BIOL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Blood Sugar, Malt Liquor, Dehydration Reaction
13 Jun 2020
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Plants, animals, fungi love carbohydrates bc they are the easiest to break down. When you exercise, your body burns down carbs first, then goes for fat reserves. Carbo has to do with carbon and hydrates has to do with hydrogen. Monomers for simple sugars are monosaccharides- examples are glucose, fructose, and galactose. When you undergo dehydration synthesis, you take hydroxyl from one sugar, a hydrogen from another and covalently bond them two sugars form a disaccharide- sucrose (table sugar). Body breaks it down through hydrolysis into glucose and fructose. Maltose is used in malt liquor and is used in fermentation. If you can break down lactose, you are a mutant. Normal process is to stop producing enzyme where you don"t need milk anymore. Evolution has selected for individuals who can break it down. If your body doesn"t make the enzymes, you cant undergo dehydration synthesis and hydrolysis. Its broken up into monomers to get energy.
