All living things on earth are carbon based life-forms because the element can bond with itself repeatedly to form an infinite variety of molecules. ... When monosacharides link they join together in a condensation reaction and a glycosidic link is formed. Disaccharides are formed from the condensation of two units of glucose by a glycosidic bond. ... Cellulose molecules are long unbranched chains of containing glycosidic linkages of B-glucose. ... Unsaturated fatty acids possess one or more C=C bond. ...

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In all cells water is used for; hydrolysis, the breakdown of a substance by water, e.g. polysaccharides to monosaccharides, forming a glycosidic bond; a medium for chemical reactions, due to its properties as a solvent; the diffusion and osmosis of substances, e.g. gaseous exchange, which need to be moist as the exchange takes place in solution, therefore there is water in the lungs or in mesophyll cells (in plants). ...

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In all cells water is used for; hydrolysis, the breakdown of a substance by water, e.g. polysaccharides to monosaccharides, forming a glycosidic bond; a medium for chemical reactions, due to its properties as a solvent; the diffusion and osmosis of substances, e.g. gaseous exchange, which need to be moist as the exchange takes place in solution, therefore there is water in the lungs or in mesophyll cells (in plants) . ...

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Carbs can be disaccharides when double sugars consisting of two monosaccharaides are joined with a covalent bond. Polysaccharides are polymers with a few hundred monosaccharaides joined by glycosidic links. ...

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