BIOL 1010 Lecture Notes - Galactose, Trans Fat, Protein Structure
6 Oct 2014
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Also occurs in our stomach when we chew up food (acidic ph: carbohydrates, contain carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, ratio of 1:2:1 (not always, but the majority, eg: c2h4o2, almost all the structures end in ose , monosaccharides are the monomers, most common one is glucose c6h12o6, often drawn a certain way (see diagram on powerpoint, two monosaccharides linked = disaccharide, eg: glucose + glucose = maltose, eg: glucose + fructose = sucrose, glucose + galactose = lactose, three monosaccharides linked = polysaccharides, used to store carbohydrates, eg: glycogen (alpha 1 4 glucose, forms a spiral structure, make this in our liver; the sugar that we store in our bodies so that we can make glucose in between meals; why we don"t have to stuff our faces all the time, after you use up all your glycogen, you become miserable :p, plants store starch; they use amylopectin and amylose, we don"t store starch!
