Learning Objectives

1. Understand how small organic molecules can be assembled into large macromolecules by condensation. Understand how large macromolecules can be broken apart into their basic subunits by hydrolysis.
2. Learn the functional groups presented and know the properties they confer when attached to other molecules.
3. Know the general structure of a monosaccharide with six carbon atoms, a fatty acid, an amino acid, and a nucleotide.
4. Know the macromolecules into which these essential building blocks can be assembled by condensation.
5. Know where these carbon compounds tend to be located in cells or organelles and the activities in which they participate.