Biological Molecules Year 12 A-level Carbohydrates, monosaccharides, disaccharides, polysaccharides

This resource is designed for OCR exam board with much overlap with AQA exam board.
It contains a worksheet of short answer questions illustrated with diagrams of the different carbohydrate molecules students must be familiar with. Questions have students practicing their recognition and drawing of biological molecules, including condensation and hydrolysis reactions. There are summary activites to complete on simple sugars (glucose, fructose, galactose, maltose, sucrose and lactose) and then a further summary activity on all the important polysaccharides (amylose, amylopectin, glycogen, cellulose). There is a mark scheme included for all summary activities.

The resource ends with a selection of exam questions including multiple choice, short and long answer questions. Mark scheme included.

pdf files have been included for ease of printing. Word documents included for ease of editing.