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Carbohydrates are the only class of biological molecule (there are four main classes:
 
nucleic acids, proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates - commonly known as sugars),
 
that can be found in direct association with all three of the rest. Nucleic acids
 
have a sugar building block, there are glycoproteins and also proteoglycans, and
 
finally, there are also glycolipids.
 

Carbohydrates are found throughout a cell's critical areas, or in association
 
with molecules that float throughout the body, such as serum proteins. The reason
 
is that they enable specific recognition to take place between molecules, by
 
providing a unique molecular address that takes the form of distinct shape and
 
charge characteristics. Carbohydrates are involved in most, if not all, forms
 
of molecular recognition because of the ability of this particular type of molecule
 
to form a multitude of structures, far in excess of what the other principal
 
biological building blocks, or monomers, can do.

 

Carbohydrate monomer building blocks are extremely diverse, and can be linked
 
together in a multitude of ways, forming linear or branched structures. Five
 
sugar monomers can give rise to 32 million different compounds, whereas five
 
amino acids can produce 120 chains only.

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