Bio 2

What’s the reaction that forms disaccharides and what type of bond is formed and what is it called?

Hydrolysis, covalent bond, glycosidic linkage

Dehydration, covalent bond, glycosidic linkage

Hydrolysis, glycosidic linkage, covalent bond

Dehydration, glycosidic linkage, covalent bond

What determines the structure and function of a polysaccharide?

Its sugar polymers only

Its sugar monomers only

Its sugar polymers and the positions of glycosidic linkages

Its sugar monomers and the positions of glycosidic linkages

Which of the following is correct?

Amylose is helical and cellulose is branched

Amylose is straight and glycogen is branched

Amylose is helical and glycogen is branched

Amylose is helical and glycogen is straight

Animals, humans, and other vertebrates store glycogen in?

The liver

Muscle cells

Liver and muscle cells

Liver, muscle cells, and blood vessels

Which of the following is false about cellulose and starch?

They are both glucose polymers

They have the same type of ring form glucose

They are both polysaccharides

Starch is helical and cellulose is straight

Cellulose supports the cell wall of plant cells because

It forms hydrogen bonds between hydrogen atoms on the same strand

It forms hydrogen bonds between one hydrogen atom on one strand and another hydrogen atom on the other strand

It forms hydrogen bonds between one hydrogen atom on one strand and a hydroxyl group on the other strand

It forms hydrogen bonds between a hydrogen atom on a strand and a hydroxyl group on the same strand

Which of the following is true about chitin?

It’s only found in fungi

It’s found in the endoskeleton of arthropods

It’s used to make nylon surgical threads

It’s found in the cell wall of some organisms

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