BIOMOLECULES

PART –A

1. Name the nitrogenous base present in DNA but not in RNA.

2. Which is the nitrogenous base present only in RNA, but not in DNA?

3. Name the protein present in hair.

4. Deficiency of which vitamin causes the disease pernicious anemia?

5. Which level of structure remains intact during denaturation of globular protein?

6. Write the general structure of Zwitter ion.

7. Which hormone regulates the sugar level in the blood?

8. Which vitamin deficiency causes the disease ‘Rickets’?

9. Deficiency of which vitamin causes the disease scurvy?

10. Give an example for fat soluble vitamin.

11. Name the pentose sugar present in RNA molecule.

12. Name naturally occurring α- amino acid which is not optically active.

13. Give one biological function of insulin.

14. Give an example for water soluble vitamin.

15. What is a glycosidic linkage?

16. Write the Zwitter ion form of alanine.

17. Name the storage polysaccharide present in animals.

PART – B

1. a) i) Name the water insoluble component of starch. ii) Mention one water-soluble vitamin.

iii) Is lysine an essential or non-essential amino acid?

b) Write the structure of maltose.

2. a) i) What is denaturation of protein? Give an example. ii) Give an example of acidic α –amino acid.

b) Write the Haworth’s structure of α –D (+) Glucose.

3. a) Give the Haworth structure of lactose. b) What are hormones? Give an example.

4. a) How do you show that glucose contains a linear chain of six carbon atoms?

b) What are essential amino acids? Is glycine an essential amino acid?

c) Write the general formula of zwitter ionic form of an amino acid.

5. a) What is nucleoside? b) What is fibrous protein? Give an example.

6. a) Give an example for i) Globular proteins ii) Naturally occurring optically inactive amino acid.

b) Name the nucleic acid which is responsible for genetic information.

7. a) What are non-essential amino acids ? b) Write Zwitter ionic structure of ‘glycine’

8. a) What is peptide linkage? How many peptide bonds are present in a tetra –peptide?

b) Name the hormone which regulates blood sugar level in the body.

9. a) Write a chemical reaction to elucidate

i) Glucose contains five –OH groups

ii) Glucose contains six carbon atoms in a straight chain.

b) Name the sugar moiety present in DNA.

10.(a) Give the name of(i) Storage polysaccharide in plants. (ii) A non-reducing disaccharide.

(b) Mention any two biological functions of DNA.

11.(a) How is a dipeptide formed? Give equation. (b) What are enzymes?

12.(a) What are reducing sugars? Give an example.(b) Mention the number of peptide bonds in a pentapeptide.
(c) Define the term nucleotide.

13.What is meant by (i) Primary structure (ii) Secondary structure of protein?

14.(a) Deficiency of which vitamin lead to night blindness?

(b) Which hormone is responsible for hyperthyroidism?

(c) Vitamin ‘C’ cannot be stored in the body. Give reason.

15.(a) What are carbohydrates? How are they classified?

(b) Write the Haworth structure of Sucrose.

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