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What must be removed from some of the glucose molecules to join them?
In order to join multiple glucose molecules together to form larger polysaccharides like starch or glycogen, water molecules must be removed in a condensation reaction. This process involves the removal of a hydroxyl group (-OH) from one glucose molecule and a hydrogen atom (-H) from the other glucose molecule, resulting in the formation of a glycosidic bond between the two glucose units. This dehydration synthesis reaction requires energy input to proceed and results in the release of a water molecule as a byproduct.
What affect will amylase have on sucrose?
None. Amylase breaks down starch into sugars, generally into the monosaccharde glucose and disaccharide maltose (double glucose). Sucrose is a disaccharide of glucose and fructose, and the amylase enzymes are not keyed for this pair and thus cannot split it up. Sucrase is required for that.
Glucose is considered a monomer because?
Because it is a single hexagonal ring structure.
What ingredients are needed for cellular respiration?
Aerobic cellular respiration requires glucose and oxygen. If glucose is not available, the cell can use other carbohydrates or other organic compounds.
Is glucose part of adenosine diphosphate?
Animals use the energy released in the breakdown of glucose and other molecules to convert adenosine diphosphate to ATP (Adenosine triphosphate).
How are glycogen forms structurally related to each other?
A polysaccharide known as glycogen. Glycogen is made of repeating subunits of glucose, which are the quick-energy carbohydrate in animals.
What are the storage and quick-energy forms of carbohydrates found in animals and how are these forms structurally related to each other?
In animals, the storage form of carbohydrates is glycogen, which is found in the liver and muscles. The quick-energy form of carbohydrates is glucose, which circulates in the bloodstream. Glycogen is structurally related to glucose as it is made up of many glucose molecules linked together in a branched structure. When quick energy is needed, glycogen is broken down into glucose for immediate use.
How are statch and glycogen related?
Glycogen is a form of stored glucose found in the liver and muscles. When glucose is stored as glycogen, it is in a form that can be easily accessed for energy. Starch, on the other hand, is a polysaccharide found in plants and serves as a storage form of energy. Both starch and glycogen play crucial roles in providing energy to the body.
What is Glycogen converted into when it leaver the liver?
Glycogen is converted into glucose when it leaves the liver. This glucose can then be released into the bloodstream to be used by other tissues in the body.
What is the function of liver glycogen degradation?
The function of glycogen degradation is to export glucose to other tissues when blood glucose levels are low.
What are the storage and quick energy forms of carbohydrates found in animals and how are these forms structurally related to each other?
They are stored in glycogen, and used for energy. I hope you don't mind that I deleted the "traveling in light waves answer"
Chemical compounds that are converted to glycogen?
Glucose is the main chemical compound that is converted to glycogen in a process called glycogenesis. Other compounds such as fructose and galactose can also be converted to glucose and ultimately stored as glycogen. The conversion of these compounds to glycogen occurs in the liver and muscles primarily to maintain blood sugar levels and provide energy reserves.
Glycogen is the form in which?
Glycogen is the form in which animals and humans store glucose. Plants on the other hand store their glucose as starch.
What type of organic molecule is glycogen?
Glygogen is made of glucose. So it is an organic compound.
When blood glucose levels are low liver cells convert more glucose to glycogen?
The other way around. When blood glucose levels are low, the liver converts stored sugar, glycogen, into blood sugar, glucose. You can remember it this way: glyco-GEN GEN-nerates glucose.
Tissue in body with highest glycogen content?
Glycogen are found principally in the liver. Glycogen is a polymer of glucose residues linked by α-(1,4)- and α-(1,6)-glycosidic bonds. A second major source of stored glucose is the glycogen of skeletal muscle. , muscle glycogen is not generally available to other tissues, because muscle lacks the enzyme glucose-6-phosphatase.
Why can there be only one type of glycogen molecule?
glycogen is composed of chains of glucose molecules hooked together alpha 1,4 and branched as alpha , 1,6. This allows for only weakly branched or highly branched glycogen with the same ONE type of molecule present, glucose . Proteins , on the other hand are composed of chains and cross-linked chains of amino acids of which there are 20 naturally occurring AAs with quite different properties. You can see immediately the tremendous number of different combinations of 20 AAs that are possible. In glycogen, the position of a glucose molecule makes no difference because one glucose is like any other...In proteins substituting one amino acid for a different amino acid at a particular position will change the properties of the protein sometimes minutely other times drastically ( such as the single AA substitution of valine for a glutamic acid in a hemoglobin beta chain converts normal hemnoglobin to sickle cell hemoglobin )
