It is your first semester as a newly hired assistant professor, and you are developing your lesson plans and

lectures for your undergrad microbiology course. To start your class off on the right foot, you’d like to review some important introductory biology concepts to ensure that all of the students have the necessary biological background knowledge. You have decided to expand your lectures on biologically important molecules. Your first lecture will focus on the formation of large molecules through synthesis reactions and two of the four groups of these large biological molecules: the lipids and the proteins.

Part A – Bond Formation

While writing your lecture notes, you are trying to develop a way to impart to you