Carbohydrates can be classified by the number of sugars present and their size, what are the three types of sugar classifications?
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What is the structure of a monosaccharide?
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How do you find the number of isomers a sugar has?
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Know the structure of glyceraldehyde,ribose,glucose, frutcose
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What are enantiomers?
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What are diastereomers?
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What are epimers?
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What is required to change stereochemisty?
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Sugars of 5 carbons or more usually exsist in a cyclic form, why does this occur?
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Formation of a hemiketal or hemiacetal causes the carbonyl carbon to become chiral, what is this carbonyl carbon now called? What about the isomers around it?
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What are anomers?
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There are two types of anomers, dependent on the position of the hydroxyl group on the carbonyl carbon (C1), what are they called? How do you differentiate the two?
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What is mutorotation?
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Oxidizing the -OH group at the C6 position of a monosaccharide (oxidation reaction) produces?
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Oxidizing the carbonyl group of a monosaccharide (oxidation reaction) produces?
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What is a reducing sugar?
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What is the Benedict's test?
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In reference to oligosaccharides and polysaccharides, which end is the reducing end?
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What is a glycosidic bond?
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What are the consequences of forming a glycosidic bond?
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What are glycosyltransferases?
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Sugar polymer synthensis has no template, what is it dependent on?
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What is cellulose?
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What is amylopectin and glycogen?
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What is chitin?
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What are glycoconjugates?
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What's glycan synthesis dependent on?
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What are glycans?
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Glycoforms are different forms of the same glycoprotein/glycolipid/proteoglycan, an example of this is ABO blood type, what are the differences between the four blood types.
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What are N-linked glycoproteins?
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N-linked glycoproteins form three types of structures, what are they?
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What are O-linked glycoproteins?
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O-linked glycoproteins form what kind of structures?
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Functions of n & o-linked glycosylation?
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What is a gylcosaminoglycan (GAG)?
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Proteoglycans are defined by what?
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Two primary types of proteins that bind glycans?
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What are selectins?
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What are lectins?
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Charactestics of a glycan to protein interaction?
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Heparin is widely used as an injectable anticoagulant. what are the characteristics of the structure of heparin?