Are you looking for an essay on the ‘Carbohydrates and Its Types’? Find Paragraphs, long and short essays on ‘Carbohydrates and Its Types’ especially written for school and college students. Essay # 1. Introduction to Carbohydrates: Chemically, carbohydrates are organic molecules in which carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen bond together in the ratio Cx (H2O)y, where x and y are whole [...]
In this article we will discuss about the photosynthetic cycle of reduction of Co2 into carbohydrates. The transformation of light energy into chemical energy results in the production of ATP and NADPH (see fig. 3-12). Our present knowledge of the metabolism of carbohydrates will enable us to study what is sometimes called the dark phase of photosynthesis, i.e. the series [...]
It was observed that pyruvic acid and lactic acid formed in the muscle during glycolysis can be reconverted into glucose (or glycogen) when energy is available (in aerobiosis) and one could wonder whether this neoglucogenesis (or gluconeogenesis, or neoglycogenesis) follows — in the reverse direction — the glycolytic path. In fact, among the reactions leading from glucose to pyruvic acid [...]