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NCERT Class 12 Chemistry Chapter-wise Solutions

•  1 – The Solid State
• 2 – Solutions
• 3 – Electrochemistry
• 4 – Chemical Kinetics
• 5 – Surface Chemistry
• 6 – General Principles and Processes of Isolation of Elements
• 7 – The p-Block Elements
• 8 – The d-and f-Blocks Elements
• 9 – Coordination Compounds
• 10 – Haloalkanes and Haloarenes
• 11 – Alcohols, Phenols and Ethers
• 12 – Aldehydes, Ketones and Carboxylic Acids
• 13 – Amines
• 14 – Biomolecules
• 15 – Polymers
• 16 – Chemistry in Everyday Life

CHAPTER FOURTEEN BIOMOLECULES

• 14.1 Carbohydrates
• 14.2 Proteins
• 14.3 Enzymes
• 14.4 Vitamins
• 14.5 Nucleic Acids

NCERT Solutions class 12 Chemistry Biomolecules In text Questions

In-text Question

1. Glucose or sucrose are soluble in water but cyclohexane or benzene (simple six membered ring compounds) are insoluble in water. Explain.

2. What are the expected products of hydrolysis of lactose?

3. How do you explain the absence of aldehyde group in the pentaacetate of D-glucose?

4. The melting points and solubility in water of amino acids are generally higher than that of the corresponding halo acids. Explain.

5. Where does the water present in the egg go after boiling the egg?

6. Why cannot vitamin C be stored in our body?

7. What products would be formed when a nucleotide from DNA containing thymine is hydrolysed?

8. 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?

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