2.6 Biological Molecules

Describe the structure of carbohydrates proteins and lipids as large molecules made up from small basic units: starch and glycogen from simple sugar, protein from amino acids: lipids from fatty acid and glycerol

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- Starch is a chain of glucose molecules

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- Protein is a chain of amino acids

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- Lipids have 2 different kinds of molecules (gycerol and fatty acids) they are joint together

 

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