Organic Chemistry Daily Questions and DQQ

Friday September 21^st 

Proteins are made up of what kind of subunits?

Amino Acids 

Proteins are very complex and their functions are very diverse – what about proteins determines their function?

Their SHAPE - How the amino acids are folded on top of each other directly determines what they are able to do. 

Here is a molecule of Hemoglobin - See how there are many
different folds in this - We will see in future chapters how
even a TINY change in the amino acid sequence can
 DRASTICALLY Change it's function

The last organic molecules we will be looking at are Nucleic acids – what are two examples of Nucleic Acids?

DNA and RNA (N.A. stands for Nucleic Acid)

After going through these daily questions, I gave you guys some time to look over the notes/daily questions on organic chemistry and we took the Daily Question quiz.  Those classes that still needed to get down the rest of the notes did so.  Keep in mind, I am planning another open notes quiz for probably Tuesday or Wednesday of next week so make sure you are caught up in your notes!!!

These were different Examples of Proteins found in our bodies.  I asked that you put three examples in yournotes - only the heading and the underlined portions of "Hair and Nails", "Blood", and
That Enzymes Aid in biochemical reactions.