AP Biology Biochemistry Exam Questions
With Correct Answers
Name the four major classes of large molecules in living things - answer✔✔carbohydrates,
lipids, proteins, nucleic acids
What is the one class of large molecules that does not include macromolecules? -
answer✔✔lipids
giant molecule formed by the joining of smaller molecules, usually by a dehydration reaction -
answer✔✔macromolecule
a long molecule consisting of many similar or identical building blocks linked by covalent bonds
- answer✔✔polymer
the subunit that serves as the building block of a polymer - answer✔✔monomer
the process in which two molecules become covalently bonded to each other with the removal of
a water molecule - answer✔✔dehydration synthesis
the process in which a water molecules added to a polymer in order to break down bonds
between two molecules - answer✔✔hydrolysis
root word meaning water - answer✔✔hydro
root word meaning to break - answer✔✔lysis
Is glucose a monomer or a polymer? - answer✔✔monomer
To summarize, when two monomers are joined, a molecule of _____ is always removed -
answer✔✔water
The monomer of carbohydrates - answer✔✔monosaccharides
Carbohydrates include _______ and _________ - answer✔✔sugars starches
Give the formula for glucose - answer✔✔C6H12O6
All sugars have the same two functional groups, name them - answer✔✔carbonyl, hydroxyl
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A double sugar, consisting of two monosaccharides joined by dehydration synthesis. -
answer✔✔disaccharide
A covalent bond formed between two monosaccharides by a dehydration reaction. -
answer✔✔glycosidic linkage
Carbohydrate: carbonyl group located at the end of skeleton - answer✔✔aldehyde sugar
Carbohydrate: carbonyl group located within the skeleton - answer✔✔ketone sugar
Compounds with the same formula but different structures. - answer✔✔isomers
What is this? - answer✔✔glucose
malt sugar - answer✔✔maltose
What two monomers make up maltose? - answer✔✔glucose + glucose
table sugar - answer✔✔sucrose
What two monomers make up sucrose? - answer✔✔glucose + fructose
milk sugar - answer✔✔lactose
What two monomers make up lactose? - answer✔✔glucose + galactose
Root word meaning "full of" - answer✔✔-ose
What does 1-4 glycosidic linkage mean in terms of carbon numbering? - answer✔✔Carbon-1 of
glucose has bonded with Carbon-4 of glucose
Give two types of polysaccharides used in energy storage - answer✔✔starch, glycogen
Give two types of polysaccharides used as structural - answer✔✔cellulose, chitin
Name the two types of polysaccharides - answer✔✔energy storage, structural
Why can you not digest cellulose? - answer✔✔enzymes that are able to digest starch by
hydrolyzing alpha linkages are unable to hydrolyze the beta linkages of cellulose because of the
distinctly different shapes
Give three organisms that can digest cellulose - answer✔✔cows, termites, fungi
Has 1-4 Beta glucose linkages - answer✔✔starch
is a storage polysaccharide produced by vertebrates that is stored in your liver -
answer✔✔glycogen
structural polysaccharide that gives many bugs their exoskeleton - answer✔✔chitin