Thursday, August 13, 2009

Macromolecules Web Quest

I want you to compose a chart to compare the four types of macromoecules. Please use your a clean sheet of notebook paper.

Go to the following websites to fill in your chart:



If you finnish early, please answer these questions:
Questions:



  1. Describe the relationship between a monomer and a polymer and give an example from one of the macromolecules in the chart.

  2. Which macromolecule is not a polymer?

  3. What is the chemical process that links the monomers together?

  4. What is the chemical process that breaks monomers apart?

  5. Describe the differences between a monosaccharide, a disaccharide, and a polysaccharide?

  6. Name three important polysaccharides. Describe their functions.

  7. What type of molecule is glucose?

  8. How many different amino acids are there?

  9. One of the most important roles of proteins is to function as enzymes. Generally, describe the function of enzymes.

  10. What does it mean to say that a protein functions by a “lock and key” model?

  11. What is the active site of a protein?

  12. What determines the shape of a protein?

  13. What type of molecule is insulin? What is the function of insulin?

  14. What type of molecule if hemoglobin? What is the function of hemoglobin?

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