{"id":1912,"date":"2016-05-06T22:21:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T22:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/biologyxwaymakerxmaster\/?post_type=chapter&p=1912"},"modified":"2024-04-29T16:43:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T16:43:49","slug":"why-it-matters-important-biomolecules","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-biology1\/chapter\/why-it-matters-important-biomolecules\/","title":{"raw":"Why It Matters: Important Biological Macromolecules","rendered":"Why It Matters: Important Biological Macromolecules"},"content":{"raw":"

Why identify and describe the main features of the four main classes of important biological macromolecules?<\/h2>\r\nFad diets: we've all heard about them and maybe followed\u00a0one or two\u00a0in our lives.\u00a0These diets have strict rules, and often have restrictions on eating a certain thing\u00a0like\u00a0fats or carbs (carbohydrates).\r\n\r\nThere are several things to critically consider about this type of diet. First off, is it even\u00a0possible for a person to cut all carbs out of their diet? More importantly, is it actually\u00a0healthy to remove an entire class of molecules from the diet? Fats aren\u2019t\u00a0really important right? Certainly cholesterol is bad\u2014right?\r\n\r\nBefore you decide to swear off carbs or fats,\u00a0you should know that\u00a0these types of foods are named after the kind of molecules that build them. Then you should learn what they actually do in cells.\r\n\r\nBiological macromolecules are large molecules, necessary for life, that are built from smaller organic molecules. There are four major classes of biological macromolecules: carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids (found in DNA and RNA). We'll discuss each class and how they compare to each other.\r\n

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