Macromolecules

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Macromolecules

• Biology 122
• Genes and Development

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Functional groupsin biological molecules
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Carbohydrates
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Polysaccharides
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Nucleic acids
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On the right is Friedrich Mieschers laboratory,
where DNA was discovered. On the left is the
adjacent lab of Felix Hoppe-Seyler, one of the
founders of Biochemistry.
From The Scientist, Dec. 2008
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DNA

• B form of DNA DNA at the Macromolecular Museum

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Proteins
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Tab. 3.2
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Protein structure
Primary structure of insulin
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Protein structure
Tertiary structure
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Protein structure

• Proteins with the same function from different
  organisms have almost the same tertiary structure.

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Homeodomain protein tree. Green plants Brown
fungi Blue animals
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Example proteins

• T7 DNA polymerasesingle subunit
• Ruv A Recombinasequaternary structure

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Lipids
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