• Monomers
  • Glucose
  • Often hexagonal
  • Monosaccharides
• Polymers
  • Starch
  • Multiple hexagonal
  • Polysaccharides
• Types
  • Chitin is strongest
  • Cellulose
    • Cheapest to make
    • Most common on earth
  • Peptidoglycan
    • Peptido (protein) and glycan (carb)
    • Flexible, similar to chain link
  • Glycogen is easily digestable
• Plants
  • Sun creates energy for creating glucose
    • $C{O}_2(air)+H_{2}O(water)\to C_6{H}_{12}{O}_6(glucose)$
    • Used for growing plant mass (biomass)
    • Used for creating ATP using mitochondria to sustain plant
    • Most glucose goes towards ATP production (90%)
• Humans cannot create glucose because of lack of photosynthesis