CARBOHYDRATES

Carbohydrates are used for energy production and to build necessary cell components.

Five or six Carbons long formed into rings:

These can be linked together to form chains.

• Disaccharides (two carbohydrates linked together; ie. sucrose)

Polysaccharides (long chains like starch or cellulose)

Starch and Cellulose only differ in how the carbohydrates are linked together:

• Two slightly different types of bonds are used.
• This makes them different enough that one you can easily digest while the other is not digested at all by humans.

Do you know which you can digest? (hint: cellulose is common in plants)

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