SEMMELWEIS ENTRANCE EXAM MEDICINE

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SEMMELWEIS ENTRANCE EXAM MEDICINE

BIOLOGY

CORRECT SOLUTIONS.

What are carbohydrates and lipids? - correct answer- Organic compounds that are mostly composed of three types of atom; carbon, hydrogen and oxygen

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

What type of carbohydrate is the most important source of energy? - correct answer- mono-, di- and poly-saccharides

What are mono and disaccharides? - correct answer- polar and soluble in water

What are polysaccharides? - correct answer- Macromolecules resulting from polymerisation (condensation) of sugars and are not soluble in water 1 / 3

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Examples of monosaccharides - correct answer- ribose, glucose, fructose, galactose

What forms a disaccharide? - correct answer- two monosaccharides linked together by condensation reactions with glycosidic bonds releasing one H2O molecule

Alpha glucose structure - correct answer-

Beta glucose structure - correct answer-

Examples of Polysaccharides - correct answer- cellulose, glycogen and starch

Monomer of Sucrose - correct answer- glucose and fructose

monomer of maltose - correct answer- glucose and glucose

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monomer of lactose - correct answer- glucose and galactose

monomer of starch - correct answer- glucose

monomer of glycogen - correct answer- glucose

monomer of cellulose - correct answer- glucose

In animals, what carbohydrate stores energy? - correct answer- glycogen

What jobs do carbohydrates have other than storing energy? - correct answer- structural components

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

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