Chapter 5 Macromolecules

Question 1

what is a macromolecule?

Answer 1

large organic compounds caused by the interactions of many different elements

Question 2

What are the first signs of life

Answer 2

DNA & RNA

Question 3

What is a polymer

Answer 3

Macromolecules made of similar or identical building blocks

Question 4

Monomer

Answer 4

repeating unit serves as building block of polymers

Question 5

How are polymers constructed

Answer 5

Dehydration

Question 6

how are polymers deconstructed

Answer 6

Hydrolysis

Question 7

Explain dehydration

Answer 7

removes water molecules to form a new bond of polymers bonded by covalent glycosidic linkage

Question 8

Explain hydrolysis

Answer 8

adding a water molecules and breaking the bond

Question 9

Biologically important macromolecules

Answer 9

Carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleotides

Question 10

Carbohydrates

Answer 10

Sugars and polymers of sugars

Question 11

Disaccharides

Answer 11

double sugars

Question 12

monosaccharides

Answer 12

single sugars

Question 13

polysaccharides

Answer 13

3 or more, “many” sugars

Question 14

glycosidic linkage

Answer 14

covalent bond formed between two monosaccharides by dehydration