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Lecture#1
1. What are Biomolecules? Give their examples.

2. What are the characteristics of Biomolecules?

3. Into how many types the Biomolecules are to be classified?

4. What are carbohydrates? Why carbohydrates are called “Hydrase of Carbon”?

5. How Carbohydrates are chemically defined?

6. Draw a flow chart related to the classifications of carbohydrates.

7. What is the normal level of carbohydrates in blood? Why this normal level is needed to be
stable?

8. What is the general formula for carbohydrates?

9. Which type of isomeric form of glyceraldehydes is present?

10. How the following two structures are related?

11. For which of the following structure whether the carbohydrates is:

(i) an aldose or ketose, and (ii) a tetrose, pentose or hexose


12. For each of the following structure:

(a)Identify the anomeric center (b) Identify it as hemi-acetal ,hemi –ketal (c) a furanose or a
pyranose ring.

(a) (b) (c)

13. What is the common name of this monosaccharide?


14. Why sucrose is a non-reducing sugar?
15. Why carbohydrates exhibit different types of isomerism?
16. Draw the Dand L isomers of mannose, fructose and glucose.
17. Is Glyceraldehydes is chiral? If yes give reason.
18. What do you know about optically active compounds?
19. Why galactose and mannose are epimers of glucose?
20. The Fischer projection of glucose is given below?

a) Write the molecular formula for glucose.


b) Classify based on functional group.
c) Classify based on the number of carbons.
d) Classify based on functional group and the number of carbons

20. The Fischer projection of glucose is given below?

a) Write the molecular formula for glucose.


b) Classify based on functional group.
c) Classify based on the number of carbons.
d) Classify based on functional group and the number of carbons

21. The Fischer projection of fructose is given below:


a) Write the molecular formula for fructose.
b) Classify based on functional group.
c) Classify based on the number of carbons.
d) Classify based on functional group and the number of carbons

22. State whether each of the following is the D or L isomer.

23. Identify each of the following as an α or a β form.

24. Draw Fisher projection formulas for each of the following and indicate each
Chiral carbon with asterisks (*).
a. an aldotetrose
b. a ketotetrose
c. an aldohexose
d. a ketohexose

25. Describes the biologically importance of carbohydrates with example.

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