Chapter 5 Mastering Biology

Select the statement that is incorrect.

A simple sugar is composed of equal part carbon and water, which gave rise to the general name of any sugar as a ___.

Lactose, the sugar in milk, is a ___, because it can be split into two monosaccharides.

A ___ cannot be hydrolyzed any further.

A carbohydrate that yields many monosaccharides when hydrolyzed is a ___.

Glycogen is ___.

Glucose + glucose --> ___ + ___

Which of these is a source of lactose?

Which of these is a polysaccharide?

___ is the most abundant organic compound on Earth.

Which of these is NOT a lipid?

Which of these is rich in unsaturated fats?

A function of cholesterol that does not harm health is its role ___.

___ structure is the sequence of amino acids in a protein.

___ structure is the result of two or more protein subunits assembling to form a larger, biologically active protein complex.

___ structure describes the alpha- helices and beta- sheets that are formed by hydrogen bonding between backbone atoms located near each other in the polypeptide chain.

___ structure is achieved when a protein folds into a compact, three-dimensional shape stabilized by interactions between side-chain R groups of amino acids.

Identify three possible components of a DNA nucleotide.