Testing for Polysaccharides Lab Intro
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Introduction Carbohydrates, proteins, lipids and nucleic acids are four abundant molecules crucial to all living organisms. Each of these molecules are characterized differently and can be easily distinguished through testing with chemicals. Three of them (carbohydrates, proteins and nucleic acids) are macromolecules, molecules that consist of many atoms. However, they do share the possession of the six elements essential to life which are sulfur, phosphorus , oxygen, nitrogen, carbon and hydrogen. The objective is to test molecules like carbohydrates, lipids and proteins to determine how they react with chemicals.
