Proteins: Flashcards

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Macromolecules/organic compounds/biological moelcules:

Proteins - Examples

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enzymes that make and break other molecules, muscles, hair, fingernails, receptors and channels in cell membranes

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Organic compounds:

Proteins

Examples in food

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nuts, fish, beans, meat

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Organic compounds/biological molecules: Proteins: Uses/functions in living things

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Enzymes put together or break apart all the molecules that make up living things.

Some proteins are structural - they are parts of the organism/living thing

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Proteins:

monomer (what is the building block or subunit of proteins?

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amino acids

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Proteins:

Elements

(which CHNOPS?)

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CHON

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Proteins:

Structure (what do proteins look like?)

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proteins are long chains of amino acids, but they fold up into a 3-dimensional shape