Carbohydrates

Carbohydrates that are made up of one or two sugar units are called ______.

• simple sugars

• polysaccharides

• disaccharides

• polymers

Which one of the following is a monosaccharide?

• Fructose

• Lactose

• Sucrose

• Glycogen

Humans store ____ in liver and muscle cells

• Glycogen

• Cellulose

• Glucose

• Fructose

What is not a type of carbohydrate?

• fat

• starch

• sugar

___________ is sugar found in fruit, honey and vegetables.

• maltose

• fructose

• lactose

• sucrose

Carbohydrates can be divides into 2 general sections. The sections are: 

• Single and compound

• Simple and complex

• Single and complex

• Simple and compound

Complex carbohydrates also known as polysaccharides, that are starches formed by longer saccharide chains (10+), which means they take longer to break down.

• true

• false

Which polysaccharide is found in the exoskeletons of insects and crustaceans?

• Celluose

• Starch

• Chitin

• Glycogen

All living things are made up of four classes of large biological molecules called macromolecules

• true

• false

A long molecule consisting of many similar building blocks

• polymer

• lego

• monomer

• carbohydrate