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- macromolecule
- "big" molecule
- condensation reaction
- dehydration reaction. lose one molecule of water
- hydrolysis
- requires one molecule of water
- polymer
- built of repeated monomers
- monomer
- small building blocks
- polysaccharides
- polymer built up of monosaccharides
- saturated
- no double bonds. pack tightly=solid (butter)
- unsaturated
- 1 or more double bonds. liquid (oils)
- steroids
- kind of lipid. C skeleton with 4 fused rings. structural and sex hormone function
- polynucleotides
- store and transmit hereditary info. program for cellular activity (genes)
- purine
- 6+5 C-N rings. Guanine & Adenine
- prymidines
- 6 C-N ring. Cytosine & Thymine
- uracil
- in place of thymine in RNA
- complementary
- T-A