BCH 4053 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Nucleic Acid Sequence, Sanger Sequencing, Osamu Shimomura
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*bulk of test will be ch3 and 4. *memorize table 1-2 (common functional groups and linkages in biochem. Hydrolysis: you need water to break the bond and energy is released. Condensation makes water and needs energy to make bond. Thermodynamics (assigned): a spontaneous process occurs with a decrease in free energy. Entropy ( s): the process in which matter leans towards disorder: excellent solvent for biological molecules, polar, can form hydrogen bond with other molecules and with other water, electrostatic attractions between water dipoles are crucial to the properties of. An envelop of water molecules surrounding the ion or molecule in water. Being rather strong, these water molecules must be shed in order to approach another molecule before reaction. Hydrophobic effect: non polar molecules do not dissolve in water, but rather they exclude water causing the non polar molecule to aggregate, dna and proteins assume their shape partially due to the hydrophobic effect.
