Biological Molecules - You Are What You Eat: Crash Course Biology #3

Hank talks about the molecules that make up every living thing - carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins - and how we find them in our environment and in the food that we eat.

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TAGS: biological molecules, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, food, biolography, william prout, urea, energy, monosaccharides, glucose, fructose, disaccharides, sucrose, polysaccharides, simple sugars, cellulose, starch, glycogen, glycerol, fatty acid, triglyceride, phospholipid, steroid, cholesterol, enzymes, antibodies, hormones, amino acids, nitrogen, polypeptides, protein synthesis, biology, molecule, crashcourse, hank green

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[insufficentmemory]

Watching all of crashcourse counts as studying for my bio final. Right?

[ForeverOrTomorrow]

These videos are the reason I'll pass the AP Bio test

[taloolalady0not]

...i'm suprised noone has commented on that belch...

[Arvind Srinivasan]

not an IB bio kid, but definitely a last minute review

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Thats exactly what I'm hoping

[LifesABucket]

Who else wishes they had these when they took the AP test?

[wolfinkidsclothing]

AS Biology on the 20th :D - Thanks :)

[sexandrevenge]

I feel like I owe this guy a commission on my GPA.

[cat2anddog1]

This counts as studying for my AP test tomorrow morning, right? haha. Hope for a 5. Cheers to those there with me!

[Wesley Forbes]

I am what I eat? That's odd, I don't remember eating a sexy beast this morning...

[damnage97]

This is the single most useful video on biochemical compounds I have ever seen by the way.