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Monosaccharides are polyhydric aldehydes and ketones which cannot be hydrolysed into simpler carbohydrates. The monosaccharides with aldehydic group `(-CHO)` are called aldoses while those with ketonic group are called ketoses. For example, glucose, fructose, ribose, etc.
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MODERN PUBLICATION-BIOMOLECULES-NCERT FILE (NCERT)(Textbook Exercises)
  1. What are monosaccharides?

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  2. What are reducing sugars?

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  3. Write two main functions of carbohydrates in plants.

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  4. Classify the following into monosaccharides and disaccharides.

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  5. What do you understand by the term glycosidic linkage?

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  6. What is glycogen? How is it different from starch?

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  7. What are the hydrolysis products of (i) sucrose and (ii) lactose?

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  8. What is the basic structural difference between starch and cellulose?

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  9. What happenes when D-glucose is treated with the following reagents? ...

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  10. Enumerate the reactions of D-Glucose which cannot be explained by its ...

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  11. What are essential and non-essential amino acids? Give two examples of...

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  12. Define the following as related to proteins : (i) Peptide linkage ...

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  13. What are the common types of secondary structures fo proteins?

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  14. What type of bonding helps in stabilising the alpha-helix structure of...

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  15. Differentiate between globular and fibrous proteins.

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  16. How do you explain the amphoteric behaviour of amino acids?

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  17. what are enzymes?

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  18. What is the effect of denaturation on the structure of proteins?

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  19. How are vitamines classified? Name the vitamin responsible for the coa...

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  20. Why are vitamin A and vitamin C essential for us? Give their important...

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