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What is glycogen?How is it different from starch?

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Glycogen is polysaccharide. It is polymer of glucose, Its structure is similar to amyiopectin and is rather highly branched whercas starch consists of both, arnylose and amylopectin. Carboliydrates are stored in animal body as glyco. gea whereas in pint body as stịch.
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  2. What do you understand by the term glycosidic linkage?

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

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  4. What are the hydrolysis products of (a) sucrose (b) lactose

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

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  9. What are thecommon types of secondary stucture of proteins?

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  10. What type of bonding helps in stabilising the alpha- helix stucture o...

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  11. Differentiate between globular and fibrous proteins

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  12. Explain the amphoteric behavior of amino acid.

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  13. what are enzymes? Write in brief the mechanism of enzyme catalysis.

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

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  15. How are vitamins classified? Name the vitamin responisble for the coa...

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  16. Why are Vitamin A and Vitamin C essential to us? Give their important...

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  17. What are nucleic acids? Mention their two important functions?

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  18. Differentiate between nucleoside and nucleotide:

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  19. The two strands inDNA are not identical but are complementary.Explain

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