sugar does it have? | |||
What nitrogen bases does it have? | |||
Provide the pairings of the nitrogen bases of each nucleic acid | N/A | ||
What is its structure? |