Chapter 5 Flashcards
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Monometer
Small units or building blocks of macromolecules
Macromolecule
Carbon basic polymers built from monomers
Polymer
A long chain like molecule consisting of many similar are monomers that are linked with covalent bonds
Carbohydrates
Macromolecules composed of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen skeleton
Monosaccharide
Simplest carbohydrate - single sugar -ose
Disaccharide
Formed when dehydration reaction joins 2 monosaccharides by covalent bond
Polysaccharide
Polymers composed of more than 2 monomer - many sugars
Starch
Energy and Carbon storage polysaccharide of plants, consists entirely of glucose monomers
- enables plants to store energy as surplus
Lipids
Class of large biological macromoledolesthat do not form true polymers
- composed of chains of 16-22 hydrocarbons
- hydrophobia