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Crash Course Biology Notes on: Biological Molecules: You Are What You Eat
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What makes up every living thing on earth?
We call the biological molecules:
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Food falls into three categories:
1) Saccharinous, the _______________________
2) Oleaginous, the ________________________
3) Albuminous , the _______________________
______________________________ are the source of all energy.
What are carbohydrates made up of?
What is the simplest carbohydrate?
What does mono mean?
What does saccharide mean?
Where does glucose come from?
Where does all biological energy come from?
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Crash Course Biology Notes on: Biological Molecules: You Are What You Eat
Every _____________ that needs energy, uses glucose.
What is another monosaccharide and what is its chemical formula?
What are some differences between glucose and fructose?
What are disaccharides?
What is sucrose?
What happens when carbohydrates start to from longer chains?
What are polysaccharides?
What is an example of a polysaccharide?
Polysaccharides are really good at storing _____________________
How do plants store glucose?
What are some of the forms plants use to store starch?
How do humans store carbohydrate energy?
How do humans store energy over long periods of time?
What are lipids?
What keeps lipids from dissolving in water?
What are the two ingredients of fats?
What is glycerol?
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Crash Course Biology Notes on: Biological Molecules: You Are What You Eat
What are fatty acids?
How do you make a triglyceride?
Where will you find triglycerides?
What does saturated mean with regards to fats?
What does unsaturated mean with regards to fats?
What are Trans fats?
What are omega 3 fats?
What is a phospholipid?
Where do we find phospholipids?
How and why do phospholipids arrange themselves in the presence of water?
What is the purpose of a cell wall?
What are steroids?
What is cholesterol?
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Crash Course Biology Notes on: Biological Molecules: You Are What You Eat
What are some of the functions of proteins?
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What are the ingredients for proteins and how many are there?
What is an amino acid made of?
How do we get nitrogen into our bodies?
What is in the middle of the amino and acid group?
Carbon shares its electrons with what?
What is the R group and how many R groups are there?
What is a polypeptide?
How do polypeptides form proteins?
What are the nine amino acids we can’t make and how do we get them into our bodies?
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