Thursday, August 28, 2008

Summary of 5.2: Carbohydrates pe fuel and builduing material





















Carbohydrate(CH2O) is an organic compound made upoif sugar molecules.





Monosaccharides:It's the simple sugars contains just one sugar unit, and glucose,fructose and galactose are examples of monosaccharides.(names of the sugar has ~ose in last)






Disaccharides:It constructed by cell, when dehydraton reaction happens. The most common disaccharide is sucrose.






Polysaccharides:It's the long polymer chains made up of simple sugar monomers, or complex carbohydrate.





Starch: It is one of the polysaccharide that's found in plant cells that consists entirely of glucose monomers.





Glycogen:It's the way animals store sugare in the form of a polysaccharide, like plant do with starch




Cellulose:It's one of the some polysaccharide that's in plants, serve as building materials,and people nor animal can't digest cellouse

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