B1 Biological Molecules Knowledge Recall

What is covalent bonding?

What is ionic bonding?

What is hydrogen bonding?

What is a monomer?

What is a polymer?

Explain how are polymers formed?

Explain how are polymers broken down?

Describe the chemical reactions involved in the conversion of polymers to monomers and monomers to polymers. Give two named examples of polymers and their associated monomers to illustrate your answer.

Identify polymers of the following monomers, and the bonds formed between them in polymerisation – amino acids, alpha glucose, beta glucose, nucleotides

What is the name of the reaction that joins two monomers together?