Carbs

Question 1

How to recognise alpha glucose?

Answer 1

Hydroxyl (OH) group on the bottom of carbon 1.

Question 2

How to form a disaccharide?

Answer 2

2 monosaccharides. Condensation reaction. Glycosidic bond.

Question 3

What is amylopectin?

Answer 3

It branches off

Question 4

What is amylose?

Answer 4

A compact straight line.

Question 5

What do glucose + glucose make?

Answer 5

Maltose

Question 6

What do glucose + fructose make?

Answer 6

Sucrose

Question 7

What do glucose + galactose make?

Answer 7

Lactose

Question 8

Cellulose

Answer 8

Insoluble, compact.
Strengthens cell walls in plants.
Single parallel chains. Hydrogen bonds.
Beta glucose.
Every other saccharide is inverted.

Question 9

Starch

Answer 9

Amylose + amylopectin
Insoluble, compact.
Storage polysaccharide of plants.
Alpha glucose.
Stored as granules in plastids in chloroplasts.

Question 10

Glycogen

Answer 10

Insoluble, compact.
Storage polysaccharide of animals and fungi.
Highly branched.
Alpha glucose.
Stored in the liver and muscle cells.