Biological Molecules-You Are What You Eat Crash Course

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Name_________ WTHS Biology Keystone Review 2012-2013

Biological Molecules- You are What You Eat:


Biology # 3
This worksheet goes with podcast # 3 from Crash Course Biology found on youtube

Video Outline
1. introduction prefix meaning
The goals for today’s video are 3-fold. We will learn 2. William Prout & Pee
about 3. Carbohydrates
1. the 3 most important molecules on earth mono
a. Mono& Disaccharides
2. grossest sandwich b. Polysaccharides
3. obscure scientist who knows a lot about c. Cellulose & chitin di
urine d. Starch and glycogen
4. lipids
poly
a. fats
b. phospholipids
c. steroids
5. proteins
a. amino acids
b. polypeptides

Biological Molecules:
These are the molecules necessary for every living thing on earth to
survive...
They are ...

In short they are the ____________ for_____________.

Studying Carbohydrates We’ll look at


Nucleic this another
these Lipids
Acids day
today Proteins

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Name_________ WTHS Biology Keystone Review 2012-2013

Carbohydrates:
Made of sugars or monosaccharides

Glucose is perhaps the most important of the monosaccharides its energy comes
from ____________. Another example is fructose.

Disaccharides have ___ sugars. An example is ___________________

Polysaccharides have______ sugars

In plants ___________________ is the most common structural compound.


It is also the most common organic compound on the planet.

Starch provides energy for us.. like that found in bread. The energy is stored in
the form of __________, which is stored in our muscles for short term storage.
Or as ______ for longer term storage. Which brings us to our next biological
molecule, the lipid.

Lipids:

Lipids are polar/ non-polar (circle one) and as a result does not mix with water.

They are made of two ingredients; ____________ and ________.

Saturated fats are in fact saturated with ___________. Unsaturated fats


contain a _______________ so that they are not completely saturated with
hydrogen.

type of fat state at room temp. (solid/liquid/ gas)


saturated fat
unsaturated fat

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Name_________ WTHS Biology Keystone Review 2012-2013

Phosopholipid makes up the ________________

Steroids Cholesterol hormones

Proteins:
Extremely complex large molecules such as...

Proteins are made using only 20 different _________________ (A.A.)

When you get a bunch of these amino acids together you make a long change called
______________________ (there’s that prefix poly again!)

Triple Decker sandwich:

layer Biological importance building blocks of


molecule it of biological molecule
contains molecule
bread
peanut butter
egg

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