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2.1.3 What are the main biological functions of polysaccharides?

Polysaccharides have an energy storage function and a structural function. Polysaccharides ingested by living organisms in the food chain are important sources of carbohydrates for the energetic metabolism of organisms of the next trophic levels.Starch is the polysaccharide that plants use to store energy. Glycogen is a macromolecule responsible for the storage of glucose in the liver and muscles. Chitin is a polysaccharide with structural functions and which composes up the exoskeleton of arthropods and the cell wall in fungi.

Polysaccharides long carbohydrate chains of monosaccharides linked by glycosidic bonds

  • alpha (a) bonds (starch)

  • beta (b) bonds (found in fiber)

Starch

  • plant storage form of carbohydrate

  • long branched or unbranched chains of glucose

  • amylose

  • amylopectin

Glycogen

  • highly branched chains of glucose units

  • animal storage form of carbohydrate

  • found in LIVER and MUSCLE

  • Humans store ~ 100g in liver; ~ 400g in muscle

  • negligible source of carbohydrate in the diet (meat)

Fiber

Dietary Fiber non-digestible carbohydrates (chains of monosaccharides) and lignin that are intact and intrinsic in plants (includes oligosaccharides)

Functional Fiber isolated, non-digestible carbohydrates that have beneficial physiological effects in humans

2.1.4. What are pentoses.What are the roles of pentoses in dna and rna molecules.

A pentose is a monosaccharide with five carbon atoms. Pentoses are carbohydrates made of five carbons. Pentoses are organized into two groups.

There are two related pentose sugars: - RNA contains ribose - DNA contains deoxyribose

The sugars have their carbon atoms numbered with primes to distinguish them from the nitrogen bases

Deoxyribose, derivative of ribose – lacks an oxygen atom at C2

2.1.5. Write the Nucleic acid. The structure of nucleic acids

Nucleic acids are biopolymers, or large biomolecules, essential for all known forms of life. Nucleic acids, which include DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and  RNA (ribonucleic acid), are made from monomers known as nucleotides. Each nucleotide has three components: a 5-carbon sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base. If the sugar is deoxyribose, the polymer is DNA. If the sugar is ribose, the polymer is RNA. When all three components are combined, they form a nucleotide. Nucleotides are also known as phosphate nucleotides.

Nucleic acids are among the most important biological macromolecules. They are found in abundance in all living things, where they function in encoding, transmitting and expressing genetic information. In other words, information is conveyed through the nucleic acid sequence, or the order of nucleotides within a DNA or RNA molecule. Strings of nucleotides strung together in a specific sequence are the mechanism for storing and transmitting hereditary, or genetic information via protein synthesis.

Nucleic acid structure refers to the structure of nucleic acids such as DNA and RNA. Chemically speaking, DNA and RNA are very similar. Nucleic acid structure is often divided into four different levels: primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary.

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