BIOL 108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Olive Oil, Hydrogen Bond, Lard

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Biomolecules overview, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, topic outline. This course will consider four major classes of biologically important molecules: carbohydrates lipids, proteins and nucleic acids. Are typically composed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen in the ratio (ch2o)n. Note that the ose suffix denotes a sugar. Disaccharides are slightly larger sugars consisting of 2 covalently-linked monosaccharides. Our digestive enzymes will readily break the bonds in starch and glycogen, but not those in cellulose. Chitin is an anomalous polysaccharide found in insect and crustacean exoskeletons and fungal cell walls. Its monomer contains nitrogen (unlike a typical carbohydrate). This group includes several types of molecules, some of which are rather different from each other structurally. What lipids have in common is that they are all hydrophobic. They are entirely or mostly non-polar hydrocarbon, therefore they are not water soluble. Can be synthesized by bonding a fatty acid to each carbon of the 3-carbon molecule glycerol.

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