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    This document contains review questions about biochemistry topics including reactions, molecules, organic molecules, macromolecules, proteins, and nucleic acids. Specifically, it asks about endergonic and exergonic reactions, anabolism and catabolism, organic vs inorganic compounds, water properties, acids bases and salts, carbon skeletons, functional groups, macromolecules and how they are made, carbohydrate structure and function, lipid classes, protein structure and function, amino acid structure, peptide bonds, protein denaturation, DNA and RNA structure and function, ATP structure and function, and nucleic acid base pairing and structure. It also contains practice problems about protein and nucleic acid structure and function.

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    This document contains review questions about biochemistry topics including reactions, molecules, organic molecules, macromolecules, proteins, and nucleic acids. Specifically, it asks about endergonic and exergonic reactions, anabolism and catabolism, organic vs inorganic compounds, water properties, acids bases and salts, carbon skeletons, functional groups, macromolecules and how they are made, carbohydrate structure and function, lipid classes, protein structure and function, amino acid structure, peptide bonds, protein denaturation, DNA and RNA structure and function, ATP structure and function, and nucleic acid base pairing and structure. It also contains practice problems about protein and nucleic acid structure and function.

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    Biochemistry Review Questions

    Reactions
    What is an endergonic reaction? Exergonic?
    Define anabolism. Define catabolism. What are exchange reactions?

    Molecules
    Know the difference between organic and inorganic compounds.
    Know the important biological features of water. How is it polar? How does it
    act as a solvent?
    Know the properties of an acid, a base and a salt. What does pH of a solution
    mean?

    Organic molecules
    What is a carbon skeleton?
    What is a functional group?
    What are macromolecules? How are they made?

    Macromolecules
    Carbohydrates
    Chemical make-up, Different sizes, how they are made from monomers
    Lipids
    General characteristics, fats, phospholipids, steroids
    Proteins
    Functions, amino acid structure, stereoisomers, peptide bonds, levels of
    protein structure, denaturation, conjugated proteins
    Nucleic Acids
    Nucleotide structure, nucleoside structure, DNA vs RNA structure and
    function,
    ATP
    Structure
    Function

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    Protein Practice Questions

    1. List several functions of proteins.

    2. Draw an amino acid. Identify the N-C-C backbone and residue (R group).

    4. What is the difference between a polypeptide and a functional protein?

    5. Draw a chemical reaction where two amino acids are joined via a dehydration
    synthesis. Identify the peptide bond. Is this endergonic or exergonic? Catabolic
    or Anabolic? Synthesis or decomposition? Require Hydrolysis or Dehydration?

    6. What makes each level of protein structure unique?

    Primary

    Secondary

    Tertiary

    Quaternary

    7. Do all functional proteins have quaternary structure? Explain.

    8. Do all functional proteins have primary and secondary structure? Why or why
    not?

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    9. What are the two types of secondary structure.

    10. How can you determine if a sequence of amino acids would be found
    internally to the protein (Hint, look at #3 above) or externally depending on the
    residues? (Think about hydrophobic v hydrophilic regions.)

    11. Describe denaturation. Think back to chemistry class. What is happening to


    the protein structure during denaturation? What situations can cause
    denaturation?

    Nucleic Acid Practice Problems

    1. What are the two types of nucleic acids full names and acronyms?

    2. What monomers make up the nucleic acids?

    3. Draw a nucleotide. Label the phosphate, nitrogenous base, sugar, and number
    the carbons in the sugar.

    4. What are the 5 different nitrogenous bases and which nucleic acid can they be
    found in? Which are purines and which are pyrimidines?

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    5. What holds the nucleic acid monomers together to make the backbone?

    6. What holds the two strands of DNA together? How many of this type of bond
    the different bases together?

    8. What molecular group is found at the 3’ end of a nucleic acid strand? What
    molecular group is the 5’ end?

    9. What does it mean for a nucleic acid to be antiparallel? (you can draw this
    one)

    10. What are the base pairing rules for DNA? For RNA?

    11. Explain why a Purine must be matched to a Pyrimidine for the width of the
    double-helix to be consistent. (You can draw this one also with an explanation.)

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