Chitin Flashcards

1
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What is Chitin

A

Structural polysacchirides

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2
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Where is it found

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Exoskeletons of anthropods, cell wall of fungi

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3
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What isomer of glucose is in chitin

A

Beta Glucose that are in many long paralel chains that are cross - linked to each other by forming bonds between microfibrils, they are rotated by 180

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