As we continue studying organic macromolucules, it can be helpful to get out of the book and onto the web. There are a ton of good resources on YouTube: animations, explanations, with lots of different ways of looking at molecules. Some are even better than my drawings on the board! Here's a quick video on general lipid structure, with explanations on polarity, saturated vs. unsaturated fatty acid chains, and lipid's role in cell membranes. The specific molecule described is a phospholipid (2 fatty acid chains and a phosphate group attached to the carbons of the glycerol molecule).
Please look around the YouTube to find additional resources on molecules, and let us know which ones are helpful. Keep in mind that not everything is good. The range of quality varies from university molecular modeling software (highly accurate) to 5th graders working on their science project, excited to share their "song about carbohydrates" (which might be great, but might also be not great).
Share links in the Comments section below. Be sure to include a sentence about which molecules are covered, and why you found the video helpful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1WEL2CQeDc I found this video very helpful because it talks about everything we have discussed. Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins and Nucleic acids.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qf_r5EVP6U
ReplyDeletegood video, talks about the make up of carbohydrates, dehydration and a lot of other helpful things,
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ReplyDeleteThis video is extremely helpful, it is very detailed but it provides really good and important information on molecules. It especially talks about carbohydrates and goes into great detail with it. It also talks about lipids and proteins, and a bunch of other molecules.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qf_r5EVP6U This video was very explanatory and made a lot of sense, It talked some of the things that we learned about in school like sugars and dehydration reactions.
ReplyDeleteA great start, guys! Keep 'em coming.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1o4371M5Xo This video was very helpful because it explained a lot about saturated vs. unsaturated fat, and also how each row on the periodic table likes to make a certain number of bonds.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2udmFQjtlIE i found this video helpful, because although it only focused on carbohydrates, it went briefly into depth, and gave me a better understanding than another video.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWDYlartjnU&feature=related. A little brief/kiddish but explains almost everything we have done and gives examples of chemical and food examples. Gives a little stats too. This person probably has the same textbook as us.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xF_LK9pnL0&feature=relmfu. This video was helpful because it discussed lipids in good depth, and other elements on the periodic table.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gquOsTKT8JE. THis video was very helpful for me because it went into great detail about carbohydrates, it also gave very specific examples which helped me understand it better.
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qf_r5EVP6U
ReplyDeleteThis video was very helpful because it explained everything we have discussed so far in class. It talked about lipids, carbohydrates, and other elements. I gave me a good understanding of these elements.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qf_r5EVP6U
ReplyDeleteI found this video very helpful. It consisted of a lot of information, but was explained in a clear easy way to understand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWDYlartjnU
ReplyDeleteThis video was helpful for me because it was an easy way to understand the basics about the molecules we have learned about in class so far.
^ELIZABETH GROWNEY
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qf_r5EVP6U
ReplyDeleteThis video was very informative, it talked about carbohydrates, dehydration synthesis, and polysaccharides. Generally most of the things we've gone over in class.