3.1.2 monosaccharaids, disaccharides and polysaccharides

Name the three types of carbohydrates:

Name three monosaccharaides:

What bond joins two monosaccharaides?

What does a-glucose look like?

What does b-glucose look like?

Which carbohydrates are reducing sugars?

What is a reducing sugar?

What is the test for reducing sugars?

What happens when disaccharides are hydrolysed?

Which two monomers make maltose?

Which two monomers make sucrose?

What two monomers make lactose?

What is the test for non-reducing sugars?

What properties of polysaccharides make them useful for storage and structural purposes?

Where is starch found?

Describe the structure of starch?

Which features of starch make it suitable as a storage molecule?

What is the test for starch?

Where is glycogen found?

Where is glycogen often stored?

Describe the structure of glycogen:

What features make glycogen suited to its role?

Where is cellulose found?

Describe the structure of cellulose:

What is the function of cellulose in plants?