Chem of Life/Food

"________ are the nutrients we need in larger quantities that provide us with energy: in other words, fat, protein and carbohydrate. _________ are mostly vitamins and minerals, and are equally important but consumed in very small amounts.

• 1. Starches

• Macronutrients

• 1. Cellulose

• 1. Fatty acids

"__________ is the process by which biological fuels are oxidized in the presence of an inorganic electron acceptor, such as oxygen, to drive the bulk production of adenosine triphosphate, which contains energy

• Peptide

• Kilocalories

• 1. Antioxidant

• Cellular respiration

1. a hexose sugar found especially in honey and fruit.

• Antioxidant

• fructose

• sucrose

• Cellulose

______is a polymeric carbohydrate consisting of numerous glucose units joined by glycosidic bonds. This polysaccharide is produced by most green plants for energy storage.

• Glucose

• Macronutrients

• starch

• Kilocalories

_______ is any substance, radionuclide, or radiation that promotes carcinogenesis. This may be due to the ability to damage the genome or to the disruption of cellular metabolic processes.

• Antioxidant

• sucrose

• 1. Starches

• Carcinogen

________ is a sugar with the molecular formula C₆H₁₂O₆. Glucose is overall the most abundant monosaccharide, a subcategory of carbohydrates.

• Cellulose

• Glucose

• Starches

• Antioxidant

________ or milk sugar, is a disaccharide sugar synthesized by galactose and glucose subunits and has the molecular formula C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁

• Lactose

• 1. Nucleic acids

• Carbohydrates

• Antioxidant

_______ are essential dietary elements required by organisms in varying quantities to regulate physiological functions of cells and organs.

• 1. Nucleic acids

• MIcronutrients

• sucrose

• Antioxidant

a compound consisting of two or more amino acids linked in a chain, the carboxyl group of each acid being joined to the amino group of the next by a bond of the type

• Micronutrients

• Cellulose

• Kilocalories

• Peptide

is a carboxylic acid with an aliphatic chain, which is either saturated or unsaturated.

• fatty acids

• 1. Kilocalories

• 1. Cellular respiration

• 1. Antioxidant