Biomolecules Exercise
1. The term protoplasm was coined by:
A. Robert Hooke
B. Robert Brown
C. Schwann
D. Johannes Purkinje
2. The following is the major atom in all biological compounds:
A. Carbon
B. Oxygen
C. Nitrogen
D. Hydrogen
3. The principal source of energy for the body is:
A. Lipid
B. Protein
C. Nucleic acid
D. Carbohydrate
4. Which one is not a carbohydrate?
A. Starch
B. Chitin
C. Glycogen
D. Methionine
5. Monosaccharides are:
A. Glucose and ribose
B. Lactose and ribulose
C. Glucose and sucrose
D. Fructose and sucrose
[Link] is the formula of glucose?
A. C3 H8 O3
B. C6 H12 O6
C. C55 H70 O6
D. C6 H10 O6
7. Simple sugar of the blood is:
A. Sucrose
B. Lactose
C. Glucose
D. Galactose
8. Glucose is stored as Glycogen in:
A. Liver
B. Spleen
C. Kidney
D. Pancreas
9. How does Glucose differ from sucrose, cellulose and starch?
A. It is a carbohydrate
B. It is monosaccharides
C. The others are polysaccharides
D. It contains, carbon, hydrogen and oxygen
10. A Glucose molecule is to starch as a:
A. Steroid to a lipid
B. Protein to an amino acid
C. Nucleotide to nucleic acid
D. Nucleic acid to a polypeptide
11. Which one is the sweetest sugar?
A. Sucrose
B. Glucose
C. Fructose
D. Maltose
12. Which of the following has no free aldehyde or ketone group?
A. Sucrose
B. Maltose
C. Fructose
D. Galactose
13. The major source of sugar in the world today is:
A. Dates
B. Beet root
C. Sugarcane
D. Watermelon
14. Maltose consists of which one of the following?
A. B-Glucose and B-galactose
B. a-Glucose and a-fructose
C. a-Sucrose and b-glucose
D. Glucose and glucose
15. Lactose is composed of:
A. Glucose + glucose
B. Glucose + Fructose
C. Glucose + Galactose
D. Fructose + Galactose
16. Lipids differ from other large Biomolecules in that they:
A. Are much larger
B. Are not true polymers
C. Does not contain carbon
D. Do not have specific shape
17. Which particular fatty acid is not synthesized in human body?
A. Glycerol
B. Cholesterol
C. Linoleic acid
D. None of these
18. Which of the following is an example of saturated fatty acid?
A. Oleic acid
B. Stearic acid
C. Linoleic acid
D. Linolenic acid
19. Estrogen, cholesterol and other steroids are example of:
A. Lipids
B. Triglycerides
C. Nucleic acids
D. Phospholipids
20. Phospholipids are:
A. Amphipathic
B. Hydrophobic
C. Hydropilic
D. None of these
21. Which of the following is not a macromolecule?
A. Protein
B. Starch
C. Amino acid
D. Nucleic acid
22. Which of the following is the simplest amino acid?
A. Glycine
B. Tyrosine
C. Alanine
D. Asparagine
23. Which of the following statement is wrong?
A. Uracil is a pyrimidine
B. Sucrose is a disaccharide
C. Cellulose is a polysaccharide
D. Glycine is a sulphur containing amino acid
24. Lysine is an essential amino acid as it is:
A. Not formed in the body and has to be provided in diet
B. Important constituent of all protein
C. With high nutritive value
D. Very rare
25. Which of the following amino acids can stabilize protein structure by forming disulphide
bonds?
A. Lysine
B. Alanine
C. Cystein
D. Arginine
26. Nucleotide is
A. Base-sugar-OH
B. Sugar-phosphate
C. Base-sugar-phosphate
D. Base phosphate
27. Which of the following is a purine nucleoside?
A. Uracil
B. Cytidine
C. Thymidine
D. Adenosine
28. Adenine is a:
A. Purine
B. Nucleotide
C. Pyrimidine
D. Nucleosine
29. ATP is from which category of Biomolecules?
A. Proteins
B. Amino acids
C. Nucleotides
D. Polysaccharides
30. Which of the following is known as ‘animal starch’?
A. Chitin
B. Lignin
C. Dextrin
D. Glycogen
31. Starch and glycogen are both polymers of:
A. Fructose
B. Mannose
C. a-glucose
D. b-glucose
32. Chitin is present in:
A. Exoskeleton of arthropods and fungal walls
B. Exoskeleton of echinoderms
C. Endoskeleton of annelids
D. And (b) and (c) correct
33. On hydrolysis, nucleic acid produces:
A. Sugar only
B. Phosphoric acid
C. Nitrogen bases only
D. All of these
34. Unlike DNA, an RNA molecule:
A. Forms a gene
B. Is a single stranded molecule
C. Does not contain pentose sugars
D. Does not contain phosphate groups
35. Bond present between two nucleotides of a polynucleotide is:
A. Covalent bond
B. Hydrogen bond
C. Phosphodiester bond
D. High energy phosphate bond
36. The carbon atoms of the pentose sugar involved in Phosphodiester bond formation in DNA
and RNA are:
A. C1 and c5
B. C3 and c5
C. C2 and c5
D. C4 and c5
37. Which of the following is found both in DNA and RNA?
A. Ribose
B. Adenine
C. Uracil
D. Thymine
38. If the percentage of adenine in a double stranded DNA molecule is 20 ,the percentage of
guanine is:
A. 80%
B. 20%
C. 30%
D. 40%