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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT BIOCHEM EXAM 2
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Question 1: O-glycosidic bonds can form a variety of linkages due to what?
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Use of different OH groups or epimers Question 2: Glycosaminoglycans can be what to give them additional negative charge?
Answer:
Extensively sulfated
Question 3: Electromotive force (emf) is proportional to what?
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Difference in affinity
Question 4: What are enatiomers?
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Non super-imposable mirror images
Question 5: Some ketoses that did not get a unique name are named by inserting what immediately prior to the "ose" in the name of the corresponding aldose?
Answer:
"ul" Question 6: In enzymes that have two or more substrates, and are bound in different modes, what are the modes for an enzyme reaction involving a ternary complex?
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Random order, ordered Question 7: What can help to distinguish between the ping-pong mechanism and mechanism forming a ternary complex?
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Enzyme kinetics
Question 8: What is Km?
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Concentration of substrate [S] leading to initial velocity (Vo) that's half maximal velocity (Vmax) Question 9: True/False: Water does directly attack the peptide bond in HIV protease.
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True
Question 10: What tells you how efficiently an enzyme
catalyzes the reaction in each encounter between E and S, is a second-order constant?
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Specificity constant Question 11: On key concept of metabolism is that unfavorable reactions are what to allow them to proceed?
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Coupled with favorable reactions
Question 12: Hydrolysis of thioesters, such as acetyl-CoA, is favorable or unfavorable?
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Strongly favorable Question 13: In allosteric regulation, why is aspartate (from aspartate transcarbamoylase) positively regulated by heterotropic ATP but negatively regulated by heterotropic CTP?
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CTP goes through negative feedback, ATP positively ...
Question 14: What specifically arises from specificity pockets?
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Chymotrypsin, trypsin, elastase Question 15: Enolase uses divalent cations to convert 2-Phosphoglycerate into what?
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Phosphoenolpyruvate
Question 16: What are diastereomers?
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Not mirror images of each other, differ in configuration in at least one chiral center (but not all)
Question 17: What are the two types of heteropolysaccharides?
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Two monomer types (unbranched), multiple monomer types (branched)
Question 18: What is the main storage homopolysaccharide in plants?
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Starch Question 19: What are sugars that differ in configuration in at least one chiral center but not all?
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Diastereomers
Question 20: When the lines are parallel on a graph, what kind of inhibition takes place?
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Uncompetitive inhibition Question 21: In the treatment of methanol poisoning they will give ethanol (alcohol). This is an example of an enzyme's what?
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Geometric Specificity Question 22: True/False: In the chymotrypsin reaction mechanism, water does not directly attack the peptide bond of the substrate.
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True Question 23: In the Chymotrypsin mechanism, after His57+ is stabilized, what acts as a nucleophile to attack C=O?
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Ser195-O(-)
Question 24: Which carbon is drawn on the right by convention?
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Anomeric Question 25: In the Chymotrypsin mechanism, the nucleophilic attack of alkoxide ion on peptide carbonyl carbon leads to what?
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Tetrahedral intermediate (acyl-enzyme) Question 26: Ketoses that did not get a unique name are named by inserting what immediately prior to the "ose" in the name of the corresponding aldose?
Answer:
"ul"