Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Carbohydrates
- Stores/transports energy
- Forms
- Monosaccharides
Anmerkungen:
- Simple sugars
Anmerkungen:
- Named for how many carbons they:
Ex. trioses = 3 C.,
tetroses = 4 C.
- Glucose
Anmerkungen:
- Energy source for cells;
Sweeteners I like
- Helps in making cartilage, connective
tissue, insect's
exoskeleton
- Linear chains or ring-shaped (common).
- Building material for plants' structure
Anmerkungen:
- Structure of DNA and RNA
- Amino acids are "grown" here
- Disaccharides
Anmerkungen:
- = 2 monosaccharides = 2 simple sugars
- Glycosidic bond
Anmerkungen:
- Covalent bond holding these sugars together this way!
- Alpha or beta.
- Maltose
- Lactose
- Sucrose
- Oligosaccharides
Anmerkungen:
- Attaches to the surface of the proteins' or lipids' surface via covalent bonds
- Defines your blood group
- Polysaccharides
Anmerkungen:
- Longs chained polymers, made of sugars and their "cousins" (i.e.: derivatives).
- Cellular building material
- Cellulose
Anmerkungen:
- Structure: Linear,
Plant's cell wall
- Chitin
Anmerkungen:
- Energy warehouse
- Glycogen
Anmerkungen:
- Structure: Highly branched (densely branched),
For animals + bacteria
- Starch
Anmerkungen:
- Structure: Branched (very "leggy"),
For plants.
- Functional Groups
- Sugar phosphate
- Amino sugar
- Chitin