MCDB 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Glycosidic Bond, Chemical Formula, Monosaccharide

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There are four types of macromolecules that were key to the evolution of the cell and those are: proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, lipids. Carbohydrate or sugar encompasses the monomers called monosaccharides. Carbohydrates have the typical chemical formula of (ch2o)n where n indicates the number of carbon atoms and can vary from 3 which is the smallest sugar to over a thousand. Carbohydrates do not consist of carbon atoms bonded to water molecules. They are made up of a carbonyl group [c=o], several hydroxyl groups [-oh] along with multiple carbon-hydrogen bonds. They provide chemical energy in cells and furnish some of the molecular building blocks required for the synthesis of larger, more complex compounds. The sugar called ribose is required for the formation of the nucleotides that make up the nucleotides. Some carbohydrates may have the same molecular formula but their molecular structures are different.

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