NSCI 2211 Chapter 5-6: NSCI Review Session 1 Exam 3
9 Mar 2017
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A fat is made of 2 kinds of smaller molecules: monoglycerides & fatty acids. * know the sources of saturated & unsaturated fatty acids. Unsaturated fatty acids: there"s at least 1 double bond: coconut oil is a saturated fat, what is lactovo, know. After a fatty meal, the blood is so full of chylomicrons that it looks milky. Pepsinogen (hcl) pepsin (converts to pepsin due to hcl) dentaures protein. Protein digestion: mouth: mastication, stomach, small intestine: End products converted into amino acids (aa) di & tripeptide. Proteases break apart polypeptides into tri & di peptides. Tripeptides and dipeptides break tripe tides and dipeptides into amino acids. Once a protein is broken down into an amino acid it can go into the bloodstream first organ to receive amino acid liver. Proteins are made up of 20 different amino acids. 3 steps of protein synthesis: transcription, dna.
