BIO120H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Adipose Tissue, Hydrophile, Nitrogenous Base

• School: UTSG
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO120H1
• Professor: Spencer Barrett

Document Summary

Concept 5. 1: macromolecules are polymers, built from monomers: a polymer is a long molecule consisting of many similar building blocks, these small building-block molecules are called monomers, three of the four classes of life"s organic molecules are polymers. Concept 5. 2: carbohydrates serve as fuel and building material: carbohydrates include sugars and the polymers of sugars, the simplest carbohydrates are monosaccharides, or single sugars, carbohydrate macromolecules are polysaccharides, polymers composed of many sugar building blocks. Sugars: monosaccharides have molecular formulas that are usually multiples of ch2o, glucose (c6h12o6) is the most common monosaccharide, monosaccharides are classified by. The location of the carbonyl group (as aldose or ketose) Polysaccharides: polysaccharides, the polymers of sugars, have storage and structural roles, the structure and function of a polysaccharide are determined by its sugar monomers and the positions of glycosidic linkages. Storage polysaccharides: starch, a storage polysaccharide of plants, consists entirely of glucose monomers, plants store surplus starch as granules within chloroplasts and other plastids.