Carbohydrates
- Created by: Rosie Young
- Created on: 13-02-13 14:22
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- Carbohydrates
- Monosaccharides
- Glucose
- small, soluble, sweet, crystaline
- Provides energy via respiration
- small, soluble, sweet, crystaline
- Deoxyribose
- Part of DNA- Information molecule
- Glucose
- Disaccharides
- Maltose- Glucose + Glucose
- Small, soluble, sweet and crystaline
- A suagr obtained when starch is broken down in hydrolysis reactions. it can be split further to glucose for respiration.
- Small, soluble, sweet and crystaline
- Maltose- Glucose + Glucose
- polysaccharides
- Starch and Glucose
- a-glucose, joined by condensation reaction. insoluble in water
- Energy storage, starch in plants; glycogen in animals and fungi
- a-glucose, joined by condensation reaction. insoluble in water
- Cellulose
- B- Glucose joined by condensation reactions. Insoluble in water.
- Structural. found in plants, where it forms plant walls
- B- Glucose joined by condensation reactions. Insoluble in water.
- Starch and Glucose
- Monosaccharides
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