Chemistry : Biomolecules

What is the basic structural difference between starch and cellulose?

What happens when D-glucose is treated with the following reagents?
Bromine water

Name a polysaccharide which is stored in the liver of animals as food reserve.

In what ways does starch show similarity with cellulose?

What happens when D-glucose is treated with the following reagents?
HNO₃.

What happens when D-glucose is treated with the following reagents?
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Consider a double helix. Are the base pairs?

• part of the backbone structure

• inside the helix

• outside the helix