CH- ALCOHOLS, PHENOLS & ETHERS
PRACTICE QUESTIONS
Q1. What are the basic structural difference between glucose and fructose?
Q2. Write the products obtained after hydrolysis of lactose.
Q3. What is the structural difference between Nucleotide and Nucleoside?
Q4. What is the basic difference between starch & cellulose?
Q5. Name a water soluble vitamin which is powerful antioxidant. Give one of it's source
Q6. Name a carbohydrate used as storage molecule to store energy in animals.
Q7. Name a carbohydrate present in liver, muscles and brain.
Q8. Write two differences between RNA and DNA.
Q9. Differentiate between the following:
a) Amylose & Amylopectin
b) Peptide Linkage & Glycosidic Linkage
c) Fibrous Protein & Globular Protein
Q10. Write chemical reactions to show the open structure of D-glucose contains the following:
a) Straight Chain
b) Five alcohol groups
c) Aldehyde as carbonyl group
Q11. What type of bonding provides stability to α-helix structure of protein?
Q12. Define:
a) Anomers
b) Tertiary structure of proteins
Q13. What is the difference between native protein and denatured protein?
Q14. Which one of the following is disaccharide:
Glucose, Lactose, Amylose, Fructose
Q15. Differentiate between α-helix and β-pleated structure of proteins.
Q16. Why Vitamin-C cannot be stored in our body?
Q17. Amino acids show amphoteric behaviour. Why?
Q18. Amino acids behave like salts rather than simple amines or carboxylic acids. Why?
Q19. The two strands of DNA complementary to each other. Explain.
Q20. Write one source and defiency disease of Vitamin B12.
Q21. Why water soluble vitamins must be supplied regularly in the diet? Give one example of it.
Q22. Write the structural difference between starch, cellulose and glycogen.
Q23. Draw pyranose structure of Glucose and Fructose.
Q24. Give one example each for water soluble and fat soluble vitamin.
Q25. What is the difference between acidic amino acid and basic amino acid?
Q26. Name the linkage joining two nucleotides.
Q27. Write the name of vitamin whose deficiency causes bleeding of gums.
Q28. Amino acid shows amphoteric behaviour. Why?
Q29. a) What type of linkage is present in proteins?
b) Write the name of linkage joining two nucleotides.
Q30. a)Which if the two components of starch is water soluble?
b) Which component of starch is a branched polymer of α-glucose and
insoluble in water?
Q31. Define Invert Sugar, Nucleoside and Nucleotides.
Q32. Write any two reactions of glucose which cannot be explained by open chain structure.
Q33. What is essentially the difference between α-glucose and β-glucose? What is meant by
pyranose structure of glucose?
Q34. What is glycogen? How is it different from starch? How is starch structurally different from
cellulose?
Q35. Write the main structural difference between DNA & RNA. Of the four bases, name those
which are common to both DNA & RNA.
Q36. Name:
a) The major structural polysaccharide in higher plants.
b) The polysaccharide is stored in the liver of animals
c) A polysaccharide which acts as a biofuel.
d) A water insoluble component of starch.
Q37. a) What type of linkage is present in amylose and amylopection?
b) What is essentially the difference between α-form of glucose and β-form of glucose?
Explain.
c) Write one difference between α-helix and β-pleated sheet structures of protein.
d) Name the sugar present in milk. How many monosaccharide unit are present in it? What
are such oligosaccharides called?
