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UMN BIOC 3021 Exam 2 (Lectures 7-12)
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competitive inhibitor - Answers✓✓binds to active site
competes with substrate
will raise apparent Km
will not alter Vmax
Vmax - Answers✓✓at high substrate, a competitive inhibitor will not alter this
non-competitive inhibitor - Answers✓✓binds to distant site
doesn't compete with substrate
will not alter apparent Km
will alter Vmax
enantiomers - Answers✓✓non-superimposable mirror images
epimers - Answers✓✓stereoisomers that differ in stereochemistry at one chiral carbon
(exception is trioses)
epimer examples - Answers✓✓erythrose and threose
glucose and galactose
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2 ^# of chiral C - Answers✓✓number of isomers
hemiacetal - Answers✓✓aldehyde plus alcohol
beta config - Answers✓✓one up, one down
alpha config - Answers✓✓both up
monosaccharides - Answers✓✓hemiacetal
acetal - Answers✓✓hemiacetal plus alcohol
disaccharides - Answers✓✓acetal
lipids - Answers✓✓non-polar
major energy source
made of fatty acids
sparingly water soluble
increase with chain length - Answers✓✓lipid melting point and non-polarity
unsaturated fatty acids - Answers✓✓liquid at room temp
generally healthier