Monomers And Polymers

• The 4 organic polymers

  • Lipids
  • Carbohydrates (saccharides)
  • Proteins (amino acids and nucleotides)
  • Nucleic acids
• What is the process of polymerization?

  The formation of polymers from monomers
• What is nucleic acid?

  A polymer made of nucleotides
• A triglyceride’s monomer is 3 fatty acids and a glycerol
• A nucleic acid’s monomer is a nucleotide
• A protein’s monomer is amino acid
• A carbohydrate’s monomer is monosaccharides
• Monomers are smaller units that join together to form larger molecules
• monomer examples :

  monosaccharides

  amino acids

  nucleotides
• Polymer definition : molecules formed when many monomers join together
• a condensation reaction joins monomers together and forms a chemical bond and releases water
• a hydrolysis reaction breaks a chemical bonds between polymers

  and uses water
• a monomer is a smaller repeating unit from which larger molecules are made from
• A monomer is a smaller repeating unit that forms a larger molecule - a polymer