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ANS 3440 Carbohydrates
Everything about Carbohydrates
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Agriculture
Undergraduate 3
02/13/2014

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Term
What is a group of foodstuffs composed of C,H,O with H and O present in the same proportion as water?
Definition
Carbohydrates
Term
What are 2 carbohydrates?
Definition
Glucose and Ribose
Term
Most carbohydrates come from what?
Definition
Plants
Term
Although protein can be be used to get glucose, when is the only time this process should be used?
Definition
Emergency
Term
What is a quick energy reserve that is stored in the muscle and liver?
Definition
Glycogen
Term
What % of dry weight of plants is carbohydrate?
Definition
75%
Term
Simple sugars unable to be hydrolyzed to simpler sugars are what?
Definition
Monosaccharides
Term
What are the 2 categories of Monosaccharides?
Definition
Pentoses (5 carbons) and Hexoses (6 carbons)
Term
Xylose (corn cobs), Arabinose (beet tops), and Ribose (RNA, DNA, ATP) found in all cells. These are in what category of monosaccharides?
Definition
Pentoses (5 carbon)
Term
Out of all the pentoses, which one is the most important?
Definition
Ribose
Term
Glucose, fructose, and galactose (3 we primarily absorb) are of what category of monosaccarides?
Definition
Hexoses (6 carbon)
Term
Which hexoses is blood sugar, is the transport form of carbohydrate in animals?
Definition
Glucose
Term
Which hexoses is found in honey, fruits, combined with other carbohydrates,not found free in nature?
Definition
Fructose
Term
Which hexoses is found in milk (lactose), usally combined with other carbohydrates, and not found free in nature?
Definition
Galactose
Term
2 Monosaccharides bound together are called what?
Definition
Disaccharides
Term
Unable to absorb disaccharides, they must split apart to be absorbed, this is called what?
Definition
Condensation Reaction
Term
When synthesizing glycogen what is produced?
Definition
Water
Term
Maltose, cellobiose, sucrose, and lactose all have at least one glucose molecule and are types of what?
Definition
Disaccharides
Term
2 glucose and alpha 1,4 is what type of disaccharide?
Definition
Maltose
Term
2 glucose and beta 1,4 is what type of disaccharide?
Definition
Cellobiose
Term
Glucose + Fructose is what type of disaccharide?
Definition
Sucrose
Term
Glucose + Galactose is what type of disaccharide?
Definition
Lactose
Term
What is composed of 3 monosaccharides linked together?
Definition
Trisaccharides
Term
Raffinose is an example of what?
Definition
Trisaccharide
Term
Trisaccharides go through what to be absorbed?
Definition
Microbial fermentation
Term
What can digest trisaccharides?
Definition
Bacteria
Term
What is composed of less than 10 monosaccharieds?
Definition
Oligosaccharides (we cant digest)
Term
What are 2 types of oligosaccharides?
Definition
Fructose and Mannan
Term
Oligosaccharides are marketed more towards what?
Definition
Animals
Term
Important feed additives (FOS and MOS) provide fuel for good bacteria, binding pathogenic bacteria and clearing them from the what?
Definition
GIT
Term
What % of amune system is a part of the GIT?
Definition
70%
Term
Prebiotic and Probiotic both work to set up a healthy what?
Definition
Gut
Term
What biotic is put in seed to promote bacteria wanted in the GIT and is used more in animals?
Definition
Prebiotic
Term
What biotic physically consumes live organisms and used in humans more?
Definition
Probiotic
Term
Humans cannot digest what kind of linkages?
Definition
Beta
Term
What are complex carbohydrates consisting of repeating units of monosaccharides and are very large molecules?
Definition
Polysaccharides
Term
All polysaccharides must eventually be broken down into what if they are to be utilized?
Definition
Monosaccharides
Term
Plants synthesize 2 types of polysaccharides, which are what?
Definition
Stroage (starch) and Structural (cellulose)
Term
What is the reserve form of carbohydrates in plants?
Definition
Starch
Term
What are 2 forms of storage of polysaccharides found in plants?
Definition
Amylose and Amylopectin
Term
What storage form found in plants has a straight chain of glucose units linked alpha 1,4 which makes up 10-20% of starch?
Definition
Amylose
Term
What storage form found in plants has branched chain of glucose units linked alpha 1,4 and branch points at alpha 1,6, which makes up 80-90% of starch?
Definition
Amylopectin
Term
What is the skeleton of plants, represents much of the CF in feeds,and polymer of 300-15000 glucose units linked beta 1,4?
Definition
Cellulose
Term
What is commonly called Other Matrix Polysaccharide(OMP), thought to be precursors of cellulose, and prevents "Syneresis" from occurring?
Definition
Hemicellulose
Term
What is the second most abundant compound in plant cell walls, not a carbohydrate, exact structure is unknown, and totally digestible by bacteria and animals?
Definition
Lignin
Term
Lignin interferes with what and what digestion?
Definition
Cellulose and hemicellulose digestion
Term
Lignin content with age of plant increases or decreases?
Definition
Increases
Term
What strengths cell walls by anchoring the cellulose and protects cellulose from chemical, physical, and biological attack?
Definition
Lignin
Term
What is the structural polysaccharide of the exoskeleton of insects, shrimp, lobsters, and crabs?
Definition
Chitin
Term
Chitin is a beta linked glucosamine polymer which makes it what?
Definition
Indigestible
Term
What polysaccharide breakdown product of amylose and amylopectin(starch), and when acidified becomes glue like (envelopes, stamps)?
Definition
Dextrins
Term
What polysaccharide is similar to dextrin but has branch points other than alpha 1,6 and in human food products?
Definition
Dextrans
Term
What polysaccharide is a storage form of carbohydrate in mammalian tissue, quick emergency energy, and similar to amylopectin only more branched?
Definition
Glycogen
Term
Carbohydrate digesting in monogastrics begins in the mouth that has salivary amylase, then continues in stomach until pH drops, and then the small intestine that has enzymes from where?
Definition
Pancreas and SI
Term
What enzyme is produced by the pancreas in the digestion of carbohydrates in monogastrics that breaks alpha 1,4 bonds and works on amylose, amylopectin, and glucose?
Definition
Pancreatic amylose
Term
What are the 4 enzymes is produced by the SI during carbohydrate digestion?
Definition
Lactose, Sucrase, Maltase, and Alpha 1,6 Glucosidase (dextrianse)
Term
What SI enzyme used in carbohydrate digestion in monogastrics is a break down product, that everything goes to and is starch to glucose?
Definition
Maltose
Term
What are the end products of carbohydrates in monogastrics?
Definition
Glucose, Fructose, and Galactose
Term
How are Glucose and Galactose absorbed as an end product?
Definition
Active transport
Term
How is Fructose absorbed as an end product?
Definition
Passive transport
Term
In absorbing end products, fructose is converted to glucose in SI by what organ?
Definition
Liver
Term
End products are carried by what to the liver?
Definition
Blood
Term
Carbohydrate digestion in ruminants begins in the rumen with what?
Definition
Microbes
Term
Microbes digest carbohydrates and metabolize glucose to pyruvate which is known as what process?
Definition
Glycolysis
Term
Further metabolism of pyruvate yields what?
Definition
VFAs (Volatile Fatty Acids)
Term
What are the 3 VFAs in carbohydrate digestion in ruminants?
Definition
Acetate, Propionate, and Butyrate
Term
What VFA is used for fat production, mammary glands production more milk fat increasing rumen pH?
Definition
Acetate
Term
What VFA is used for glucose (glyconeogenisis) which is constant at all time and increasing grain reducing pH?
Definition
Propionate
Term
What VFA is used for energy, constant, and cannot be manipulated in nutrition?
Definition
Butyrate
Term
What is the quantity order of VFAs?
Definition
1= Acetate, 2= Propionate, 3= Butyrate
Term
Activity of cellulolytic bacteria is normally very high except when high what diets are fed?
Definition
High Grain
Term
High grain diets do what to the rumen that kills off cellulolytic bacteria and protozoa?
Definition
Decrease pH
Term
Forage causes the rumen to what?
Definition
Ruminate
Term
Increasing the amount of grain increases propionate, but decreases what that makes it more efficient in growth for feedlots?
Definition
Acetate
Term
What is the normal acetate VFA proportions on a forage diet?
Definition
60-70%
Term
What is the normal Propionate VFA proportions on a forage diet?
Definition
15-20%
Term
What is the normal butyrate VFA proportions on a forage diet?
Definition
10-15%
Term
What carbohydrate isn't in ruminants?
Definition
Sucrase
Term
What are the 3 end products of carbohydrate digestion in rumen?
Definition
VFA, Lactate, and Methane
Term
What end product of carbohydrate digestion in rumens that has a higher concentration on grain that drives rumen pH down which could lead to rumenacidosis and quantities depends on the diet?
Definition
Lactate
Term
What end product of carbohydrate digestion in rumens that is a biproduct of fermentation and with the more acetate the more of this is produced?
Definition
Methane
Term
What are the 3 steps of carbohydrate metabolism?
Definition
Dietary glucose, Liver, and Peripheral tissues
Term
What are the 2 major peripheral tissues?
Definition
Muscle (ATP, Glycogen) and Adipose (Fatty acids)
Term
When glucose is abundant, and other nutrients are adequate body systems are in a state of what?
Definition
Anabolism (storage of glucose as glycogen or fat)
Term
When glucose is in short supply, stores in the liver are mobilized what to maintain blood glucose?
Definition
Catabolism
Term
The first step of carbohydrate utilization requires what for a certain tissue that is a hormone produced in the cells of the pancreas?
Definition
Insulin
Term
What is it called when there is too much insulin?
Definition
Hypoglycemia
Term
What is it called when there is too little insulin?
Definition
Diabetes
Term
When insulin is released cell membrane permeability increases while what decreases?
Definition
Blood glucose
Term
What type of diabetes is characterized by passage of too much urine,and urine known as sweet and sticky?
Definition
Mellitus
Term
What type of mellitus is insulin dependent diabetes?
Definition
Type 1
Term
What type of mellitus is non insulin dependent and normally associated with weight?
Definition
Type 2
Term
What type of diabetes is very rare, and known from an injury to the head or a tumor in the area of the posterior pituitary which has no release of antidiuretic hormone that produces lots of tasteless urine?
Definition
Insipidus
Term
The brain/nerve tissue don't use insulin, they only use what?
Definition
Glucose
Term
Step 2 of carbohydrate utilization once glucose is in the cell it is phosphorylated to what?
Definition
Glucose 6-P
Term
In carbohydrate utilization what cannot cross the cell membrane thus it has been metabolized by that cell and the only exceptions are the kidney and liver?
Definition
Glucose 6-P
Term
The kidney and liver produce what enzyme that frees glucose to return to the blood?
Definition
Glucose 6 Phosphatase
Term
What organs need insulin?
Definition
Muscle and fat tissue
Term
What is step 3 of carbohydrate utilization?
Definition
Glycolysis
Term
Gylcolysis 1 is preparing the glucose molecule for what?
Definition
Oxidation
Term
In glycolysis 1 glucose -> Glucose 6-P -> Fructose 6-P -> Fructose 1,6 bisP which is then split into Dihdroxyacetone phosphate and Glyceraldehyde 3 phosphate. Where is the reaction coupling that is a key regulatory step?
Definition
B/W Fructose 6-P and Fructose 1,6 bisP
Term
What drives the reaction b/w Fructose 6-P and 1,6 bisP and suppresses when there is access glucose?
Definition
Phosphofructo Kinase (PFK)
Term
What controls PFK?
Definition
Energy level in the cell
Term
Where in the cell dose glycolysis 1 occur?
Definition
Cytoplasm
Term
How many ATPs are required in glycolysis 1?
Definition
2
Term
What is the key enzyme that in is glycolysis 1?
Definition
PFK
Term
What are the end products formed in glycolysis 1?
Definition
(2) Glyceraldehyde 3 phosphates
Term
What cycle collects and captures the energy that was broken off in glycolysis 1?
Definition
Glycolsis 2
Term
Glycolysis 2 occurs where?
Definition
Cytoplasm
Term
Anaerobic glycolysis is when there is what?
Definition
Insufficient energy/O2
Term
Aerobic glycolysis is when there is what?
Definition
Sufficient energy/O2
Term
Gylcolyisis 2 has the potential to generate how any ATPs?
Definition
8
Term
What is glycolysis 2 end product?
Definition
Pyruvate
Term
What is the regulatory enzyme in glycolysis 2?
Definition
Dehydrogenase
Term
What is step 4 in carbohydrate utilization?
Definition
Oxidative Decarboxylation
Term
What is the common end point that pyruvate goes to in oxidative decarboxylation?
Definition
Acetyl-CoA
Term
What is the enzyme involved in oxidative decarboxylation that converts pyruvate to acetly-CoA?
Definition
Pyruvate Dehydrogenase
Term
What are the 3 vitamins involved in oxidative decarboxylation?
Definition
Niacin, Thamin, and Pantothenic acid
Term
What vitamin involved in oxidative decarboxylation is a part of the NAD molecule?
Definition
Niacin
Term
What vitamin involved in oxidative decarboxylation is a part of decarboxilation reactions?
Definition
Thamin
Term
What vitamin involved in oxidative decarboxylation is a part of the Co enzyme "A" molecule?
Definition
Pantothenic acid
Term
What is step 5 in carbohydrate utilization?
Definition
Krebs cycle
Term
What is known as the main pathway that generates the main energy?
Definition
Krebs cycle
Term
What can instantly kill a plant/animal if its shut down?
Definition
Electron transport chain
Term
What does Krebs cycle start with and is needed?
Definition
OAA
Term
In the Krebs cycle what is OAA converted to?
Definition
Acetyl-CoA
Term
Krebs cycle occurs where?
Definition
Mitochondria
Term
How many NADH are produced in the Krebs cycle?
Definition
6
Term
How many ATPs are produced in the Krebs cycle?
Definition
2
Term
What is the key enzyme in the Krebs cycle?
Definition
KGDH
Term
What are the end products formed in the Krebs cycle?
Definition
(4)CO2, (6)NADH, (2)FADH, and Heat
Term
What dose FAD in the Krebs cycle stand for?
Definition
Flavin Vitamin
Term
What is step 6 in carbohydrate utilization?
Definition
Oxidative Phosphorylation (electron transport chain)
Term
What dose the electron transport chain begin with?
Definition
NADH
Term
What does the electron transport chain end with?
Definition
(12)H2O
Term
Where in the cell dose oxidative phosphorylation occur?
Definition
Mitochondria
Term
How many ATPs are generated from NADH in oxidative phosphorylation?
Definition
3
Term
How many ATPs are generated from FADH in oxidative phosphorylation?
Definition
2
Term
What are the end products formed in oxidative phosphorylation?
Definition
ATP, H2O, and heat
Term
Gylcolysis produces what end products?
Definition
(4)ATP, (2)NADH, and heat
Term
When glycolysis is aerobic what is the end product?
Definition
Pyruvate
Term
When glycolysis is anaerobic what is the end product?
Definition
Lactic acid
Term
What are the end products in oxidative decarboxylation
Definition
(2)CO2, (2)Acetyl-CoA, (2)NADH, and heat
Term
What 2 organs can remove phosphate?
Definition
Kidney and liver
Term
What are the end products of Krebs cycle?
Definition
(4)CO2, (6)NADH, (2)FADH, (2)ATP, and heat
Term
What are the end products of oxidative phoshorylation?
Definition
ATP, H2O, and heat
Term
What are the end products of complete glucose oxidation?
Definition
38 ATP gross, (36 ATP net), (6)CO2, (12)H2O, and heat
Term
What % of ATP is captured in the end and the rest captured as heat?
Definition
41%
Term
Food energy is locked up in what kind of bond and is then released upon breaking that bond?
Definition
Carbon Carbon bond
Term
ATP is used by the cell to promote what 3 major cellular functions?
Definition
Transport, Synthesis, and Metabolism
Term
What is steroid and lipid synthesized from?
Definition
NADH
Term
What pathway generates reducing power in the form of NADPH, converts hexoses to pentoses (glucose to ribose) and converts pentose to hexose (ribose to glucose?
Definition
Phosphogluconate pathway (hexose monophosphate shunt)
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