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14 Cards in this Set
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Monosaccharide |
A carbohydrate made up of a single sugar residue |
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Disaccharide |
A carbohydrate made up of two sugar residues |
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Oligosaccharide |
A carbohydrate made up of two sugar residues |
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Polysaccharide |
A carbohydrate made up of more than 10 sugar residues |
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Polysaccharide |
A carbohydrate made up of more than 10 sugar residues |
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Aldose |
A carbohydrate whose Carbonyl is an aldehyde |
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Ketose |
A carbohydrate whose Carbonyl group is a ketone |
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Triose |
A carbohydrate made up of 3 carbons (prefix can be tri- to hept-) |
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Lipid |
A biological molecule that is largely hydrophobic and thus insoluble in water |
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Fatty acid |
A carboxylic acid with a long hydrocarbon side chain |
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Amphiphillic |
A molecule that is both hydrophilic and hydrophobic |
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Amphiphatic |
A molecule that is both hydrophilic and hydrophobic |
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Saturated |
A fatty acid that is fully reduced, thus contains no double (or triple ) bonds |
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Unsaturated |
A fatty acid containing double bonds |
