What Elements Make Up Glucose?
confiseries image by Jacques PALUT from Fotolia.com jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first’).attr(‘href’,’http://i.ehow.com/images/a05/sv/gc/elements-make-up-glucose_-1.1-800X800.jpg’); }); Glucose is the simplest form of sugar Glucose, also called grape sugar, blood sugar or corn sugar, is among the simplest and one of the primary naturally occurring sugars. Produced naturally by plants as the primary photosynthesis product, it is heavily used by living beings as a main energy source and is necessary for cellular respiration. Chemically, it is a monosaccharide carbohydrate and serves as a building block for complex sugars like starch. Carbon Carbon is the fourth most abundantly occurring element in the universe and is found in all known living things, making it the chemical foundation of known life. Every glucose molecule contains six atoms of carbon. One of those is grouped with one atom each of oxygen and hydrogen to form an aldehyde group, mak
