biomolecules

• What are the four main biomolecules?


  carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids
• What are polymers?

  Polymers: long chains of molecules that are chemically bonded together 

  • Made by many monomers 
  • It needs to be broken down using enzymes so it becomes smaller polymers 
  • Breaks down again to become a monomer 
• What are Polysaccharides?

  Large carbohydrates

  • Many sugar molecules that are chemically bonded to form one chain 
  • Complex carbohydrates
• What are Disaccharides?

  • Molecules in pairs 
  • Two single sugar units bonded together to form a disaccharide 
• When starch is broken down by amylase, it becomes Disaccharide, which can possibly be sucrose, lactose, or maltose
• What enzymes do sucrose, lactose and maltose use?

  Lactose - uses lactase as an enzyme

  Sucrose - use sucrate enzyme to digest sucrose

  Maltose- use maltase enzyme to digest maltose