CARBOHYDRATES
carbohydrates act as important precursor in the ____ that may help plants defend themselves against potential predators
biosynthesis of metabolites
PLANT metabolites contains ____ as an essential feature of their structure
SUGAR
structural feature in MICROORGANISMS
peptidoglycan
play an ecological role in plant-animalinteraction, protection from wound and infection and detoxification of foreign substances
CARBS
used as food and pharmaceutical
sugar & starch
carbohydrates are considered what type of metabolites
PRIMARY METABOLITES
bc they are found among living organisms
CLASSIFICATION OF CARBS
cannot be hydrolyzed into simple sugar
MONOsacch
CLASSIFICATION OF CARBS
hydrolyzed into 2 monosachh
DIsacch
CLASSIFICATION OF CARBS
yields 3 monosacch
TRIsacch
CLASSIFICATION OF CARBS
yields 4 monosacch
TETRAsacch
CLASSIFICATION OF CARBS
contains more than 10 monosacch units
POLYsacch
MONOSACCHARIDES
3C
TRIose
MONOSACCHARIDES
4C
TETRose
MONOSACCHARIDES
5C
PENTose
MONOSACCHARIDES
6C
HEXose
MONOSACCHARIDES
HEXOSE
MONOSACCHARIDES
XYLOSE
two types of glycosidic bond
alpha & beta
CLASSIFICATION OF CARBS
DISACCHARIDES
DISACCHARIDES
are formed by what reaction
condensation
the type of bond that is formed between the two sugars is called
glycosidic bond
GLYCOSIDIC BOND
sucrose
a1-b2
GLYCOSIDIC BOND
maltose
a-1,4