The chemistry of carbohydrates most closely resembles that of alcohol, aldehyde, and ketone functional groups. As a result, the modern definition of a CARBOHYDRATE is that the compounds are polyhydroxy aldehydes or ketones. The chemistry of carbohydrates is complicated by the fact that there is a functional group (alcohol) on almost every carbon.
CHAPTER FIVE. Ecosystem Services in the Gulf of Mexico. INTRODUCTION. In Chapter 2 we outlined the general concept of ecosystem services and the basic principles and challenges of applying an ecosystem services approach to damage assessment for an event of the magnitude and duration of the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill. Chapter 3 explored the concept of resilience in the context of.
Mutations of other hopanoid-associated genes in Methylobacterium produce an altered suite of hopanoid compounds. Through mutation of hopanoid-associated genes, we have identified the first steps of hopanoid side chain biosynthesis (4). These mutant strains. Probing evolutionary population synthesis models in the near infrared with early-type.