Title: Activity ahead of lesson: Carbohydrates
Course: Biochemistry > Section: Week 5 - Unit 2-2_Carbohydrates

Purpose

Carbohydrates are also called saccharides to mean sugars. They exist as a monosaccharide, single sugar unit, and also as metabolic intermediates with a large variety of function. They also exist as oligosaccharides, when two to ten units are linked and as complex polymers called polysaccharides or complex carbohydrates for more than ten units linkage.

Over to you

Watch this video and read this course about the structure of carbohydrates

Be certain to note anything that you don’t understand

Activity

Complete the assignment about carbohydrates in order to organize the new information you have learned

Submit the assignment in the LMS system before the end of week 7.