1. Chapter 2.3: Carbon Compounds

2. There are FOUR major MACROMOLECULES: CarbohydratesLipids Nucleic Acids Proteins

3. These macromolecules are large complex molecules called polymers that are built from many smaller molecules called monomers

4. What is a MONOMER? “Mono” means? one A monomer is a single unit of a macromolecule

5. What is a POLYMER? “Poly” means? many A polymer is many monomers linked together to build the macromolecule

6. Scary Lego man is made out of many building blocks. Each Lego piece is like a monomer and the scary Lego man is like a polymer.

7. The process of linking many monomers together to form a polymer is called POLYMERIZATION

8. “Poly” means? Many “mer” means? Think about the word “merge” To combined “ization” is the suffix for? A process

9. The monomer of carbohydrates are called MONOSACCHARIDES Examples of monosaccharides are Glucose: found in many sugars Galactose: found in milk sugars Fructose: found in fruit sugars

10. If you polymerize many monosaccharides you will form the polymer of carbohydrates called: POLYSACCHARIDES Examples of polysaccharides are Glycogen: animal starch Starch: plant starch (potato) Cellulose: plant structures

14. The monomers that build proteins are called Amino Acids The polymer of proteins is the protein chain created by the polymerization of amino acids

15. Another name for a protein is a polypeptide because the amino acids are held together by a specific covalent bond called a peptide bond

16. The monomers that build nucleic acids are called Nucleotides The polymer of nucleic acids is DNA or RNA created by the polymerization of nucleotides

17. Macromoleculesmonomerspolymerselementsfunctionsexamples Lipids Carbohydrates Proteins Nucleic Acids Fill out the chart using your notes