Disaccharide

Designing different experiments regarding the same concept to investigate this topic further would be interesting. One experiment that could be done in the future could be using cold water instead of warm water. In this experiment the students studied how warm water affects the yeast, and learned that warm water activates the yeast enzymes. Where cold water may denature the enzyme, as the students previously reviewed that three factors that affect enzyme activity are temperature, concentration…

Now onto the fresh information, the Dehydration Synthesis process and the Macromolecules. I’ll start with the Macromolecules. These molecules are the four molecules all living things need to survive. The four molecules are Proteins, DNA, Carbohydrates, and Lipids. Each of these molecules is made of Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen at the very least. Proteins have Nitrogen as an added element, and DNA has Phosphate and Nitrogen. The base structure of each molecule has a carbon skeleton. This means…

31. cis/trans isomers Isomers are compounds with a similar substance recipe however extraordinary structures. The structures of these isomers vary in the introduction of the two chloride particles around the Co3+ particle. In the trans isomer, the chlorides involve positions opposite each other in the octahedron. In the cis isomer, they possess contiguous positions. The distinction amongst cis and trans isomers can be recollected by taking note of that the prefix trans is utilized to portray…

Due to their weight, macromolecules make up a great part of a living organic cell. Biological molecules are put under groups based on the way they behave and the similarities they share. There are four main types of macromolecules, namely proteins, nucleic acids, fats and membrane lipids and carbohydrates (which include monosaccharides and polysaccharides). (Alberts, Walter, Bray, Hopkin, Johnson, & Lewis, 2015) There are four smaller organic molecule families which are the primary components of…

1747 Andreas Sigismund Marggra (A German scientists) was examining sugar beets when he discovered sucrose.1 Later in 1802, Franz Achard (who was a student of Marggra) was the first to set an industrial process for its extraction.1 Sucrose is a disaccharide which is made up of glucose and fructose (they are linked due to their anomeric carbons).8 It’s extracted through crushing the sugarcane with…

hormonal secretion, the pancreas contributes to digestion by releasing enzymes. The pancreatic enzymes include trypsin, chymotrypsin, carboxypeptidase, amylase and lipase. Protein digestion occurs with trypsin and chymotrypsin. Amylase is a starch to disaccharides and fat digestion occurs with lipase (Lewis et al., 2014). The proteases (trypsin, chymotrypsin and carboxypeptidase) are secreted in the inactive form so digestion of the pancreas does not…

The human body can generally breakdown simple sugars or disaccharides but not large complexes, so the bacteriodetes are thought to have a degrading enzyme which allows for the break down of those larger complexes (11). This is important in the metabolism of a person because with increased levels of bacteriodetes…

Lactose is a disaccharide sugar and it’s mainly found in dairy products. It’s made up of glucose and galactose. The enzyme lactase breaks down the carbohydrate lactose. Lactase is produced by cells in the small bowel. If lactase is nonexistent or lacking, lactose intolerance occurs. There are ways to classify people with lactase and without lactase. People with are called lactase persistent (LP) and without are called lactase non-persistent (LNP). There are many types of lactose intolerances.…

Structure of Glucose Introduction to Glucose: Glucose, a rich source of energy for living organisms, is produced by the photosynthesis of water and carbon dioxide. Living organisms take in food and obtain energy by the chemical and mechanical breakdown of glucose. Glucose is a simplest carbohydrate, belongs to the monosaccharide category of sugars. More complex carbohydrates usually arise from the linked glucose units (Spencer et. al, 2010). Chemical composition of glucose: Being the simplest…

Practical Report (Determination of blood glucose levels and qualitative carbohydrate tests) Introduction: The term ‘’Carbohydrates’’ is defined as the carbon compounds which contains hydroxyl groups in large quantities (King, 2013). Carbohydrates are those organic compounds that have the empirical formula CnH2nOn, or (CH2O)n (Fromm 1997). Carbohydrates are one of the four types of organic compounds in living cells that are produces during photosynthesis and are the important source of…