LIPIDS, NUCLEIC ACIDS, PROTEINS OVERVIEW |VERIFIED
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Biological Macromolecules Answer: Includes Carbohydrates, Lipids, Nucleic Acids,
Proteins
Carbohydrates Answer: Includes sugars and polymers of sugars
Monosaccharides Answer: Simple sugars with molecular formulas that are multiples of
the unit CH2O
Glucose Answer: Most common monosaccharide
Disaccharides Answer: Two monosaccharides joined together by covalent bonds
Sucrose Answer: Most common disaccharide
Monomers of sucrose Answer: Glucose and fructose
Polysaccharides Answer: Polymer with many sugars joined via dehydration reactions
Storage polysaccharides Answer: Plants store starch (polymer of glucose monomers)
and animals store glycogen (polymer of glucose)
Cellulose Answer: Tough substance that forms plant cell walls
Chitin Answer: Forms exoskeleton of arthropods
Unknown monosaccharide Answer: C4H8O4, Threose
Lipids Answer: class of molecules that do not include true polymers
Types of lipids Answer: Fats, Phospholipids, Steroids, Cholesterol
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