TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Biological Building Blocks: Carbohydrates A1 - King, Michael W. Y1 - 2014 N1 - T2 - Integrative Medical Biochemistry Examination and Board Review 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 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accesspharmacy.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1122102885 ER -