Carbohydrates

No description yet. This curated deck is ready for daily study.

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

Card preview (24)

Front (Question)

What does each of the organic compounds classes consist of?

Back (Answer)

Consist of large molecules built from small subunits.

Front (Question)

What are organic compounds? (5)

Back (Answer)

-carbohydrates -proteins -lipids -vitamins -nucleic acids

Front (Question)

What is the smallest subunit?

Back (Answer)

Monomer

Front (Question)

What do several monomers combine to form?

Back (Answer)

A polymer

Front (Question)

What is a monomer?

Back (Answer)

Monomer, a molecule of any of a class of compounds, mostly organic, that can react with other molecules to form very large molecules or polymers.

Front (Question)

What is polymer?

Back (Answer)

A polymer is a type of chemical compound whose molecules are bonded together in long repeating chains.

Front (Question)

What is each of these polymers characterized by?

Back (Answer)

Characterized by a specific structure owing to the chemical bonds formed.

Front (Question)

What are the structures in polymers characterized by?

Back (Answer)

These structures are related to the function of the compound in living organisms.

Front (Question)

What are the elements of carbohydrates?

Back (Answer)

Carbon-Hydrogen-Oxygen

#10

Front (Question)

Name the monomer of carbohydrates.

Back (Answer)

#11

Front (Question)

What are the monosaccharides?

Back (Answer)

Glucose,Fructose,Galactose

#12

Front (Question)

What is a condensation reaction?

Back (Answer)

When 2 monosaccharides join together it is called a condensation reaction. Water is removed.

#13

Front (Question)

What is the bond between 2 monosaccharides called?

Back (Answer)

Glycosidic bond

#14

Front (Question)

What are two monosaccharides joined together called?

Back (Answer)

Disaccharide

#15

Front (Question)

What are lots of monosaccharides joined together called?

Back (Answer)

Polysaccharide

#16

Front (Question)

What are the characteristics of simple carbohydrates? (5)

Back (Answer)

• Small • Sweet • Soluble • Sweet tasting • Reducing sugars

#17

Front (Question)

Structural composition of monosaccharides: (2)

Back (Answer)

#18

Front (Question)

Strcutural composition of disaccharides:

Back (Answer)

2 monosaccharides joined chemically by glycosidic bonds

#19

Front (Question)

Structural composition of complex carbohydrates:(5)

Back (Answer)

• Large • Compact or long • Insoluble • Not sweet tasting • Not reducing sugars

#20

Front (Question)

____ is basically a Monosaccharide. A monosaccharide is also called simple sugar and is the most basic form of _____. Hexose sugars include ___,___, and _____.

Back (Answer)

Hexose Carbohydrate Fructose Glucose Galactose

#21

Front (Question)

How rings do monasaccharides have?

Back (Answer)

#22

Front (Question)

Glucose + Fructose Glucose + Glucose Glucose + Galactose

Back (Answer)

Sucrose Maltose Lactose

#23

Front (Question)

Draw on your wit bord how disaccharides form.

Back (Answer)

#24

Front (Question)

What happens to a disaccharide when it splits into two monomers?

Back (Answer)

It is called Hydrolysis because water is needed.