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- Does water hydrogen bond with itself? What effect does this have?
- How do hydrophilic and ionic compounds behave in water?
- Water processes that polymerize and break molecules?
1.3
-Lipids possess what type of polarity and solubility? How do they react in water, or an aqueous
environment such as blood?
-What are the three main functions of lipids?
-What are the 9 types of lipids?
-What properties lipids the ability to store energy?
-How do fats separate aqueous environments?
-Why are they useful precursors?
-Fatty acids make up which more complex lipids?
-What is a fatty acid comprised of? Maximum number of carbons in a lipid?
-What does it mean for a lipid to be saturated or unsaturated? Which bonds give them energy
storage capacities?
-What are triglycerides comprised of?
-What functions do they serve? What are adipocytes?
-What are phosphoglycerides comprised of, where are they used?
-What are glycolipids comprised of, where are they used?
-What are sphingolipids comprised of, where are they used?
-What are steroids? Some examples?
-What are terpenes? Example?
-Waxes? Example?
-What does it mean to be an essential molecule? What is an example of a lipid that is essential?
-What are eicosanoids?
-What are lipoproteins? Composition and function?
-What affects lipoprotein density? Types?
1.4
-What is the primary function of carbs?
-How do they compare in terms of energy storage capacity to lipids?
-What functional groups are present along carbs and how do they affect energy density?

-How does carb structure contribute to energy storage?

-How are polysaccharides formed? Monosaccharides? Which involves energy release?
-Carbon to Water ratio?
-Most important sugars?
-How prevalent is glucose?
-What cells convert carbohydrates to glucose before it reaches other body cells?
-Why is glucose useful for energy? How is it stored?
-Name the different types of glucose polymers and describe their structure and function.
-What cells can convert glycogen into glucose, why?
-What cells can absorb glucose against a concentration gradient?
-How do normal cells absorb glucose?
-What cells can absorb sufficient amounts of glucose in the absence of insulin?
-What forms can glucose be stored in for plants?
-Difference between alpha and beta glucose?
-How are glucose polymers broken?
1.5
-What is a nucleotide comprised of?
-What is a phosphodiester bond?
-Describe nucleotide orientation in DNA
-What is a nucleoside?
-What are nucleotide polymers called?
-Describe base pairs, pairing, structure
-Differences between RNA and DNA