Biochemistry (Subject) / Carbohydrates (Lesson)

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• Aldose containing aldehyde group
• Ketose containing keto group
• enantiomer pair of mirror-image stereoiseomers
• epimers stereoisomers that differ only in the configuration around one chiral center
• Lactose galactose-ß-1,4-glucose
• sucrose glucose-α-1,2-fructose
• maltose glucose-α-1,4-glucose
• cellobiose glucose-ß-1,4.glucose
• cellulose polymer of cellobiose
• starch polymer of maltose
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• benefit of storing polymers instead of glucose less osmotic pressure
• glucosaminoglycans polysacharides of aminosugars and negatively charged sugars e.g heparin, hyaloronic acid

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