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BCH4024 EXAM 1
What are 3 characteristics of water? - ANS high dipole moment, high bp and high heat capacity

stable interaction ocurring between two electronegative atoms that share a H is known as a - ANS
hydrogen bond

Life time of H bonds are short because -------- is low - ANS activation energy

liquid water is a flickering collection of 6 and 5 water molecules, which is more stable - ANS w5

Very little w1 occurs because, to raise the temp would require ------- degrees - ANS 100

water also has a high viscosity, special interactions with nonpolar molecules and strong/ weak
interactions with ionic molecules - ANS strong

----------- facilitates biological turnover - ANS freezing

carbon cycle formula - ANS H2O+CO2--HCO--metabolites--CO2

water has a high bp relative to its molecular weight and a low bp relative to the - ANS earth

Nucleophilic reactions works best within polar organic solvents, ----------retards nucleophilic reactions.
So if you are given a nucleophilic equation with this in it, it's no rxn - ANS water

Ice bonds are -------- with high volume and low density - ANS tetrahedral

The --------- nature of water allows it to move blood fast in the body - ANS viscous

50 percent of the earth's heat comes from --------, the rest come from solar power - ANS radioactive
decay

Glucose is phosphorylated by -------------, it does so to the primary carbon, w/o it, the 2ndry carbons
would be phosphorylated - ANS hexokinase

Enzymes make reactions go faster by, increasing ----------, changing the orientation of -----------, and
stabilizing ----------- - ANS local concentration, substrates, transition states

There are two types of hydrolysis, ----------- (almost always uncatalyzed), ---------- (almost always
catalyzed) - ANS ionic, covalent

Life began in the ocean, driven by a reducing atmosphere is the --------- hypothesis-- "hot dilute soup" -
ANS Oparin Haldane

What were the primordial elements in the Miller-Urey flask? - ANS H2O, NH3, H2 and CH4

,what chemicals were detected in the Miller-Urey experiment? - ANS formic acid, urea, 6 amino acids
and adenine

We now believe that life began not in the ocean, but in the ------- because oligosaccharides and
secondary molecules are formed by dehydration - ANS desert

RNAs were the first molecules to appear, they had 3d dimensions, -------- catalysts, --------- and ----------- -
ANS feeble, could store information, replicate

Gell Mann defined life as a complex self adaptive system that is able to evolve and gain options and
--------- is the search algorithm for biological change - ANS mutation

In liquid water protons hop,----------- --------- has a proton wire that facilitates rapid proton transfer in
and out of an active site. This also catalyzes the bicarbonate buffer - ANS carbonic anhydrase

Ph DO NOT measure the --------of hydronium ions, they are standardized with solutions of known
concentrations and activity, so the PH of pure water is approximately 7 - ANS concentration

why is aspirin enterically coated - ANS it hurts the stomach lining

PH is important in bch because many-------,-------and ------------have acid and base sites, in case of nucleic
acids, they are polyelectrolytes - ANS metabolites, enzymes, nucleic acids

Buffers are weak acids and bases that obey the ------------- principle, the principle that has to do with acid
base chemistry adjustment on rxn and products sides - ANS le Chatelier's

Buffers are most effective near -------values - ANS pka

Many metabolites are weak acids and bases, some biological buffers include----- (H2PO3/HPO3),
------------- (HCO3/CO3),------------- (HATP/ATP), ------ and ---------- (in muscle) - ANS orthophosphate,
bicarbonate, ATP, proteins,creatine phosphate

what is the most important buffer in animals, it maintains a constant plasma ph and is just a reaction
between readily available CO2 and H2O - ANS bicarbonate

The reaction of CO2 and H2O is rapid to prevent the lysis of the - ANS mitochondria

Acidosis stimulates the getting rid of ---------, because technically it is acidic. Altered breathing rate. The
counter effect called alkalosis is treated by breathing into a bag - ANS CO2

The balancing of shift in ph between cells and ECF is conducted mainly by which 3 ions, where increasing
the last one means increasing the H+ ions - ANS Na, K, Cl

Diffusion limited process means that reaction rate is limited by how ------------reactants collide - ANS fast

In macromolecules, H bonds in helices and sheets undergo local -------- - ANS unfolding

, There are several noncovalent interactions, H bond, ionic bonds, --------- and ------------ interactions - ANS
VanderWaals (dipoles), hydrophobic

Salt bridge is a combination of ----bonding and ----------- - ANS H, electrostatics

Pi stacking, stacking of ------- rings delocalizes pi electrons, therefore its weak - ANS aromatic

Linear H bond is --------------than bent H bond because in linear, all 3 atoms involved are aligned - ANS
stronger

Protonation and deprotonation of small molecules like acetic and phosphoric acid are - ANS rapid

----------interactions are dominant in proteins and enzymes. They are not true bonds - ANS Hydrophobic

water binds tightly to --------molecules, hydrophobic interactions result in the release of H2O which
increase delta S (entropy) and is thereby favorable - ANS apolar

And for a favorable interaction, we want the temperature to be low/high, except in the liver - ANS high

Hydrophobicity greatly facilitate ----------folding. This folding decreases local entropy but water release
increases overall entropy and makes rxn favorable - ANS protein

Orientation or geometry does/does not affect strength of hydrophobic interactions - ANS does not

Larger alkyl groups by themselves increase the AMOUNT of free energy (delta G) because they have
larger sites for water molecules to bind (water accessible area), so it's a ------- correlation - ANS positive

-------- ---------- --------- is the number of the water molecules needed to cover a hydrophobic molecule -
ANS water accessible area

By themselves, water molecules form flickering cluster, but --------when they are around hydrophobic
molecules - ANS cages

The alpha amino acids have an amino group that is attached to the carbon that is attached to the
----------group - ANS carboxyl

When numbering the carbons, the most oxidized, meaning the ---------gets the number 1 - ANS carboxyl

Remember what a chiral molecule is, it is a carbon that has ------------different groups - ANS 4

When drawing fischer projections, all carbons should be ------, chiral carbon should be --------- and the
most oxidized carbon should be on --------. Vertical part is dashed lines - ANS lined up, centered, top

Which side to the heavier atoms get put on for a d series amino acid and in nature -----------amino series
are used - ANS right, L

L configuration of amino acids can be remembered using the CORN rule, with the ---------pointed
towards you and the alpha carbon not seen. This is contrary to the kahn prelog rules - ANS H

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