Macromolecules
By: Kaelie, Matty B, Matthew, Kaden
What is a Monomer?
What is a Macromolecule?
What is a Polymer?
Nucleic Acids
Carbohydrates
Lipids
Many people try to avoid lipids (or fat molecules) but they are essential to have. For example phospholipids are fats that are found in every cell membrane on an animal cell specifically used for structure. Without these you'd just be a blob of mush because nothing would be holding itself together.
Steroids are lipids that make hormones. Cholesterol is the most common hormone for these lipids to be making. Cholesterol is transported around the body in the bloodstream and if you have too much it may become stuck leading to a heart attack or stroke.
True fats (or triglyceride) are formed from an excess of glucose.
Proteins
Every function in a living cell depends on the protein. All proteins in our body each have a specific function. Their functions vary between being involved in structural support, others in bodily movement, and some are even in defense against germs and due to all the different functions they have different structures.
If we didn't have proteins, we wouldn't have enzymes which be very bad for us. That is because enzymes are necessary to break down and release the energy we consume from food we eat.
Albumin is a type of protein that is contained in the white of an egg. Hormones too are a form of protein with biological regulatory functions. -Kaelie Looney