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BIOCHEM MIDTERM REVIEW Exam
Questions and Answers 100% Solved
Starch and glycogen are both polymers of:
a. fructose
b. glucose-1-phosphate
c. sucrose
d. a-D-glucose
e. b-d-glucose - ✔✔a-d-glucose
the hydrogen bonding in cellulose has what effect?
a. extensive intrachain and interchain hydrogen bonding yields a low water
content in cellulose
b. the hydrogen bonding yields cellulose chains that make straight, stable
supramolecular fibers.
c. hydrogen bonding gives cellulose a high tensile strength.
d. hydrogen bonding enables cellulose to perform well as plant cell walls
e. all of the answers are correct - ✔✔all of the answers are correct
which monosaccharide is NOT a hexose?
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a. fructose
b. ribose
c. mannose
d. glucose
e. galactose - ✔✔ribose
which technique is NOT commonly used to study oligosaccharide
structures?
a. x-ray crystallography
b. mass spectroscopy
c. nuclear magnetic resonance
d. affinity chcromatography
e. chemical synthesis - ✔✔x-ray crystallography
which pair are NOT digestible by vertebrates?
a. cellulose and amylose
b. amylose and glycogen
c. cellulose and chitin
d. chitin and amylopectin
e. amylose and amylopectin - ✔✔cellulose and chitin
which modification cannot be made to a sugar molecule by an organism?
a. oxidation of the carbonyl carbon
BIOCHEM MIDTERM REVIEW Exam
Questions and Answers 100% Solved
Starch and glycogen are both polymers of:
a. fructose
b. glucose-1-phosphate
c. sucrose
d. a-D-glucose
e. b-d-glucose - ✔✔a-d-glucose
the hydrogen bonding in cellulose has what effect?
a. extensive intrachain and interchain hydrogen bonding yields a low water
content in cellulose
b. the hydrogen bonding yields cellulose chains that make straight, stable
supramolecular fibers.
c. hydrogen bonding gives cellulose a high tensile strength.
d. hydrogen bonding enables cellulose to perform well as plant cell walls
e. all of the answers are correct - ✔✔all of the answers are correct
which monosaccharide is NOT a hexose?
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a. fructose
b. ribose
c. mannose
d. glucose
e. galactose - ✔✔ribose
which technique is NOT commonly used to study oligosaccharide
structures?
a. x-ray crystallography
b. mass spectroscopy
c. nuclear magnetic resonance
d. affinity chcromatography
e. chemical synthesis - ✔✔x-ray crystallography
which pair are NOT digestible by vertebrates?
a. cellulose and amylose
b. amylose and glycogen
c. cellulose and chitin
d. chitin and amylopectin
e. amylose and amylopectin - ✔✔cellulose and chitin
which modification cannot be made to a sugar molecule by an organism?
a. oxidation of the carbonyl carbon
