Pg:- 63,64

Ch:- 4

A chemical compound that is produced by living organisms and is essential for biological processes.

There are 4 main types of biomolecules:

→ Carbohydrates

→ Lipids

→ Neuclic acids

→ Proteins

Carbohydrates:

↳ A carbohydrate is a biomolecule of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms. Your body breaks down carbohydrates into glucose. Glucose, or blood sugar, is the main source of energy for your body's cells, tissues, and organs.

Types of carbohydrates:

→ Monosaccharides, disaccharides, oligosaccharides, and polysaccharides.

↪ Monosaccharides are the simplest form of carbohydrates and are made up of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms. They are the most basic unit of carbohydrates and cannot be broken down into simpler units.

↪ Disaccharide (also called a double sugar or biose) is the sugar formed when two monosaccharides are joined by glycosidic linkage. Like monosaccharides, disaccharides are simple sugars soluble in water. Three common examples are sucrose, lactose, and maltose.

↪ Oligosaccharides are carbohydrates that are made up of a small number of monosaccharides, or simple sugars, linked together by glycosidic bonds.

↪ Polysaccharides, or polycarbohydrates, are the most abundant carbohydrates found in food. They are long-chain polymeric carbohydrates composed of monosaccharide units bound together by glycosidic linkages. This carbohydrate can react with water using amylase enzymes as a catalyst, which produces constituent sugars.

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