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Microbiology UTA 2460 Chapter 7Questions And Answers With Verified
Solutions 100% Correct!!!
Biochemistry - ANSWER✔✔ study of life chemistry
Most abundant cellular elements - ANSWER✔✔ -Hydrogen, Carbon, Oxygen,
Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Sulfur
-H, C, O, N most common
-99% of cell is dry weight
micronutrients - ANSWER✔✔ -Sodium, Potassium, Magnesium, Zinc, Iron,
Calcium, Molybdenum, Copper, Cobalt, Manganese, Vanadium
-less abundant but equally important
Organic Molecules - ANSWER✔✔ -carbon backbone + combo of macronutrients
-Mostly larger and more complex
-Form cell structure
-covalent bonds
inorganic molecules - ANSWER✔✔ - no carbon
-simpler/smaller
-do not form cell structure
carbon skeletons - ANSWER✔✔ -have varying sizes and arrangements
, -Arrangements can be chain, branched, or cyclic
Structural isomers - ANSWER✔✔ -carbon molecules with same formula but
different arrangement
sterioisomers - ANSWER✔✔ -same sequence, same structure, but different 3D
shape
Enantiomers - ANSWER✔✔ -isomers that are mirror images of each other (related
by reflection to each other)
-Can give drugs different therapeutic effect
Biological Functional Groups - ANSWER✔✔ Groups of atoms with a specific
chemical composition attached to carbon chain, branching, or cyclic formation
Macromolecules - ANSWER✔✔ -Chains of carbons with various functional groups
-Some polymers are formed through dehydration synthesis (water formed as
byproduct)
monomers - ANSWER✔✔ building block of (most) macromolecules
Polymers - ANSWER✔✔ repeating monomers
Macromolecule: Carbohydrates - ANSWER✔✔ -Most abundant macromolecule
-Serve as food source, structure, and transmitting genetic info
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