Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Biology

Chapter

Biomolecules

Question:

Which among the following match is incorrect

Options:

Starch- Store house of energy in plant tissues. 

Mannitol-Sugar alcohol 

Cellulose - Homopolymer 

Plant cell walls - chitin

Correct Answer:

Plant cell walls - chitin

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (4) – Plant cell walls - chitin

The acid insoluble pellet also has polysaccharides (carbohydrates) as another class of macromolecules. Polysaccharides are long chains of sugars. They are threads (literally a cotton thread) containing different monosaccharides as building blocks. For example, cellulose is a polymeric polysaccharide consisting of only one type of monosaccharide i.e., glucose. Cellulose is a homopolymer. Starch is a variant of this but present as a store house of energy in plant tissues. Animals have another variant called glycogen. Inulin is a polymer of fructose. 

Plant cell walls are made of cellulose. Paper made from plant pulp and cotton fibre is cellulosic. There are more complex polysaccharides in nature. They have as building blocks, amino-sugars and chemically modified sugars (e.g., glucosamine, N-acetyl galactosamine, etc.).

Exoskeletons of arthropods, for example, have a complex polysaccharide called chitin. These complex polysaccharides are mostly homopolymers.