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SEMMELWEIS ENTRANCE EXAM
MEDICINE BIOLOGY GUIDE WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTI ON
Question: What are carbohydrates and lipids?
Correct answer: Organic compounds that are mostly
composed of three types of atom; carbon, hydrogen and oxygen
Question: What do carbohydrates do?
Correct 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
Question: What type of carbohydrate is the most
important source of energy?
Correct answer: mono-, di- and poly-saccharides
Question: What are mono and disaccharides?
Correct answer: polar and soluble in water
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Question: What are polysaccharides?
Correct answer: Macromolecules resulting from
polymerisation (condensation) of sugars and are not soluble in water
Question: Examples of monosaccharides
Correct answer: ribose, glucose, fructose, galactose
Question: What forms a disaccharide?
Correct answer: two monosaccharides linked together by
condensation reactions with glycosidic bonds releasing one H2O molecule
Question: Examples of Polysaccharides
Correct answer: cellulose, glycogen and starch
Question: Monomer of Sucrose
Correct answer: glucose and fructose
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Question: monomer of maltose
Correct answer: glucose and glucose
Question: monomer of lactose
Correct answer: glucose and galactose
Question: monomer of starch
Correct answer: glucose
Question: monomer of glycogen
Correct answer: glucose
Question: monomer of cellulose
Correct answer: glucose
Question: In animals, what carbohydrate stores energy?
Correct answer: glycogen
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Question: What jobs do carbohydrates have other than
storing energy?
Correct answer: structural components
Question: What differs the polysaccharides all made up of
glucose?
Correct answer: they differ in the arrangement of glucose
molecules and position of the glycosidic bonds