Biology  by Bradford
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Macromolecules and carbohydrates: grass skirts

12 quick questions on AP Biology topics 1.3 Introduction to Macromolecules and 1.4 Carbohydrates, each answered in a word or two. Print a sheet for each team, a key for the checker and a tick sheet, then tape the sheets to the board and race.

How it runs

  1. SnipA runner cuts one strip off the bottom of their team’s sheet.
  2. Answer as a pairBack at the table, they write the answer on the strip. No books.
  3. Get it checkedThe checker reads it against the key: you, or a student holding it.
  4. Back for the nextA tick earns the next strip. Wrong? Back to the table to try again.

The questions on this sheet

The checker’s key, with every answer, prints with the sheets.
  1. General name for a polymer's subunit
  2. General name for a chain of many subunits
  3. Joins two monomers and releases H₂O
  4. Splits a polymer by adding water
  5. Class of single sugars such as fructose
  6. Sucrose or lactose: two sugars joined
  7. Monomer of starch, glycogen and cellulose
  8. Glucose store in potatoes and seeds
  9. Glucose store in liver and muscle
  10. Covalent C−O−C link joining sugars
  11. Plant cell wall carbohydrate of β-glucose
  12. Fungal wall and exoskeleton carbohydrate

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