Section 5.2

Question 1

The simplest carbohydrate, active alone or serving as a monomer for disaccharides and polysaccharides; also called simple sugars.

Answer 1

monosaccarhides

Question 2

A double sugar, consisting of two monosaccharides joined by a glycosidic linkage formed by a dehydration reaction.

Answer 2

dissacharide

Question 3

What type of covalent bond is formed between two monosaccharides by a dehydration reaction?

Answer 3

glycosidic linkage

Question 4

What type of polymer is made of many momosaccharides and formed by a dehydration reaction?

Answer 4

polysaccharides

Question 5

An extensively branched glucose storage polysaccharide found in the liver and muscle of animals; the animal equivalent of starch.

Answer 5

glycogen

Question 6

What structural polysaccharide, consisting of amino sugar monomers, are found in many fungal cell walls and in the exoskeleton of all arthropods?

Answer 6

chitin

Question 7

Any of a group of large biological molecules, including fats.

Answer 7

lipids