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Which of the following is sweet in taste but is not a sugar?

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  1. Starch

  2. Saccharine

  3. Lactose

  4. Protein

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Sweet tasting carbohydrates are called sugars, e.g., glucose and fructose. Starch is a storage polymer of glucose and is tasteless till it is broken down into monomer glucose molecule. Lactose is milk sugar. Proteins are polymers of amino acids which are tasteless except for some like aspartic acid. Saccharine is an artificial sweetener. Saccharin is more sweet than common table sugar or sucrose but has a bitter after taste.

................... is not a carbohydrate.

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  1. Starch

  2. Glycogen

  3. Wax

  4. Glucose

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Glucose is a monosaccharide carbohydrate. Glycogen is an important storage polysaccharide in animals like starch in plants. Glycogen and starch are homopolysaccharides made up of glucose units only. Glycogen is stored in liver and muscles in animals including humans. Starch is usually stored in endosperm and cotyledons of seeds. Waxes are a type of lipids.

Carbohydrates, the most abundant biomolecules on Earth, are produced by

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  1. Some bacteria, algae and green plant cells

  2. All bacteria, fungi and algae

  3. Fungi, algae and green plant cells

  4. Viruses, fungi and bacteria

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Carbohydrates are the most abundant bimolecules found on the face of the earth. This is so because every year plants and alga through the process of photosynthesis converts more than 100 billion metric tones of $CO _2$ and $H _2O$ to cellulose and other products for use by the plants.

Carbohydrates are the body building nutrients.

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  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Proteins are the body building nutrients. Cell is the building block of our body. Most of the structures of the cells are formed with protein. Without protein no cell can be formed and be functional. So, proteins are called the body building nutrients.

Carbohydrates are stored in mammals as

biology food and it's constituents energy giving food carbohydrate and its test biological molecules

  1. Glucose in liver.

  2. Glycogen in muscles and spleen.

  3. Lactic acid in muscles.

  4. Glycogen in liver and muscles.

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Excess glucose is stored as starch or glycogen. Starch is storage polysaccharide in plants. Glycogen is storage polysaccharide in animals. In animals, including humans, glycogen is stored in two locations: muscles and liver.

Carbohydrates, which are present in the cell membrane takes part in which of the following?

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  1. Transport of substance.

  2. Cell recognition.

  3. Attachment to microfilament.

  4. Attachment to microtubules.

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Carbohydrates which are present in the cell membrane take part in cell recognition. Cell recognition is defined as an active process giving rise to a specific response. 

Cell adhesion is a good example of cell recognition when it can be demonstrated that the adhesion is mediated by molecules having specific binding properties. Such cell adhesion molecules have now been identified in several cellular systems. Carbohydrates, or sugars, are sometimes found attached to proteins or lipids on the outside of a cell membrane. That is, they are only found on the extracellular side of a cell membrane. Together these carbohydrates form the glycocalyx. The glycocalyx of a cell has many functions. It can provide cushioning and protection for the plasma membrane, and it is also important in cell recognition. Based on the structure and types of carbohydrates in the glycocalyx, your body can recognize cells and determine if they should be there or not.

Maltose consists of which one of the following :

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  1. $\beta$ - Glucose and $\beta$ - Galactose

  2. $\alpha$ - Glucose and $\alpha$ - Fructose

  3. $\alpha$ - Sucrose and $\beta$ - Glucose

  4. Glucose and Glucose

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:
Maltose is a common disaccharide made up of two units of glucose.

Inulin found in plant cell is a ____________.

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  1. Lipid

  2. Protein

  3. Polysaccharide

  4. Vitamin

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Correct Option: C

What should be given to an athlete for instant energy?

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  1. Carbohydrates

  2. Protein

  3. Fat

  4. Vitamin

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Carbohydrate is essential as the most immediate and efficient fuel to the muscles. In its circulating form in the blood, carbohydrate is called as glucose, and its storage form in muscles and in the liver is called as glycogen. When the athlete first begins to exercise, body draws on the circulating glucose as its first source of energy. Glycogen, as the storage carbohydrate, comes in when circulating glucose drops to a lower level.  Without enough carbohydrates, performance as an athlete will be seriously impacted. 

In which one of the following groups, all the three are examples of polysaccharides :

biology food and it's constituents energy giving food carbohydrate and its test biological molecules

  1. Starch, Glycogen, Cellulose

  2. Sucrose, Maltose, Glucose

  3. Glucose, Fructose, lactose

  4. Galactose, Starch, Sucrose

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Answer is option A i.e. "Starch, Glycogen, Cellulose"
Poysaccharides are carbohydrate polymers (e.g. starch, cellulose, or glycogen) which are made up of more than 10 sub-units of monosaccharide molecules join together.
Starch, glycogen and cellulose are polysaccharides of glucose. Maltose, sucrose and lactose are disaccharides, while, fructose and galactose are monosaccharides.