NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
BIOCHEMISTRY
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Question
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Sugars usually end in ____
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-ose
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-ace
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-ats
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-ids
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Sucrose, a disaccharide (consisting of two monosaccharides), is table sugar. (Note the ending “ose” common to most sugars.) Polysaccharides may be made from thousands of simple sugars linked together.
Detailed explanation-2: -What is common about glucose, fructose, pentose, hexose, sucrose? They all have the suffix “ose”. Yes, right and diabetologists are obsessed with the dire effects of these sweet substances on the human body. ‘Ose’ is a Latin suffix which means “full of” and all the above chemicals are full of sugar.
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