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Synthesis and Hydrolysis

The document summarizes dehydration synthesis and hydrolysis reactions. It defines key terms like monomer, polymer, dehydration, hydrolysis. It then describes the three step processes of dehydration synthesis and hydrolysis through matching descriptions to diagrams. Dehydration synthesis involves two molecules bonding while losing a water molecule. Hydrolysis is the reverse process, where a molecule breaks apart and gains back a water molecule. Both are essential biological processes for building and breaking down organic molecules.

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Synthesis and Hydrolysis

The document summarizes dehydration synthesis and hydrolysis reactions. It defines key terms like monomer, polymer, dehydration, hydrolysis. It then describes the three step processes of dehydration synthesis and hydrolysis through matching descriptions to diagrams. Dehydration synthesis involves two molecules bonding while losing a water molecule. Hydrolysis is the reverse process, where a molecule breaks apart and gains back a water molecule. Both are essential biological processes for building and breaking down organic molecules.

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Name________________________________________

Making and Breaking Polymers:


Dehydration Synthesis & Hydrolysis

Part 1- Vocabulary!
Match the words listed with their definitions: Dehydrate, Hydro-, Synthesis, -Lysis,
Dehydration Synthesis, Hydrolysis, Monomer, Polymer

1.___________________________ to split or break apart: to release


2.___________________________ to make something
3. __________________________many monomers hooked together make this.
4___________________________ means to lose or remove water; to take water away
5.__________________________ a process where two molecules lose the parts of
water and join (bond) together
6. __________________________a process where a molecule splits into two (or more)
smaller molecules and gains the parts of water on
the broken ends
7.__________________________ Means water
8. __________________________Building block or subunit of a polymer

Part 2- Making Polymers DEHYDRATION SYNTHESIS


1. Define Dehydration Synthesis:

2. Written below are 3 statements that describe the steps of dehydration synthesis.
Look at the images on the next page and decide which step is being described. Write
the description above the picture.

Statements:

-The parts of water are lost from the bonding ends of the two molecules
-Two complete, organic moleculesseparate from each other.
-Two molecules bond together forming one larger molecule.

Step
1____________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________

Step

2____________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________

Step3________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________

Part 3- Breaking Polymers Hydrolysis


1. Define Hydrolysis:

2. Written below are 3 statements that describe the steps of hydrolysis. Look at the
images on the next page and decide which step is being described. Write the
description above the picture.

Statements:

-Each sugar molecule gains part of water to its broken end and it now

complete
molecules bonded together

-one molecule of maltose is made out of two smaller sugar


-The disaccharide molecule breaks apart

Step
1____________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________

Step

2____________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________

Step3________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________

Summary Questions:
1. The removal of water from two organic molecules, then joining of those molecules is
called _________________________________
2. The splitting apart of two organic molecules followed by the addition of the parts of
water to the broken ends of each molecule is called _______________________________
3. How do heterotrophic organisms obtain organic molecules?

4. In what organ of your body would hydrolysis of organic compounds take place?

5. Look at the dehydration synthesis reaction. How many water molecules are formed
from the linking together of 2 monomers?

6. Look at the hydrolysis reaction. How many water molecules are required to break the
bonds between 2 monomers?

7. The image below is a picture of which process: hydrolysis or dehydration synthesis?


Explain your choice.

8. In the reaction above we started with monomers of two different types of organic
molecules. Label each starting monomer as either a protein, carbohydrate, lipid, or
nucleic acid.

9. Describe the relationship between dehydration synthesis and hydrolysis. Use the
words reactants and products in your description. Use the picture to help you.

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