Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates: Overview
This Topic covers sub-topics such as Carbohydrates, Cellulose, Glycogen, Sucrose, Monosaccharides, Structure of Sucrose, Maltose, Oligosaccharides, Glycosidic Linkage, Disaccharides, Non-reducing Sugar, Structure of Cellulose and, Structure of Maltose
Important Questions on Carbohydrates
The products obtained on hydrolysis of sucrose are:

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

Which of the following carbohydrate is a reducing sugar?

Which of the following reactions and facts of D-glucose cannot be explained by its open chain structure?
(i) Despite having the aldehyde group, glucose does not give Schiff test and 2, 4-DNP test.
(ii) Glucose does not react with sodium hydrogen sulphite to form addition product.
(iii) The pentaacetate of glucose does not react with hydroxyl amine showing the absence of free-CHO group.

The Glycosidic linkages and Peptide linkages are present in:


The number of hydroxyl groups in glucose is?



Number of compounds from the following which will not produce orange red precipitate with Benedict solution is........
Glucose, maltose, sucrose, ribose,-deoxyribose, amylose, lactose

Which of the following statements is correct ?

The amount of sucrose needed to produce mole of glucose using acid hydrolysis is

Which one of the following is a polysaccharide?


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

Giving '' Symbol for true statement and '' symbol for false statement, select correct option.
(i) Most naturally occurring amino acids have L-configuration
(ii) ribose sugar is present in
(iii) Amylose is water insoluble component made up of glucose units
(iv) All monosaccharides are non-reducing sugars.

Write reactions to show that
i) Glucose contains six carbon atoms in straight chain.
ii) Glucose contains five groups.

How many sugars (or sugar derivatives) are reducing in nature?
(i) -Glucopyranose
(ii) Fructose
(iii) Sucrose
(iv) Lactose
(v) Maltose
(vi) -Glucopyranose
(vii) Starch
(viii) ATP
(ix) DNA
(x) Methyl -glucopyranoside

Which of the following is known as animal starch?

