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Carbohydrates Flashcards

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What are saccharides?

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Carbohydrates that are most important in biochemistry.

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What are polysaccharides?

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Polymeric carbohydrates made from monomeric units of monosaccharide.

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What are the primary sources of energy that power cellular processes?

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Monosaccharides like glucose and galactose.

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What are disaccharides comprised of?

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Two covalently linked monosaccharide units.

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What are oligosaccharides?

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Short polymeric carbohydrates that form side chains on some proteins.

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What is sugar puckering?

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The three dimensional shape of the sugar on DNA which can adopt either the C2’ - endo or C3’ - endo configuration.

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7
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Why does sugar puckering occur?

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Because the ribose sugar is not planar.

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Why do the two pucker configurations have different effects on the conformation of the sugar-phosphate backbone?

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As the 3’ -carbon participates in the phosphodiester bond with the adjacent nucleotide.

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What is the structure of monosaccharides?

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A carbohydrate with at least 3 carbon atoms one of which is attached to a carbonyl group and the others attached to hydroxyl groups

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10
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Where is the oxygen found on a glyceraldehyde?

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On the terminal carbon forming a formyl group which represents an aldehyde group.

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Where is the oxygen located on a dihydroxyacetone?

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On the central atom resulting in a ketone.

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What is the shape of D-glyceraldehyde?

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Tetrahedral.

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Do monosaccharides contain a chiral carbon?

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Yes if they contain four or more carbons.

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How many chiral carbons do aldotetroses contain?

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2

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What are enantiomers?

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Molecules that are mirror images of each other and non-supposable.

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16
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What is the structure of aldotetroses?

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2 chiral carbons comprising of two pairs on enantiomers.

17
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What are the cyclic forms of five-carbon sugars known as?

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Furanoses.

18
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What is the cyclic form of glucose known as?

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Pyranoses.

19
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What is the link between monosaccharide units in a disaccharide called?

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An 0-glycosidic bond.

20
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Where in the disaccharide is the O-glycosidic bond found?

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Between the hydroxyl group of one monosaccharide and the carbon atoms of another

21
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What is glycosylation?

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When oligosaccharides form side chains with proteins.

22
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Where does glycosylation occur?

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In the Golgi apparatus of eukaryotic cells.

23
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What is the name of molecules formed from glycosylation?

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Glycans.

24
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What is the structure of polysaccharides?

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Cyclic monosaccharide units linked by glycosidic bonds with linear or branched chains.

25
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What is the name for a polysaccharide containing identical units?

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Homopolysaccharide

26
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What is the name for a polysaccharide containing different units?

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Heteroplysaccharide

27
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What is the function of starch?

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A storage polysaccharide

28
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How does starch perform its function?

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By cleaving the monosaccharide units from the ends of the amylose and amylopectin molecules. Only the non-reducing ends are cut back

29
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What is the structure of cellulose?

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A linear D-glucose homoploysaccharide with B(1->4) linkages.

30
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Why does a chitin molecule pack more tightly than a cellulose molecule?

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As the acetyl-amino groups participate in additional hydrogen bonding.

31
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Where are heteropolysaccharides found?

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In the extracellular matrix and bacterial cell walls.

32
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What is the function of heteropolysaccharides?

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To fill spaces between cells and give structure to tissues and organs.

33
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What is the function of heteropolysaccharides in bacteria?

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Peptidoglycan polysaccharide forms a matrix which encloses the bacterium

34
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How does lysozyme protect against bacterial infection?

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By breaking the B(1->4) links between peptidoglycan monosaccharide units in the bacterial cell wall.

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