Complex carbohydrates that serve as energy storage molecules in animals and plants must be easily digestible so that the molecul
e can release monomers which contain stored energy. Enzymes responsible for catalyzing they hydrolysis reactions that release carbohydrate monomers are only able to break alpha bonds. Based on this knowledge, which of the carbohydrate polymers below would you expect to be made from alpha bonds? A. cellulose B. peptidoglycan C. starch D. chitin
starch is a polysacharride made up of amylose (unbranched molecule) and amylopectin (branched molecule) both of alpha glucose.
Alpha glucose have OH -hydroxyl group below the first carbon in the ring structure.
these alpha carbons of the amylose and amylopectinc are fused by condensation reaction to form alpha glycosidic bonds.
for example the 1,4, alpha glycosidic bonds in starch is formed between the alpha cabon 1 on one ring structure of glucose and carbon 4 of the next carbon in amylose .it is long coiled to give a compact structute to starch. While the shorter 1, 6 alpha glycosidic bond added to the relatively large grains of starch.
Answer: Ellie is incorrect in thinking TSH is a thyroid hormone. TSH is a pituitary hormone. TSH is the hormone that tells the thyroid to either create more or less of T3 and T4. Ellie’s TSH islow because the hypothalamus is telling the pituitary gland to release lower levels of TSH because the thyroid is pumping out to high of levels of T3 and T4.
