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Ketose - CORRECT ANSWER Terme for monosaccharides with a ketone group
dextrorotatory and levorotatory - CORRECT ANSWER What the D and L stand for
(e.g. D-glyceraldehyde)
Dextrose - CORRECT ANSWER Alternate term for glucose because in nature it is
always D form
Penultimate - CORRECT ANSWER second to last
Epimers - CORRECT ANSWER monosaccharides that differ in the orientation at only
one position.
Furanose - CORRECT ANSWER five-atom ring structures consisting of four carbons
and one oxygen
Pyranose - CORRECT ANSWER six-atom ring structures consisting of five carbons
and one oxygen
Anomeric carbon - CORRECT ANSWER the reduced, or reacted, carbon ring
structure
Anomers - CORRECT ANSWER alpha and beta forms are called anomers, which are
structural forms that differ only in the -OH orientation about the carbon that forms the
hemiacetal group
interconversion or mutarotation - CORRECT ANSWER Anomers can convert from
one ring structure to the other through the open chain molecule
O-glycosidic linkage - CORRECT ANSWER Two monosaccharides react through a
condensation reaction to form a glycosidic linkage, which is also called an O-glycosidic
linkage to highlight the oxygen atom in the bond
homopolymers - CORRECT ANSWER single type of monosaccharide, such as
glucose