JNTU Old Question Papers 2007

Code No: R050212301 Set No.
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II B.Tech I Semester Regular Examinations, November 2007
BIO CHEMISTRY
(Bio-Technology)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answer any FIVE Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
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1. Write Short notes:
(a) Gangliosides
(b) Lipopolysaccharides. [8+8]
2. How the glucose level of blood is maintained in animals? Discuss the role of Hor-
mones in sugar regulation in the animal body. [16]
3. Write short Notes:
(a) Ubiquinone
(b) Prosthetic groups of cytochrome. [16]
4. Describe proteins conformation is stabilized largely by weak interaction. [16]
5. Discuss the nitrogen cycle indicating the involvement of different enzymes in it.
Explain the role of nitrogen cycle in maintaining the pool of biologically available
nitrogen. [16]
6. What are ketone bodies? Give their structures and indicate their site of formation.
Sketch their biosynthesis. [16]
7. What is citric acid cycle? How this cycle constitutes the terminal oxidation of any
food stuff material. What is the physiological significance and energy yield in this
cycle? [16]
8. (a) Illustrate the electron flow during photosynthesis in higher plants.

(b) Define the terms cyclic and non-cyclic photophosphorylation. [8+8]
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Code No: R050212301 Set No. 2
BIO CHEMISTRY
(Bio-Technology)
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1. What do you mean by complex carbohydrates? Explain with examples. [16]
2. How the glucose level of blood is maintained in animals? Discuss the role of Hor-
mones in sugar regulation in the animal body. [16]
3. What is proton-motive force? Write a note on the Energy of Electron Transfer is

Efficiently conserved in a proton Gradient. [16]
4. What are peptides? Give an account of the formation of polypeptides in cells.[16]
5. Which are the amino acids derived from 3-phosphoglycerate. Enumerate the biosyn-
thetic pathways of these amino acids. [16]
6. (a) Define the term lipid. How are they extracted form a natural source? What
are their general characteristic features?
(b) What are storage lipids? What is their composition? Sketch their physiological
functions. [8+8]
7. How do cells extract energy and reducing power from their environment? [16]
8. (a) Illustrate the electron flow during photosynthesis in higher plants.

(b) Define the terms cyclic and non-cyclic photophosphorylation. [8+8]
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BIO CHEMISTRY
(Bio-Technology)
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1. What do you mean by Glycoprotein’s? Explain Glycoprotein’s are information-rich

Conjugates containing oligosaccharides. [16]
2. Summarize the events of oxidative decarboxylation pyruvate to acetyl-CoA by the

pyruvatedehydrogenase complex. [16]
3. What do you understand by ”redox” reactin? Write a note on oxidation versus

reduction in the biological system. [16]
4. Describe proteins conformation is stabilized largely by weak interaction. [16]
5. (a) How non-oxidative deamination reactions occur in vivo? Illustrate with two
examples indicating the role of coenzyme involvement.
(b) How is proline biosynthesized from glutamate? [8+8]
6. What are the common features of biological membranes? What are the major class
of membrane lipids? [16]
7. Enumerate the different stages involved in the extraction of energy from food stuffs.
Outline the major pathways involved in this process. [16]
8. How do the biological systems get their free energy? What is the physiological
significance of photosynthesis? How the basic equation of photosynthesis was dis-
covered? [16]
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BIO CHEMISTRY
(Bio-Technology)
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1. Write short Notes:
(a) Glycoprotein’s
(b) Dextran
(c) Cellulose
(d) Lectins. [4+4+4+4]
2. Discuss pentose phosphate path way. [16]
3. How is a concentration gradient of proton transformed into ATP? [16]
4. (a) Discuss in detail Enzyme-catalyzed transamination.

(b) What is the role of pyridoxal phosphate in the conversion of α-amino groups
to α-Ketoglutaride. [16]
5. Discuss the nitrogen cycle indicating the involvement of different enzymes in it.
Explain the role of nitrogen cycle in maintaining the pool of biologically available
nitrogen. [16]
6. What are the common features of biological membranes? What are the major class
of membrane lipids? [16]
7. ‘Free energy is the most useful thermodynamic function in Biochemistry’Illustrate

your answer with suitable metabolic pathway. [16]
8. What are the structural features of photosystem I and II. How do you separate
them from each other from the thylakoid membranes. What are the roles of these
two photosystems. [16]
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1. Write Short notes:

3. Write short Notes:

4. Describe proteins conformation is stabilized largely by weak interaction. [16]

8. (a) Illustrate the electron flow during photosynthesis in higher plants.

1. What do you mean by complex carbohydrates? Explain with examples. [16]

3. What is proton-motive force? Write a note on the Energy of Electron Transfer is

4. What are peptides? Give an account of the formation of polypeptides in cells.[16]

8. (a) Illustrate the electron flow during photosynthesis in higher plants.

1. What do you mean by Glycoprotein’s? Explain Glycoprotein’s are information-rich

2. Summarize the events of oxidative decarboxylation pyruvate to acetyl-CoA by the

3. What do you understand by ”redox” reactin? Write a note on oxidation versus

4. Describe proteins conformation is stabilized largely by weak interaction. [16]

1. Write short Notes:

2. Discuss pentose phosphate path way. [16]

3. How is a concentration gradient of proton transformed into ATP? [16]

4. (a) Discuss in detail Enzyme-catalyzed transamination.

7. ‘Free energy is the most useful thermodynamic function in Biochemistry’Illustrate

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