Simple Sugars
This is the term given to monomers of carbohydrates
What is a monosaccharide?
These are the elements found in carbohydrates.
What are carbon, hydrogen and oxygen?
This is the main function of polysaccharides.
What is energy storage?
These are the elements found in the chemical formulas of lipids.
What is carbon, hydrogen and oxygen?
This monosaccharide is known as "blood sugar"
What is glucose?
This is the meaning of the term "disaccharides."
What is "two sugar units/monosaccharides linked together?"
This is the polysaccharide found in plants.
What is plant starch?
These molecules are the building blocks of lipids.
What are glycerol and three fatty acid chains?
This monosaccharide comes from fruit.
What is fructose?
This is the ratio of carbon to hydrogen to oxygen in carbohydrates.
What is 1:2:1?
Explain why an athlete might eat a lot of pasta on the night before a race.
Pasta has a lot of the polysaccharide called starch, which provides a lot of energy for their race.
Lipids are found in these everyday substances.
What are fats, oils and waxes?
This is the purpose of carbohydrates
What is energy?
This is the disaccharide called "table sugar."
What is sucrose?
This is the polysaccharide found in plant cell walls or in paper fiber. It gives structure to the plant.
What is cellulose?
These types of fatty acid chains make a lipid solid at room temperature.
What are saturated fatty acids?
This is the monosaccharide found in milk
What is galactose?
Some individuals cannot tolerate this disaccharide, often found in milk.
What is lactose?
This is the polysaccharide found in muscles, also called "animal starch."
What is glycogen?
These types of fatty acid chains make a lipid liquid at room temperature.
What are unsaturated fatty acids?