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Semmelweis Entrance Exam Medicine
Biology questions
1.
What are carbohydrates and lipids?:
Organic compounds that are mostly composed of
three types
of atom; carbon, hydrogen and oxygen
2.
What
do
carbohydrates
do?:
provide energy, in the form of sugars like glucose and fructose,
but they
also
make
up
structures
like
cellulose,
which
form
the
cell
wall
of
plant
cells
3. What type of carbohydrate is the most important source of energy?:
mono-, di-
and poly-saccharides
4.
What
are
mono
and
disaccharides?:
polar
and
soluble
in
water
5.
What
are
polysaccharides?:
Macromolecules
resulting
from
polymerisation
(condensation)
of
sugars
and are not soluble in water
6.
Examples
of
monosaccharides:
ribose,
glucose,
fructose,
galactose
7.
What
forms
a
disaccharide?:
two
monosaccharides
linked
together
by
condensation
reactions
with
glycosidic
bonds
releasing
one
H2O
molecule
