BSC 108 EVALAUTION TEST ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔What are the characteristics of nucleic acid? - ✔✔Provide the directions for building
protein (DNA, RNA)
✔✔What are the building blocks of each macromolecules? - ✔✔Protein-amino acids
Lipids-fatty acids
Carbohydrates-monosaccharide
Nucleic acid-nucleotides
✔✔Example of a protein - ✔✔enzymes
✔✔Example of a lipid - ✔✔cholesterol
✔✔Example of a carbohydrate - ✔✔glucose
✔✔Example of a nucleic acid - ✔✔DNA
✔✔What is high fructose corn syrup? - ✔✔HFCS 55; Approximately 55% fructose and
42% gluctose
✔✔Why are transfats considered unhealthy? - ✔✔It raises the bad cholesterol and
lowers the good cholesterol
✔✔What is an organic molecule? - ✔✔A molecule that typically consists of carbon
atoms in rings or long chains, where other atoms (e.g. hydrogen, oxygen) are attached.
✔✔What is the difference between a simple and complex carbohydrate? - ✔✔A simple
sugar is a monosaccharide
A double sugar are two monosaccharide joined by the process of dehydration synthesis
✔✔What is a monosaccharide? Give an example - ✔✔A simple sugar; glucose
, ✔✔What is a disaccharides? Give an example - ✔✔A double sugar; lactose
(glucose + galacose)
✔✔What is a polysaccharides? Give an example - ✔✔Complex carbohydrates;
glycogen
✔✔Who stores glycogen? Starch? - ✔✔Animals store glycogen, plants store starch
✔✔What is the difference between a saturated and unsaturated lipid? - ✔✔Saturated
fats have no double bonds and unsaturated contains at least 1 double bond
✔✔What is a phospholipid? - ✔✔A lipid containing glycerol, 2 fatty acids, and a
phosphate
✔✔What is a peptide bond? - ✔✔The resulting bond of a carboxyl group of amino acid
is joined to the amino group of another
✔✔What factor(s) can effect protein folding? - ✔✔Surrounding environment,
unfavorable temperate, pH changes
✔✔Examples of misfolded proteins - ✔✔Mad cow disease and Alzheimer's disease
✔✔What are the roles proteins in the cell? - ✔✔cell shape, tasks of cellular life, inner
organization, routine maintenance
✔✔Who won the Nobel prize for the Nature paper describing the double Helix? -
✔✔Watson, Crick, and Wilkins
✔✔What are the difference between RNA and DNA? - ✔✔RNA is single stranded and
DNA is double stranded
✔✔What are the bases in DNA? - ✔✔Adenine, Cytosine, Thymine, Guanine
✔✔What are the bases in RNA? - ✔✔Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, Uracidlin
✔✔How do the bases pair in a DNA strand? - ✔✔A with T, C with G
✔✔How do the bases pair in a RNA strand? - ✔✔A with U, C with G
✔✔What are the 4 levels of protein structure? - ✔✔Primary structure, secondary
structure, tertiary structure, quaternary
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔What are the characteristics of nucleic acid? - ✔✔Provide the directions for building
protein (DNA, RNA)
✔✔What are the building blocks of each macromolecules? - ✔✔Protein-amino acids
Lipids-fatty acids
Carbohydrates-monosaccharide
Nucleic acid-nucleotides
✔✔Example of a protein - ✔✔enzymes
✔✔Example of a lipid - ✔✔cholesterol
✔✔Example of a carbohydrate - ✔✔glucose
✔✔Example of a nucleic acid - ✔✔DNA
✔✔What is high fructose corn syrup? - ✔✔HFCS 55; Approximately 55% fructose and
42% gluctose
✔✔Why are transfats considered unhealthy? - ✔✔It raises the bad cholesterol and
lowers the good cholesterol
✔✔What is an organic molecule? - ✔✔A molecule that typically consists of carbon
atoms in rings or long chains, where other atoms (e.g. hydrogen, oxygen) are attached.
✔✔What is the difference between a simple and complex carbohydrate? - ✔✔A simple
sugar is a monosaccharide
A double sugar are two monosaccharide joined by the process of dehydration synthesis
✔✔What is a monosaccharide? Give an example - ✔✔A simple sugar; glucose
, ✔✔What is a disaccharides? Give an example - ✔✔A double sugar; lactose
(glucose + galacose)
✔✔What is a polysaccharides? Give an example - ✔✔Complex carbohydrates;
glycogen
✔✔Who stores glycogen? Starch? - ✔✔Animals store glycogen, plants store starch
✔✔What is the difference between a saturated and unsaturated lipid? - ✔✔Saturated
fats have no double bonds and unsaturated contains at least 1 double bond
✔✔What is a phospholipid? - ✔✔A lipid containing glycerol, 2 fatty acids, and a
phosphate
✔✔What is a peptide bond? - ✔✔The resulting bond of a carboxyl group of amino acid
is joined to the amino group of another
✔✔What factor(s) can effect protein folding? - ✔✔Surrounding environment,
unfavorable temperate, pH changes
✔✔Examples of misfolded proteins - ✔✔Mad cow disease and Alzheimer's disease
✔✔What are the roles proteins in the cell? - ✔✔cell shape, tasks of cellular life, inner
organization, routine maintenance
✔✔Who won the Nobel prize for the Nature paper describing the double Helix? -
✔✔Watson, Crick, and Wilkins
✔✔What are the difference between RNA and DNA? - ✔✔RNA is single stranded and
DNA is double stranded
✔✔What are the bases in DNA? - ✔✔Adenine, Cytosine, Thymine, Guanine
✔✔What are the bases in RNA? - ✔✔Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, Uracidlin
✔✔How do the bases pair in a DNA strand? - ✔✔A with T, C with G
✔✔How do the bases pair in a RNA strand? - ✔✔A with U, C with G
✔✔What are the 4 levels of protein structure? - ✔✔Primary structure, secondary
structure, tertiary structure, quaternary
