Glucose is very important source. This is because, your brain can use glucose only as a source of energy. Rest of the body can manage without the glucose. Fortunately you get much more glucose from your food than required by your body. Glucose being the primary product of photosynthesis.
A simple sugar like glucose is classified as a monosaccharide. Monosaccharides are the simplest form of carbohydrates, composed of a single sugar unit. Glucose is an important source of energy for living organisms.
Glucose is a building block for carbohydrates. When digestion occurs, the carbohydrates breaks down into glucose where it is carried into the blood stream and to the cells and tissues to be used as energy.
Glucose has single bonds between its carbon atoms.
glucose is a sugar simple sugars like glucose are called monosaccharides mono = one saccharide = sugar
A small amount of energy is stored in the cells. For animals the major energy store are the fat reserves and for plants the major energy stores is starch. Single celled creatures use glucose.
Glucose is a monosaccharide (simple sugar) having the formula C6H12O6. D-glucose has 5OH, 1H and 1O functional groups. Starch is polymer of Glucose. It is made of many Glucose molecules attached by Glycosidic bonds. The formula is (C6H10O5)n, where n represents number of substitutions.
A monosaccharide is a single sugar or a simple sugar molecule. Examples are glucose, fructose, galactose and ribose. The chemical formula for a monosaccharide is (CH2O)n where n varies from 3 to 9. The most important monosaccharides are either hexoses or pentoses. Hexoses are sugars which have 6 carbon atoms in the molecule ie n=6 in the above formula. Examples are glucose and fructose. Pentoses are sugars which have 5 carbon atoms in the molecule ie n=5 in the formula. Examples are ribose (found in RNA) and deoxyribose (found in DNA). See http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/C/Carbohydrates.html
All the groups energy is in it to pass the single issue.
Yes. You are right. Glucose is a monomer. Because it is a single molecule.
A single molecule energy of the sugar glucose stores more than 90 times the chemical energy of a molecule of ATP.
A single molecule energy of the sugar glucose stores more than 90 times the chemical energy of a molecule of ATP.
When two single sugars are joined together, they form a disaccharide. Examples include sucrose (glucose + fructose), lactose (glucose + galactose), and maltose (glucose + glucose).