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  • Question
  • Fatty acids are oxidized to acetyl-CoA by which of the following pathways?


  • Options
  • A. ?-oxidation
  • B. Entner-Doudoroff
  • C. pentose phosphate pathway
  • D. Embden-Meyerhof pathway

  • Correct Answer
  • ?-oxidation 


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    • 1. The amount of energy (cal/mole) in an ATP molecule produced by a cell from glucose by fermentation is

    • Options
    • A. greater than aerobic metabolism
    • B. less than aerobic metabolism
    • C. exactly or approximately equal to aerobic metabolism
    • D. none of the above
    • Discuss
    • 2. The final electron acceptor in the electron transport chain is

    • Options
    • A. CoQ
    • B. a cytochrome
    • C. FMN
    • D. oxygen
    • Discuss
    • 3. Suppose a eukaryotic cell had a mutation that prevented the production of cytochrome c. As a result of this mutation, which of the following processes would not occur?

    • Options
    • A. Cellular respiration
    • B. Photosynthesis
    • C. Mitosis
    • D. Cell wall synthesis
    • Discuss
    • 4. The amount of ATP that can be obtained by complete oxidation of a glucose by a bacterium is

    • Options
    • A. greater than by a yeast cell
    • B. lesser than by a yeast cell
    • C. exactly or approximately equal to by a yeast cell
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 5. Which of the following is accomplished in chemiosmosis?

    • Options
    • A. The oxidation of ATP
    • B. The oxidation of water
    • C. The oxidation of NADH
    • D. The oxidation of CO2
    • Discuss
    • 6. Guanine always binds to

    • Options
    • A. cytosine
    • B. guanine
    • C. thymine
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 7. According to base pairing rules the bases of one strand match-up with the bases of the second strand of DNA and the two strands are said to be

    • Options
    • A. complementary
    • B. oppositely charged
    • C. identical
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 8. Stem and loop structures are

    • Options
    • A. proteins that help partially denatured enzymes to recover their native configuration
    • B. structures in DNA caused by inverted repeats
    • C. structures at the ends of linear eukaryotic DNA molecules
    • D. the bonds between adjacent DNA nucleotides in the same strand
    • Discuss
    • 9. The chromosome of almost all bacteria is in the shape of

    • Options
    • A. an open circle
    • B. helix
    • C. a closed circle
    • D. a linear chromosome
    • Discuss
    • 10. In which of the following uracil is present?

    • Options
    • A. RNA
    • B. DNA
    • C. Both (a) and (b)
    • D. None of these
    • Discuss


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