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ENZYMOLOGY QUIZ
1. Who is the father of enzymology? 13. Deficiency of the enzyme ß-glucerebrosidase results in
a. Anton von Leeuwenhoek a. Gauchers Disease
b. Edward Howell b. Faber’s disease
c. JB Sumner c. Krabbe’s disease
d. John Northrop d. Lesh-Nyhan Syndrome
2. Which of the following statement/s is/are correct? 14. Enzyme that differ in amino acid sequence but catalyze the
a. Enzyme is a biocatalyst same reaction are_______
b. Enzyme increases the rate of reaction a. Co-factors
c. Enzyme decreases the activation energy of the reaction b. co-enzymes
d. All the above c. Apo enzymes
3. Nature of the enzyme is d. Isoenzymes
a. Protein b. Lipid 15. The temperature at which the maximum activity of the
c. Carbohydrate d. None enzyme occurs is
4. An enzyme was crystallized for the first time by a. Optimum temperature
a. John Northrop b. Edward Buchner b. Maximum Temperature
c. J.B. Sumner d. None c. Minimum Temperature
d. None
5. Which of the following is correct?
a. Apoenzyme + Cofactor = Holoenzyme 16. The class of enzymes that catalyzes synthetic reactions
b. Apoenzyme - Cofactor = Holoenzyme where two molecules are joined together and ATP is used
c. Apoenzyme =Cofactor - Holoenzyme is
d. None a. Hydrolases
b. Lyases
6. Enzymes are classified into _____ types
c. Ligases
a. Two b. Three
d. Isomerases
c. Five d. Six
17. Non-protein organic part of the enzyme is__________
7. Competitive inhibitor of an enzyme is
a. Co-factor
a. Structural analogue of enzyme
b. Co-enzyme
b. Functional analogue of enzyme
c. Apo enzyme
c. Functional analogue of substrate
d. Isoenzyme
d. Structural analogue of substrate
18. Pepsin and urease are examples for which class of enzymes
8. Majority of the enzymes are inactive at
a. Hydrolases
a. At 25ºC b. At 15ºC
b. Ligases
c. Between 30-40ºC d. Above 70ºC
c. Oxidoreductases
9. Induced fit theory for the formation of Enzyme-Substrate d. Lyases
complex was proposed by
19. Which of the following enzymes is elevated in alcoholism
a. Koshland b. Charles Leibeg
a. Hepatitis
c. Buchner d. Fischer
b. Serum Glutamate Pyruvate Trasmittase
10. SI Unit for enzyme activity is c. Acid Phosphatase
a. Bel b. mho d. glutamyl transpeptidase
c. Hertz d. Katal
11. Which of the following is the reason for Gout disease?
a. Deficiency of Xanthine Oxidase enzyme Answers:
b. Over production of Xanthine Oxidase 1. b 2. d 3. a 4. c 5. a 6. d 7. d 8. d 9. a 10. d
c. Deficiency of ß-galactosidase enzyme 11. b 12. d 13. a 14. d 15. a 16. c 17. b 18. a 19. d
d. Deficiency of Lipase enzyme
12. Which of these enzymes is related to molecular biology?
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STATISTICS QUIZ
1. The word statistics seems to have been derived from 10. The problems relating to tossing of a coin or throwing of dice
a) Latin word “status” b) Italian word “statista” or drawing of cards from a pack of cards with replacement
c) German word “Statistik” d) a or b or c leads to
2. From __________ it is known that even before 300 B.C. a very a) Binomial distribution b) Poisson distribution
good system of collecting “Vital Statistics” and registration c) Normal distribution d) Gamma distribution
of births and deaths was in vogue 11. In theory of sampling, which is/are true about the term
a) Kautilya’s Arthshastra “population”?
b) Mahavir’s Ganita Sarasangraha a) It is a group of individuals understudy.
c) Bhaskaracharya’s Lilavati b) It is an aggregate of objects, animate or inanimate under
d) Sridhara’s Trisatika study.
c) It may be finite or infinite.
3. In astronomy, the theory of Gaussian “Normal Law of Errors”
d) All the above
for the study of the movements of stars and planets is
developed by using 12. This is one of the most important applications of the statistical
a) Factor reversal test b) Minimization techniques in industry which are based on the theory of
c) Principle of least squares d) Optimization probability and sampling, and are being extensively used in
almost all industries such as armament, aircraft, automobiles,
4. In war, the theory of _____________ can be of great assistance
textile, electrical equipment, plastic, rubber, electronics,
to military and technical personnel to plan “maximum chemicals, petroleum, transport and so on. This is
destruction with minimum effort” a) Cost of living index number
a) Reliability b) Decision functions b) Statistical quality control
c) Correlation d) Tests of significance c) Quantity index number
5. Which is the only average to be used while dealing with d) Demand analysis
qualitative data that cannot be measured quantitatively but 13. Arrangement of statistical data in chronological order is
still can be arranged in ascending or descending order of known as
magnitude, e.g. to find the average intelligence or average a) Time series b) Index numbers
honesty among a group of people ? c) Demography d) Replication
a) Median b) Geometric mean
14. Intelligence Quotient (I.Q.) is regarded as an indicator of
c) Mode d) Harmonic mean
an individual’s mental and intellectual development. I.Q. is
6. Index numbers are now widely used to study the economic defined as
and business conditions of the society, they are also applied a) (mental age x chronological age)/100
with advantage for formulating and revising plans from time a) (mental age + chronological age)/100
to time by c) (mental age / chronological age) x 100
a) Sociologists b) Psychologists d) (mental age - chronological age) x 100
c) Health and educational authorities 15. Which is/are the main merits of sampling technique over the
d) All the above complete enumeration survey?
7. For a symmetrical distribution, mean, median and mode a) Less time b) Greater accuracy of results
coincide. For a moderately asymmetrical distribution, which c) Reduced cost of the survey
of the following empirical relationships is obeyed by the d) All the above
mean, median and mode? 16. Who is known as the father of “Vital Statistics”?
a) Mode = 3 median+2mean a) Carl Gauss b) Captain John Grant
b) Mode = median +mean c) A.N. Kolmogorov d) Blaise Pascal
c) Mode = 3 median-2mean
17. The collected data based on first hand information is known as
d) Mode= median-mean
a) Internal data b) Secondary data
8. If an experiment is repeated under essentially homogeneous c) Primary data d) External data
and similar conditions and the result is not unique but
18. Sir Francis Galton, while studying the hereditary
may be one of the several possible outcomes, this type of
characteristics, was the first scientist to discover the concept
phenomenon is known as of average relationship which is known as
a) Deterministic b) Probabilistic a) Regression analysis b) Correlation
c) Predictable d) None of these c) Skewness d) Kurtosis
9. Several events are to be _______________ if the happening Answers:
(or non-happening) of an event is not affected by the 1) d 2) a 3) c 4) b 5) a 6) d 7) c 8) b 9) c 10) a
supplementary knowledge concerning the occurrence of 11) d 12) b 13) a 14) c 15) d 16) b 17) c 18) a
any number of the remaining events.
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