LIFE 102 Chapter Notes -Enantiomer, Hydronium, Galactose
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Review session feb 15-friday @ 4pm in this room. Which of the following is not a name for a lone hydrogen nucleus? (hydronium ion) Glucose has a special place in a chemist"s life. Fructose is sweeter to the human tongue. Glucose wraps around and makes a ring and one hydrogen atom has to leave and connects to this oxygen atom. A sting of carbon atoms and number them to know which one is which. (glycosidic linkage) Plants get through the winter and power chemical reactions. They are living off the starch from last summer and store as granules within chloroplasts. We steal ot from the plants to create our own things. Cellulose is a polymer and the linkages are the linkages of cellulose. When there are differences they react differently. Enzymes are tools it is what they do. Fats are constructed from two types of smaller molecules, glycerol and fatty acids.
