Answer
Which reaction—dehydration synthesis or hydrolysis— converts a polymer to its monomers? Hydrolysis. Which one converts monomers to a polymer? Dehydration Synthesis.
Work Step by Step
In hydrolysis, a water molecule ionizes into OH− and H+. An enzyme breaks the covalent bond linking one monomer to another, and adds OH− to one monomer and H+ to the other one. The joining of monomers to form a polymer is called polymerization. Living cells achieve this by means of a reaction called dehydration synthesis
