Biomolecules

Chemistry and Biology

Review of Chemistry in Biology
Biomolecules
Energy in Organisms

1. What biomolecules do need to survive? What's in them?

2. How do biomolecules give us energy?

3. How are the processes for energy between plants and animals related?

Questions

1. I can explain biomolecules, their functions, their chemical makeup, and their importance

2. I understand how organisms get energy

​Learning Objectives

Objectives and Main Questions

​Found in vegetables, fruits, bread and pasta

Energy! Burns fast. Made of monosaccharides.

​​Carbohydrates

​Found in meat, nuts, beans, eggs.

Assist with tons of things in your body. Made of amino acids.

​​Protein

Found in fats and oil.



Long term energy! Made of glycerol and fatty acids.

​​Lipids

​In DNA and RNA.



Important for DNA and RNA! Easy.

​​Nucleic Acids

​The Biomolecules

Match

Match the biomolecules to their main sources/origin

• Carbohydrates

• Lipids

• Proteins

• Nucleic Acids

Pasta, bread, fruit, vegetables

Fats and oils

Meat, eggs, beans, nuts

DNA and RNA

• Pasta, bread, fruit, vegetables

• Fats and oils

• Meat, eggs, beans, nuts

• DNA and RNA

What does that look like?

A monomer is a single building block that makes up something larger. Our biomolecules are built of many building blocks.

What's a monomer?

Monomers

Multiple Choice

What's a monomer?

• Building block that makes up something

• A single element

• A single molecule

• A biomolecule

Match

Match the biomolecule with its monomer (building block)

• Carbohydrates

• Protein

• Lipids

• Nucleic Acid

Monosaccharides

Amino Acid

Glycerol and fatty acids

Nucleotide

• Monosaccharides

• Amino Acid

• Glycerol and fatty acids

• Nucleotide

Dropdown

Monosaccharide is a singular sugar. The one our body needs to make ATP is​

Select answer

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Poll

My favorite biomolecule to eat is:

• Proteins

• Lipids

• Carbohydrates

• NUCLEIC ACIDS

Our biomolecules are built of monomers of things like glucose. But those are made of elements. And what are elements made of?? And what's an element???

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But what are the building blocks built with?

Multiple Choice

Wait, we know this. WHAT'S EVERYTHING IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE MADE OF?

• Atoms

• Proteins

• Dark matter

• Hydrogen

The building block of the whole universe.

Atoms have:
Protons (positively charged particles)
Neutrons (neutral particles)
Electrons (negatively charged particles)

Atoms ->

Those things on the periodic table, like Oxygen, Hydrogen, Helium, and Iron.

Elements combine to form molecules, like H2O (water!). They are classed into different groups, like metals and noble gases.

Elements - >

Molecules are elements basically stuck together. You built some in PhET.

They can be arranged tons of different ways to form different kinds of molecules.

H2O? Water. H2O2? Hydrogen peroxide.

Molecules

Reorder

Arrange these from left to right: smallest (simplest) to largest (most complex)

• Atom

• Element

• Molecule

1

2

3

• 1
• 2
• 3

Multiple Select

Our biomolecules are made of:

• Elements

• Atoms

• Monomers

Multiple Choice

Would O2 be an element or a molecule?

• Element

• Molecule

​CHO
CARBON
HYDROGEN
OXYGEN

​​CHO: Carbs

CHON
CARBON
HYDROGEN
OXYGEN
NITROGEN

​​CHON: Proteins

​CHO
CARBON
HYDROGEN
OXYGEN

​​CHO: Lipids

​CHO
CARBON
HYDROGEN
OXYGEN
NITROGEN
PHOSPHOROUS

​​CHONP: Nucleic Acid

​What elements are in our biomolecules?

Categorize

Options (4)

Carbs

Lipids

Proteins

Nucleic Acid

Organize these options into the right categories

CHO

CHON

CHONP

Match

Match these acronyms to the elements within them

• CHO

• CHON

• CHONP

Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen

Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen

Has phosphorous too!

• Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen

• Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen

• Has phosphorous too!

Open Ended

Why are biomolecules important?

Multiple Choice

In biology, ATP is

• Energy

• At the top

• Proteins

​We are heterotrophs, so we eat stuff to get energy. That stuff? Biomolecules.

We use those to make ATP, which is like energy currency for our body. We breathe out CO2, which plants need to make energy.

​​Animals

Plants are autotrophs, so they make their own energy using photosynthesis. They just need sunlight, water, and CO2 to make glucose and oxygen!

We use that glucose and oxygen to make energy.

Plants

​Getting energy

Dropdown

We need plants to give us​

Select answer

(sugar) and ​

Select answer

to make ​

Select answer

. Plants need ​

Select answer

, which we breathe out, to make us what we need for energy.

Open Ended

Why do plants and animals need each other to survive?

Biomolecules are made of elements and are used to get energy. Plants and animals use the products of each other to get energy.

​Answers

Reviewed our biomolecules, chemistry for biology, and how those are related to give us energy.

We:

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