Answer all the questions in Chapter 3 in Biology please. What are organic molecules?

What is a functional group?

Why is carbon so well suited to form the basis of the chemistry of life?

Fill in the following for carbohydrates, proteins, and nucleic acids:

What is this molecule composed of?

What is the monomer of this macromolecule?

What are the properties of this macromolecule?

What kind of reaction builds the polymer?

List the types of molecules in this class of macromolecules.

What is the function of each type?

What are the characteristics of lipids? what are lipids composed of?

List all the types of lipids.

What is the difference between a saturated and unsatruated fat?

Where are phospholipids found?

List some important molecules that are steroids.

What is the monomer of a protein?

What type of bond joins the monomers of a protein (ionic, covalent, hydrogen)? What is the specific name given to this bond in a protein?

All amino acids have a central carbon atom. List the 4 atoms or groups of atoms that will be bonded to this carbon atom. Which of these groups is different in each amino acid?

What happens to a protein when it "denatures"? What conditions may lead to the denaturation of a protein? Can a denatured protein perform its function?

What determines a protein's primary structure?

What causes a protein's secondary structure?

What causes a protein's tertiary structure?

What must occur for a protein to have a quarternary structure?

What are some of the functions served by protein molecules?

What is the monomer of a nucleic acid?

What are the three parts of a nucleotide? Which part is different in each nucleotide (specifically, in each DNA nucleotide)?

In a nucleotide chain, what forms the linkage from one nucleotide to the next nucleotide?

What are the two types of nucleic acids?

What does it mean to say that DNA is a double helix?

What part of each nucleotide bonds the two strands of a DNA molecule together? What type of a bond occurs at this point?

What are the base pairing rules in a molecule of DNA?

What is the function of DNA? What is the function of RNA?

If one strand of DNA has the base sequence ATTCGC, what will be the base sequence of the other strand?

Is RNA double stranded or single stranded?