A monosaccharide with six carbon atoms, such as glucose, is called a what?Wikipedia, Monosaccharide. Read 2026-09-23.
A triglyceride is made of glycerol and how many fatty acids?Wikipedia, Triglyceride. Read 2026-09-23.
About how many amino acids are built into proteins by the genetic code?Wikipedia, Amino acid. Read 2026-09-23.
Simple carbohydrates contain carbon, hydrogen and oxygen in about what ratio?Wikipedia, Carbohydrate. Read 2026-09-23.
What are proteins made of?Wikipedia, Protein. Read 2026-09-23.
What do most lipids have in common?Wikipedia, Lipid. Read 2026-09-23.
What is the monomer of a nucleic acid?Wikipedia, Nucleic acid. Read 2026-09-23.
What is the monomer, the single building block, of a carbohydrate?Wikipedia, Monosaccharide. Read 2026-09-23.
What makes RNA different from DNA in its sugar?Wikipedia, Nucleic acid. Read 2026-09-23.
Which are the four main kinds of biological macromolecule?Wikipedia, Biomolecule. Read 2026-09-23.
Which macromolecule is built from monomers that always contain nitrogen?Wikipedia, Amino acid. Read 2026-09-23.
Which of the four macromolecules contains phosphorus in its building blocks?Wikipedia, Nucleic acid. Read 2026-09-23.
Which three parts make up a nucleotide?Wikipedia, Nucleic acid. Read 2026-09-23.
Which two groups does every amino acid have?Wikipedia, Amino acid. Read 2026-09-23.
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What each one does 14
Glycogen is the main store of glucose in which organisms?Wikipedia, Glycogen. Read 2026-09-23.
What are the molecules an enzyme acts on called?Wikipedia, Enzyme. Read 2026-09-23.
What does cellulose do in a plant?Wikipedia, Cellulose. Read 2026-09-23.
What is an enzyme?Wikipedia, Enzyme. Read 2026-09-23.
What is starch for in a plant?Wikipedia, Starch. Read 2026-09-23.
What is the main job of nucleic acids?Wikipedia, Nucleic acid. Read 2026-09-23.
What mainly decides the 3D shape, and so the job, of a protein?Wikipedia, Protein. Read 2026-09-23.
Which carbohydrate gives structure to insects and fungi?Wikipedia, Carbohydrate. Read 2026-09-23.
Which carbohydrate is most common in human diets?Wikipedia, Starch. Read 2026-09-23.
Which describes a phospholipid?Wikipedia, Phospholipid. Read 2026-09-23.
Which lipid makes up most of a cell membrane?Wikipedia, Phospholipid. Read 2026-09-23.
Which of these jobs is done by proteins?Wikipedia, Protein. Read 2026-09-23.
Which organic polymer is most abundant on Earth?Wikipedia, Cellulose. Read 2026-09-23.
Which store of energy is used for the long term in the human body?Wikipedia, Glycogen. Read 2026-09-23.
Building and breaking them 12
A long chain made of many repeating units is called what?Wikipedia, Macromolecule. Read 2026-09-23.
Breaking a polymer apart by adding water is called what?Wikipedia, Hydrolysis. Read 2026-09-23.
How are dehydration and hydrolysis related?Wikipedia, Dehydration reaction. Read 2026-09-23.
How is glycogen shaped compared with cellulose?Wikipedia, Glycogen. Read 2026-09-23.
Hydrolysis of sucrose gives which two sugars?Wikipedia, Hydrolysis. Read 2026-09-23.
Joining two monomers and releasing a water molecule is called what?Wikipedia, Dehydration reaction. Read 2026-09-23.
Starch is many units of which sugar joined by glycosidic bonds?Wikipedia, Starch. Read 2026-09-23.
What bond joins sugar units in a polysaccharide?Wikipedia, Glycosidic bond. Read 2026-09-23.
What bond joins two amino acids in a protein?Wikipedia, Peptide bond. Read 2026-09-23.
What kind of compound is a triglyceride, chemically?Wikipedia, Triglyceride. Read 2026-09-23.
What makes a fat saturated?Wikipedia, Triglyceride. Read 2026-09-23.
When two amino acids join by a peptide bond, which kind of reaction is it?Wikipedia, Peptide bond. Read 2026-09-23.
How this list was compiled: Questions, wrong choices and explanations were written for this site. Each fact was checked on the Wikipedia article named in the question's source line (Biomolecule, Carbohydrate, Monosaccharide, Starch, Glycogen, Cellulose, Lipid, Triglyceride, Phospholipid, Protein, Amino acid, Peptide bond, Enzyme, Nucleic acid, Dehydration reaction, Hydrolysis, Glycosidic bond). All read 2026-09-23. Licence: own work
How it works
This macromolecules quiz has 40 questions on the four biological macromolecules: carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids. It asks what each is made of, what it does, and how it is built and broken down.
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Three sets
Building blocks pairs each macromolecule with its monomer and elements. What each one does covers starch, glycogen, cellulose, phospholipids, enzymes and DNA. Building and breaking asks about dehydration, hydrolysis and the bonds that join the units.
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Start with Building blocks: the other two sets lean on the monomers. Missed questions come back until you get them right. Print, with a tick on With answer key, gives a paper version for class review.
Monomers: monosaccharides make carbohydrates, amino acids make proteins, nucleotides make nucleic acids; fats are glycerol plus fatty acids.
Dehydration joins two units and releases water; hydrolysis adds water and splits them. Digesting proteins into amino acids is hydrolysis.
Questions and answers
What are the four macromolecules?
Carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids. Carbohydrates and lipids store energy and build structures, proteins do most of the cell's work, and nucleic acids carry genetic information.
What are the monomers of the four macromolecules?
Monosaccharides for carbohydrates, amino acids for proteins, and nucleotides for nucleic acids. Lipids are not true polymers; a fat is glycerol joined to three fatty acids.
Which macromolecules contain nitrogen or phosphorus?
Proteins always contain nitrogen, in each amino acid's amino group. Nucleic acids contain both nitrogen, in the bases, and phosphorus, in the phosphate groups. Simple carbohydrates hold only carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.