Is cellulose a reducing sugar or a non reducing one?I believe
glycogen is a non reducing sugar?Which of these produces glucose
monomers upon a complete hydrolysis?Does the "hydrolysis" here
refer to the non-reducing sugar test?
Glycogen is not considered a sugar (ie. simple carbohydrate),
but a polysaccharide (ie. complex carbohydrate), and it's
non-reducing.
Hydrolysis refers to the breakdown of glycogen (polymer) into
glucose (monomer), which is a reducing sugar.
Because only some non-reducing
sugars may be hydrolyzed to give reducing sugars, hence hydrolysis
followed by Fehlings/Tollens test, is not reliably a
"non-reducing sugar test".
You're in Year 3, that means Sec 3. So it'll be difficult for
you to follow the biochemical details of the Wikipedia article. But
by Year 5 & 6 you should be able to understand most (but still
not all) of it :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reducing_sugar