Homework Help: biology

Posted by kusmaxe on Friday, October 1, 2010 at 8:39am.

what does it mean to say that the ratio of oxygen to carbon in fat is smaller than that in carbohydrate? i know that the formula for glucose is c6h12o6. so when they say that the ratio of oxygen to carbon in fat is smaller, what exactly is it like?
So the oxygen to carbon ratio in glucose is 6/6 which is 1. so for fat it must be smaller than 1? so something like C60H12O2 would have a oxygen to carbon ratio of 2/60 which is much smaller than that of carbohydrate? Is this what they mean?

Thanks.

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