BSCI 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3, 5, 6, 7: Carbon Fixation, Food Industry, C4 Carbon Fixation
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This is why eggs turn white when you cook them: nucleic acids, macromolecules that store information and provide the instructions for ii. building proteins. A can only pair with t and g can only pair with c xii. three important differences between dna and rna: rna"s sugar is ribose instead of deoxyribose. Instead of the base thymine, rna has a similar but distinct base called uracil (u: rna is usually found in single-stranded form. It is the release of the phosphate at the tip of the triphosphate tail that makes energy available to working cells. It takes energy to do this, which is where food enters the story ii: enzymes, overview: the total of all the chemical reactions in an organism is called metabolism. It does so by binding to reactant molecules and putting them under physical or chemical stress, making it easier to break their bonds and start a reaction c.