All categories

2 years ago

What is the primary function of carbohydrates in your body?

Biology

2 answers:

ELEN [110]2 years ago

6 0

Answer:

One of the primary functions of carbohydrates is to provide your body with energy. Most of the carbohydrates in the foods you eat are digested and broken down into glucose before entering the bloodstream.

xeze [42]2 years ago

4 0

Answer:

To provide energy for the body

Explanation:

Carbohydrates are the main source of energy in our bodies, and are also good for quick energy sources.

Carbohydrates such as glucose are used by the body during cellular respiration to produce ATP energy to fuel cells.

You might be interested in

The following table shows the symptoms in four patients. Each patient suffers from a different disease.

Harrizon [31]

Answer:

Explanation:

Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection caused by <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em>.
It is spread via air when affected people cough, sneeze, spit or speak.
It mostly affects the lungs, thus, damaging the respiratory system. Affected people have difficulty breathing, produce bloody mucus and have a chronic cough.
Antibiotic treatment is used for treating it but many people have developed resistance to the antibiotic treatment, giving rise to a new condition called Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB).

3 0

2 years ago

Read 2 more answers

How many chromosomes do haploid cells have?

Oxana [17]

Diploid cells = 2n = 46
Haploid cells = n = 23

therefore, there are 23 chromosomes in haploid cells.

8 0

3 years ago

What is the effect of the presence of double bonds in plant lipids?

Anna71 [15]

Answer: Option C.

C)the tails of plant lipids cannot pack as tightly together as animal ones

Explanation:

The tails of plant lipids cannot pack as tightly together as animal ones because the double bond in plant lipids make the hydrocarbon chains to bend making them no to pack tightly together which cause a reduction in van der Waals interaction between the fatty acids. The length of the double bond also affect the melting point of fatty acids . If the hydrocarbon chain is long, melting point will be high .

7 0

2 years ago

Sigfried is a science student who develops the following hypothesis: If ants select blue sugar over red sugar, then ants prefer

Elden [556K]

Explanation:

The ants choosing the blue sugar over the red sugar isn't a matter of color, but it'd a matter of sugar content.

The ants chose the blue sugar because it has more sugar content than the red sugar.

Hope it helps.

7 0

3 years ago

Explain how thyroxine production is an example of homeostasis

Doss [256]

Explanation:

The production and release of thyroid hormones, thyroxine and triiodothyronine, is controlled by a feedback loop system that involves the hypothalamus in the brain and the pituitary and thyroid glands. ... This system allows the body to maintain a constant level of thyroid hormones in the body.

Plz follow me and Mark me as brainlest please

3 0

3 years ago