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1
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What are carbohydrates made up of

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C, H, O

2
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What is the general formula for Carbohydrates

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Cn (H2O)n : N=(3-9)

3
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What are 4 common dietary carbohydrates

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Starch, Sucrose, Dietary fiber, and Lactose

4
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What is the nutritional reservoir of CH in plants

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Starch

5
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Starch is a polysaccharide of

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Glucose

6
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What is amylose

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unbranched form of starch

7
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What is amylopectin

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The branched form of starch

8
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natural sweetener and found in fruits and vegetables

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Sucrose

9
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Sucrose is a disaccharide of ___ and ____

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glucose and fructose

10
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What is the origin of dietary fiber

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plants

11
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A major dietary carbohydrate of animal origin

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Lactose

12
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Lactose is a disaccharide of ____ and _____

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glucose and galactose

13
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What is the simplest form of carbohydrates

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Monosaccharides

14
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What are some examples of monosaccharides

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Glucose, fructose, galactose, ribose

15
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What are two monosaccharides

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Disaccharides

16
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Maltose, lactose, and sucrose are all

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disaccharides

17
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Glycolipids and glycoproteins are

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oligosaccharides

18
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what are oligosaccharides

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3-10 monosaccharides

19
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What are polysaccharides

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> 10 monosaccharides

20
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Glycogen, starch, and cellulose are all

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polysaccharides

21
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what are epimers

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diastereomers that differ in configuration of only one stereogenic (chiral) center

22
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D-glucose and D-Galactose are examples of

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epimers

23
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What three components will help to identify a monosaccharide

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Carbon number
Functional group
Stereoisomer form

24
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What are the smallest monosaccharides

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3 carbon atoms (triose)
dihydroxyacetone
D and L- glceraldehyde

25
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The D and L nomenclature of a monosaccharide is determined by

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position of the OH group farthest from carbonyl carbon

26
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Most sugars are in _____ series in humans

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D

27
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Constitutional isomeers

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differ in the order of attachment of atoms

28
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Enantiomers

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Nonsuperimposable mirror images

29
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What are two forms of diastereoisomers

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Epimers

Anomers

30
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What are anomers

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differ at new asymmetric carbon upon ring closure

ex. alpha-D-glucose and beta-D-glucose

31
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What are epimers

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differ at one of several asymmetric carbons

ex. D-Glucose and D-mannose (or D-galactose)

32
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Diastereoisomers

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isomers that are not mirror images

33
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How is a pyranose formed

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mutarotation of D-Glucose leads to ring closure

34
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How is a furanose formed

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mutarotation of D-Fructose leads to ring closure

35
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What is the the preferred form alpha-D-Glucopyranose or beta-D-Glucopyranose

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Beta-D-glucopyranose

36
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What is the difference between an alpha anemia and a beta anomer

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The alpha anomer is on the opposite side of the ring as the Ch2OH
The beta anomer is on the same side of the ring from the CH2OH

37
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In solution monosaccarides mostly exist as

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ring structure

38
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Does fructose form both pyranose and furanose rings

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yes (pyranose from predominates in fructose that is free in solution, and the furanose form predominates in many fructose derivatives)

39
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Deoxyaldose

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is a chemically modified monosaccharide derivative

it is a major component of DNA

40
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Acetylated amino sugars

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chemically modified monosaccharide derivative

They are components of glycoproteins and glycolipids (cell signaling, cell adhesion, immune response)

41
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Acidic sugars

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Chemically modified monosaccharide derivatives
glycosaminoglycans and proteoglycans.
present in cell membrane and in the extracellular matrix

42
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Sugar esters

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Chemically modified monosaccharide derivative

constituted the gangliosides in oligodendrocyte of the nervous system

43
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Sugar alcohols (e.g. mannitol, sorbitol, xylitol)

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Chemically modified monosaccharide derivatives
food additives, gains importance in uncontrolled diabetes leading to cataracts and peripheral neuropathy used in synthesis of lipids

44
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sucrose shows what kind of linkage

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1-2-glycosidic linkage

45
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Lactose demonstrates what kind of linkage

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1-4 glycosidic linkage

46
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Maltose demonstrates what kind of linkage

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1-4 glycosidic linkage

47
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starch amylose is a polysaccharide of glucose residues linked with

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alpha 1,4-glycosidic bonds

48
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Amylopecin is amylose with the addition of

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alpha 1,6 glycosidic branch points

49
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Cellulose unbranched polymer of glucose residues joined by

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Beta-1,4 linkages

50
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Starch and glycogen use what kind of linkage

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alpha 1,4-glycosidic linkages, these are bent and better for storage

51
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O-linkage uses the oxygen on

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Serine

52
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N-linked glycosidic bonds uses the N on the

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Asn

53
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The first sugar added to an o-linked glycosidic bond is always

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xylose

54
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Types of Glycoaminoglycans

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Chondroitin sulphate
Dermatan sulphate
Heparan sulphate
Keratan sulfate