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SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY -SEMMELWEIS ENTRANCE EXAM
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MEDICINE BIOLOGY EXAM 2026




Semmelweis University -Semmelweis Entrance Exam Medicine
Biology Exam 2026 | Complete Question Bank with Answers

What are carbohydrates and lipids?

Organic compounds that are mostly composed of three types of atom; carbon, hydrogen and oxygen




What do carbohydrates do?

provide energy, in the form of sugars like glucose and fructose, but they also make up structures like
cellulose, which form the cell wall of plant cells




What type of carbohydrate is the most important source of energy?

mono-, di- and poly-saccharides




What are mono and disaccharides?

polar and soluble in water




What are polysaccharides?

Macromolecules resulting from polymerisation (condensation) of sugars and are not soluble in water




Examples of monosaccharides

ribose, glucose, fructose, galactose
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What forms a disaccharide?

two monosaccharides linked together by condensation reactions with glycosidic bonds releasing one
H2O molecule




Alpha glucose structure




Beta glucose structure




Examples of Polysaccharides

cellulose, glycogen and starch
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Monomer of Sucrose

glucose and fructose

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monomer of maltose

glucose and glucose




monomer of lactose

glucose and galactose




monomer of starch

glucose




monomer of glycogen

glucose




monomer of cellulose

glucose




In animals, what carbohydrate stores energy?

glycogen
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What jobs do carbohydrates have other than storing energy?

structural components

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What differs the polysaccharides all made up of glucose?

they differ in the arrangement of glucose molecules and position of the glycosidic bonds




Starch arrangement

amylopectin branched, amylose linear




What is galactose?

a sugar in milk




What is fructose?

a sugar found in fruit and honey




Main characteristic of lipids?

little to no affinity to water, mostly hydrophobic




What are the simple forms of lipids?

fat, oil and wax
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What are lipids characteristics in different solvents?

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