Biochemistry Test

Name two differences between organic compounds and inorganic compounds

Name three properties of water that make water essential for living things

Differentiate between a monosaccharide, disaccharide, and polysaccharide

The two ends of a fatty acid are a carboxyl end which is hydrophilic and the hydrocarbon end which is hydrophobic. What do the terms hydrophilic and hydrophobic mean?

What are two nucleic acids and what are their functions

What are the three components of a nucleotide

What are three examples of monosaccharides discussed in class?

What are the four atoms/groups that attach to a central carbon atom to form and amino acid?

What are enzymes, under which organic molecule group do they belong

What is the enzyme for maltose and where is maltose found

What is the enzyme for lactose and where is lactose found

What is the enzyme for sucrose and where is sucrose found

What are the four organic compounds essential for all living organisms

What are carbohydrates?

What is a monosaccharide

What is an isomer

What is a disaccharide

What are the three common disaccharides

What is a polysaccharide

What are three important polysaccharides

What is a lipid

Identify three examples of lipids

What is the monomer of lipids

What is a triglyceride

Differentiate between a fat and an oil

How does a steroid differ from most lipids

What is a wax

What is a protein

What are the monomers of proteins

What is a dipeptide

What is a polypeptide

What is a substrate

What are the monomers of nucleic acids

Write the general equation for the formation of a polymer through a condensation reaction

Write the general equation for the breakdown of a polymer through hydrolysis

Write the condensation reaction for maltose

Write the condensation reaction for sucrose

Write the hydrolysis reaction for lactose

Write the hydrolysis reaction for a triglyceride

Write the condensation reaction for a dipeptide

Write the hydrolysis reaction for a polypeptide

Write the condensation reaction for a polysaccharide

Write the hydrolysis reaction for a disaccharide