carbohydrates

Cards (20)

  • Hexose monosaccharides
    Six sugars one sugar
    6 carbons in a single unit of sugar
  • What bonds do proteins make
    Peptide bonds
  • What bonds do lipids make
    Ester bonds
  • What bonds do carbohydrates make
    Glycosidic bonds
  • What are disaccharides
    Two carbohydrate molecules joined together by a glycosidic bond
  • What are the 3 sugars formed
    Sucrose
    Lactose
    Maltose
  • What differentiates alpha and beta glucose
    Alpha carbon one hydrogen is above
    Beta carbon one hydrogen is below
  • What makes maltose
    Alpha glucose and alpha glucose
  • What forms sucrose
    Alpha glucose and beta fructose
  • What forms lactose
    Alpha glucose and alpha galactose
  • Monosaccarides
    Single sugar molecules - all reducing sugars
    Eg glyceraldehyde ribose glucose
    Source of energy for respiration
    Building blocks for respiration
  • Disaccaride
    Sugar formed by two monosaccarides joined together by a glycosidic bonds
  • Polysaccharides
    Polymer formed by many glycosidic bonds in many condensation reactions
  • What can maltose be used as
    Sugar found in germinating seeds
  • What can sucrose be used for
    Sugar stored in a sugar cane
  • What can lactose be used for
    Mammel milk sugar
  • General formula for monosaccharides
    (CH2O)n
  • How can monosaccharides be formed
    Chain form
    Ring form
  • How's starch stored
    Amyloplasts
    Hexico structure
  • Structure of cellulose
    Hydrogen bonds form between parallel chains
    Forms fibrils
    Linked by hydrogen bonds
    Forms macrofibrils
    High tensile strength