Thursday, September 18, 2014

Building Glucose

Thursday September 18th
**** REMEMBER, DAILY QUESTION QUIZ TOMORROW!!!!!******
The daily questions today were based off an activity first:

oxygen only can bond with 2 other
atoms

Hydrogen can only bind with ONE
other atom




CARBON, on the other hand... Can bind with FOUR other atoms!!!

Then we started to build Glucose!!!


We don't "BUILD" glucose molecules in our cells but PLANTS do.  It is important to understand HOW they do this to fully understand then how we break complex carbohydrates down.  The BUILDING of Polymers from monomers is described below:
We will continue with this and move into other organic molecules tomorrow / next week.

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