The carbohydrates are unique in forming long chain polymer and also branching these chains. This is more complicated than protein where only 20 amino acids can form a long single chain. Here there can be numerous kinds of bonding forming a straight chain or long chain polymer. More over the number of repeating units are also much greater than giving the structure variation.
Carbohydrates can be broken down into monosaccharides which is a single sugar unit that can be glucose, fructose and galactose. This is called catabolism. Disaccharides are 2 sugar units linked together such as condensation, lactose, sucrose or maltose. Condensation allows to from water. Polysaccharides are multi-sugars. This can provide starch by glyosidic bonds. Another is glycogen. This product is stored as glucose which is reserved in the liver and muscle. Carbohydrates …show more content…
They also contain several hydroxyl groups. They contain an oxygen that is single-bonded to two different carbon atoms. They also contain several hydroxyl groups. The order of the carbon atoms is very important in sugars because this can tell us about how sugars are linked to one another when they form bonds. Carbohydrates can do things other than form disaccharides: they can form trisaccharides, or large sugars made from three different monosaccharide, they can form polysaccharides, which are sugars made from many, many sugar units. Polysaccharides such as starch and glycogen are first hydrolysed by enzymes to Glucose. Glucose is the transported from one cell to another by blood in case of animals. Glucose is then oxidized to produce carbon dioxide and water. Energy is released in this process which is used for functioning of the