BIOMOLECULES

BOARD QUESTIONS
1. Write the name of two monosaccharides obtained on hydrolysis of lactose sugar.
2. Why Vitamin C cannot be stored in our body?
3.What is the difference between a nucleoside and nucleotide?
4. What is meant by (i) Peptide linkage (ii) biocatalyst?
5. Write any two reactions of glucose which cannot be explained be the open chain structure of glucose
molecule.
6. What are the products of hydrolysis of sucrose?
7.Name the vitamin whose deficiency causes ‘pernicious anemia’.
8.Give an example of a water soluble vitamin.
9. Write the structure of the product obtained when glucose is oxidized with nitric acid.
10. What is essentially the difference between 𝛂-glucose and 𝛃-glucose? What is meant by pyranose
structure of glucose?
11.Why water soluble vitamins must be supplied regularly in the diet ? Give one example of it.
12.Differentiate between the following :
(i) Essential and non-essential amino acids. (ii) Fibrous and globular proteins.
13.Which polysaccharide component of carbohydrates is commonly present in bread?
14. Write the two types of secondary structures of proteins.
15.Give two examples of water soluble vitamins.
16.What are three types of RNA molecules which perform different functions?
17.Which of the two components of starch is water soluble?
18.Deficiency of which vitamin causes night-blindness?
19. Name the base that if found in nucleonic of RNA only.
20. Glucose on reaction with HI given n-hexane. What goes it suggest about the structure of glucose?
21.Which one of the following is a disaccharide: Starch, Maltose, Fructose, Glucose?
22.What is the difference between fibrous protein and globular protein?
23 .Write the name of vitamin whose deficiency causes bone deformities in children.
24.Write the structural difference between starch and cellulose.
25. What type of linkage is present in Nucleic acids.
26. Give one example each for fibrous protein and globular protein.
27.Write the product obtained when D-glucose reacts with H2N - OH.
28. Amino acids show amphoteric behaviour. Why ?
29. Why cannot vitamin C be stored in our body ?
30.Name the type of bonding which stabilizes α-helix structure in proteins.
31. Name the products of hydrolysis of Lactose.
32.Give reasons : Vitamin C cannot be stored in our body.
33. Which of the following is a polysaccharide ?
Starch, Maltose, Glucose, Fructose
34.Write the structural difference between starch and cellulose.
35.What type of linkage is present in Nucleic acids.
36.Give one example each for fibrous protein and globular protein.
37. What type of linkage is present in proteins ?
38. Give one example each of water soluble and fat soluble vitamins.
39. Draw pyranose structure of glucose.
40. What type of linkage is present in disaccharides ?
41 Write one source and deficiency disease of vitamin B12.
42. Write the difference between DNA and RNA.

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