Polymers

Question 1

Organic

Answer 1

Anything containing carbon is organic

Question 2

Hydrolysis

Answer 2

Splitting up molecules using water

Question 3

Carbohydrates

Answer 3

A polymer with the monomers unit called ‘monosaccharides’

Question 4

Monosaccharides

Answer 4

Sweet tasting soluble substances with general formula (CH2O)n

Question 5

Polysaccarides

Answer 5

polymers, formed by combining together many monosaccharide molecules.

Question 6

Disaccharides

Answer 6

A pair of monosaccharides joined together ( via condensation reaction forming a glycosidic bond)

Question 7

Biological molecules

Answer 7

Particular groups of chemical’s found in living organisms made from atoms

Question 8

Metabolism

Answer 8

All the chemical processes that take place in a living organism

Question 9

Macromolecules

Answer 9

These are polymers (long chains of monomers)

Question 10

Condensation polymerisation

Answer 10

Turning monomers into polymers while removing H20 (a Catabolic reaction)

Question 11

Catabolic reaction

Answer 11

Turning monomers into polymers

Question 12

Why is carbon found in most forms of fundamental life?

Answer 12

This is due to carbon being able to form 4 bonds

Question 13

What is an Isomers and name the two isomers of glucose of glucose

Answer 13

Isomers are molecules with the same general formula but different structure and the two are Alpha Glucose and Beta Glucose

Question 14

What is the difference between the two isomers of glucose

Answer 14

The position of one of the Hydrogen and Hydroxide molecules are flipped

Question 15

The bond found in a disaccharide

Answer 15

Glycosidic bond