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A homopolysaccharide of glucose; it is ihighly branched and found exclusively in animal cells
glycogen
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Formed by cyclization of a ketose sugar
hemiketal
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A homopolysaccharide of glucose units connected by (a1-->4) glycosidic bonds; found exclusively in plants
starch
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Simple sugars
monosaccharides
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Heteropolysaccharides such as hyaluronate
glycosaminoglycans
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Glycogen and cellulose, with thousands of simple sugar subunits are examples
polysaccharides
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Oxidation of the carbonyl carbon of sugars (except glucose) results in the formation of ______ acids
aldonic
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A compound with an asymmetrical atom allowing formation of mirror-image isomers has one or more _____ centers
chiral
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B-D-glucuronate is an example of a ________ acid
uronic
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End of a polysaccharide chain that is not involved in a glycosidic bond and has a free anomeric carbon
reducing
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Lactose and surcrose are examples
disaccharides
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Polysaccharides cross-linked by peptides; found in bacterial cell walls
peptidoglycans
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A ____ polysaccharide is a polymer of repeating monosacharides
homo
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A sugar with a carbonyl group at C-2 (or any position other than C-1)
ketose
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Catbohydrate moities are attached to glycoproteins through either N- or
__ - ________ bonds
O - glycosidic
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Six-membered ring form of sugars
pyranose
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Five-membered ring form of sugars
furanose
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A poolysaccharide containing more than one type of sugar is a _____ polysaccharide
hetero
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Process that interconverts isomers of pyranoses
mutarotation
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Lectins are proteins that bind to specific _________
oligosaccharides
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Glycoconjugates containing protein and oligosaccharide portions: for example, glycophorin A.
glycoproteins
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A homopolysaccharide of glycose units connected by (B1-->4) glycosidic bonds; it is found exclusively in plants.
Cellulose
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An isomer that differs at only one of two or ore chiral centers.
epimer
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Gangliosides, for example.
glycolipid
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The a and B forms of a pyranose, for example.
anomers
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In the formation of pyranoses, linkage between the aldehyde on C-1 and the alcohol on C-5.
hemiacetal
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A sugar with the carbonyl group at C-1.
aldose
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Animal tissues have an extracellular ______ composed of glycoconjugates and fibrous proteins.
matrix
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