Polysaccharide

Identifying Unknown #1103 Purpose: There are four naturally occurring organic macromolecules essential to all living organisms. These organic macromolecules which are essential to all life are carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids.. These four organic macromolecules provide all cells with structure, create and store energy, and can be hormones, immune substances and genetic material. A macromolecule, or polymer, is a large complex molecule built from smaller molecules, or monomers, such as nucleic acids, proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids. Monosaccharides and polysaccharides are both carbohydrates. Polysaccharides are a complex carbohydrate composed of a chain of monosaccharides that are linked together by glycosidic bonds.…

To answer the question, it is first necessary to understand what a polysaccharide is and what hydrolysis is. The four "building blocks of life" is a commonly used phrase that refers to four kinds of small molecules that are essential in the creation and formation of larger macromolecules that exist in every living organism. These four molecules consist of simple sugars, fatty acids, amino acids, and nucleotides. "Poly-" means "many", and "saccharide" means "sugar," so as the name suggests, a…

the most important source of community- and hospital-acquired attacks are mostly ESBL manufacturers (7). A variety of ESBLs have been revealed in Enterobacteriaceae, being mostly of the CTX-M-, TEM- and SHV-types(8). Production of these enzymes in medically significant Enterobacteriaceae symbolizes an increasing issue causing in higher individual deaths and death rate (9). Formation and development of biofilm by bacteria is significant stage in the pathogenesis of Klebsiella, and it is…

I expected that pepsin will destroy the structure of gelatin protein, because the pepsin broke down the primary structure of the gelatin polypeptide into amino acid monomers. The hydrochloric acid (HCL) expected to affect the ability of amylase to digest starch, because as it is an acid it effects on the protein that makes it unraveled as it breaks down the secondary structure which it contains hydrogen bonds. As I have done to experiment one titled Digestion of Proteins by Pepsin. The result…

The purpose of this experiment is to detect the presence of saccharides in different samples through the use of Benedicts reagent and Lugol’s solution. Monosaccharides have a double bonded oxygen atom that forms in one of its two possible chemical groups known as ketone or aldehyde. Disaccharides are two monosaccharides joined together by a glycosidic bond. The Benedicts reagent reacts with the double bonded oxygen atom in monosaccharides by reducing the copper sulfate found in the reagent.…

They are monosaccharides, disaccharides, and polysaccharides. Monosaccharides are the simplest units of carbohydrates and a simple carbohydrate. They are the building block of more complex of carbohydrates such as disaccharides and polysaccharides. According to orthomolecular.org, monosaccharides are colorless; they can dissolve in water and have crystal like appearance (orthmolecular.org). Disaccharides are made up of two monosaccharide units linked through glycosidic bond. Polysaccharides are…

Identifying the Presence of Macromolecules Using Benedict’s, Biuret’s, Sudan III, and Lugol’s Solution Betty Ngo Introduction Macromolecules are the critically important large molecules that fall into four main classes: carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids. Macromolecules are polymers which are built up by monomers. Monomers become polymers from the process dehydration reaction and polymers are broken apart by the process hydrolysis. Macromolecules are critically important…

Macromolecules Macromolecules are complex carbon based molecules that all have different functions and monomers, there are four different groups of macromolecules that include, Nucleic Acids, Carbohydrates, Proteins, and Lipids. Carbohydrates are polymers made from monosaccharides, which are simple sugars like glucose and fructose, these are used as a good source of energy. Monosaccharides, the monomer of carbohydrates, are just one sugar unit, they are the simplest form of carbohydrates, but…

despite its massive potential and widespread usage. FMT is a personalized procedure where stool is collected from a donor, processed and placed in a patient to replace the beneficial bacteria that have either been killed or suppressed. This is currently effective in the treatment of dysbiosis caused by Clostridium difficile. FMT have been shown to have 90% efficacy with the first round of treatment. Compare this to the 84% efficacy of first-round treatment of C. difficile through antibiotic…

An object is chiral if it has a non-superimposable mirror image. Our hands are mirror images that cannot be superimposed on each other therefore they are chiral. There are objects that do have a superimposable mirror image, like a drinking glass or ball and these are known to be achiral (Morris Hein, 2013). A carbon compound needs to have four different atoms or groups attached to at least one carbon atom for it to be classified as chiral (Timberlake, 2009). Chiral compounds are also called…