biomolecules

• building blocks are monosaccharides
• monosaccharides

  • the number of carbon in the skeleton
  • location of carbonyl group
• disaccharide

  • formed when a dehydration reaction joins two monosaccharides
  • this covalent bond is called glycosidic linkage
• polysaccharides

  • long chains of monasaccharides
  • starch
  • cellulose
  • glycogen
• Strach

  • storage of polysaccharide plants (consists of glucose monomers)
  • amylose is the simplest form of starch