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Honors Biology
Chapter 3 Review Sheet
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Describe one characteristic of carbon that makes it important for biological molecules.
Explain the difference between organic and inorganic molecules.
What are hydrocarbons?
What are isomers?
What are functional groups? Be able to recognize six common functional groups.
Define the words hydrophobic and hydrophilic. What characteristics would make a
substance hydrophobic or hydrophilic?
7. Explain the relationship between monomers and polymers.
8. Draw and describe the processes of dehydration synthesis and hydrolysis.
9. What is a carbohydrate? Function?
10. What does the word saccharide mean?
11. What building blocks make carbohydrates? Give an example.
12. What is the difference between a simple sugar and a complex sugar?
13. Draw the general shape of a glucose molecule.
14. What is a disaccharide? Give and example.
15. Identify the three main types of polysaccharides, their characteristics, where they come
from and what they are used for.
16. What characteristic is shared by all lipids?
17. What types of molecules are lipids?
18. What is the difference between fats and oils?
19. Identify three functions of fats.
20. What are the two main building blocks of a fat?
21. Draw and label a picture of a fat.
22. Is your drawing saturated or unsaturated? How do you know?
23. How many water molecules are produced in the production of a triglyceride?
24. Describe the general structure of a steroid.
25. What are anabolic steroids?
26. What are the building blocks of proteins?
27. What two functional groups make up an amino acid?
28. What makes one amino acid different from another?
29. What is another name for a “side group?”
30. What do we call a long chain of amino acids linked together (besides a protein)?
31. What type of bond links two amino acids together?
32. Identify and describe the four levels of protein structure.
33. What is denaturation? What factors cause it?
34. What are two types of nucleic acids?
35. What is the monomer building block of nucleic acids?
36. What are the three parts of a nucleotide?
37. How do the nucleotides of DNA differ from those of RNA?
38. Which nitrogenous bases pair together?
39. How are the nitrogenous bases held together?
40. Describe the structure of DNA.