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Biomolecules Carbohydrates
1. Identify the correct formula for the carbohydrate rhamnose?
a) C5H10O5
b) C6H12O5
c) C6H12O6
d) C12H22O11
Answer: b
2. Which of the following class of compounds is not a part of the large group of carbohydrates?
a) Polyamino aldehydes
b) Polyhalo aldehydes
c) Polyhydroxy ketones
Answer: c
b) Fructose
c) Lactose
d) Cellulose
Answer: d
b) Stachyose
c) Starch
d) Glycogen
Answer: b
b) Sucrose
c) Maltose
d) Fructose
Answer: a
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b) disaccharide
c) trisaccharide
d) tetrasaccharide
Answer: c
7. Which of the following disaccharides gives two same monosaccharide units on hydrolysis?
a) Maltose
b) Sucrose
c) Lactose
d) Lactulose
Answer: a
b) Fructose, glucose
c) Galactose, glucose
d) Glucose, glucose
Answer: b
9. Which of the following disaccharides does not consist of two glucose units?
a) Trehalose
b) Cellobiose
c) Isomaltose
d) Lactulose
Answer: d
b) Glucose
c) Fructose
d) Sucrose
Answer: d
11. Which of the following carbohydrates does not satisfy the formula Cx(H2O)y?
a) Fructose
b) Glucose
c) Deoxyribose
d) Lactose
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Answer: c
12. Which of the following carbohydrates does not have the formula C12H22O11?
a) Galactose
b) Sucrose
c) Allolactose
d) Maltose
Answer: a
b) carboxylic acid
c) aldehyde
d) monosaccharide
Answer: b
b) Galactose
c) Fructose
d) Mannose
Answer: c
b) Xylulose
c) Ribulose
d) Sorbose
Answer: a
b) aldoheptose
c) ketotetrose
d) ketoheptose
Answer: c
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b) Mannose, tagatose
c) Psicose, gulose
d) Talose, idose
Answer: d
18. Glucose is prepared commercially from the hydrolysis of ______ by boiling it with dilute H2SO4 at
393K under pressure.
a) starch
b) sucrose
c) galactose
d) dextrose
Answer: a
19. The reaction of glucose with which of the following proves the presence of an aldehydic group?
a) Potassium iodide
b) Hydroxylamine
c) Bromine water
d) Acetic anhydride
Answer: c
b) silver mirror
c) red precipitate
d) pungent gas
Answer: c
21. The reaction of glucose with hydrogen cyanide confirms the ______
a) straight chain structure of glucose
Answer: b
22. The reaction of glucose with acetic anhydride conforms the presence of how many hydroxy groups in
glucose?
a) 3
b) 4
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c) 5
d) 6
Answer: c
b) glucose oxime
c) glucose cyanohydrin
d) a gluconic acid
Answer: b
b) 2,4-DNP test
c) Schiff’s test
Answer: a
25. The α-D-glucose and β-D-glucose isomers of glucose are known as _______
a) enantiomers
b) stereoisomers
c) anomers
d) glycomers
Answer: c
26. The hydroxyl group at which carbon is involved in ring formation in glucose?
a) C3
b) C4
c) C5
d) C6
Answer: c
27. Which form of glucose is obtained by crystallization from hot and saturated aqueous solution at
371K?
a) D-form
b) L-form
c) α-form
d) β-form
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Answer: d
28. When the α-form of glucose is dissolved in water and allowed to rest, what will be the percentage of
β-form in this solution after some time?
a) 0
b) 36
c) 64
d) 100
Answer: c
29. When the OH group at anomeric carbon lies on the same side as that of the OH group on C3 carbon,
it is known as ______
a) α-glucose
b) β-glucose
c) D-glucose
d) (+)-glucose
Answer: b
b) It is present in honey
d) It is known as laevulose
Answer: c
31. The furanose structure of fructose is obtained by the interaction of groups at which carbon atoms?
a) C1 and C5
b) C1 and C6
c) C2 and C5
d) C2 and C6
Answer: c
32. A solution having equal amount of D-glucose and D-fructose is called _____ sugar.
a) invert
b) fruit
c) brown
d) cane
Answer: a
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b) laevulose
c) pyranose
d) furanose
Answer: b
34. Disaccharides on _______ with dilute HCl yield two same or different monosaccharides.
a) hydration
b) hydrolysis
c) oxidation
d) carbonation
Answer: b
35. Which of the following disaccharides on hydrolysis with invertase gives two different
monosaccharides?
a) Sucrose
b) Lactulose
c) Lactose
d) Maltose
Answer: a
36. Two monosaccharides are joined through a ______ bond to form a disaccharide.
a) ionic
b) peptide
c) glycosidic
d) phosphodiester
Answer: c
37. Sucrose is a _______ compound and the product mixture obtained from its hydrolysis is _______ in
nature.
a) dextrorotatory; dextrorotatory
b) dextrorotatory; laevorotatory
c) laevorotatory; dextrorotatory
d) laevorotatory; laevorotatory
Answer: b
38. Which of the following is false regarding the reaction of sucrose to give fructose and glucose?
a) It can take place in the presence of enzyme sucrase
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c) It is an inversion reaction
d) It is a hydrolysis reaction
Answer: b
b) α-D-glucose, β-D-fructose
c) β-D-glucose, α-D-fructose
d) β-D-glucose, β-D-fructose
Answer: b
b) It is a non-reducing sugar
d) It is a disaccharide
Answer: b
b) Sucrose
c) Maltose
d) Lactose
Answer: b
b) It is a polymer of α-D-glucose
Answer: a
43. The branching in the ________ component of starch occurs by the glycosidic linkage between
_______ carbons.
a) amylose; C1-C4
b) amylose; C1-C6
c) amylopectin; C1-C4
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d) amylopectin; C1-C6
Answer: d
b) branched chain
d) oligo
Answer: c
b) Glucose
c) Cellulose
d) Glycogen
Answer: d
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