Biochemistry WGU
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Biochemistry WGU
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25 Questions

1. What process is shared between anaerobic and aerobic Metabolism ?

2. maintains membrane fluidity

3. Which one of the following mutations will likely cause a neurodegenerative disease?

4. replace one amino acid with another

5. Protease activity would ______________ if ph increased.

6. lactate

7. 2

8. ATP

9. a disease caused by an abnormal protein particle that infects brain tissue, propagation protein misfolding

10. fermentation

11. gene activation

12. What is a temporary modification to a protein structure by kinases that alters enzyme function?

13. Hemoglobin binds to the oxygen at a ________ and releases oxygen at a ____________.

14. What happens when you bind a gas to a heme group?

15. Alternative combination of exons within the same gene are linked together.

16. In case of , a hydrophilic amino acid-glutamate is replaced by a non polar-hydrophobic amino acid-valine, leading to polymerization of hemoglobin, fibril formation and eventually sickling of the red blood cells.

17. Bonds between amino acids

18. An unwanted effect of an overly vigorous warm-up is:

19. glycogen breakdown.

20. Glycolysis produces two ATP molecules. Through what process are these ATP molecules made?

21. What product of beta oxidation is able to enter the citric acid cycle?

22. What type of bond is made between nucleotides?

23. the production of energy through the use of oxygen in the cell

24. The interactions that stabilize tertiary structure together

25. associated with chronic exposure to cocaine and drug addiction, the nucleosomes become widely spaced.