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32 Cards in this Set
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Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen
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What elements are found in carbohydrates?
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C6H1206
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What is the chemical formula for glucose and fructose?
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Monosaccharide
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What is the monomer that builds larger carbohydrates?
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Primary function is to provide energy for physiological processes such as respiration, muscle contraction and relaxation. Regulates body temp.
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Function of Glucose?
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The extraction of the water molecule during the joining of the two monosaccharides.
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How a disaccharide is built?
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Sucrose and Lactose
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2 examples of disaccharides?
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Also called gylcan, form in which most natural carbohydrates occur.
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Structure of a polysaccharide?
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Complex carbohydrate
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Carbohydrate glycogen is classified as?
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Liver and Muscles
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Where is glycogen found in animals?
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Is a polysaccharide used to store energy in animals including humans.
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Function of glycogen?
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Starch (photosyntheis in plants)
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Most important carbohydrate that is found in plants?
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Cell walls
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Where is carbohydrate found in plant?
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Chemical reaction is to utilize carbon dioxide molecules from the air and water molecules and the energy from the sun to produce a simple sugar such as glucose and oxygen molecules as by product.
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What is function of plant carbohydrate?
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Carbohydrate that the body uses as fuel energy.
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Function of starch?
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Complex
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Starch is classified as?
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Cellulose
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What polysaccharide is only in plants?
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Glycogen
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What polysaccharide is only in humans?
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Monosaccharde
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Basic unit of carbohydrate? One sugar molecule.
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Disaccharide
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Created when 2 monosacchardes are combined? Two sugar molecules.
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Polysaccharides
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Long carbohydrate molecules of monosaccharide unites joined together by glysosidic bonds? Basically many sugar molecules.
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Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen
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Elements found in lipids?
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Fats, Oils and Phosphalipids
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What are 3 different types of lipids
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Glyceral and Fatty Acids
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What are the 2 molecules that make up most lipids?
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Long term energy storage.
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Function of lipids.
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Solid
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What happens to fats at room temp?
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Liquid
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What happens to oils at room temp?
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Single
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Saturated fat bonds are?
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double
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Unsaturated fat bonds are?
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Monounsaturated fats
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Fats are made up of a chain of carbon with one pair of carbon molecules joined by double bond.
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Polyunsaturated fats
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Have two or more double bonds between carbon atoms in the carbon chain backbone of the fat.
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These are fats from plants. Better for humans in general.
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Unsaturated fats effect health by?
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Fats from animals. Viewed as unhealthy. Saturated fat does allow the body to absorb vitamin D.
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Saturated fats effect health by?
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