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What type of chemical reaction happens when glucose is formed from starch or glycogen?
Important Questions on Biological Molecules
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List five ways in which the molecular structures of glycogen and amylopectin are similar.
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Make a table to show three ways in which the molecular structures of amylose and cellulose differ.
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State three similarities and three differences between cellulose and collagen.
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Copy Table 2.1. Fill in the blanks in the second column of the table using the words below: hydrophilic haemoglobin ionic bond hydrophobic disaccharide disulfide bond Try with a partner to make a similar table with different statements based on the topics in this chapter. Try it out on other students.
| Description | Word/Term |
| term for water hating | |
| broken by a reduction reaction | |
| formed by a condensation reaction | |
| characteristic of globular proteins | |
| has two alpha chains and beta chains | |
| can be broken by pH changes |
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'The protein-folding problem' box at the beginning of this chapter discussed how scientists are trying to predict the final shapes of proteins from a knowledge of their primary structures. What information about amino acids and proteins would be relevant to feed into a computer program trying to make such predictions?
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State the property of water that helps to explain the cooling of skin during sweating.
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State the property of water that helps explain the transport of glucose and ions in a mammal.
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State the property of water that helps to explain why much smaller temperature fluctuations occurs in lakes and oceans than in terrestrial (land-based) habitats.
