BIO_SC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cellular Respiration, Chitin, Deoxyribose
15 Jan 2015
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New ketogenic diets may show that taking in almost no calories from carbs to be a healthy dietary alternative: carbohydrates are not created equally more natural" carbs are healthier. Proteins: protein monomers called amino acids bond together in long chains, sometimes forming large, three dimensional structures which are called proteins, proteins have several functions. Lipids do not form monomers and are very hydrophobic. Nucleic acid monomers are called nucleotides, which (for our purposes) come in a. five varieties. All have a sugar either ribose or deoxyribose, a phosphate group, and a base. The base can be uracil, thymine, guanine, adenine, or cytosine. (these are the five used in rna and dna, there are plenty more) Dna and rna are used in the storage and reproduction of genetic information. b. Atp (adenosine triphosphate) is used to release energy. It is produced in the breakdown of carbohydrates in cellular respiration.
