UMN BIOC 3021 Exam 2 (Lectures 7-12) Answers

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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