Carbohydrates

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Carbohydrates: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Biochemistry, Biomolecules, Structure of Lactose & Structure of Cellulose etc.

Important Questions on Carbohydrates

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The products obtained on hydrolysis of sucrose are:

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The simplest carbohydrates which cannot be hydrolysed to smaller molecules are known as

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The Glycosidic linkages and Peptide linkages are present in:

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Complete hydrolysis of cellulose gives:

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The optically active tartaric acid is named as   D( + ) tartaric acid because it has a positive

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Name the reagent and condition required for carrying out of the following reaction

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What happen when fructose undergo reduction?

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How will you obtain gluocse from starch?

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The optical activity of glucose is due to _____ chiral carbons.(four/three)

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Sucrose is a disaccharide which contains glucose and fructose molecules which connected by a glycosidic linkage.

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Classify the carbohydrates on the basis of their behaviour on hydrolysis.

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How does oligosaccharides differ from others?

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Starch is hydrolysed in presence of sulphuric acid to obtain _____.

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How is glucose obtained from starch?

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Write some examples of ketoses.

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What are ketoses and how are they classified?

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Ketoses are monosaccharides containing an aldehyde group.

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Give an example of trisaccharide.

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Raffinose is an example of 

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Justify the statement "lipids are drugs".