Carbon-Based Molecules: Group Questions & Presentations
Use your textbook, section 2.3 for most. (Group 8, use Sec 2.2.)
Group 1: Monomers & Polymers
1) What is a monomer?
2) What is a polymer?
3) Draw an example:
a. Make a simple sketch of a chain.
b. Label two of its links as “monomers”.
c. Label the entire chain as a “polymer”.
d. Name any ONE organic polymer and its monomer.
4) Ask if there are any questions. Answer them.
Carbon-Based Molecules: Group Questions & Presentations
Use your textbook, section 2.3 for most. (Group 8, use Sec 2.2.)
Group 2: Simple Carbohydrates
1) Explain what Carbohydrates (or ‘carbs’) are. Give a simple explanation.
Include:
i. The THREE types of atoms they are made of
i. Their primary functions for living things
2) Explain what a “monosaccharide” is.
Give a simple explanation. Include:
i. The name of a monosaccharide (written on the dry erase board).
ii. A Sketch of the shape of that monosaccharide (on the board).
iii. Draw a chain of 3-5 monosaccharides on the board.
iv. Mention that a monosaccharide is also called a “simple sugar”.
v. And what you think the words “mono” and “saccharide” mean.
3) Ask if there are any questions. Answer them.
Carbon-Based Molecules: Group Questions & Presentations
Use your textbook, section 2.3 for most. (Group 8, use Sec 2.2.)
Group 3: Complex Carbohydrates
1) What is a “polysaccharide”?
a. Give a simple explanation. Include:
i. Draw an example (starch or cellulose, etc) on the dry erase board as a
simple chain of repeating links.
ii. Label your example on the dry erase board.
iii. Labeling two of its links as “monomers”
iv. Labeling the entire chain as a “Polymer”.
b. Explain that Starch & Cellulose and all polysaccharides are “complex
carbohydrates”
c. Explain what Starch & Cellulose do.
d. Ask if there are any questions. Answer them.
Carbon-Based Molecules: Group Questions & Presentations
Use your textbook, section 2.3 for most. (Group 8, use Sec 2.2.)
Group 4: Lipids
1) What are lipids?
a. Use Phospholipids as an example
i. Draw one simply on the board; make it large enough to see.
ii. Label its head and tail sections
iii. Explain its function
b. Give a simple explanation. Include:
i. The THREE types of atoms lipids are made of.
ii. Their TWO primary functions in living things.
iii. Naming 3 examples on the board, including “phospholipids”.
c. Ask if there are any questions. Answer them.
Carbon-Based Molecules: Group Questions & Presentations
Use your textbook, section 2.3 for most. (Group 8, use Sec 2.2.)
Group 5: Proteins
1) Explain what Proteins are.
A. Draw an example:
a. Make a simple sketch of a chain.
b. Label two links as “monomers/amino ____”
c. Label the entire chain as a “polymer”
B. Give a simple explanation. INCLUDE:
i. The FOUR types of atoms proteins are made of.
ii. That it is a polymer.
iii. Write the name of the monomers of which proteins are made.
iv. The two most important FUNCTIONS of proteins in living things.
v. HOW proteins rely on their shape to function.
C. Ask if there are any questions. Answer.
Carbon-Based Molecules: Group Questions & Presentations
Use your textbook, section 2.3 for most. (Group 8, use Sec 2.2.)
Group 6: Special Proteins – “Enzymes”
1) Draw an example of a protein
a. Make a simple sketch of a chain.
b. Label two links as “Monomers/Amino ____”
c. Label the entire chain as a “Polymer”
2) Explain what an enzyme is.
Give a simple explanation. Include:
a. That enzymes ARE polymers and name their monomers
b. Their function
i. WHAT they do.
ii. HOW they do it. (It is about activation energy.)
iii. Define “activation energy”
3) Example: Give one.
4) Ask if there are any questions. Answer them.
Carbon-Based Molecules: Group Questions & Presentations
Use your textbook, section 2.3 for most. (Group 8, use Sec 2.2.)
Group 7: Nucleic Acids
1) What is a nucleic acid?
Give a simple explanation. INCLUDE:
vi. That there are two types of nucleic acids
vii. The five types of atoms nucleic acids are made of.
viii. That they are polymers.
ix. The monomers of which they are made.
2) Function:
a. Explain the functions of both types of nucleic acids (in living things).
3) Draw an example:
a. Make a simple chain sketch:
b. label two links as “Monomers/Nucleotides”
c. Label the entire chain as “Polymer/DNA or RNA”
4) Ask if there are any questions. Answer them.
Carbon-Based Molecules: Group Questions & Presentations
Use your textbook, section 2.3 for most. (Group 8, use Sec 2.2.)
Group 8: Solutions (Ch2, sec 2)
1) Explain what a solution is. Include:
a. …that it is a homogenous mixture
b. …what a solvent is.
c. …what a solute is
2) Sketch a large beaker on the dry erase board with a solution in it.
Include:
a. Two size particles in it.
b. Label the small particles as “solute” and the large particles as
“solvent”. Make more solvent particles than solute.
3) Explain that the Solvent is the part of the solution that is more
common = that there is more of.
4) Ask why solutions are important for life?