Sentences with phrase «glucose molecules linked»

Any carbohydrates not immediately used by the body will be stored in the form of glycogen (a long string of glucose molecules linked together).

Glycogen is a long highly branched chain of glucose molecules linked together with alpha bonds.

Each lactose molecule is made of two individual sugar molecules — one glucose molecule linked to one galactose molecule.

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The researchers focussed on the ability of trehalose, a sugar consisting of two linked glucose molecules, to increase the amount of organelles inside specialized «housekeeping» cells known as macrophages.

Cellulase denotes a family of enzymes primarily produced by bacteria, fungi, and protozoans that hydrolyze cellulose, a polysaccharide of -(1g4) linked glucose molecules that constitutes the principal structural molecule of plants and is the most abundant component of plant biomass.

Examples of polysaccharides include starch, glycogen, and cellulose, all of which are composed of just glucose molecules but differ in the manner in which the glucose molecules are linked together.

Lactose is a disaccharide made up of one molecule of glucose and one molecule of galactose linked by a bond called a glycosidic linkage.