How Do Carbohydrates Relate To The Complexity
Carbohydrates come in a variety of sizes. Describe the basic chemical structure of carbohydrates and explain how larger ones are made. How do the category names of different carbohydrates relate to the complexity? Finally, what are they used for in organisms? Carbohydrates are made by the basic chemical structure of Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen, in the same two to one ratio that makes up water. It is made bigger when an enzyme comes in and takes hydrogen and oxygen away from two different carbon atoms, causing dehydration synthesis to occur and have that become a carbohydrate. The same thing happens again to get the two carbohydrates to come together, making one big carbohydrate. The names monosaccharide, disaccharide, and polysaccharide all refer to how many carbohydrates are in it. Mono, which is Latin for one, has just one carbohydrate, di means two, and poly means many, so, monosaccharides have one carbohydrate, disaccharide has to, and polysaccharides have many carbohydrates. All of these different carbohydrates have at least one thing in common. They all have some form of glucose. With all of them containing glucose, they all provide organisms with energy,
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Glucose is a carbohydrate. Describe its structure and where it falls in the level of carbohydrate complexity. Why can glucose be transported by water? What property of water is being used for this process? Glucoses structure is C6H12O6. That means that it is made of 6 carbon, 12 hydrogen, and 6 oxygen, keeping the same 2:1 ratio as water. Glucose among the simplest of carbohydrates, as it is a monosaccharide. Glucose can be transported by water because it is polar. If it were nonpolar, then water would just go right through it and nothing would happen. The property of water that allows this to happen is adhesion.
3. Starch is a carbohydrate. Describe its structure and where it falls in the level of carbohydrate complexity. Starch tends to be soluble in water only when heated.
Glucose is a carbohydrate. Describe its structure and where it falls in the level of carbohydrate complexity. Why can glucose be transported by water? What property of water is being used for this process? Glucoses structure is C6H12O6. That means that it is made of 6 carbon, 12 hydrogen, and 6 oxygen, keeping the same 2:1 ratio as water. Glucose among the simplest of carbohydrates, as it is a monosaccharide. Glucose can be transported by water because it is polar. If it were nonpolar, then water would just go right through it and nothing would happen. The property of water that allows this to happen is adhesion.
3. Starch is a carbohydrate. Describe its structure and where it falls in the level of carbohydrate complexity. Starch tends to be soluble in water only when heated.