Please make sure to type the answers so I can understand it. 1 1 What type of mo
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Please make sure to type the answers so I can understand it. 1 1 What type of molecules are the two glucose units you started with? (Hint: Are they monosaccharides or disaccharides?) 2 | What type of molecule did you make when you made maltose? 3 | In order to join the two glucose units to make maltose, water was removed, and two smaller molecules were joined to make a larger molecule. What is the name of this chemical process? 4 What is the name of the opposite chemical process, where a large addition of water? What type of molecule did you use to build the dipeptide? (In other words, what are the basic building blocks of proteins?) 5 |Explanation / Answer
Answer 1: Although, there is not enough information in this question about which glucose units are used ato make which molecule, guessing from the trailing questions I can make out that maltose is made in by using two glucose molecules.
So, for making maltose two monosachharides are used of same units.
Answer 2: Maltose is made by joining two monosachharides units of glucose linked by alpha(1->4) bond. By this process, Maltose is a disaccharide molecule.
Answer 3: For the formation of the Glycosidic bond to join two monosachharides ( glucose units), condensation reaction takes place for removal of a OH group and H+ from the functional moiety's of the two monomers and produce a larger disachharide molecule. This condensation process also takes place while formation of the Maltose.
Answer 4: For breaking down a disachharide molecule, its HYDROLYSIS is done by the corresponding enzymes to produce monomers. This reaction is the opposite of CONDENSATION which take place to form disachharide from monosachharides.
Answer 5: Amino-acids are the building blocks of proteins, which combine to form dipeptide or peptide bonds.