LIFE SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Polymers are broken down into monomers in a process known as hydrolysis, which means “to split water, ‘’ a reaction in which a water molecule is used during the breakdown. During these reactions, the polymer is broken into two components.

Detailed explanation-2: -Polymers of all sorts can be broken apart by hydrolysis reactions. In hydrolysis the addition of a water molecule (with the help of a hydrolase enzyme) breaks the covalent bond holding the monomers together.

Detailed explanation-3: -The term for a chemical process that lyses, or splits, molecules by the addition of water is called hydrolysis (hydro=water, lysis=split). In the process of hydrolysis, water molecules cause the bonds holding a polymer together to break, splitting the polymer into its smaller monomer subunits.