Organic Chemistry Wrap up - How this correlates with our health.

Monday September 24^th

Proteins have MANY different functions in our bodies.  What role does hemoglobin have in our bodies?

 Carries Oxygen in our blood throughout our body.

What main protein make up our hair and nails?

 Alpha Keratin

What do enzymes aid in?

 Biochemical Reactions

Nucleic Acids are made up of what kind of monomer?

 Nucleotides 

This monomer has three parts – what are they?

 A Sugar, A Base and A Phosphate group

What are two important functions of Nucleic acids?

Carry Hereditary information (such as in DNA and RNA), Act as energy carriers (In the form of ATP)

After these daily questions, we discussed any of the notes we had not finished and then I had you guys working in the "Chemistry of Health" booklet.  This was a way to see how all we have been learning relates back to how our bodies function.  We will continue with this after the open notes quiz tomorrow.