Carbohydrate Terms
Across
- 2. Sugars extracted from plants and used to sweeten foods
- 4. Formed when plants combine single glucose units into more complicated chemical structures
- 5. Formed when two monosaccharide combine chemically
- 9. Simple carbohydrates chemically formed from plants; made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
- 10. Chemical process by which plants make carbohydrates
- 11. Carbohydrates with complicated structures; starches
- 12. Sugars with single-unit chemical structure
Down
- 1. Plant materials that are eaten but can't be digested by human enzymes
- 3. Nutrient that is a person's main source of energy; found mostly in plant foods
- 6. Green pigment in plants; must be present for photosynthesis to occur
- 7. Sugars formed with single one- and two-unit structures
- 8. Substances used in place of sugar to sweeten foods yet add few or no calories