Monomers and Polymers

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What is a polymer?

A polymer is a large molecule made up of many repeating monomer units joined together by covalent bonds

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What are the repeating subunits of carbohydrates?

sugars/monosaccharides (glucose)

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What are the repeating subunits of proteins?

Amino acids

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What are the monomers that make up nucleic acids?

nucleotides forming DNA and RNA

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When do condensation reactions occur?

when monomers bond together to form a polymer

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What is produced during the formation of each bond in a condensation reaction?

a molecule of H20

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what is an example of a condensation reaction

the formation of peptide bonds in proteins

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what is a hydrolysis reaction

a reaction that breaks polymers into their monomers by adding water to break the bonds

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what is an example of a hydrolysis reaction

breaking starch into maltose using amylase