Biochemistry Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
What do carbohydrates consist of? | Carbon hydrogen and oxygen. With a hydrogen oxygen ratio of two: one (like water) |
What is the empirical formula for carbohydrates | Cm(H2O)n |
As an organic compound carbohydrates are considered what? | Hydrates of carbon |
Structurally carbohydrates should be viewed as? | Polyhydroxy aldehydes and ketones |
What is a synonym for carbohydrate? | Saccharide |
What are the four types of carbohydrates\saccharides | 1) monosaccharide 2) disaccharide 3) oligosaccharide 4) polysaccharide |
Sugar is a common term used to identify? | Monosaccharides and disaccharides |
Formal name of blood sugar is? | Monosaccharide glucose |
Formal name of table sugar is? | Disaccharide sucrose |
Formal name of milk sugar is? | Disaccharide lactose |
Lactose is a disaccharide found in milk. It consists of what molecules? | D – glucose and D – galactose bonded by a 1–4 glycostatic linkage it has a formula of C12 H22 O11 |
What is polysaccharides role in living things | Polysaccharide Serv for the storage of energy (i.e. starch & glycogen) and as structural components (i.e. cellulose in plants and chit in anthropods) |
What is an important component of coenzymes (ATP, FAD, & NAD) and the backbone of the genetic molecule known as RNA? | Five carbon monosaccharide ribose |
What does the D in DNA stand for? | Deoxyribose |
Saccharides and their derivatives include many other important biomolecules that play key roles in? | The immune system, fertilization, preventing pathogenesis, blood clotting, and development. |
In food science and in many informal contacts the term carbohydrates often mean? | Food that is particularly Rich in the complex carbohydrate starch ( serials bread pasta)or simple carbohydrates such as sugar (candy jams desserts) |
Natural saccharides are generally built of simple carbohydrates called? | Monosaccharides with the general formula (C H2 0)n. where n is three or more |
Sugar is stored as? | Glycogen |
Glycogen is stored in? | The liver and turns to fat |
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