
Which set of the terms correctly identifies the carbohydrate shown?
(i) Pentose (ii) Hexose (iii) Aldose
(iv) Ketose (v) Pyranose (vi) Furanose




Important Questions on Biomolecules


Select the incorrect statements from the following:
(a) Glucose exists in different crystalline forms, -D-glucose and -D-glucose.
(b) -D-glucose and -D-glucose are enantiomers.
(c) Cellulose is a straight-chain polysaccharide, made of only -D-glucose units.
(d) Starch is a mixture of amylose and amylopectin both contain unbranched chain on -D-glucose units.

Which of the following processes/reactions will give a diastereomeric pair in the resulting solution?
(a) Mutarotation of glucose
(b) Ekenstein rearrangement of D-mannose
(c) Acidic hydrolysis of cane sugar
(d) Open form of D-glucose with

Given: specific rotation of sucrose, maltose, glucose, fructose in aqueous, solution are andrespectively. For 'invert sugar', the correct statements are?
(a) 'Invert sugar' is prepared by acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of maltose
(b) 'Invert sugar' is an equimolar mixture of glucose and fructose
(c) Specific rotation of 'invert sugar' is
(d) On reaction with water ' invert sugar' forms saccharic acid as one of the products.


Analyse the following reactions and identify incorrect statements where and are two different aldohexoses and is a ketohexoses.
Disaccharide
Disaccharide
Disaccharide
(a) and are reducing sugars.
(b) and have glycosidic linkage between two monosaccharide units.
(c)The two monosaccharide units of disaccharide 'C' are epimers.
(d) All the three disaccharides undergo mutarotation.

Which of the following is incorrect about sucrose?
