https://padlet.com/bcahusac3/pf0a47azo2fp en-us 2020-01-17 01:05:00 UTC 2020-02-19 00:39:10 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f95e.png https://padlet.com/bcahusac3/pf0a47azo2fp/wish/446641556 made of at least three carbon atoms with hydroxyl (OH) attached to all but one of them, which forms a carbonyl functional group (CO double bond) - this makes the molecular formula (CH2O)n]]> 2020-02-18 05:45:34 UTC https://padlet.com/bcahusac3/pf0a47azo2fp/wish/446641556 leojl20221 https://padlet.com/bcahusac3/pf0a47azo2fp/wish/446643255 Small details in Monosaccharides such as whether an – OH extends from the right or left side of each carbon atom are extremely important to taste, chemical reactivity, and human health.]]> 2020-02-18 05:57:15 UTC https://padlet.com/bcahusac3/pf0a47azo2fp/wish/446643255 https://padlet.com/bcahusac3/pf0a47azo2fp/wish/446648281 Polysaccharides (the “complex carbohydrates" ) are vital in energy storage and structural roles in living organisms. Protection and structural support can be found in the forming of exoskeletons of shellfish and insects and the cell walls of fungi. Polysaccharides carbohydrates are the most abundant biomolecules on Earth. 

Eg: Crabs synthesise chitin (a special polysaccharide), and forms a protective exoskeleton shell. ]]> 2020-02-18 06:23:24 UTC https://padlet.com/bcahusac3/pf0a47azo2fp/wish/446648281 https://padlet.com/bcahusac3/pf0a47azo2fp/wish/446649487 Aldoses are sugars with a carbon at the end of the chain with the carbonyl group attached (“aldehyde sugar”). An example is glucose. The monosaccharide is a ketose when the carbonyl group’s location is anywhere instead of the end of the carbon chain, (“ketone sugar”), for example, fructose.]]> 2020-02-18 06:29:37 UTC https://padlet.com/bcahusac3/pf0a47azo2fp/wish/446649487 anl8291 https://padlet.com/bcahusac3/pf0a47azo2fp/wish/446650152 The carbonyl group in the monosaccharides can be located on any one of the 3 or more carbon atoms in the the chain. The positioning of the carbonyl group determines whether the sugar is an aldehyde sugar (e.g. glucose) or a ketone sugar (e.g. fructose).]]> 2020-02-18 06:33:16 UTC https://padlet.com/bcahusac3/pf0a47azo2fp/wish/446650152 https://padlet.com/bcahusac3/pf0a47azo2fp/wish/446650639 Plants synthesise two types of polysaccharides- starch and cellulose. There is a difference in the structure of the glycosidic bonds between glucose units. Starch is formed in coils while cellulose is formed in linear strands. This leads to differences in function- starch provides energy and cellulose acts as structural support.]]> 2020-02-18 06:33:49 UTC https://padlet.com/bcahusac3/pf0a47azo2fp/wish/446650639 https://padlet.com/bcahusac3/pf0a47azo2fp/wish/446650967 While in a crystalline form, most monosaccharides are have carbon atoms that are arranged into a long chain, while if a monosaccharide was dissolved into a solution, the carbon would form a ring instead. This change in structure does not change the molecular formula.

The ring structure reacts with other carbohydrates to form dimers and polysaccharides.]]> 2020-02-18 06:35:56 UTC https://padlet.com/bcahusac3/pf0a47azo2fp/wish/446650967 https://padlet.com/bcahusac3/pf0a47azo2fp/wish/446651246 the carbohydrates structure regulates the storage of energy when photosynthesis happens, and regulates the energy released when these bonds break when cellular respiration happens

]]> 2020-02-18 06:37:34 UTC https://padlet.com/bcahusac3/pf0a47azo2fp/wish/446651246 tyg2621 https://padlet.com/bcahusac3/pf0a47azo2fp/wish/446653652 Because the position of individual atoms within a sugar molecule varies, many monosaccharides are isomers of one another.]]> 2020-02-18 06:49:15 UTC https://padlet.com/bcahusac3/pf0a47azo2fp/wish/446653652 https://padlet.com/bcahusac3/pf0a47azo2fp/wish/446753422 In an amino sugar, one or more hydroxyl groups are replaced by nitrogen-containing functional groups. Amino sugars play important roles in the immune system, neuronal processing, and structural support.]]> 2020-02-18 12:44:18 UTC https://padlet.com/bcahusac3/pf0a47azo2fp/wish/446753422 ljj989 https://padlet.com/bcahusac3/pf0a47azo2fp/wish/447168025 Different monosaccharide pairs produce many of the common disaccharide sugars we associate with food, including sucrose, maltose (malt sugar, two glucose monomers) and lactose (milk sugar, glucose and galactose monomers).]]> 2020-02-19 00:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/bcahusac3/pf0a47azo2fp/wish/447168025