Pasta Makes You Row Fasta!

Carbohydrates are considered sugars, and there are three types: monosaccharides, disaccharides, and polysaccharides. Monosaccharides are mainly used to provide energy for the cell. Some examples of monosaccharides are glucose and fructose, which are monomers. Multiple monomers linked together create polymers. When two monosaccharides, such as sucrose and lactose, come together through dehydration synthesis, they create disaccharides. In dehydration synthesis, a water molecule is added, and an enzyme links two monosaccharides together. Disaccharides are for the most part readily soluble in water. Disaccharides are broken down through a process called hydrolysis, in which a water molecule is removed and an enzyme breaks apart the monomers. The third type of carbohydrate, polysaccharides, are found in starches, which are made up of repeating subunits of glucose, and are broken down through a complicated process. Examples of polysaccharides include cellulose in plants, as well as chitin in fungi and insects.

Presented by Afra K., Angie T., and Shoshana C.

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[Muslimailana]

SWEET--but there should be a ramadan warning lol

[rawkfist13]

Hydrolysis actually. It's a process in which amylase is secreted from our salivary glands in the mouth to begin hydrolysis. Our body begins to digest it and once it gets to the small intestine, pancreatic amylase takes over and catalyzes the hydrolysis of starch to convert it into maltose. Maltose (two glucose molecules) is then hydrolyzed into glucose (2). From there, the glucose molecules are ready to undergo glycolysis [a 10 step process I won't get into now]

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[Gregwingfan]

cheesy acting but this helped me learn the basics about mono/di/polysaccharides

thanks

[tiggxtreme]

Dehydration synthesis?

[SamuelHammer]

i laughed out loud! great narration, voiceover, and diagrams. wish you had told me how starch is broken down overnight....(-:

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