Proteins are built from long chains of amino acids 3

2. Proteins are built from long chains of amino acids.
3. Dipeptide: a chain of 2 amino acids
4. Tripeptide: a chain of 3 amino acids
5. Polypeptide: a chain of between 15 and 100 amino acids
6. Protein: a chain of more than 100 amino acids
8. Name the monosaccharides and disaccharides

9. Define enzymes – Globular proteins that act as a biological catalyst.
10. What is the most important and most abundant inorganic compound in the body?
11. Describe the functions of water within the body (see handout)
12. Differentiate between:

13. Describe fibrous proteins and globular proteins
14. List the DNA bases and how they match up
15. List the RNA bases
a. RNA contains uracil in place of thymine.
16. What is ATP?
3. ATP is a composed of:

4. Most ATP is synthesized in the mitochondria in a series of
reactions called ‘cellular respiration’. This process will be discussed in
the metabolism chapter.
c. 3 phosphate groups
d.