Macromolecules Research Paper

Macromolecules are a molecule containing a very large number of atoms such as protein nucleic acid or synthetic polymer. Our body is made up of large biological molecules and they are in most of the foods we eat. The large molecules are in our body to help provide the proper necessities that’s important to maintain your body. The four major types of large molecules that we have in our bodies are classified as carbohydrates known as sugars and the energy storage we have in our body, lipids known as fats, and proteins and nucleic acids which would be the DNA and RNA. Our body is made up of many more large molecules but these 4 would be the most common known. These 4 different large molecules known as macromolecules make up our dry cells. Our dry weight cells is the dry weight left after the water content has been removed by heating. Macromolecules can be separated into 2 different classes 1 would be natural and the next would be synthetic macromolecules. Natural molecules would be proteins. On the other hand synthetic macromolecules would be organic polymers like …show more content…
Sugars starch and cellulose are all carbohydrates. They contain carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms. The ratio would be one carbon to 2 hydrogens to only 1 oxygen. Sugar and starches are an energy source for all cells and cellulose is the main part of the surrounding plant cells. The term carbohydrate stems from hydrate which comes from water of carbon. This mirrors the ration between hydrogen and oxygen which is 2:1 and this is the same ratio that is found in water. Carbohydrates contain monosaccharides which are simple sugars. A monosaccharide’s hydroxyl group bonds with and oxygen atom and ends up forming a carbonyl group. Depending on where the carbonyl group is the monosaccharides will either be aldehyde or it will be a ketone. Glucose is an important to the monosaccharide’s because it’s used for an energy source for a lot of

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