4. What is the difference between saturated and unsaturated lipids? What about the chemistry dictates the physical state of saturated and unsaturated lipids? How do we observe these differences (examples)?
Saturated:
Unsaturated:
4. What is the difference between saturated and unsaturated lipids? What about the chemistry dictates the physical state of saturated and unsaturated lipids? How do we observe these differences (examples)?
Saturated:
Unsaturated:
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The ratios of staurated to unsturated phosphlipids in an organism's membranes can change in response to changes in environmental conditions.
a. How do the properties of a membrane that contains a low percentage of unsturated phospholipids compare with those of a membrance that contains a high percentage of unsaturated phospolipids?
b. Considering what you know about the properties of staurated and unsaturated fatty acids, would you expect an amoeba that lives in a pond in a cold northern climate to have a higher or lower percentage of saturated fatty acids in its membranes during the summer as compared to the winter? Explain your answer.
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? |