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What is the type of linkage that occurs when two monosaccharides join? |
Glycosidic linkage |
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What do you call when more than 2 monosaccharides are joined together? |
Polysaccharides |
It relates to polymer |
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What are the 4 types of polysaccharides? |
Glycogen , starch , cellulose and chitin |
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What are the two types of polysaccharides found in starch? |
Amylose and amylopectin |
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What product is formed when two alpha glucose are joined? |
Maltose |
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What two reactants are needed to form sucrose? |
Glucose and fructose |
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What is a disaccharide? |
2 monosaccharides joined together by glycosidic linkage |
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What is the type of reaction that occurs when glycosidic linkage occurs? |
Dehydration reaction |
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When a polysaccharide or a disaccharide breaks what type of reaction occurs? |
Hydrolysis |
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What is released when two monosaccharide are joined together by a dehydration reaction? |
Water (H2O) |
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What type o polysaccharide is used as storage for plants? |
Starch |
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Where is starch stored in the plant? |
Chloroplast and other plastids |
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What type of glycosidic linkage occurs when two glucose molecules are joined to form maltose? |
1-4 glycosidic linkage |
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Name 2 structural polysaccharide |
Cellulose and chitin |
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What are some chitin uses? |
Exoskeleton for arthropods , cell wall for fungi and surgical threads that decompose |
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Why can't we digest cellulose but can digest maltose? |
The lack of specific enzymes in the body that digests cellulose |
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what type of monomer is used to create cellulose? |
Beta glucose |
a type of glucose |
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which organism stores glycogen? and where does it store it? |
animals, they store it in their liver and muscles |
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where is cellulose found?
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cellulose is found in the cell wall of a plant |
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what is the cellulose used for? |
found in cell wall of the plant to provide strength and rigidity |
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what are the linkages found in amylopectin? |
1-4 and 1-6 glycosidic linkage |
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what is the linkage found in amylose? |
1-4 glycosidic linkage |
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a disaccharide is... |
two carbohydrate monomers joined together in a dehydration reaction by forming a glycosidic linkage between them |
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is alpha glucose straight? |
No, Alpha glucose is helical |
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is Beta glucose straight? |
yes |
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what kind of bonds that form between cellulose strands that hold them together? |
hydrogen bonds between the oxygen of hydrogen |
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what do you call a carbohydrate with 3 ,5 and 6 carbons within its skeletal structure? |
3 = triose 5 = pentose 6 = hexose |
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what is the difference between aldose and ketose? |
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Are lipids a polymer? |
No , lipids are macromolecules but don't form polymers |
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