Is it a long chain of polymor sugars or monomer sugars???
2007-05-11 17:05:47 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
polysaccharide is a polimer of sugars, for example : pectine, amilum, cellulose
2007-05-11 17:14:11 · answer #1 · answered by Papilio paris 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A polysacharide is a chain of sugars. Some familiar polysacharides are starch and cellulose.
Xanthan gum is a long chain polysacharide composed of the sugars glucose, mannose, and glucuronic acid. The backbone is similar to cellulose, with added sidechains of trisacharides (three sugars in a chain).
2007-05-12 01:19:55 · answer #2 · answered by sb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is a polymer of sugars
made UP of sugar monomers
"poly" denotes "many"
saccharide denotes the sugar molecules
You take the monomers and string them together with a glycosidic bond and when you have a whole bunch you get a polysaccharide - a complex large molecular weight molecule (hence "complex carbohydrate")
2007-05-12 00:09:07 · answer #3 · answered by Orinoco 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
look it up on dictionary.com
2007-05-12 00:09:17 · answer #4 · answered by J o a n n ☮ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋