polymers
Cards (51)
- What type of polymers are polyesters?
- What are polyesters made using?
- What is the common combination of monomers used to make polyesters?
- What does a dicarboxylic acid monomer contain?
- What does a diol monomer contain?
- What do the colored rectangles in molecules represent?
- What must the dicarboxylic acid do to combine with the diol?
- What does the diol give up to combine with the dicarboxylic acid?
- What is formed when the dicarboxylic acid and diol combine?
- What bond is formed between the dicarboxylic acid and diol?
- What is a dimer?
- How do we represent repeating units in condensation polymers?
- Why do we use the letter n in polymer representations?
- What does the 2n in front of H2O represent?
- Why are these polymers called condensation polymers?
- What is an example of a dicarboxylic acid that can form polyesters?
- What is formed when ethane dicarboxylic acid combines with ethane diol?
- What is a key characteristic of polyesters?
- How do polyesters break down in the environment?
- How do addition polymers differ from polyesters?
- What are naturally occurring polymers?
- What are polymers made of?
- Name three examples of naturally occurring polymers.
- What are polypeptides made of?
- What is DNA made of?
- What are carbohydrates made of?
- How do polypeptides become proteins?
- What roles do proteins play in the body?
- What are the important functional groups in an amino acid?
- What is the central atom in an amino acid structure?
- What is the R group in an amino acid?
- What is the significance of the R group in amino acids?
- How do amino acids join to form a polymer?
- What is produced during the condensation reaction of amino acids?
- What is the bond formed between amino acids called?
- What is the general formula for the reaction of amino acids forming a polymer?
- What are the monomers of DNA called?
- What do nucleotides contain?
- What are the four types of bases in DNA?
- How do nucleotides form genes?