SEMMELWEIS ENTRANCE EXAM
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS 2026
• What are carbohydrates and lipids? Answer: Organic compounds that
are mostly composed of three types of atom; carbon, hydrogen and
oxygen
• What do carbohydrates do? Answer: 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?
Answer: mono-, di- and poly-saccharides
• What are mono and disaccharides? Answer: polar and soluble in water
• What are polysaccharides? Answer: Macromolecules resulting from
polymerisation (condensation) of sugars and are not soluble in water
• Examples of monosaccharides Answer: ribose, glucose, fructose,
galactose
,• What forms a disaccharide? Answer: two monosaccharides linked
together by condensation reactions with glycosidic bonds releasing one
H2O molecule
• Alpha glucose structure Answer:
• Beta glucose structure Answer:
• Examples of Polysaccharides Answer: cellulose, glycogen and starch
• Monomer of Sucrose Answer: glucose and fructose
• monomer of maltose Answer: glucose and glucose
• monomer of lactose Answer: glucose and galactose
• monomer of starch Answer: glucose
• monomer of glycogen Answer: glucose
• monomer of cellulose Answer: glucose
• In animals, what carbohydrate stores energy? Answer: glycogen
, • What jobs do carbohydrates have other than storing energy? Answer:
structural components
• What differs the polysaccharides all made up of glucose? Answer: they
differ in the arrangement of glucose molecules and position of the
glycosidic bonds
• Starch arrangement Answer: amylopectin branched, amylose linear
• What is galactose? Answer: a sugar in milk
• What is fructose? Answer: a sugar found in fruit and honey
• Main characteristic of lipids? Answer: little to no affinity to water,
mostly hydrophobic
• What are the simple forms of lipids? Answer: fat, oil and wax
• What are lipids characteristics in different solvents? Answer: they are
non-polar and insoluble in water, but soluble in organic solvents
• What are triglycerides? Answer: the main group of lipids. They are
formed by condensation reactions between one glycerol and three fatty
acids, creating ester bonds
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS 2026
• What are carbohydrates and lipids? Answer: Organic compounds that
are mostly composed of three types of atom; carbon, hydrogen and
oxygen
• What do carbohydrates do? Answer: 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?
Answer: mono-, di- and poly-saccharides
• What are mono and disaccharides? Answer: polar and soluble in water
• What are polysaccharides? Answer: Macromolecules resulting from
polymerisation (condensation) of sugars and are not soluble in water
• Examples of monosaccharides Answer: ribose, glucose, fructose,
galactose
,• What forms a disaccharide? Answer: two monosaccharides linked
together by condensation reactions with glycosidic bonds releasing one
H2O molecule
• Alpha glucose structure Answer:
• Beta glucose structure Answer:
• Examples of Polysaccharides Answer: cellulose, glycogen and starch
• Monomer of Sucrose Answer: glucose and fructose
• monomer of maltose Answer: glucose and glucose
• monomer of lactose Answer: glucose and galactose
• monomer of starch Answer: glucose
• monomer of glycogen Answer: glucose
• monomer of cellulose Answer: glucose
• In animals, what carbohydrate stores energy? Answer: glycogen
, • What jobs do carbohydrates have other than storing energy? Answer:
structural components
• What differs the polysaccharides all made up of glucose? Answer: they
differ in the arrangement of glucose molecules and position of the
glycosidic bonds
• Starch arrangement Answer: amylopectin branched, amylose linear
• What is galactose? Answer: a sugar in milk
• What is fructose? Answer: a sugar found in fruit and honey
• Main characteristic of lipids? Answer: little to no affinity to water,
mostly hydrophobic
• What are the simple forms of lipids? Answer: fat, oil and wax
• What are lipids characteristics in different solvents? Answer: they are
non-polar and insoluble in water, but soluble in organic solvents
• What are triglycerides? Answer: the main group of lipids. They are
formed by condensation reactions between one glycerol and three fatty
acids, creating ester bonds
