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  • Question
  • Amino acids required in the human diet and not synthesized by the body are called


  • Options
  • A. specialized
  • B. trace
  • C. essential
  • D. accessory

  • Correct Answer
  • essential 


  • More questions

    • 1. Lysozymes are found in

    • Options
    • A. plant cells
    • B. animal cells
    • C. microbial cells
    • D. all of these
    • Discuss
    • 2. Transcription of each set of rRNA genes by RNA polymerasel produces

    • Options
    • A. a single 45S rRNA precursor molecule
    • B. a single 5S rRNA precursor molecule
    • C. a single 18S rRNA precursor molecule
    • D. a single 28S rRNA precursor molecule
    • Discuss
    • 3. The rapid appearance of HIV-1 strains that are resistant to AIDS drugs is due in part to which of the following property of its reverse transcriptase?

    • Options
    • A. AZT (zidovudine) is too expensive to be taken in effective doses
    • B. The RNase H domain of p66 causes error prone synthesis
    • C. It lacks a proofreading exonuclease
    • D. It has low affinity for the correct dNTP's
    • Discuss
    • 4. Which of the following is found on RNA but not DNA?

    • Options
    • A. Uracil
    • B. Deoxyribose
    • C. Phosphate
    • D. Adenine
    • Discuss
    • 5. Small charged molecules, often biogenic amines function as

    • Options
    • A. hormones
    • B. neurotransmitters
    • C. both (a) and (b)
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 6. What useful information can be found from a Van Deemter plot?

    • Options
    • A. The selectivity factor
    • B. Optimum mobile phase flow rate
    • C. Optimum column temperature
    • D. Optimum column length
    • Discuss
    • 7. For a typical adsorbent such as silica gel, the most popular pore diameters are

    • Options
    • A. 10 and 50 A°
    • B. 60 and 100 A°
    • C. 100 and 150 A°
    • D. 150 and 200 A°
    • Discuss
    • 8. Which of these is a symptom of vitamin A deficiency?

    • Options
    • A. Osteoporosis
    • B. Impaired taste perception
    • C. Blindness
    • D. Impaired blood clotting
    • Discuss
    • 9. A protein that shows infinite cooperative for binding of n ligands will

    • Options
    • A. show a Hill coefficient (nH) of 0.0
    • B. only be found in either the unliganded form or the fully liganded form
    • C. show a Hill coefficient (nH) of n
    • D. both (b) and (c)
    • Discuss
    • 10. Biotin occurs mainly in combined forms bound to protein through

    • Options
    • A. ?-N-lysine moiety
    • B. ?-S-lysine moiety
    • C. ?-N-biotinyl-L-lysine
    • D. ?-N-lipoyl - L-lysine
    • Discuss


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