Compare the reactions that produce carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. What do they have in common?

What does hydrolysis mean?

See if you can draw a diagram to show that the complete hydrolysis of starch to glucose, in the lab, is the opposite of a condensation polymerisation.

If you carry out an incomplete hydrolysis of starch in the lab, you get a mixture of products. Explain.

Hydrolysis of a protein in the lab will give a mixture of products. Explain why, and how to identify them. 

Oils are broken down in your digestive system. And oils are used to make soaps, in industry.

a. What do these two processes have in common?

b. In what way are they different?