Assignment:
Question 1. Sucrose is hydrolyzed to what two monosaccharides?
1. glucose and fructose
2. glucose and galactose
3. galactose and fructose
4. glucose and maltose
Question 2. All chiral D-sugars rotate plane-polarized light
1. clockwise
2. counterclockwise
3. in a direction that cannot be predicted but must be experimentally determined
4. not at all as they are optically inactive
Question 3. Stereoisomeric aldohexoses that differ in configuration at only a single carbon are
1. epimers
2. meso
3. enantiomers
4. anomers
Question 4. When a monosaccharide reacts to give the pyranose form from its open-chain form, how many distinct pyranose forms are possible?
1. 1
2. 2
3. 2n where "n" is the number of carbons present
4. 4
Question 5. Cellulose and amylose are
1. 1,4' linked polymers of D-glucose which differ in the stereochemistry of this linkage
2. 1, 6' linked polymers of D-glucose which differ in the stereochemistry of this linkage.
3. synonyms of the only polymeric form of D-glucose
4. polymers of totally different monosaccharides