They are hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen. The basic processes involving the construction and destruction of these molecules are all the same. In this lab the processes of dehydration synthesis and hydrolysis will be studied. Students will demonstrate the process of dehydration synthesis by combining the monomers of carbohydrates. Students will demonstrate the process of hydrolysis by breaking up the macromolecules of carbohydrates.
Carbohydrates are sugars.
They contain Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen in a uniform pattern. Simply put it is the hydrate in carbohydrates. Below find three monosaccharide sugars. These monosaccharide molecules can be used to make a more complex sugar, called a disaccharide . Before this can happen , one of the molecules must lose a hydrogen atom while the other must lose a hydrogen atom and an oxygen atom.