Name three useful products that can be obtained from cellulose.
What are monosaccharides?
What are reducing sugars?
Write two main functions of carbohydrates in plants.
Classify the following into monosaccharides and disaccharides: Ribose, 2-deoxy-ribose, maltose, galactose, fructose and lactose.
Mono-saccharides: Ribose, 2-deoxyribose, galactose, fructose.Di-saccharides: maltose, lactose.
What happens when sucrose is boiled with dilute HCl?
Give one reaction to show the presence of five hydroxyl groups in glucose.
How will you prove that all the carbon atoms of a glucose are in a straight chain?
Name the linkage when two monosaccharides unit join to form a polysaccharide unit.