This is an interactive teacher's resource for IB Biology. It illustrates the concepts of hydrolysis and condensation reactions using jmol images of molecules?
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Condensation hydrolysis
1. IB Biology
Hydrolysis and Condensation Reactions
Hydrolysi
s
Condensation
Glucose
Maltose - a disaccharide made from two glucose molecules
Glucose
2. Hydrolysis [ hydro (water) lysis (splitting) ]
Splitting a chemical bond by the addition of water
The hydrolysis of maltose using water produces two
molecules of glucose
3. Maltose
Molecule
Glucose molecule
Glucose molecule
Drag the two glucose molecules out of the box below.
This is what Hydrolysis does
Can you see where the water
molecule is added. OH to one
and H to the other molecule.
A Hydrolysis Reaction
4. e.g. A condensation reaction joins two glucose molecules to make a single
maltose molecule and a water molecule.
A condensation reaction is when two molecules are
combined to form one single larger molecule, with the loss
of a water molecule.
6. Ribose Sugar - forms the backbone of DNA
Fructose Sugar
Important in fruit and sucrose
Glucose Maltose - a disaccharide made from two glucose molecules
Biological Molecules can be joined together to make
bigger molecules using condendation reactions
7. The twisted branched structure of Glycogen
Cellulose - a flat polysaccharide - this diagram shows just nine glucose rings
Very large Biological Molecules are made using
condensation reactions
9. Triglyceride Molecule
Three Fatty Acids & a Glycerol molecule
Hydrolysis
Condensation
Condensation and Hydrolysis Reactions also form
Lipids.
10. An unsaturated fatty acid
Glycerol
A saturated fatty acid
A Triglyceride - 3 Fatty Acid chains and 1 Glycerol Molecule
Water
Highlights the parts of each molecule
which react together
Each condensation reaction produces a water molecule
12. This highlighted area shows the peptide bond
OH group
The H from one amino acid joins the OH from another.
This links the two amino acids forms a peptide bond and a molecule of water.
H
Drag this amino acid to make
the two yellow highlights join
together
and see for yourself.
Condensation and Hydrolysis Reactions form proteins
13. Three IB Style Questions
List three examples of Hydrolysis reactions in biological cells.
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Outline the role of condensation reactions in living things.
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Distinguish between hydrolysis and condensation reactions.
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