Carbohydrates

During a grocery shopping trip, you're looking at the nutritional information of various fruits. You wonder, what is the most common monosaccharide found in these fruits?

• Sucrose

• Glucose

• Fructose

• Galactose

Imagine you are preparing a sweet dish and need to choose a disaccharide sugar for the recipe. Which of the following would you select?

• Glucose

• Sucrose

• Starch

• Cellulose

When creating table sugar, which is a disaccharide called sucrose, what type of bond is formed between the glucose and fructose monosaccharides?

• Hydrogen bond

• Covalent bond

• Ionic bond

• Glycosidic linkage

Imagine you are a nutritionist explaining to a client about energy storage in the human body. Which polysaccharide would you mention as the primary storage form of glucose in humans and other vertebrates?

• Chitin

• Starch

• Glycogen

• Cellulose

Imagine you are a botanist studying various plants in a rainforest. You're examining the structure of a plant and trying to identify the primary component of its cell walls. What would that component be?

• Starch

• Glycogen

• Chitin

• Cellulose

During a marathon, a runner decides to consume a snack. Which of the following is not a function of the carbohydrates in the snack?

• Energy storage

• Structural support

• Storing genetic information

• Fuel source

A nutritionist is analyzing the molecular composition of common sugars found in fruits. She is particularly interested in the formula for glucose. What is it?

• C6H12O6

• C5H10O5

• C6H10O5

• C12H22O11

When examining the structure of sugars in a biology class, how are glucose and galactose related?

• Isomers

• Enzymes

• Polymers

• Coenzymes

Imagine you're in a kitchen, trying to sweeten your tea. Which of the following is a characteristic feature of the sugar (a monosaccharide) you're using?

• It is a polymer

• It is sweet in taste

• It is a fatty acid

• It cannot dissolve in water

In the world of biochemistry, when comparing the sugar found in an apple (an aldose sugar) to the sugar found in honey (a ketose sugar), what molecular structure is responsible for their classification?

• Carbonyl group

• Phosphate group

• Amino group

• Hydroxyl group