Life’s Building Blocks

Small pieces, long chains

An interactive lesson with 5 steps, about 5 minutes: you predict, drag and solve, with instant feedback on every answer. It runs in your browser and needs JavaScript.

What you’ll learn

• Proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, lipids.
• Condensation joins monomers (releasing water); hydrolysis splits them.

Steps

1. Four families
2. The peptide bond
3. Count the water
4. From small to huge
5. So many proteins