Molecules of life summary
life is builton carbon due
to its four valence electrons C carboxyl hydroxyl
Rf
amino
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methy
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bony
my
hi a R o
functionalgroups give carbon based bondto polarity
carboxyl
binge pity aldehyde
Polymers aremadeup ofmonomers formthroughdehydration synthesis remove Hao
breakdown throughhydrolysis add H2o
it ona onit on HaoHao
nucleicacids DNA RNA
DNA
Rna polymeres deoxyribosesugar ribose sugar
purinesmade up of nucleotides monomers purines
y
m
guanine adenine guanine adenine on
phosphate
pyrimidinespyrimidines
cytosine uracilribosesugar nitrogencontaing cytosine thymine
Proteins
aminoacidmonomers 20 total Rgroupsidechainpropertiesdetermine how structurefolds
H carboxylgroup canbepolarhydrophilic charged or special cases
d cook special Rchains
fog hespecialside chainamine est eystein h glycerine HI fat proline
aminoacidchainsformaccording to DNAinstructions
possible structures primary secondary tertiary quatianary
lipids
mostlyhydrocarbons fattyacidchains cholesterol triglyceride phospholipid
saturated unsaturated guyno no
tapes of lipids
hydro
phylic
e
cancondense kinky willnotcondense
eg oil
carbohydrates
monosaccharides e.g glucose disaccharides e.gsucrose
o
polysaccharides polymers
o o to