Semmelweis Entrance Exam Medicine Biology questions with answers

Semmelweis Entrance Exam Medicine Biology |\ |\ |\ |\




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What are carbohydrates and lipids? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Organic compounds that are mostly composed of three types
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of atom; carbon, hydrogen and oxygen
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What do carbohydrates do? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔provide
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energy, in the form of sugars like glucose and fructose, but they
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also make up structures like cellulose, which form the cell wall of
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What type of carbohydrate is the most important source of
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energy? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔mono-, di- and poly-
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saccharides


What are mono and disaccharides? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔polar and soluble in water
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What are polysaccharides? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Macromolecules resulting from polymerisation (condensation) |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


of sugars and are not soluble in water
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Examples of monosaccharides - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔ribose,
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glucose, fructose, galactose
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,What forms a disaccharide? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔two
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monosaccharides linked together by condensation reactions with
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glycosidic bonds releasing one H2O molecule
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Alpha glucose structure - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔
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Beta glucose structure - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔
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Examples of Polysaccharides - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔cellulose,
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glycogen and starch
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Monomer of Sucrose - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔glucose and
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fructose


monomer of maltose - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔glucose and
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glucose


monomer of lactose - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔glucose and
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galactose


monomer of starch - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔glucose
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monomer of glycogen - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔glucose
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monomer of cellulose - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔glucose
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, In animals, what carbohydrate stores energy? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔glycogen |\




What jobs do carbohydrates have other than storing energy? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔structural components |\ |\ |\




What differs the polysaccharides all made up of glucose? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔they differ in the arrangement of glucose
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molecules and position of the glycosidic bonds
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Starch arrangement - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔amylopectin
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branched, amylose linear |\ |\




What is galactose? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a sugar in milk
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What is fructose? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a sugar found in fruit
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and honey |\




Main characteristic of lipids? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔little to no
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affinity to water, mostly hydrophobic
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What are the simple forms of lipids? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔fat,
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oil and wax
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What are lipids characteristics in different solvents? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔they are non-polar and insoluble in water, but
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soluble in organic solvents |\ |\ |\