Biological Molecules
You are what you eat!
In this crash course video Hank talks about the molecules that make up every living thing - carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins
In this crash course video Hank talks about the molecules that make up every living thing - carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins
- Carbon It forms the basis of all organic life and has the amazing ability to bond with itself and a wide range of other elements, forming nearly 10 million known compounds.
Water
- During this In Our Time podcast Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss one of the simplest and most remarkable of all molecules: water
Carbohydrates
The structure and function of different types of carbohydrates explained
Lipids
Proteins
The structure and function of proteins video
Nucleic Acids
Animation of DNA transcription to mRNA and translation to protein
Enzymes
Mr Andersen explains how enzymes are used to break down substrates.
Animation of the lock and key mechanism of enzyme activity
The normal enzyme catalytic cycle is shown, followed by two types of inhibition by competitive and non-competitive blockers.
- These web-sites provide information on enzyme structure and the factors affecting enzymes that may help you consolidate your own notes
- A PowerPoint summarising enzyme structure and function that you may find useful when you come to revise this topic