Lipids

All I can say for our lesson this week is that lipids are much easier to study comparing proteins and amino acids because of their complicated building blocks. Lipids are the substances that makes our skin warm however too much of it can cause chronic diseases mainly heart attack, stroke, and obesity. It is also known as fats and can be found in saturated and unsaturated fats like glycerol and cholesterol. In order to avoid these diseases that commonly killed billions of people everyday we must have a healthy lifestyle that will serve as a habit in order to live life to the fullest.

Regarding its structures it looks complicated, but in reality it's not. All you have to do is just know the positions and the number of carbon atoms that a fatty acid needs such as buttanic acid requiring 4 carbon atoms meaning when writting its structure you must write from left to right 4 Cs and with its first C draw a covalent bond with O and a single bond with H then the other Cs will have Hs on the top and on the bottom having a single bond but the final C will have an H on the left side. So it states : CH3(CH2)2COOH

Proteins & Amino Acids

The structures of proteins and polypeptides are much more complicated than I ever thought comparing to carbohydrates. Especially when studying polypeptides are the ones giving you serious headaches. But amino acids, on the other hand, is much easier. The only thing you have to do is to just memorize its parent's structures composed of CH2 on the left side, COOH on the right side, and H at the top. The rest depends on the type of amino acid you want to write then express it on the bottom and then make sure that the bond between the hydrogen, carbon and oxygen are equally to 4. And also, one thing that I had a hard time is studying DNA & RNA. Well you could say that it's easy at first because we all know from basic biology that RNA is single-stranded and DNA is double-stranded. But the further you go, your nose will bleed and must really make time to fully understand how the structures are formed and identify its phosphate group, nitrogenous base, and 5-carbon simple molecules which is very confusing most of the time. All that I can say is that I hope I can cope up with the lessons regarding this topic and understand relatively how they are formed. Thank you for viewing!

Monossacharides & Dissacharides

It's only this year that I have learned how biologists write each structures of a monossacharide combining of the two to form a dissacharide. For me, it's really amazing how they were able to come up with it. I have learned that monossacharides are mainly composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen forming with different positions such as glucose, fructose, and galactose. Forming dissacharides, on the other hand, is a bit complicated to learn but as you tackle/review covalent bonds it won't be that hard. I hope that I could memorize each of the monossacharide's structure in order to understand how to write a dissacharide structure in many different ways. Thank you once again for viewing and God Bless!

Medical Terms

What could I say about our biology class is that it's way too advanced comparing our previous class with sir e. Though it's complicated and a bit difficult at first to memorize and understand the terms required for undergoing deeper concepts I thanked God that He gave me enough knowledge and wisdom to complete my assignments properly and at the same time to fully understand each medical term's opposites such as superior-inferior, posterior-anterior, and superficial-deep. And especially during our practice exam regarding the different parts of the body writing its medical term e.g. orbital (eye cavity) that I was also able to memorize them but it was easy because its terms are very familiar from other lower-level sciences. I hope that I can gradually manage my brain capacity to study and pass the exams. That's all and thank you for viewing! :)