organic compounds

• organic compounds are chem compounds that contains carbon and usually bonded with hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus,sulfur, and nitrogen
• most of inorganic compounds does not contain carbon atoms
• Jons Jakob Berzelius discovered the idea of organic compounds on 1907
• examples of organic compounds are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids
• the structure of carbohydrate is C6H1206. It is also the primary energy source
• lipids are used for storing energy
• Fatty acids are the building blocks of lipids and triglycerides.
• saturated is the unhealthy type of fatty acid and has a single bond
• unsaturated is the type of fatty acid that has one or more double bonds and is healthy
• polypeptides helps in making up proteins by bonding numerous amino acids together
• the building blocks of nucleic acid are called nucleitides
• single strand (ribose) ribonucleic acid
• double strand helix: deoxyribonucleic acid (deoxyribose)
• genes: contain the info to make a protein
• rna: responsible for the synthesis of proteins