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  • Question
  • Hydrogen and oxygen release enormous amounts of energy when they react. Yet, hydrogen and oxygen can be mixed together in a balloon and nothing will happen. Why?


  • Options
  • A. Competitive inhibitors are blocking the reaction from occurring in the active site
  • B. There must be contaminating elements in the balloon that prohibit the reaction from occurring
  • C. The energy of activation to form the transition-state complex is too high to allow the reaction to occur without assistance
  • D. all of the above

  • Correct Answer
  • Competitive inhibitors are blocking the reaction from occurring in the active site 


  • More questions

    • 1. Amphotericin B and polymyxin interfere with

    • Options
    • A. cell wall synthesis
    • B. protein synthesis
    • C. cell membrane function
    • D. DNA function
    • Discuss
    • 2. Which of the following genera is included in the family Picorna-viridae?

    • Options
    • A. Enterovirus
    • B. Rhinovirus
    • C. Hepatovirus
    • D. All of these
    • Discuss
    • 3. An important host defense of human beings is a dense resident microbiota associated with

    • Options
    • A. lungs
    • B. bladder
    • C. uterus
    • D. vagina
    • Discuss
    • 4. Treponema species from human oral cavity can be selected by using

    • Options
    • A. pH of the medium
    • B. incubation temperature
    • C. cell size and motility
    • D. all of these
    • Discuss
    • 5. In lactic acid fermentation, the final electron acceptor would be

    • Options
    • A. fructose
    • B. pyruvate
    • C. glucose
    • D. acetyl-CoA
    • Discuss
    • 6. Teichoic acids are typically found in

    • Options
    • A. cell walls of gram positive bacteria
    • B. outer membranes of gram positive bacteria
    • C. cell walls of gram negative bacteria
    • D. outer membranes of gram negative bacteria
    • Discuss
    • 7. Which of the following genetic elements carry the genes required for integration into host chromosomes?

    • Options
    • A. Replicon
    • B. Plasmids
    • C. Transposons
    • D. Tandons
    • Discuss
    • 8. Which of the following genera is included in the family Bacteroi-daceae?

    • Options
    • A. Bacteroides
    • B. Fusobacterium
    • C. Leptotrichia
    • D. All of these
    • Discuss
    • 9. Which of the following has most heat resistant spores?

    • Options
    • A. Clostridium histolyticum
    • B. Clostridium perfringens
    • C. Bacillus stearothermophilus
    • D. Bacillus cereus
    • Discuss
    • 10. Which of the following molecule catalyzes the transpeptidation reaction?

    • Options
    • A. RNA polymerase
    • B. Peptidyl transferase
    • C. DNA ligase
    • D. DNA polymerase
    • Discuss


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