Glucose

What elements do carbohydrates contain?

What is the general formula of carbohydrates?

What other names do carbohydrates go by?

Examples of Monosaccharides?

Examples of Disaccharides? (Two saccharides joined together)

Example of polysaccharides?

Glucose monomers make up a variety of biologically essential carbohydrates. What is the formula of glucose?

How many carbons are in glucose?

What is the difference between alpha (α) glucose and beta (β) glucose?

What is the structure of an alpha glucose molecule?

What is the structure of beta glucose?

What are the properties of glucose molecules?

What happens when two alpha glucose molecules are side by side?

What is formed by the condensation reaction between two alpha glucose molecules?

Examples of pentose sugars? (Saccharised with 5 carbons)

What is the structure of amylose?

What is the structure of amylopectin?

How is glycogen (glucose storage in animals and fungi as it is starch in plants) similar to amylopectin?

What are hydrolysis reactions?

Why can beta glucose molecules not react the same was as alpha glucose molecules?

How is the problem of beta glucose not being able to react resolved?

What is the polysaccharide formed by the joining of lots of beta glucose molecules?

Cellulose makes cell walls. How are these formed from beta glucose molecules?