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polymer
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long molecule consisiting of many identical or similar building blocks linked by covalent bonds
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monomer
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make polymer, made by dehydration reaction
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dehydration reaction
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2 molecules are covalently bonded to each other through loss of water molecule, calleed condensation reaction, specifically dehydration reaction
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hydrolysis
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process that's essentially the reverse of dehydration reaction
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monosaccharides
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generally with molecular formulas that are some multiple of CH2O
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disaccharide
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2 monosaccharides joined by glycosidic linkage
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glycosidic linkage
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covalent bond formed bewtween 2 monosaccharides by a dehydration reaction
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polysaccharide
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macromolecules joined by glycosidic linkages
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macromolecules
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polymers with a few hundred to a few thousand monosaccharides
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glycogen
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animal stroed polysaccharide, polymer of glucose like amyloopectin but more extensively branched
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cellulose
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walls in plant cells
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chitin
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carbohydrate in arthropods' skeletons
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fat
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made from 2 kinds of smaller molecules: glycerol and fatty acids
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fatty acid
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long carbon skeleton, 16-18
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saturated fatty acid
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no double bonds between carbon atoms composing the tail, as mahy hydrogen atoms as possible are bonded to the carbon skeleton
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