Question

What are two types of carbohydrates found in living organisms? A sugars and starches B amino acids and alcohol C fatty acids and glycerol D fats and lipids

Answer 1

A

Step-by-step explanation:

These are the two major CHO in living organisms. Sugar is the general name of CHO of mono,and diasaccharides. Starch is an example of CHO called Polysaccharides.Glycogen is another example.Saccharides means sugar.

The general molecular formualar is Cx(H2O)y

.Generally all Carbohydrate are made up of Carbon,Hydrogen and Oxygen.These are the three basic elements linked together by glycosidic bonds. based on the complexity of the number of C,H,O atoms present in a carbohydrate molecule,CHO can be grouped into monosaccharides (simple sugar molecule),diasaccharides two sugar ,molecules.and Polysccharides giant sugar molecule.These are all linked together by condebsation reaction forming glycosidic bonds

Starch ,as an example of Polysacchrides is made up of amylose and amylopectin.These two components are formed by condensation reaction between alpha1-4 -glucose molecules.The amylopectin chain are of shorter alpha-1.4 -glucose chains and are branched compare to that of amylose which are longer.

Starch is stored in plants cells ,and the equivalent in animal cells is glycogen.