List some substances that give positive results for Benedict’s test.

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A $25000 \mathrm{Da}$ protein contains a single binding site for a molecule (ligand), whose molecular weight is $2500 \mathrm{Da}$. Assuming high affinity and physiologically irreversible binding the amount of the ligand required to occupy all the binding sites in $10 \mathrm{mg}$ protein will be:

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Life Sciences>From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes>Construct and revise an explanation based on evidence for how carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen from sugar molecules may combine with other elements to form amino acids and/or other large carbon-based molecules.>Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms - The sugar molecules thus formed contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen: their hydrocarbon backbones are used to make amino acids and other carbon-based molecules that can be assembled into larger molecules(such as proteins or DNA), used for example to form new cells.As matter and energy flow through different organizational levels of living systems, chemical elements are recombined in different ways to form different products.

Which of the following is the least likely to be involved in stabilizing the three-dimensional folding of most proteins?

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Life Sciences>From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes>Construct and revise an explanation based on evidence for how carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen from sugar molecules may combine with other elements to form amino acids and/or other large carbon-based molecules.>Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms - The sugar molecules thus formed contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen: their hydrocarbon backbones are used to make amino acids and other carbon-based molecules that can be assembled into larger molecules(such as proteins or DNA), used for example to form new cells.As matter and energy flow through different organizational levels of living systems, chemical elements are recombined in different ways to form different products.

Optical activity of DNA is due to its:

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Phospholipids are formed by the esterification of:

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Two tubes labelled 'P' and 'Q' contain foodstuff. Tube 'P' gave a positive test with Benedict's solution while tube 'Q' gave a positive test with nitric acid. Which of the following is correct?

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Life Sciences>From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes>Construct and revise an explanation based on evidence for how carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen from sugar molecules may combine with other elements to form amino acids and/or other large carbon-based molecules.>Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms - The sugar molecules thus formed contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen: their hydrocarbon backbones are used to make amino acids and other carbon-based molecules that can be assembled into larger molecules(such as proteins or DNA), used for example to form new cells.As matter and energy flow through different organizational levels of living systems, chemical elements are recombined in different ways to form different products.

The activity of a certain protein is dependent on its phosphorylation. A mutation in its gene changed a single amino acid which affected the function of the molecule. Which amino acid change is most likely to account for this observation?

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Life Sciences>From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes>Construct and revise an explanation based on evidence for how carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen from sugar molecules may combine with other elements to form amino acids and/or other large carbon-based molecules.>Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms - The sugar molecules thus formed contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen: their hydrocarbon backbones are used to make amino acids and other carbon-based molecules that can be assembled into larger molecules(such as proteins or DNA), used for example to form new cells.As matter and energy flow through different organizational levels of living systems, chemical elements are recombined in different ways to form different products.

Which one of the following pairs of molecules never forms a hydrogen bond between them?

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Identify the substances having glycosidic bond and peptide bond, respectively in their structure.

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The Fischer presentation of D-glucose is given below



The correct structure(s) of $\mathrm{\beta }-\mathrm{L}-$ glucopyranose is(are)

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How many different proteins consisting of 100 amino acids can be formed from 20 different amino acids?

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Which one of the following techniques is used for the detection of proteins?

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Life Sciences>From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes>Construct and revise an explanation based on evidence for how carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen from sugar molecules may combine with other elements to form amino acids and/or other large carbon-based molecules.>Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms - The sugar molecules thus formed contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen: their hydrocarbon backbones are used to make amino acids and other carbon-based molecules that can be assembled into larger molecules(such as proteins or DNA), used for example to form new cells.As matter and energy flow through different organizational levels of living systems, chemical elements are recombined in different ways to form different products.

Which one of the following statements is wrong?

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Which of the following is not polymeric?

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Which of the following amino acids is NOT involved in gluconeogenesis?

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Concanavalin A is:

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The reaction of concentrated sulphuric acid with carbohydrates $\left({\mathrm{C}}_{12}{\mathrm{H}}_{22}{\mathrm{O}}_{11}\right)$ is an example of

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Match the following

(a)	Inhibitor of catalytic activity	(i)	Ricin
(b)	Possess peptide bonds	(ii)	Malonate
(c)	Cell wall material in fungi	(iii)	Chitin
(d)	Secondary metabolite	(iv)	Collagen

Choose the correct option from the following

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Life Sciences>From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes>Construct and revise an explanation based on evidence for how carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen from sugar molecules may combine with other elements to form amino acids and/or other large carbon-based molecules.>Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms - The sugar molecules thus formed contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen: their hydrocarbon backbones are used to make amino acids and other carbon-based molecules that can be assembled into larger molecules(such as proteins or DNA), used for example to form new cells.As matter and energy flow through different organizational levels of living systems, chemical elements are recombined in different ways to form different products.

Choose the CORRECT combination of statements given below related to cysteine residue in proteins.

i. Cysteine can be linked to tyrosine by S-O bond.

ii. Cysteine can be linked to another cysteine by S-S bond.

iii. Cysteine can complex with ${\mathrm{Z}\mathrm{n}}^{2+}.$

iv. Cysteine can be linked to methionine by S-S bond

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Life Sciences>From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes>Construct and revise an explanation based on evidence for how carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen from sugar molecules may combine with other elements to form amino acids and/or other large carbon-based molecules.>Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms - The sugar molecules thus formed contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen: their hydrocarbon backbones are used to make amino acids and other carbon-based molecules that can be assembled into larger molecules(such as proteins or DNA), used for example to form new cells.As matter and energy flow through different organizational levels of living systems, chemical elements are recombined in different ways to form different products.

In a protein molecule various amino acids are linked together by:

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Life Sciences>From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes>Construct and revise an explanation based on evidence for how carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen from sugar molecules may combine with other elements to form amino acids and/or other large carbon-based molecules.>Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms - The sugar molecules thus formed contain carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen: their hydrocarbon backbones are used to make amino acids and other carbon-based molecules that can be assembled into larger molecules(such as proteins or DNA), used for example to form new cells.As matter and energy flow through different organizational levels of living systems, chemical elements are recombined in different ways to form different products.

A dehydration reaction links two glucose molecules to produce maltose. If the formula for glucose is ${\mathrm{C}}_6{\mathrm{H}}_{12}{\mathrm{O}}_6$ then what is the formula for maltose?