polysaccharide

Storage material

...sions. Full article >>> starch A polysaccharide composed of a thousand or more glucose molecule s; the chief food storage material of most plant s. Full article >>>...

Stapes

...aped innermost bone of the middle ear. starch A polysaccharide composed of a thousand or more glucose molecule s; the chief food storage material of most plant s. Full article >>> stapes The innermost of the three ear ossicles, which contacts the oval window of the ear. It is stirrup-sha...

Starch

... the 'alpha- glucose ' components of the starch polysaccharide . Full article >>> Starch is a co...eage . Full article >>> starch - polysaccharide composed exclusively of glucose units, used as an energy store in plant cells . steroids - hyd...

RNA

...lex of an m RNA molecule and many ribosomes . polysaccharide A linear or branched polymer of monosaccharide units linked by glycosidic bonds. polysome (poly ribosome ) A complex of an m RNA molecule and many ribosomes . Full article >>> Therefore each strand of DNA or RNA has a free...

Ribosomes

...lex of an m RNA molecule and many ribosomes . polysaccharide A linear or branched polymer of monosaccharide units linked by glycosidic bonds. polysome (poly ribosome ) A complex of an m RNA molecule and many ribosomes . Full article >>> Ribosomes are multimolecular aggregates containing...

Polysome

...lex of an m RNA molecule and many ribosomes . polysaccharide A linear or branched polymer of monosaccharide units linked by glycosidic bonds. polysome (poly ribosome ) A complex of an m RNA molecule and many ribosomes . Full article >>> Often many ribosomes will read the same message ,...

Polysaccharides

...individual monosaccharide units. A common plant polysaccharide is starch , which is made up of many glucose s ..., it is not so common to talk of ' sequencing ' a polysaccharide , for several reasons. Although many polysaccharides are linear, many have branches. Full article...

Polysaccharide

... carbohydrates . Full article >>> polysaccharide s (e.g., starch ) to sugars proteins to amin... be bonded together to form long chains called polysaccharide s . Starch and Glycogen ... Full article >>> Polysaccharide s are large molec...

Phosphodiester Bond

... chain or nucleic acid molecule glycogen - polysaccharide composed exclusively of glucose units used to store energy in animal cells ... Full article >>> phosphodiesterase - enzyme that cleaves a phosphodiester bond , for example, that which cleaves cAMP into AMP. phosphorylate - to...

Pathogenic

... commonly produce a thick, mucous-like, layer of polysaccharide . This " capsule " cloaks antigen ic proteins on the bacteria l surface that would otherwise provoke an immune response and thereby lead to the destruction of the bacteria . Full article >>> pathogenic -- Organ ism which caus...

Molecule

...molecule such as a protein , nucleic acid , or polysaccharide with a molecular mass greater that a few thousand dalton s ... Full article >>> Biotin A molecule that can be incorporated into dUTP and used as a non-radioactive label for a DNA probe . Blunt (flush) end The end of a DNA ...

Megabase

... Full article >>> Agarose gels : A polysaccharide gel used to measure the size of nucleic acids (in bases or base pair s). See " Gel Electrophoresis ". This is the gel of choice for DNA or RNA in the range of thousands of bases in length, or even up to 1 megabase if you ... Full a...

Mass spectrometry

..., it is not so common to talk of ' sequencing ' a polysaccharide , ... Full article >>> Higher-throughput proteomic techniques are based on mass spectrometry , commonly peptide mass fingerprinting on simpler instruments, or De novo repeat detection sequencing on instruments capable of more than...

Lysozyme

...cretions. It is responsible for breaking down the polysaccharide walls of many kinds of bacteria and thus it provides some protection against infection. Full article >>> Lysozyme 3D structure. Lysozyme single crystal. Lysozyme is an enzyme (EC 3.2.1.17), commonly referred to as the "body'...

Glycolipid

... immune system . The presentation of lipid and polysaccharide antigens will be mentioned at the end. [Link] .... substance (such as a protein , nucleo protein , polysaccharide , and some glycolipid s) to which lymphocytes respond; also known as an immunogen because it indu...

Glycogen

... ... Full article >>> glycogen - polysaccharide composed exclusively of glucose units used to s...... Full article >>> glycogen : a polysaccharide composed of thousands of glucose units that serves as the storage form of glucose in the human...

Glucose

...ary carbon source of living things. glycogen : a polysaccharide composed of thousands of glucose units that ser...TP . Full article >>> glycogen - polysaccharide composed exclusively of glucose units used to store energy in animal cells heterogeneous nuc...

Endonuclease

... chain or nucleic acid molecule glycogen - polysaccharide composed exclusively of glucose units used to store energy in animal cells ... Full article >>> Endonuclease . See Nuclease . Endophyte . An organ ism that lives inside another. Full article >>> Endonuclease ...

Dalton

...molecule such as a protein , nucleic acid , or polysaccharide with a molecular mass greater that a few thousand dalton s ... Full article >>>...

Cocci

...so on. The types differ in the chemistry of their polysaccharide capsule . Full article >>> By 1928, he was investigating the properties of staphylo cocci . He was already well known by then due to his earlier work, and known to be a brilliant but careless researcher; ... Full article >>&...

Chitin

...ture]. Full article >>> chitin A polysaccharide contained in fungi ; also forms part of the hard... [Gk. chiton, a tunic, undergarment] A structural polysaccharide of an amino sugar found in many fungi and in the exoskeleton s of all arthropods. Full article ...

Chiasma

...ing -over) (pl.: chiasma ta). PICTURE chitin A polysaccharide contained in fungi ; also forms part of the hard outer covering of insects. Full article >>> chiasma pl. chiasma ta (ky-as-muh) The X-shaped, microscopically visible region representing homologous chromatid s that have exchanged ...

Cellulose

...Cellulose (C6H10O5)n is a long -chain polymeric polysaccharide carbohydrate , of beta- glucose . It forms the p...gs. Full article >>> cellulose A polysaccharide that is composed of unbranched chains of glucose ; the major structural carbohydrate of plant s...

Cell wall

...all is formed of cellulose fibers embedded in a polysaccharide - protein matrix. Full article >>> ...a wall formed of cellulose fibers embedded in a polysaccharide - protein matrix. The primary cell wall is thin and flexible, whereas the secondary cell wall i...

Cell membrane

...on microscope . cellulose A type of unbranched polysaccharide carbohydrate that is composed of glucose sugars. Covered in: ... Full article >>> - Cell Membrane - Cytoplasm Definition: The semi-fluid component of a cell 's cytoplasm . From Regina Bailey, Your Guide to Biology . FR...

Cell

... microscope . cell ulose A type of unbranched polysaccharide carbohydrate that is composed of glucose sugars. Covered in: ... Full article >>> In cell biology , the Golgi apparatus , Golgi body, Golgi complex, or dictyosome is an organelle found in nearly all eukaryotic cell s . The...

Biochemistry

...istry. Full article >>> starch A polysaccharide carbohydrate consisting of two forms of glucose units, amylose and amylopectin. Covered in Lab 2 Molecule s of Life: Biochemistry ... Full article >>>...

ATP

...iew Use the symbols below to draw a disaccharide, polysaccharide , triglyceride, phospholipid , polypeptide , and DNA . Use short, straight lines to represent covalent bonds. Full article >>> ATP Program Accelerating Genome Research Payoffs The Tools for DNA Diagnostics component of the Adv...

Atom

...ve or negative charge. laminarin -- a beta-glucan polysaccharide produced by many chromists through photosynthesis . lipids -- a class of biochemical compound s which includes fats , oils, and waxes. Full article >>> Most of an atom is empty space. Atomic Number The atomic number is the ...

Antigen

...odies . Usually, an antigen is a protein or a polysaccharide , but it can be any type of molecule , even small molecule s if coupled to a large carrier (haptens). Full article >>> The adaptive immune response depends on the creation of suitable peptides from foreign antigen s for disp...

Agarose gels

Agarose gels : A polysaccharide gel used to measure the size of nucleic acids (in bases or base pair s). See " Gel Electrophoresis ". Full article >>> Digests are analyzed on standard agarose gels , which are post-stained with ethidium bromide or thiazole ...

Agarose Gel

...ull article >>> Agarose gel s : A polysaccharide gel used to measure the size of nucleic acids (in bases or base pair s). See " Gel Electrophoresis ". Full article >>> DNA agarose gel . The first lane contains a DNA ladder for sizing, and the other four lanes show variou...