Worksheets

Click here to download lesson 3 textbook worksheets. (Acrobat reader plug-in is required)

Click here to download lesson 3 lab worksheets. (Acrobat reader plug-in is required)

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Textbook assignment

Step 1:

Read Chapter 3, all pages, in your text and answer the related questions on your worksheets.

If you need help, there is an answer key at the front desk of the Biology Learning Center.

Textbook publisher's web activities

Step 2: Complete the following activities from the textbook publisher's website. Answer the related questions on your worksheet. These activities are from a previous edition of your textbook - that's OK. (Note: Only complete the activities listed below, not all of the activities for each text chapter.)

Chapter 3 textbook publisher's web activities

• 3.1 Organic chemistry
• 3.2 Explorations - How proteins function
• 3.2 Proteins
• 3.2 Art Quiz - Peptide Bond (Recommended)
• 3.3 Nucleic Acids
• 3.3 Art Quiz - DNA base-pairing and hydrogen bonds (Recommended)
• 3.4 Lipids
• 3.4 Art Quiz - Unsaturated fats (Recommended)
• 3.5 Carbohydrates
• 3.5 Art Quiz - Disaccharides (Recommended)

To view the activities, you must have plug-ins for Shockwave and RealPlayer installed on your computer. Click here for directions to download the plug-ins.

Lab activities

Complete the following activities and answer the related questions on your worksheet.

Step 3: Complete In-Class Activity - Building Biological Molecules
(for lab points)

Step 4: Complete In-Class Activity - Biological Molecules of Food
(for lab points)

Self quiz

Step 5: Review material from lesson 3 to prepare for your exam.

Use the self-quiz below to review material from lesson 3 that will be on your exam. These questions are similar, but not identical, to questions on your exam.

Click here to begin the multiple choice self-quiz for lesson 3

Optional

Online Biology Book
My creative colleague Mike Farabee, at Phoenix College, created an Online Biology Book - it's like an online textbook. The link above sends you to the chemistry section.

The Biology Project- Large Molecules Problem Set
This site at the University of Arizona was originally created for their Bio 181 course. Be sure to view the tutorials for each question, even if you get the question right.

Biologymad
This British website has a good review of biological molecules. Click on the "sitemap" link, and click the links in the Biochemistry section.