Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as Biochemistry, Biomolecules, Carbohydrates, Classification of Carbohydrates on the Basis of Behaviour Towards Hydrolysis, D- and L- Configuration, Monosaccharides, Glucose, Fructose, and Oligosaccharides.
Important Questions on Carbohydrates
The simplest carbohydrates which cannot be hydrolysed to smaller molecules are known as

Which of the following carbohydrate is a reducing sugar?

The Glycosidic linkages and Peptide linkages are present in:


The optically active tartaric acid is named as tartaric acid because it has a positive

Select the correct statement about invert sugar.
(Given: specific rotations of -sucrose, -maltose, - -glucose and -fructose in aqueous solution are and respectively)


The reagent used as Tollen's reagent for the detection of sucrose is _____.

The result obtained in Fehling's test for the detection of glucose is _____.

How will you differentiate sucrose from glucose?



Assertion (A) : Sucrose is a non-reducing sugar.
Reason (R) : Sucrose has glycosidic linkage.


Which of the following statements are true about carbohydrates?
Monosaccharides can be hydrolysed.
The two monosaccharide units obtained on hydrolysis of a disaccharide can either be same or different.
Polysaccharides are not sweet in taste.
All monosaccharides are not reducing sugars.

A disaccharide consisting of two glucose units in which of one glucose is linked to of another glucose unit is

Glycogen is branched chain polymer of glucose units in which chain is formed by glycosidic linkage where branching occurs by formation of glycosidic linkage. Structure of glycogen is similar to


The corresponding order of names of four aldoses with configuration given below, respectively is:

