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Chapter 3: Carbon Compounds notes
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What are biomolecules?
2. How are biomolecules built?
3. What is the basic unit of most biomolecules?
4. What are carbohydrates?
5. What elements are in a sugar, and what ratio are they in?
6. Define each monosaccharideDisaccharidePolysaccharide-
7. What three uses do cells have for carbohydrates?
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8. What are chitin and cellulose mainly used for?
9. Where can each be found?
10. What are lipids?
11. What do lipids consist of? What does this allow to happen?
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12. What are the 2 main functions of lipids?
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13. What is the cell’s boundary made from?
14. What do waxes in some organisms help prevent?
15. What are proteins?
16. Name 6 things that proteins can be involved in.
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17. What are the building blocks of proteins?
18. How are units of amino acids linked?
19. How many different amino acids can be found in proteins?
20. What determines a proteins primary structure?
21. It’s secondary structure?
22. What is a nucleic acid?
23. What is a nucleotide made up of (3 things)?
24. What is DNA? What sugar does it contain?
25. What is RNA? What sugar does it contain?
26. What is DNA’s role in the cell?
27. What is RNA’s role in the cell?
28. What do nucleic acids do?
29. What does ATP stand for? What is it?
30. What happens when ATP loses its third phosphate group?
31. What do other single nucleotides do?