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sucrose

Nonreducing disaccharide, _ D glucopyranosyl _ D fructofuranose. A complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent.A type of [[disaccharide that can be broken down by the [[enzyme [[sucrase.


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Testing for glucose in the water which leaf is in?

grrr complicated. first of all plants don't transport their sugars under the form of glucose but under the form of sucrose. Second, it's not that easy. you see the direct product of photosynthesis are organic trioses (sugars with 3 carbons). if these trioses are kept in the chloroplast, ...

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by MrMistery
Sun May 03, 2009 3:11 am
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: Testing for glucose in the water which leaf is in?
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Can plants absorb sucrose?

It's funny that this thread is on here. I just finished up a project involving sucrose concentration and Pisum sativum seeds. We used concentrations of 1.0M, 0.50M, 0.25M and a control and the sugar doesn't seem to prevent germination so much as slow the process ...

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by lolkennon
Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:27 pm
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: Can plants absorb sucrose?
Replies: 12
Views: 6572

Lipoprotein metabolism

... period of humans? 2. If the rats are given less chow to consume, how will this effect the VLDL metabolism of the experimental group (on liquid sucrose diet) and the control group (normal diet)?

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by abcab
Mon Mar 23, 2009 3:58 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Lipoprotein metabolism
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Views: 222

Re: Can plants absorb sucrose?

Sorry, I have reading and reading this forum for days ... I finde this question on page 3 or 4 This is one of questions on which I wish to hear an answer. For now there is two posts,MrMistery and Cat, but unfortunatelly Im very tiny with Bio knowledge and can not make right conclusion. Is here some ...

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by BotanicInTry
Sun Mar 15, 2009 2:40 am
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: Can plants absorb sucrose?
Replies: 12
Views: 6572

urgent help please..

hello I am currently doing coursework for biology which is about fermentation of yeast with different types of sugars solutions such as glucose sucrose lactose… could any one help me by giving me links that why activation is yeast is important? and why we do that? How different sugar solutions ...

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by h1234
Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:11 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: urgent help please..
Replies: 0
Views: 225
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