Carbohydrates

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Molecules which contain both hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions are:
  • All of the above
  • able to form micelles
  • detergents
  • ampiphatic
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Sterioisomers that are nonsuperimposable and non-mirror images of each other
  • isomers
  • enantiomers
  • diasteriomers
  • epimers
  • mesomers
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A straight-chain polymer of glucose units linked by beta-1-4 bonds. The polysaccharide chains are aligned to form fibrils that have great tensile strength.
  • Dextran
  • Starch
  • Chitin
  • Glycogen
  • Cellulose
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Which one of the following carbohydrates is a ketose sugar?
  • fructose
  • mannose
  • galactose
  • glucose
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all of the statements about the structure of glycogen are true EXCEPT
  • It contains alpha-1,6 glycosidic linkages
  • It contains alpha-1,4 glycosidic linkages
  • It is a copolymer of glucose and galactose
  • Monosaccharide residues are all D-glucose
  • Branched chains occur about every 10 residues
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Which of the following classes of compounds is hydrophilic?
  • all of these
  • amino acids
  • sugars and amino acids
  • sugars
  • fatty acids
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Branched-chain polysaccharide containing glucose residues linked by alpha-1-4 bonds with alpha-1-6 branchpoints
  • Chitin
  • Starch
  • Glycogen
  • Dextran
  • Cellulose
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Composed of fructose and glucose
  • fructose
  • sucrose
  • mannose
  • maltose
  • lactose
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Carbohydrate formed when a few monnosaccharide units are linked together
  • polysaccharide
  • starch
  • oligosaccharide
  • disaccharide
  • derived monosaccharide
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following a diet fad of skim milk and yogurt, an adult female patient experiences abdominal distention, nausea, cramping and pain followed by a watery diarrhea. A likely diagnosis is:
  • maltose deficiency
  • lactase deficiency
  • sialillase deficiency
  • Lipoprotein lipse deficiency
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All of the following are compose exclusively of glucose except
  • maltose
  • lactose
  • glycogen
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which of the ff. sugar/s react/s with silver ammonium comples and is/are able to reduce Ag+ into free silver metal
  • glucose and fructose
  • fructose and sucrose
  • glucose
  • fructose
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Mixture of unbranched amylase (glucose residues joined by alpha-1-4 bonds) and branched amylopectin (glucose residues joined by alpha-1-4 but with some alpha-1-6 branchpoints)
  • chitin
  • starch
  • cellulose
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Refers to a sugar that is capable of acting as a reducing agent because it has a free aldehyde group or a free ketone group
  • starch
  • reducing sugar
  • oxidizing sugar
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diasteriomers that differ from each other in the configuration at only one chiral carbon
  • isomers
  • epimers
  • enantiomers
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composed of two units of glucose
  • sucrose
  • maltose
  • mannose
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Consists of glucose residues linked mainly by alpha-1-6 bonds but with occasional branchpoints that may be formed by alpha-1-2, alpha-1-3, or alpha-1-4 bonds
  • Dextran
  • Glycogen
  • Chitin
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diasteriomers that are nonsuperimposable, mirror-images of each other
  • mesomers
  • enantiomers
  • isomers
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Which of the following classes of compounds is hydrophobic?
  • phosphate esters
  • cholesterol
  • cholesterol and phosphate esters
  • table salt
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All of the following about hydrogen are true except
  • It is a type of non-covalent bond
  • The acceptor must contain a non-bonded pair of electrons
  • The donor is a hydrogen atom bonded to a less electronegative atom than hydrogen
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D-galactose and D-mannose are
  • epimers of each other
  • enantiomers of each other
  • isomers of each other
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Which of the following common solvents is the most polar
  • alcohol
  • water
  • benzene
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All of the ff. contain glucose as a strctural unit except
  • lactose
  • glycogen
  • mannose
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What are the 8 aldohexoses?
allose, altrose, glucose, mannose, gulose, idose, galactose, talose
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Composed of glucose and galactose
  • lactose
  • maltose
  • fructose
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There are only 2 trioses, what are they?
glyceraldehyde and dihydroxyacetone
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The most abundant bio molecule on earth
  • nucleic acids
  • lipids
  • proteins
  • carbohydrates
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The major functions of carbohydrates include
  • both
  • none
  • storage
  • structural framework
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the general formula of carbohydrate is
  • (CH2O)n
  • (C4H2O)n
  • (C6H2O)n
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Carbohydrates are
  • polyhydroxy aldehydes and phenols
  • polyhydroxy ketones and phenols
  • polyhydroxy aldehydes and ketones
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structural polysaccharides include
  • cellulose, hemicellulose and chitin
  • cellulose, starch and chitin
  • cellulose, glycogen and chitin
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Nutritional polysaccharides are
  • starch and glucose
  • starch and glycogen
  • starch and cellulose
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carbohydrates account
  • 30% in plants and 10% in animals
  • 30% in plants and 20% in animals
  • 30% in plants and 1% in animals
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which of the following is a triose
  • ribulose
  • glucose
  • glyceraldehyde
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Which is a reducing sugar?
  • glucose
  • erythulose
  • dihydroxyacetone
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oiligosaccharides linked to proteins are called
  • galactosides
  • glycolipids
  • glycoproteins
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In polysaccharides, monosaccharides are joined by
  • covalent bond
  • peptide bond
  • glycosidic bond
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Sucrose is a
  • monosaccharide
  • disaccharide
  • polysaccharide
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In lactose, which of the following linkage is present
  • beta-1-2 linkage
  • alpha-1-4 linkage
  • beta-1-4 linkage
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in maltose which linkage is present
  • beta-1-2 linkage
  • beta-1-4 linkage
  • alpha-1-4 linkage
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in amylose, the linkage present is
  • beta-1-4 linkage
  • alpha-1-4 linkage
  • beta-1-2 linkage
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Cellulose is made up of repeating units of
  • alpha-1-4 linkage between D-glucose units
  • beta-1-2 linkage between D-glucose units
  • beta-1-4 linkage between D-glucose units
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Amylopectin has
  • both
  • alpha-1-6 linkage
  • alpha-1-4 linkage
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Chitin consist of
  • N-acetyl glucosamine
  • N-acetyl muramic acid
  • D-glucose units
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Callose is a polymer of
  • Glucose
  • Fructose
  • Sucrose
  • Xylans
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Which of the following is not a mucopolysaccharide
  • Heparin
  • Inulin
  • Hyaluronic acid
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The normal blood glucose level of an adult in the post absorptive state is
  • 120-130 mg/100 mL
  • 80-100 mg/100 mL
  • 40-60 mg/100 mL
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Carbohydrate metabolism is controlled by
  • Vitamin B12
  • Glucose
  • Insulin
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Sugar which is found in the haemolymph of insects is called
  • trehalose
  • galactose
  • maltose
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A starving person would first use
  • Glycogen
  • Muscle protein
  • Fats
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Which sugar is found in ATP
  • Ribose
  • Deoxyribose
  • Glucose
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Which is the sweetest sugar?
  • sucrose
  • fructose
  • glucose
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Amylose and amylopectin occur in
  • cellulose
  • starch
  • glycogen
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The basic uit of chitin is
  • Galactose
  • Glucose
  • N-acetyl glucosamine
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The formation of glucose from non-carbohydrate materials is called
  • gluconeogenesis
  • glycolysis
  • glycogenolysis
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Honey contains the hydrolytic product of
  • inulin
  • starch
  • maltose
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In humans, galactose is most easily available by the
  • hydrolysis of milk
  • coversion of glucose
  • conversion of fructose
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External coat composed of cellulose like material occurs in
  • cyclostomata
  • hemichordata
  • urochordata
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the new steriocenter resulting from cyclic hemiacetal formation
anomeric carbon
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carbohydrates that differ in configuration only at their anomeric carbons
anomers
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L-ascorbic acid is synthesized both biochemically and industrially from
  • D-glucose
  • Galactose
  • L-glucose
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Chitin is joined by
  • alpha-1-4 linkages
  • beta-1-4 linkages
  • alpha-1-6 linkages
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Where is L-fucose synthesized biochemically from
D-mannose
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What is the complete name for NAGal
N-acetyl-D-galactosamine
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complete name for Gal
D-galactose
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complete name for NAGlu
N-acetyl-D-glucosamine
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complete name for Fuc
L-fucose
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In type A blood the non-reducing end is?
NAGal (N-acetyl-D-galactosamine)
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in type B blood what is the non-reducing end?
Gal (D-galactose)
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in type AB blood what non reducing end is present
bothe NAGal and Gal
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in type O blood what non reducing end is present?
neither NAGal or Gal
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WHat is known as "milk sugar"
galactose
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What linkage does sucrose have
alpha-1-beta-2 linkage
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