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Carbohydrate
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Pectose
An amorphous carbohydrate found in the vegetable kingdom esp in unripe fruits It is associated with cellulose and is converted into
Seminose
A carbohydrate of the glucose group found in the thickened endosperm of certain seeds and extracted as yellow sirup having
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Sinistrin
A mucilaginous carbohydrate resembling achrooumldextrin extracted from squill as a colorless amorphous substance so called because it is levorotatory
Levulosan
An unfermentable carbohydrate obtained by gently heating levulose
Photosynthesis
The process of constructive metabolism by which carbohydrates are formed from water vapor and the carbon dioxide of the air in the chlorophyll containing tissues of
cortisol
a steroid hormone C21H30O5 active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism called also hydrocortisone It is used in medicine as an antiinflammatory agent
Gelose
An amorphous gummy carbohydrate found in Gelidium agar agar and other seaweeds
inositol
etc Although isomeric with dextrose it has no carbonyl aldehyde or ketone group and is therefore not a carbohydrate but a derivative of cyclohexane Called also inosite cyclohexitol cyclohexanehexol hexahydroxycyclohexane and phaseomannite There are nine possible steroisomers
lipid
cholesterol and other steroids phospholipids sphingolipids waxes and fatty acids some of the lipids together with proteins and carbohydrates form an essential structural component of living cells as in the cell walls and membranes The term lipid
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