Now, what role do carbohydrates play inside of biological systems? Well, saccharides or carbohydrates are often associated Relationship, for example, between amino acids and proteins. Monomer polymer phenomenon is not limited toĬarbohydrates or saccharides. Those are the general terms or if I'm building a large molecule out of a chain of smaller ones, the building blocks, weĬonsider to be monomers, and then the thing that weīuild out of those monomers could be our polymer. Or another way to think about it is glucose is the buildingīlock for the glycogen. And so, something like this, we would call glucose a monosaccharide.
And as you can see, it's just a repeating So for example, right over here, we have a part of a glycogen molecule. Now, what's interestingĪbout something like glucose is glucose can be a standalone molecule, a very simple sugar in this case or you can build up larger molecules with really glucose as a building block. If you were to taste glucose, it would taste sweet to you. Saccharide, and saccharideĬomes from Greek for sweet, and that makes sense because Now, another word that is often used interchangeably with carbohydrates So, for every one oxygen, two hydrogens, and you see that right over here, where in glucose, you have one, two, three, four, five, six oxygens and you have 12 hydrogens, and so that's where this word comes from. Have oxygen to hydrogens in the same ratio as you And the hydrate part refers to, that carbohydrates typically Typical carbohydrate, a very simple one right over here. You'd be pretty close because carbohydrates do involve carbons.
And it says hydrates, so maybe it has something Word and we see carbo, so maybe it has something But what is it actually? Well, we can look at the And not all carbohydrates are edible, but many of the things that we eat or many carbohydrates are edible and many of the foods we eat have some carbohydrate component to it. If you look at some packaged food, there's usually a nutritional label and will say carbohydrates. Introduction to carbohydrates, and you might already beįamiliar with the notion. Going to do in this video is give ourselves a quick
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