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Carbohydrates

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Total cards: 24•Content version: v4•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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#1
Front (Question)

Physiological roles of carbohydrates

Back (Answer)

1) energy source 2) energy storage 3) structural roles 4) cellular communication 5) information transfer

#2
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Monosaccharides

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smallest unit of carbohydrate structure

#3
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Disaccharides

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two monosaccharides covalently linked together through a glycosidic bond

#4
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oligosaccharides

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polymers of 3-20 monosaccrides

#5
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polysaccharides

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polymers of more than 20 monosaccrides

#6
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glycoconjugates

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linked to proteins or lipids

#7
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Empirical formula of carbs

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(CH2O)n

#8
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Two major classes of carbs

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aldoses, ketoses

#9
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formula for steroisomers

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2^n

#10
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epimers

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are sugars that differ at only one of several chiral centers

#11
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reaction of alcohol with an aldehyde

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forms a hemiacetal

#12
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reaction of alcohol with a ketone

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forms a hemiketal

#13
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pyranose

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six-carbon sugar

#14
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furanose

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five-carbon sugar

#15
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which carbon becomes chiral

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anomeric

#16
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alpha

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hydroxyl of anomeric carbon is below the plane of the sugar

#17
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beta

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if hydroxyl of anomeric carbon is above the plane of the sugar

#18
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mutarotation

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when the alpha and beta configurations interconvert in solution

#19
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monosacchrides are _____

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reducing

#20
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the carbonyl group is _______ to a carboxyl group

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oxidized

#21
Front (Question)

the end of the sugar with the carbonyl carbon is the ____

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reducing end

#22
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glycosidic bond

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primary structural linkage in all polymers of monosaccrides

#23
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homopolysacchrides

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polymers containing a single type of monosacchrides

#24
Front (Question)

heteropolysacchrides

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polymers containing more than one type of monosacchrides