NEET BIOLOGY

CELL STRUCTURES AND FUNCTION

BIO MOLECULES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What are the largest carbohydrates called?
A
monosaccarides
B
oligosaccarides
C
disaccarides
D
polysaccarides
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Complex carbohydrates, or polysaccharides, consist of hundreds or even thousands of monosaccharides. They include starch, glycogen, cellulose, and chitin. They generally either store energy or form structures, such as cell walls, in living things. Starch is a complex carbohydrate that is made by plants to store energy.

Detailed explanation-2: -Using the device, Ye’s team created a polysaccharide composed of 1, 080 sugar moieties with 4, 320 stereogenic centers, which is the longest and largest synthesized to date.

Detailed explanation-3: -Polysaccharides (/ˌpɒliˈsækəraɪd/), or polycarbohydrates, are the most abundant carbohydrates found in food. They are long-chain polymeric carbohydrates composed of monosaccharide units bound together by glycosidic linkages.

Detailed explanation-4: -Polysaccharides are polymers2 of monosaccharides. (Long chains of structural units are called polymers [poly means many in Greek].) Thus, polysaccharides are high-molecular weight carbohydrate molecules that contain many monosaccharide units.

Detailed explanation-5: -Polysaccharides are very large polymers composed of tens to thousands of monosaccharides joined together by glycosidic linkages. The three most abundant polysaccharides are starch, glycogen, and cellulose.

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