Use your AMSCO text, complete sentences, and your own paper to answer the questions that follow.

Pages where the answers may be found in the newer edition will appear second and are indicated in
bold print.

1.    What are polymers and how are they made?  (p. 95) (p. 102)
2.    What is a condensation or dehydration synthesis reaction?  (p. 96) (p. 103)
3.    What is a hydrolysis reaction?  How is water involved in this type of reaction? (p. 96) (p. 103)
4.    What are the four major classes of organic compounds?  (p. 96) (p. 103)
5.    What organic compound class includes the sugars and starches?  (p. 97) (p. 104)
6.    What elements form carbohydrates?   How does the number of hydrogen compare
        to the number of oxygen atoms in a carbohydrate?  (p. 97) (p. 104)
7.    What are some main functions of carbohydrates in living things?  (p. 97)  (p. 104)
8.    What are monosaccharides?  How many carbon atoms is in a monosaccharide?  
       (p. 97) (p. 104)
9.    What is a disaccharide?  (p. 98) (p. 104)
10.  List two examples of disaccharides and where they are found?  (p. 97) (p. 104)
11.  Use figure 5-9 on p. 97 (p. 104) to answer parts a and b of the question that follows:
       (a.) What are the two monosaccharide molecules in this reaction?
       (b.) What is the disaccharide molecule in this reaction?
12.  What are polysaccharides?  (p. 97) (p. 104)
13.  Glycogen is a polysaccharide found in humans.   Where is it stored and what is
       its function?   (p. 97) (p. 104)
14.  Starch is a polysaccharide found in plants.   What is its function?  (pp.97-98) (p. 104)
15.  Cellulose is a polysaccharide found in plants.   What is its function?  (p. 98) (p. 105)