CARBS

Question 1

What forms the framework of RNA and DNA

Answer 1

Ribose and deoxyribose sugars

Question 2

Most abundant oligosaccharides

Answer 2

disaccharides

Question 3

sweetest chemical found in honey

Answer 3

B-D-Fructopyranose

Question 4

two types of glycosidic bonds

Answer 4

O-bond, N-bond

Question 5

Which type of sugar reacts with Fehling’s solution

Answer 5

reducing

Question 6

Highly branched polymer of glucose residues branches formed by 1,6-glycosidic bonds that are present once every 10 units

Answer 6

glycogen

Question 7

abundant organic molecules in biosphere, good for structure, forms long straight chains

Answer 7

cellulose

Question 8

made of repeating disaccharide units, at least 1 of the sugars have a neg charged carboxyl or sulfate group, forms proteoglycans with proteins with lubricants

Answer 8

glycosaminoglycans

Question 9

3 types of blood group antigens

Answer 9

A, B, and O

Question 10

Carbs covalently attached to proteins to form glycoproteins, has cell adhesion of sperm to egg, helps evade immune system

Answer 10

glycoproteins

Question 11

sulfated glycosaminoglycans attached to a large rod-shaped protein in cell membrane

Answer 11

proteoglycans

Question 12

2 types of proteoglycans

Answer 12

syndecans and glypicans

Question 13

protein that has a single transmembrane domain

Answer 13

syndecans

Question 14

protein that is anchored to a lipid membrane

Answer 14

glypicans

Question 15

promotes interactions between cells, can serve as potent insecticides in plants, facilitates cell-cell contact in animals

Answer 15

lectins

Question 16

c-type lectins, mediates cell-cell recognition and adhesion

Answer 16

selections

Question 17

a lipid with a covalent bond to oligosaccharide parts of plant and animal cell membrane

Answer 17

glycolipids

Question 18

examples of carb derived drugs

Answer 18

tamiflu, glycan arrays, targeted drug delivery