Carbs Practice

What is the function of a carbohydrate?

• Stores energy
• Movement
• Stores genetic information
• Speeds up reactions

Which is not a chemical element needed to build sugars?

• Carbon
• Oxygen
• Nitrogen
• Hydrogen

What elements make up carbohydrates?

• Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen
• sulfur, carbon, hydrogen
• glucose and fructose
• carbon, hydrogen, oxygen

What kind of food is an example of a complex carbohydrate?

• Whole wheat bread
• Jams
• Honey
• Table sugar

The simple sugar from fruit is called_____.

• sucrose
• lactose
• fructose
• maltose

  Glycogen, a polysaccharide, in your liver may be broken down to glucose by the process of __________.
 

• hydrolysis 
• dehydration synthesis
  dehydration synthesis
•  condensation
•  
  isomerization isomerization

This polysaccharide is important to the structure of plant cell walls, 

• Starch
• Glycogen
• Cellulose
• Chitin

Which are examples of monosaccharides?

• Starch and glycogen
• Starch and glucose
• Glucose and fructose
• Glycogen and cellulose

Which major macromolecule is being represented in this image? 

• carbohydrate
• lipid
• protein
• nucleic acid

The element _______is found in all of the organic compounds.

• Iron
• Nitrogen
• Carbon
• Oxygen