ACTIVITY 17

Questionnaire Activity 17

Biomolecules

1. What are biomolecules?

2. Which are the atoms that form this kind of molecules?

3. Biomolecules can be classified according to_________

4. Write the three important biomolecules

5. Carbohydrates are known also as____________

6. Carbohydtares are chemically considered as_____________or____________________ of _____________________

7. Write the general formula for carbohydrates

8. Why carbohydrates provide energy?

9. Where is that energy?

10. Humans consume carbohydrates; they have enzymes inside their bodies, what is the function of these compounds (enzymes) over the sugars?

11. What happened when the bonds that contain energy are broken?

12. Write the chemical reaction of the cellular oxidation (cellular respiration) with all the names

13. Where carbohydrates are synthesized?

14. Write the reaction of photosynthesis including the names for each compound

15. What is a protein?

16. Write the functions of the proteins

17. In which part of our body we can find proteins?

18. Proteins are made by______________

19. What is the chemical composition of an amino acid?

20. Write the functional group of an amino acid

21. Proteins in animals are synthesized from___________

22. Proteins differ from one another by:

23. Write the functions of the proteins

24. What is a lipid?

25. What are fatty acids?

26. What is a simple lipid?

27. What is a complex lipid?

28. Write the functions of the lipids