Thursday, September 18, 2014

Tuesday / Wednesday September 16th / 17th

Tuesday September 16th  went straight into organic compounds, how they are formed and the basic structure of Glucose 


Wednesday's Daily Question:


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:


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