1. Biochemistry - Organic Molecules
Monomers and Polymers
Organic molecules: Molecules that contain carbon.

2. Monomer A small repeating unit that can make
larger more complex molecules.
What toy can you think of that is like a
monomer?

3. Legos are like monomers because…

4. Legos can be used over to make different things.

5. Monomer sugar Sugar is one type of monomer.
A small repeating unit that can make
larger more complex molecules.
sugar
Sugar is one type of monomer.

6. Starch is a polymer made from many sugar monomers.
A large complex molecule made of monomers. Polymers have different properties than the monomers they are made of! Does this sound familiar.
sugar
sugar
sugar
sugar
Starch is a polymer made from many
sugar monomers.

7. When we eat foods we digest the polymers
into monomers and then use them to make the
polymers that make us.
How do our cells know to make the polymers
into us instead of back into what we ate?

8. The DNA in your cells drive the process of changing
monomers into your polymers.

9. polymer monomer polymer process is why you can eat chicken
and not become one!

10. Polymer vs. Monomer__ Carbohydrate
(starch) polysaccharide (sugar) monosaccharide
Protein=Polypeptides(bonds) amino acids
Nucleic Acids= Nucleic Acids
Example;RNA & DNA Nucleotides
Lipids Fatty Acids -glycerol example;fats, oils, & waxes)
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