Lesson 10 · about 20 minutes
Molecules of life
Sugars, fats, proteins and DNA, built from the groups you already know.
You will learn
- Glucose, and how it joins into starch and cellulose
- Fats and oils as big esters, and why oils stay liquid
- Proteins, made of amino acids joined by peptide bonds
- How DNA's base pairs fit together and store instructions