Reference no: EM132371309

1) What is the meaning of (CHO)n? Why is "carbo-hydrate" an appropriate name for molecules in the class in which this formula gives the basic molecular composition?

2) What is a monosaccharide? Give an example of a monosaccharide, and say how you can identify a monosaccharide when it is drawn for you as a molecular diagram.

3) Why is glucose a very important molecule for life? How do most cells use glucose?

4) What is a polysaccharide? Give an example of a polysaccharide of glucose and describe how this molecule is used by a living organism.

5) What is a disaccharide? What is the disaccharide that every person in the developed world knows (and mostly loves)?

6) How can you easily identify a mononucleotide when it is drawn for you as a molecular diagram? What are the three parts that you are looking for?

7) The "letters" associated with DNA refer to which part of the mononucleotide? What are the four letters associated with DNA, and what four letters are associated with RNA?

8) In the very important mononucleotide ATP, where is the energy "stored," and how is this stored energy released?

9) As mononucleotides form a chain (polynucleotide), what parts are joining up? How does this result in a backbone of sugar-phosphate-sugar-phosphate...? Where do the nitrogenous bases attach to this chain?

10) What is meant by the "sequence" of a molecule of DNA or RNA?