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There exist different types of carbohydrates, these are polysaccharide (eg, starch, amylopectin, glycogen, cellulose), monosaccharides (eg, glucose, galactose, fructose, ribose) and disaccharides (eg, maltose, lactosesugar consisting of galactose and glucose. Lactose is the sugar making up around 2-8% of the solids in milk. The name comes from the Latin for milk, plus the -ose ending used to name sugars. Lactose is a disaccharide consisting of two subunits, a galactos).
Glucose reacts with oxygen in the following redoxThe most fundamental reactions in chemistry are the redox processes . The term redox process accounts to all processes in which atoms have their oxidation number changed. This can be a simple redox process, such as the combustion of carbon by oxygen to yi reaction, C6H12O6 + 6O2 → 6CO2 + 6H2O, the carbon dioxide and water is a waste product and the chemical reaction is exothermic.
See also: cellular respirationCellular respiration is, in its broadest definition, the process in which the chemical bonds of energy-rich molecules such as glucose are converted into energy usable for life processes. Oxidation of organic material—in a bonfire, for example—is an exothe.
MetabolismMetabolism in the most general sense, is the ingestion and breakdown of complex compounds, coupled with the liberation of energy, and the consequent generation of waste products. It is major process of living organisms, and because this process can happen