BIOL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pyrimidine, Purine, Thymine

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Molecules of life: nucleic acids (translate blueprint into tangible product. Dna bases: at cg, a with t: the purine adenine (a) always pairs with the pyrimidine thymine (t, c with g: the pyrimidine cytosine (c) always pairs with the purine guanine (g) Nucleic acids: rna, ribonucleic acid, is a different from dna, rna usually single strand, rna uses the sugar ribose and the base uracil(u) instead of thymine(t, a u, g c. Lipids: hydrophobic-not affected by water, lipids are not made of repeating monomers. Functions of fats: energy storage, thermal regulation(insulation, cushioning/protectionfunctions of fats, fat saturation. Steroids: thg, hgh, etc (anabolics, can improve physical performance. Phospholipids: de ne cell boundaries, hydrophilic and hydrophobic, amphipathic molecules are de ne as having 2 different af nities. Solid water is less dense than liquid water, so ice oats. Cohesion - water molecules cling to water.

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