RT Book, Section
A1 King, Michael W.
SR Print(0)
ID 1122102885
T1 Biological Building Blocks: Carbohydrates
T2 Integrative Medical Biochemistry Examination and Board Review
YR 2014
FD 2014
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071786126
LK accesspharmacy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1122102885
RD 2024/04/18
AB High-Yield  TermsCarbohydrate:  any  organic  molecule  composed  exclusively  of  carbon,  hydrogen,  and  oxygen  where  the  hydrogen-to-oxygen  ratio  is  usually  2:1,  biological  synonym  is  saccharide,  commonly  called  sugarsSaccharide:  synonym  for  carbohydrate  in  biological  systems,  lay  terminology  is  sugarAldose:  a  monosaccharide  that  contains  only  one  aldehyde  (–CH=O)  group  per  moleculeKetose:  a  monosaccharide  that  contains  only  one  ketone  (–C=O)  group  per  moleculeEnantiomer:  one  of  2  stereoisomers  that  are  mirror  images  of  each  other,  which  cannot  be  superimposedAnomeric  carbon:  the  carbon  of  a  carbohydrate  bearing  the  reactive  carbonyl  about  which  free  rotation  into  2  distinct  configurations  (termed  α  and  β)  can  occur  when  in  the  cyclic  formGlycosidic  bond:  any  of  the  type  of  covalent  bond  that  joins  a  carbohydrate  molecule  to  another  group