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Biomolecules
Explain mutarotation. Give its mechanism in case of D-glucose.
The spontaneous change in specific rotation of an optically active compound is called mutarotation.All reducing sugars undergo mutarotation. Glucose show mutarotation because during the formation of hemiacetal, another asymmetric carbon is produced (C-1) which can exist in two forms,
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When RNA is hydrolysed, there is no relationship among the quantities of different bases obtained. What does this fact suggest about the structure of RNA?
Give one example each of (i) Reducing sugar and (ii) Non-reducing sugar.
Name the anomers of glucose.
State two characteristics of monosaccharides.
Name a carbohydrate containing five carbon atoms per molecule.
Name the monomers of starch.
Name the polysaccharides that is stored in the liver of animals.
What do you understand by the term gycosidic linkage?
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