BIOMOLECULES

PREVIOUS YEAR BOARD EXAM QUESTIONS

1 MARK QUESTIONS

1. What type of linkage holds together the monomers

of DNA?
2. Justify the statement- “Except for Vitamin B12, all
other vitamins should be supplied regularly in diet”.
3. What do you mean by ‘reducing sugars’?
4. “Amino acids are alkaline, neutral or acidic”-How
can this happen?
5. Name the product of hydrolysis of lactose.
6. What are the ultimate products of digestion of
proteins?
7. Write the structure of product obtained when
glucose is oxidised with nitric acid.
8. What are biocatalysts?
9. Write the full forms of RNA and DNA.
10. Why cannot Vitamin C be stored in our body?
11. Name the deficiency disease that resulting from
lack of Vitamin A and Vitamin E.
12. What are the three types of RNA molecule that
perform different functions?
13. Give two examples of water soluble vitamins.
14. Name the components of α-glucose that make up
starch.
15. Give 2 examples for biocatalysts.
16. Name the component of starch, that is insoluble
and also a branched polymer of α-glucose.
17. Write the products of hydrolysis of maltose.
18. Name the water soluble vitamin, which is a
powerful antioxidant. Give its one natural source.
19. Name the component of starch that is soluble in
water.
20. Name the vitamin whose deficiency causes
pernicious anaemia.
21. Name the vitamin whose deficiency causes
convulsions.
22. Give any two good sources of Vitamin A.
2 MARK QUESTIONS
1. (a). Write the product obtained when D-glucose
reacts with NH2OH.
(b). Explain-“Amino acids show amphoteric
behaviour”.
2. (a). Identify the monosaccharide from the below:
Maltose,Fructose,Starch,Cellulose
(b). Write the name of vitamin, whose deficiency
causes bleeding of gums.
3. (a). What type of bonding stabilizes the α-helix
structure of proteins?
(b). Write the product obtained,when D-glucose
reacts with HCN.
4. (a). Give the name of disease caused by deficiency
of vitamin B1.
(b). Identify the oligosaccharide from below:
Starch, Glucose, Maltose, Fructose
5. How are Vitamins classified into? Explain.
6. Define the below given terms:
 (a). Nucleoside
(b). Enzymes
7. Define:
(a). Vitamins
(b). Polysaccharides
8. (a). Give the difference between nucleoside and
nucleotide.
(b). Why are Vitamin C and Vitamin A important for
us?
9. Explain:
(a). Peptide linkage
(b). Pyranose structure of glucose.
10. Give the main structural difference between DNA
and RNA. Write the names of bases that are common
for both DNA and RNA.
11. Explain the following terms:
(a). Invert Sugar
(b). Polypeptides.
12. What are essential and non-essential amino acids?
Give one example of each type.
13. Name the products of hydrolysis of sucrose. Given
reason for why sucrose is not a reducing sugar?
14. (a). Name the type of bonding that stabilises α-
helix structure in proteins.
(b). What changes occur in nature of egg protein,
on boiling?
15. Name the 2 components of starch. How do they
differ from each other?
3 MARK QUESTIONS
1. (a). Draw the Haworth structure of α-D-(-)-
Glucopyranose. Give the significance of D and (-)
here.
(b). “Glucose do not give 2,4-DNP test”. What does
this indicate?
2. (a). What is meant by secondary structure of
proteins?
(b). Why don’t Glucose give Schiff’s test?
(c). “Amino acids have high melting points, but are
still water soluble”- Give reason.
3. Mention three such properties of glucose, which
cannot be explained by its open chain structure.
4. (a). Give one reaction of glucose that cannot be
explained using its open chain structure.
(b). Differentiate between Keratin and Insulin.
(c). Give one example each for essential and non-
essential amino acids.
5. (a). Identify the polysaccharide from below:
Starch, Maltose, Glucose, Fructose
(b). Write the name of disease caused by deficiency
of Vitamin B12.
(c). Give one difference between α-helix and β-
pleated sheet structures of protein.
6. (a). Name the base that is only found in RNA.
(b). Deficiency, of which vitamin causes night
blindness?
(c). “Glucose, on reaction with HI gives n-hexane”-
What does this say about the structure if glucose?
7. (a). Give a chemical reaction to prove that glucose
contains aldehyde as carbonyl group.
(b). Which of the following biomolecule is insoluble
in water- Insulin, Haemoglobin, Keratin. Justify.
 (c). Draw the Haworth structure of α-D-
Glucopyranose.
8. (a). Write the name of linkage that joins two
nucleotides.
(b). Give the difference between acidic amino acid
and basic amino acid.
(c). Identify the disaccharide from below:
Maltose, Starch, Fructose, Glucose
9. What are the different types of RNA found? State
one function of each.
10. (a). How are hormones and vitamin fifferent in
respect to their source and functions?
(b). List 2 functions of Carbohydrates.
11. (a). Rickets are caused due to deficiency of which
vitamin?
(b). Write the product formed when glucose
reacts with Bromine water.
(c). Give an example each for globular and fibrous
proteins.
12. (a). What type of linkage is responsible for
formation of proteins?
 (b). Give the name of disease caused by deficiency
of Vitamin K and Vitamin E.
(c). Write the reaction between glucose and HI.
13. What is glycogen? How is it different from starch?
How is starch different from cellulose?
14. Define the terms:
(a). Denaturation of proteins
(b). Essential amino acids
(c). Anomers
15. What is essentially the difference between α-
glucose and β-glucose? What do you mean by
pyranose structure of glucose?
16.(a). Explain the term mutarotation.
(b). Name the two classes of nitrogen containing
bases found amongst nucleotides.