Your first big biology exam is coming up in a few days, and in order to prepare for late-night study sessions, you buy a box of Yummies, a delicious type of snack cake. After checking out the nutrition facts label on the side of the box, you discover that a single Yummie cake contains 4.5 grams of total fat, 27 grams of carbohydrate, 0 grams of fiber, and 1 gram of protein.
-After eating a Yummie cake, what molecule do you expect to be most abundant in your digestive system?
A) amino acids
B) monosaccharides
C) cellulose
D) triglycerides

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Since a Yummie cake is high in carbohydrates and low in protein and fat, the molecule that would be most abundant after digestion would be monosaccharides (simple sugars) from the breakdown of the carbohydrates.

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