Carbohydrates Flashcards

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Common foods with carbohydrates include:

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-Grains, such as bread, noodles, pasta, crackers, cereals, and rice.
-Fruits, such as apples, bananas, berries, mangoes, melons, and oranges.
-Legumes, including dried beans, lentils, and peas.

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Carbohydrates are molecules made of:

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CHO
carbon
hydrogen
oxygen

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3
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Carbohydrates include simple sugar and also much larger molecules?

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YES
Carbohydrates include simple sugars, such as glucose, and much larger molecules such as starch.

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4
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What is the basic building block of all carbohydrates?

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Glucose - is the basic building block of all carbohydrates

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What is Starch made of?

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Starch is made of many glucose sugars joined together in long chains.

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6
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Starch

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Plants store carbohydrates such as starch, for example in potatoes.

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Why we need Carbohydrates?

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Carbohydrates gives us energy and we need energy for thinking, walking, doing sports, etc

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8
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Glucose is used in the process of respiration ?

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YES

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9
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What is this: []

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Glucose

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10
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What is this: []-[]-[]-[]

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Starch

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What is this: []-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]

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Carbohydrate

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What is sugar?

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Sugars are small carbohydrate molecules.

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13
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What Simple sugars include?

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Simple sugars include glucose, fructose and galactose.

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What is Starch?

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Starch is a complex carbohydrate, made up of many glucose molecules joined together.

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15
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(starch) What reagent we use to test for starch?

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This test uses the reagent iodine solution.

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(starch) What is the color that have Iodine Solution before the experiment?

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Iodine solution is usually orange / brown.

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(starch) What is the color that have Iodine Solution if starch is present?

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Iodine solution turns blue / black when starch is present.

18
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(starch) What colour does iodine turn in the presence of starch?

19
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(starch) In the experiment Testing for Starch wich food contain Starch?

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Banana
Cracker

20
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What is monosaccharides?

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EXPLANATION
-Sugars are small carbohydrate molecules.
-Simple sugars include glucose, fructose and galactose.
-These are all monosaccharides.

MONO=one
SACCHARIDES=sugar

21
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What Benedict solution is for?

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Benedict solution is for testing for monosaccharides such as glucose and fructose.

22
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What is the name of the reagent needed for testing for sugar?

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Benedict solution

23
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wich is the inicial color Benedict solution?

24
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What is the color that benedict solution take when there is just a little bit of sugar?

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What is the color that benedict solution take when there is a moderate amount of sugar?
Yellow/Orange
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What is the color that benedict solution take when there is a large amount of sugar?
Brick Red
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In the experiment testing for sugar wich food contain sugar?
All contain sugar Avocado: Blue-Green Milk: Blue-Yellow Banana: Blue-Yellow Cracker: Blue-Yellow
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What is the name of Carbohydrates in simple sugar?
Glucose
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What is the name of Carbohydrates in comples sugar?
Starch