HELP WITH ANY ANSWERS YK PLZ Organic Molecules Webquest
DIRECTIONS: For each section below, go to the appropriate website, explore, and answer the questions
provided.
CARBOHYDRATES
hydrogen , oxygen atoms
1. Carbohydrate: (Use your notes to answer the first 6 questions)
a. is fancy for Sugar
b. is made of these 3 elements: Carbon
c. provide living organisms with
and are used for
2. Saccharides and naming
a. 1 is called
b. 2 are called
c. 3+ are called
3. This monosaccharide is the most important sugar on planet Earth! _glucose
4. Sucrose, or table sugar, is made of 2 units of sugar, or a
a. The 2 sugars in sucrose are glucose and fructose
i. They are both
(name for 1 unit of sugar).
5. Plants store sugars for energy in the form of this polysaccharide
a. An important structural polysaccharide in plants is called
i. Unlike humans, termites and other herbivores can digest cellulose.
1. They have
and specialized enzymes that
are able to break down this structural carbohydrate.
6. Crustaceans and Arthropods have exoskeletons that are made of a unique polysaccharide called
This material is also the structural support for fungi.
auc ar sugar, or a
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https://www. wisc-online. com/learn/natural-science/life-scie nce/ap13104/biomolecules-the-carboh ydrates
1. There are different types of sugars yet they have the same chemical formula. What do we call these
molecules?
2. 2 monosaccharides are joined together in the process called
a. Look at the boxed elements in the diagram. What molecule is produced during this process?
3. To break apart a polysaccharide or disaccharide, this process occurs
a. What must be put back into the molecules to break them apart?