NFSC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Thyroid Hormones, Glycogen, Heredity

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Nutrition and Food Science
• Course: NFSC 100
• Professor: Ryan Curtis

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Amino acids: the basic building blocks of protein. Each has an amine group at one end, an acid group at the other, and a distinctive side chain. Amino means nitrogen containing which separates proteins from carbohydrates and fats that do not contain nitrogen. Tim hall: can only be replenished from foods, phenylalanine, valine, Proteins: compounds composed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen and arranged as strands of amino acids. If a diet lacks phenylalanine, it cannot make tyrosine. If a wrong amino acid is inserted, the result can be damaging. (sickle-cell anemia: when a cell makes a protein, the gene for that protein has been expressed. Every cell nucleus contains the dna for making every human protein, but cells do not make them all. Cells specialize in making certain proteins (pancreas cells express the gene for the protein hormone insulin).