Terminology
The name of the bond between monosaccharides
what is a glycosidic link?
A five carbon sugar found in nucleic acids
What is desoxi ribose
The main function of carbohydrates in organisms?
What is short term energy storage?
bonds between glucose subunits stabilise the structure of starch, cellulose and glycogen.
what is hydrogen?
The breakdown of a polysaccharide by the addition of water
What is hydrolysis?
The monomers which lactose are made of
What are glucose and galactose?
A storage polysaccharide found in animals only
what is glycogen?
Is a polymer made up of glucose monomers. A starch molecule consists of both forms: unbranched amylose and branched amylopectin.
What is starch?
A long chain of carbohydrates
What is a polysaccharide
Sucrose components
glucose and fructose
A disaccharide responsible for giving fruit it`s sweet flavour.
What is fructose?
gives starch its characteristic stickiness. This is very useful in the food, paper and chemical industries, where it is used to make paste, glue (adhesive) or as a lubricant.
What is amylopectin?
Water is formed and released when this reaction occurs
What is Condensation
Cellulose is a polysaccharide, it`s monomers
what is glucose
exoskeleton of insects and crustaceans.
what is chitin?
function of cellulose in plants?
what are cell walls?
Condensation is an example of a _____ reaction
What is anabolic?
Lactose
glucose and galactose?
A storage polysacharide with 1-6 side branches found in plants
Amylopectin
is the storage form of carbohydrate. It is found in animals in the liver and muscles.
what is gycogen