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Chapter 3
Carbon and
the Molecular
Diversity of Life
You Must Know
• The cellular functions of lipids.
• How the sequence and subcomponents of lipids
determine their properties.
• The basic structure of a nucleic acid.
• How changes in organic molecules would affect
their function.
Concept 3.4: Lipids are a diverse group of molecules
• What do these
molecules have
in common?
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Fats
Ester linkage
Hydroxyl
OH
HO
OH
HO
OH
HO
Glycerol
Fatty Acid
carboxyl
triglyceride
• Fatty acids vary in length (number of carbons) and
in the number and locations of double bonds
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Saturated fatty acids have the maximum
number of hydrogen atoms possible and no
carbon carbon double bonds.
(a) Saturated fat
Structural
formula of a
saturated fat
molecule
Space-filling
model of
stearic acid,
a saturated
fatty acid
Unsaturated fatty acids have one or
more carbon carbon double bonds.
(b) Unsaturated fat
Structural
formula
of an
unsaturated
fat molecule
Space-filling
model of
oleic acid, an
unsaturated
fatty acid
Double bond
causes bending.
• The major function of fats is energy storage
• Fat is a compact way for animals to carry their
energy stores with them
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Hydrophobic tails
Hydrophilic head
Figure 3.14ab
Choline
Phosphate
Glycerol
Fatty acids
Phospholipids
(a) Structural formula
(b) Space-filling model
Figure 3.14cd
Hydrophilic
head
Hydrophobic
tails
(c) Phospholipid
symbol
(d) Phospholipid
bilayer
Steroids
Concept 3.6: Nucleic acids store, transmit, and help
express hereditary information
• The amino acid sequence of a polypeptide is
programmed by a unit of inheritance called a
gene
• Genes are made of DNA, a nucleic acid made of
monomers called nucleotides
• There are two types of nucleic acids
– Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)
– Ribonucleic acid (RNA)
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Figure 3.26a
5 end
Sugar-phosphate backbone
(on blue background)
5C
3C
Nucleoside
Nitrogenous
base
5C
Phosphate
group
3C
(b) Nucleotide
3 end
(a) Polynucleotide, or nucleic acid
Sugar
(pentose)