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Carbohydrates Flashcards

1
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Main source of energy

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Carbohydrates

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2
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Saccharides means

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Sugar

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3
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1 sugar molecule

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Mono saccharides

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4
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Nourishes our brain. Main source of calories and enegy

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Glucose

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5
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Comes from honey, fruits and root vegetables

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Fructose

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6
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Milk sugar

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Galactose

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7
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Used to ferment beer

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Maltose

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8
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Milk of mammals

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Lactose

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9
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From fruits and vegetables

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Sucrose

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10
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2 sugar molecules

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Disaccharides

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11
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3-9 sugarmolecules

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Oligosaccharides

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12
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10 and more sugar molecules

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Polysaccharides

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13
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Contain only one type of monosaccharides

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Homopolysaccharides

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14
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Contain difderent type of monosaccharides

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Heteropolysaccharides

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15
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Glucose on plants

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Strach

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16
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Glucose in plants animals and humans

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Glycogen

17
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Glucose to glycogen

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Glycogenesis

18
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Glycogen to glucose

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Glycogenolysis

19
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Many monosaccharides

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Cellulose

20
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Can’t digest sinxe we lack lactase enzyme

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Cellobiose

21
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Images that coexist when laid upon each other

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Superimposable

22
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Images partially coexist when laid upon each other

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Nonsuperimposable

23
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Molecules cannot be superimposable on ita mirror images

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Chirality

24
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Has 4 different groups bonded and xarbon as the center

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Chiral center

25
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Connected in the same way but arranged difderently

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Stereoisomerism

26
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Structures aee nonsuperimposable mirror images

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Enantiomers

27
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Structures that are not mirror images of each other

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Diastereomers

28
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C1 (OH) and C5 are on the opposite side

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Alpha form

29
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C1 and C5 are on the same side

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Beta form

30
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2-d structural notation for spatial arrangement of chiral center group

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Fisher projection formula

31
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Specifies 3-d structure of cyclic form

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Haworth projection formula

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