Glucose (Glc), a monosaccharide (or simple sugar), is an important carbohydrate in biology. The living cell uses it as a source of energy and metabolic intermediate.
D-glucose is a short form of dextrorotatory glucose. It is one of the two stereoisomers of glucose, and is the one that is biologically active. It occurs in plants as a product of photosynthesis.
glucose, "blood sugar", the immediate source of energy for cellular respiration
galactose, a sugar in milk (and yogurt), and
fructose, a sugar found in honey.
glucose -- simple sugar, and the primary product of photosynthesis. It is polymerized to make cellulose and chitin.
glucose A six-carbon single sugar; the most common energy source. PICTURE
glycogen Polysaccharide consisting of numerous monosaccharide glucoses linked together. The animal equivalent of starch. PICTURE ...
glucose
[Gk. glykys, sweet]
A six-carbon sugar (C6H12O6); the most common monosaccharide in animals.
glycerol ...
glucose
(C6H12O6) An important monosaccharide (simple carbohydrate) that acts as a primary energy supply for both plant and animal cells.
Covered in BIOL1020 Lab 2 Biological Molecules & BIOL1020 Lab 4 Cellular Energetics I ...
Glucose a 6-carbon aldose‚ a simple monosaccharide‚ with the formula C6H12O6 and widely used by living organisms
(gluco = sweet; -ose = carbohydrate ending) ...
Glucose 6-phosphate A key intermediate in metabolism that can be processed to free glucose, stored as glycogen, oxidized to produce NADPH and ribose, or metabolized to generate cellular energy either aerobically or anaerobically.
Glucose produced from glucose-1-P stimulates glycolysis, producing energy for muscle contraction.
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All of the above.
Glucose as a straight-chain carbohydrate (Fischer projection)
Fructose (Fischer projection) ...
Glucose can be converted into Glucose-6-phosphate by the addition of the phosphate group from ATP.
Glucose and other kinds of sugars may be linear molecules as shown below but in aqueous solution they become a ring form.
glucose Six-carbon monosaccharide; one of the most abundant simple sugars. It is the building block of both cellulose and starch and is important to several metabolic pathways.
glumes Pair of bracts at the base of a spikelet in a grass flower.
A disease associated with the absence or reduced levels of insulin, a hormone essential for the transport of glucose to cells. Dideoxynucleotide (didN).
The mutant strain will be unable to grow on minimal salts medium with glucose as sole carbon source unless this is supplemented with the substance which is deficient in synthesis. The mutant phenotype can therefore be easily detected.
Thermophilic isolates from terrestrial subsurface formations that had been geologically and hydrologically isolated for about 200 million years were able to use glucose, pyruvate, lactate, acetate and hydrogen as electron donors, ...
It has both linear and branched regions but it is composed entirely of glucose, a simple monosaccharide. Starch in the potatoes we eat is composed exclusively of glucose, also. These carbohydrates are principally a way to store energy for future use.
Green plants use sunlight to make glucose. To do so, the plant must use carbon dioxide and water in a process called photosynthesis. The glucose made by plants is used by plants and animals as a source of energy.
Among antioxidative agents are found enzymes such as superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase and glucose oxidase-catalase.
The first photosystem to evolve, PSI, uses light to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen sulfide (H2S) to glucose. This process releases sulfur as a waste product.
The main chemical components of the primary plant cell wall include cellulose (in the form of organized microfibrils; see Figure 1), a complex carbohydrate made up of several thousand glucose molecules linked end to end.
It could be as simple as bringing in a glucose molecule. Since the cell membrane will not allow glucose to cross by diffusion, helpers are needed. The cell might notice outside fluids rushing by with free glucose molecules.
Insulin is needed by cells to metabolize glucose, the body's main source of chemical energy. Type I diabetes, also called insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, is usually caused by an autoimmune destruction of insulin-producing cells.
The process in which glucose is converted into CO2 and H2O in the presence of oxygen, releasing large amounts of ATP. This process includes the krebs cycle, electron transport chain, and oxidative phosphorylation.
- An enzyme encoded by the lacZ gene. Splits lactose into glucose and galactose.
Gel electrophoresis
- Technique for separtaing nucleic acid molecules on the basis of their movement through a gel matrix under the influence of an electric field ...
glycogen - polysaccharide composed exclusively of glucose units used to store energy in animal cells
heterogeneous nuclear RNA (hnRNA) - RNA transcripts freshly synthesized by RNA polymerase II in the nucleus; also known as primary RNA transcript ...
an abnormal condition marked by sugar excretion in urine and high blood glucose levels caused by an insufficiency of insulin
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby
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ß-galactosidase
An enzyme that catalyzes the cleavage of lactose into glucose + galactose. In E. coli this enzyme is encoded by the lacZ gene. Often used as a reporter for assaying gene expression (see X-gal).
cellulose - a polysaccharide composed of glucose units that constitutes the primary part of the cell walls of plants ...
Polysaccharides are polymers of saccharides, formed by three or more monosaccharides joined by glycosidic linkages, as Amylose (unbranched starch), which is formed exclusively by molecules of Glucose, Amylopectin (branched starch), ...
The only way they can break out of this predicament is if they somehow acquired direct access to capillaries, to arteries and veins, which now supply them with an abundant amount of glucose and oxygen and other nutrients that will suffice for their ...
In favor of the view that the placenta possesses certain selective powers may be mentioned the fact that glucose is more plentiful in the maternal than in the fetal blood.
 See also: Trans, Organ, Cells, Cell, Molecule
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