Across
- 4. sugar a sugar with three carbon atoms
- 5. a polymer consisting of long chains of monosaccharide units joined by glycosidic bonds
- 9. a small molecule that is a single unit of a larger molecule called a polymer
- 10. a long-chain polymer formed of glucose monomers
- 11. a hexose sugar
- 13. a pentose sugar that is part of the structure of DNA
- 17. a very large molecule often formed by polymerisation
- 18. sugars that react with blue Benedict's solution and reduce the copper(II) ions to copper(I) ions giving an orangey-red precipitate
Down
- 1. (RNA) a nucleic acid which is the genetic material in some organisms and is involved in protein synthesis
- 2. sugar sugar with six carbon atoms
- 3. a single sugar monomer
- 5. a long-chain molecule made up of many smaller, repeating monomer units joined together by chemical bonds
- 6. molecules that have the same chemical formula, but different molecular structures
- 7. (DNA) a nucleic acid that is the genetic material in many organisms
- 8. a pentose sugar that is part of the structure of RNA
- 10. a sweet-tasting disaccharide formed by the joining of glucose and fructose by a 1,4-glycosidic bond
- 11. a covalent bond formed between two monosaccharides in a condensation reaction, which can be broken down by a hydrolysis reaction to release the monosaccharide units
- 12. sugar a sugar with five carbon atoms
- 14. a reaction in which a molecule of water is removed from the reacting molecules as a bond is formed between them
- 15. a sugar made up of two monosaccharide units joined by a glycosidic bond, formed in a condensation reaction
- 16. sugars that do not react with Benedict's solution