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Theory module: 05 (MCQ)
INTRODUCTION TO CARBOHYDRATES AND LIPIDS
1. Cellulose Is made of
A. Glucose
B. Galactose
C. Maltose
D. none of the above
2. Carbohydrate functions
A. Primary Source of Energy
B. storage food
C. Bio Fuel
D. all of the above
3. A polysacchharide which is often called animal starch is
A. Starch
B. glycogen
C. Dextrin
D. insulin
4. A triose sugar is
A. Fructose
B. Lactose
C. Sucrose
D. glycerose
5. The number of isomers in glucose is
A. 8
B. 9
C. 16
D. 18
6. Mutarotation means change in
A. optical rotation
B. pH
C. chemical properties
D. none of the above
7. The epimers of glucose is
A. Galactose
B. Fructose
C. Ribose
D. Deoxyribose
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8. -------------------- is a not reducing sugar
A. lactose
B. Fructose
C. Maltose
D. Sucrose
9. D-glucose and β-D-glucose are
A. epimers
B. anomers
C. ketoenol pairs
D. none of the above
10. The smallest monosaccharide having furanose as ring structure
A. erythrose
B. ribose
C. fructose
D. glucose
11. lipids are insoluble in
A. water
B. ether
C. chloroform
D. benzene
12. Essential fatty acids are
A. linoleic
B. linolenic
C. arachidonic acid
D. all of the above
13. The characteristics that all lipids share is
A. they all are made of fatty acids and glycerol
B. all contain nitrogen
C. none of them dissolves in water
D. they all are acidic in nature when mixed with water
14. -------------- contain twice the energy content when compared to carbohydrates
A. acylglycerol
B. glycerol
C. waxes
D. fats
15. animal fat is
A. wax
B. linoleic acid
C. stearin
D. triglycerol
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16. Tails of phospholipids are
A. hydrophilic
B. hydrophobic
C. none of the above
D. both of these
17. how many carbon are their in the steroid nucleus of cholesterol
A. 15
B. 17
C. 27
D. 7
18. Sphingomyelin is
A. phospholipids
B. alcohol
C. nitrolipids
D. none of the above
19. fat soluble vitamins are
A. vitamin A
B. vitamin D
C. vitamin E
D. all of the above
20. Cholesterol is a precursor in the biogenesis
A. vitamin A
B. vitamin D
C. vitamin E
D. none of the above
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Theory module: 05 (Assignment)
INTRODUCTION TO CARBOHYDRATES AND LIPIDS
1. How carbohydrates are classified?
2. What are the functional groups of carbohydrates?
3. What is asymmetric carbon?
4. What are the sources of lipid?
5. What are the functions of lipid?
6. How lipid can be classified?
7. Give one examples of each of monosaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids?
8. Write the names of fat soluble vitamins?
9. What are the three groups of Sphingolipids?
10. What is the difference between dextrose and glucose?
11. What is the difference between inulin and insulin?
12. What are the products when amylose and amylopectin (forms of starch) are
hydrolysed by amylase?
13. What are the metabolic fuels available to the brain?
14. Under which circumstances, and by which metabolic pathway, are fatty acids
metabolised to glucose?
15. What disease is caused by a heterozygous inactivating mutation of glucokinase in
pancreatic ß-cells?
16. What are the functions of carbohydrates?
17. What is the structural difference between cis- and trans-fatty acids?
18. Which is the largest and which is the smallest of the lipoprotein family?
19. Which enzyme regulates de novo cholesterol synthesis? Name the class of drugs
which competitively inhibit this enzyme.
20.
Define carbohydrates & epimers
21.
Define enantiomers & mutarotations
22.
Define steroids, lipids & phospholipids
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Theory module: 05 (References)
INTRODUCTION TO CARBOHYDRATES AND LIPIDS
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Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry By David. L. Nelson and Michael. M. Cox
Outlines of Biochemistry by E.E Conn and P.K.Stump
Biochemistry by Stryer.L
Harper’s review of Biochemistry by by Martin. D. W, Mayes. P. A and Rodwell.
V. M
Practical of Biochemistry by Wilson & Walker
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Theory module: 05 (Edutainment)
INTRODUCTION TO CARBOHYDRATES AND LIPIDS
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Across
48. Sugar present in the nucleic
acid
6. Lipids are made of fatty acids
and ________
92. Carbohydrate present in the
milk
81. alpha-D-glucose and u03b2D-glucose are
100. ___________are a special
type of stereoisomers that are
mirror images of each other.
65. ________ fatty acids have
single bonds between the carbon
atoms
37. _________are esters of fatty
acids with long chain
monohydric alcohols (one
hydroxyl group)
Down
3. __________are complex fat derivatives in
which one fatty acid has been replaced by a
phosphate group
12. Name of the table sugar
16. These are the compounds that have the
same structural formulae but different in the
spatial configuration.
30. These are polyhydroxy aldehydes,
polyhydroxy ketones, or compounds that can
be hydrolyzed to them.
54. ________ is a simple sugar and is often
called blood sugar, since it is the main
carbohydrate found in the blood of mammals
54. ________ is a simple sugar and is often
called blood sugar, since it is the main
carbohydrate found in the blood of mammals.
1. It is the reserve food in the form of glucose
in humans and animals.
19. It is defined as the change in the specific
optical rotation representing the
interconversion of a and u03b2 forms of Dglucose to an equilibrium mixture.
13. Steroids are derivative of __________
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