BIOLOGY
CARBOHYDRATES
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Question
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Lipids always have longer carbon chains than carbohydrates.
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Carbohydrates cannot form rings like lipids can.
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Lipids provide energy, but carbohydrates cannot.
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Carbohydrates form ring structures, lipids form long chains
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Detailed explanation-1: -Carbon chains are principal features of both carbohydrates and lipids. What is the primary difference between these two types of macromolecules? Lipids always have longer carbon chains than carbohydrates. Carbohydrates cannot form rings like lipids can.
Detailed explanation-2: -Carbohydrate in the form of glucose is the main source of energy for most metabolic processes in the body. Lipids provide essential fatty acids for brain development and are an important source of energy. Together carbohydrates and lipids provide the non-nitrogen energy in parenteral nutrition (PN).
Detailed explanation-3: -Proteins, carbohydrates and lipids are made from three basic molecules: carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. However, all proteins contain an element not found in carbohydrates and lipids is nitrogen.
Detailed explanation-4: -Proteins differ from carbohydrates and lipids in that they always contain nitrogen, carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.