Carbohydrates Flashcards
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Main source of energy
Carbohydrates
Saccharides means
Sugar
1 sugar molecule
Mono saccharides
Nourishes our brain. Main source of calories and enegy
Glucose
Comes from honey, fruits and root vegetables
Fructose
Milk sugar
Galactose
Used to ferment beer
Maltose
Milk of mammals
Lactose
From fruits and vegetables
Sucrose
2 sugar molecules
Disaccharides
3-9 sugarmolecules
Oligosaccharides
10 and more sugar molecules
Polysaccharides
Contain only one type of monosaccharides
Homopolysaccharides
Contain difderent type of monosaccharides
Heteropolysaccharides
Glucose on plants
Strach
Glucose in plants animals and humans
Glycogen
Glucose to glycogen
Glycogenesis
Glycogen to glucose
Glycogenolysis
Many monosaccharides
Cellulose
Can’t digest sinxe we lack lactase enzyme
Cellobiose
Images that coexist when laid upon each other
Superimposable
Images partially coexist when laid upon each other
Nonsuperimposable
Molecules cannot be superimposable on ita mirror images
Chirality
Has 4 different groups bonded and xarbon as the center
Chiral center
