What are the primary functions of carbohydrates in cells? a. cell identity, energy storage, raw material source for synthesis, and structure b. catalysis, energy storage, metabolism, and structure c. catalysis, digestion, energy storage, and information storage d. energy storage, information storage, polymerization, and raw material source for synthesis

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Hello everyone and welcome to today's video. So which one of the following is not the primary function of carbohydrates in the cell. Remember that? We're looking for the incorrect semen among or answer choices regarding the functions of carbohydrates. So let's jump straight into the answer choices beginning by answer choice. D. We have energy storage. So I want you to think about this policy called glycogen. And it is present in the human body as a polymer of glucose. Glucose is used for energy and glycogen is able to store glucose since glycogen is a carbohydrate, we can confidently say that carbohydrates can be used for energy storage in the body. So we're going to cancel it all because we're looking for the incorrect statement regarding carbohydrates when we know and we have answer choice. C cell identity and structure will certain carbohydrates are able to become glycoprotein and glycol lipids which are placed in the cell surface and they're able to act as markers for the cell which are allow the cell to be identified by neighboring cells. So it has to do with self identity. So it is actually a correct answer choice as well. And we're going to cancel it out because we're looking for the incorrect answer choice. Moving on. We have energy source already saw that glucose is a carbohydrate that we use for energy. So we're going to cancel this how this all lives those with answer choice a catalysis. And this is the process of breaking down certain compounds And this process is actually performed by enzymes via certain chemical processes like hi genesis. So this is not performed by carbohydrates. It is performed by enzymes which are proteins. So we're going to highlight this as being the final answer to our question. Thank you very much for sitting around until the end of this video, and I really hope this helped you.