Thursday September 19th - Dehydration Synthesis and an intro to lipids

We started off with the following daily questions and I encouraged you to make sure that even if you move them into your notebook (which I LOVE and would do the same), to also make sure to make comments on the google document about some of the reasons that the wrong answers were wrong.

I am proud of how well you guys are getting into this routine of daily questions.  This is going to be CRUCIAL to your success in this class and the Keystone exam!!! :)

After going through these, i gave each of you a Glucose molecule (the one's you built yesterday).

We went through the process of dehydration synthesis (also known as a condensation reaction).  This can be pretty confusing, for sure.  The MAIN ideas that I wanted you to pull from this was that #1. Polymers are formed from the bonding of monomers and #2.  When that happens water is "removed" which is why it is called dehydration (because we dehydrated the molecules) Synthesis (because we were BUILDING something else.)

We wrote a couple notes about lipids today as well.  I will put those slides on here on Monday when we go through more of Lipids.

Tomorrow we have our daily question quiz - so make sure you look over all your DQs AS WELL AS the discussions we had around them.  

GO GET 'EM kiddos!!!!