Macromolecules

Question 1

Macromolecules

Answer 1

Polymers made of repeating monomers

Question 2

What are the four major macromolecules?

Answer 2

Carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acid.

Question 3

Carbohydrates monomer

Answer 3

Sugars or monosaccharides

Question 4

Lipids monomer

Answer 4

Fatty acids and glycerol

Question 5

Proteins monomer

Answer 5

Amino acids

Question 6

Nucleic acid monomer

Answer 6

Nucleotides

Question 7

What is carbohydrates polymer?

Answer 7

Polysaccharides

Example: glucose, sucrose, photos, starch, cellulose.

Question 8

Lipid polymer

Answer 8

Triglyceride

Question 9

Nucleic acids parts

Answer 9

1.) 5 – carbon sugar.
2.) phosphate group
3.) nitrogenous base

Question 10

What do carbohydrates do?

Answer 10

They are the main source of energy for living things; quick energy and use for structural purposes

Question 11

What do lipids do?

Answer 11

Long-term energy storage, they build biological membranes and waterproof coverings

Question 12

What do proteins do?

Answer 12

They control Rita cell processes that form important tell your structures, and they transport substances in and out of the cell.

Question 13

What do nucleic acids do?

Answer 13

They store and transmit, hereditary or genetic information

Question 14

What is a saturated fat?

Answer 14

Lack double bonds between carbon atoms

Question 15

What is unsaturated fat?

Answer 15

There’s at least one double bond in the fatty acid chain of carbon

Question 16

What is dehydration synthesis?

Answer 16

This is a process when monomers convert to polymers

Question 17

What is hydrolysis?

Answer 17

Hydrolysis is a process in which a polymer converts to monomer

Question 18

What does organic mean?

Answer 18

Organic is a term relating to living matter

Question 19

What is a monosaccharide?

Answer 19

Monosaccharides are the simplest forms of sugar in the most basic units for which all carbohydrates are built

Question 20

What is a disaccharide?

Answer 20

A disaccharide, or a devil sugar, sugar form into monosaccharides are joined

Question 21

What is a polysaccharide?

Answer 21

A carbohydrate, whose molecules consist of several sugar molecules bonded together.

Question 22

How many bonds can carbon form?

Answer 22

Carbon can form four Bonds

Question 23

Where can you find carboxyl?

Answer 23

In protein 

Question 24

Where can amino be found?

Answer 24

proteins

Question 25

Where can phosphate be found?

Answer 25

they can be found in nucleic acids