Chapter 5 Flashcards

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Monometer

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Small units or building blocks of macromolecules

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Macromolecule

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Carbon basic polymers built from monomers

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Polymer

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A long chain like molecule consisting of many similar are monomers that are linked with covalent bonds

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Carbohydrates

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Macromolecules composed of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen skeleton

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Monosaccharide

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Simplest carbohydrate - single sugar -ose

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Disaccharide

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Formed when dehydration reaction joins 2 monosaccharides by covalent bond

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Polysaccharide

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Polymers composed of more than 2 monomer - many sugars

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Starch

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Energy and Carbon storage polysaccharide of plants, consists entirely of glucose monomers
- enables plants to store energy as surplus

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Lipids

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Class of large biological macromoledolesthat do not form true polymers
- composed of chains of 16-22 hydrocarbons
- hydrophobia

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