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What is a mol?
What is a molar solution?
What are the 4 reasons carbon is the base of all life forms?
What are the names of
a) a single molecule
b) many molecules
What are
a) single sugars
b) paired sugars
c) many sugars
What is the formula for a monosaccharide?
Name a pentose and 2 hexose sugars
What is an isomer? Give an example
What is reduction?
What is a reducing sugar?
What is the test for reducing sugars?
Describe the test for a reducing sugar
What is benedicts reagent and why is it used?
What is the storage polysaccharide in plants
Why is starch used as the storage polysaccharide in plants?
What is the energy storage polysaccharide in animals and why is it different to that of plants?
What is the structural polysaccharide in plants?
What monomer is it made out of?
What 3 structural aspects of cellulose make it so suited for its purpose?
What 3 atoms make up lipids?
What are the two types of lipids?
What are the 4 roles of lipids on the body?
Why are triglycerides called this?
What bonds are formed by lipids in condensation reactions?
What is the formula for glycerol?
What functional group attaches itself to the glycerol branch?
What does the condensation of glycerol and 3 fatty acids create?
How many different types of fatty acid are there?
If a fatty acid has only C-C bonds, what is it known as?
If a fatty acid has a C=C bond or many C=C bonds, what are they known as?
Why are mono-unsaturated and poly-unsaturated lipids oils rather than fats?
Name four structure/function properties of triglycerides?
What are phospolipids?
What makes a phospolipid have different properties to a triglyceride?
What is the test for lipids?
What are the 4 groups of a protein?
What bonds form between protein and where do they form?
What is the primary structure of proteins?
What is the secondary structure of proteins?
What 3 types of bonds maintain the structure of the tertiary structure of a protein?
What two types of tertiary structure are there?
What is Quaternary structure
What is the test for proteins?
what is an enzyme inhibitor?
state 3 properties of enzyme inhibitors
what makes some inhibitors irreversible?
how can be reversible inhibitors be reversed?
what are competitive inhibitors?
what are non competitive inhibitors?
what is end point inhibition?
what is the es complex
explain the induced fit model
what four factors affect enzyme rate of reactions
how does substrate concentration affect an enzymic reaction?
how does enzyme concentration affect rates of reaction
