BIOCHEMISTRY QUESTIONS

Module 3:
1.During the oxidation reaction, glucose in strong oxidizing agent can form.
a. Fructose
b. Glucuronic acid
c. Glucose
d. Saccharic acid
2. Carbohydrates are divided in many groups and those monosaccharides may be.
a. Aldehyde
b. None of the above
c. Aldehyde or ketone derivatives of polyhydric alcohols
d. Ketone
3. What is the property of monosaccharaides.
a. All
b. Optically active
c. Colorless, crystalline
d. Soluble in water and sweet in taste
4. Lipid bilayer is:
a. Hydrophilic
b. Hydrophobic
c. Depends on the surrounding medium
d. Hydrophilic and hydrophobic
5. The cells of brush border of intestine contain the enzymes.
a. All
b. Sucrose
c. Isomaltase
d. Maltase
6. During the glycolysis, fructose 1, 6 bisphosphate goes into cleavage in presence of
enzyme.
a. Enolase
b. Aldolase
c. Mutase
d. None
7. Which one is the important mucopolysaccharide.
a. Hyaluronic acid
b. Chondroitin sulphate
c. All
d. Heparin
8. Two monosaccharides differ from each other in their configuration around a
single specific carbon atom, they are referred as epimers to each other in that D
galactose is epimer of D glucose at which carbon.
a. C3
b. C3 and C4 both
c. C4
d. None
9. Glyceraldehyde and dihydroxyacetone share the same molecular formula but not.
a. Number of hydrogen
b. Structural formulae
c. Carbon number
d. Number of oxygen
10. Glycolysis is also known as.
a. HMP- shunt
b. Embden Meyerhof pathway
c. Kreb + IBk-s cycle
d. Respiratory cycle
11. What is the difference between D erythrose and D erythrulose.
a. Functional group
b. Carbon number
c. Number of hydrogen
d. Number of oxygen
12. One FADH2 is equal to.
a. 2ATP
b. 1.5ATP
c. 6ATP
d. 3ATP
13. In the glycolysis, when fructose 6 phosphate is converted to fructose 1, 6
bisphosphate.
a. All
b. Energy utilized in form of ADP
c. Energy synthesized in form of ATP
d. Energy utilized in form of ATP
14. During the glycolysis how many NADH is produced.
a. 3 NADH
b. 2 NADH
c. 4 NADH
d. 1 NADH
15. Which one is the correct example of triose.
a. None
b. Citrate
c. Malate
d. Glyceraldehyde
16. One glucose molecule can oxidize and produces.
a. One molecule of lactate
b. Two molecule of pyruvate
c. One molecule of pyruvate
d. None
17. Which of the following is the first enzyme of glycolysis in liver.
a. Phosphofructokinase
b. Pyruvate dehydrogenase
c. Glucokinase
d. None of the above
18. How many ATP is utilized in glycolysis process.
a. 4 ATP
b. None
c. 2 ATP
d. 1 ATP
19. Which transporter is present in intestine and kidney.
a. SGluT
b. None
c. Glut 2
d. Glut 1
20. Which hormone stimulates glycolysis.
a. Glucagon
b. Growth hormone
c. Insulin
d. All the above

Module 4:
1. Pyridoxal phosphate, a derivative of vitamin B6, is the major coenzyme serves as
prosthetic group for.
a. Transferase
b. None
c. Debranching enzyme
d. Glycogen Phosphorylase
2. Glucose 6-phosphate is transported into the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum,
where it is hydrolyzed to glucose by.
a. Phosphofructokinase 1
b. None
c. Glucose 6 phosphatase
d. Kinase
3. Which enzyme catalyzes the conversion of isocitrate to alpha-ketoglutarate.
a. Isocitrate dehydrogenase
b. Aldolase
c. Alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase
d. Isocitrate carboxylase
4. How much amount of glucose is utilized by humans daily and how much of that is
utilized by brain?
a. 100 gm and 75 percent
b. 160 gm and 75 percent
c. 120 gm and 75 percent
d. 160 gm and 50 percent
5. During the glycogen synthesis glucose 1 phosphate is converted to UDP glucose
and reaction is catalyzed by enzyme.
a. Transferase
b. None
c. UDP glucose pyrophosphorylase
d. Phosphoglucomutase
6. Which intermediate of gluconeogenesis converted to oxaloacetate in mitochondria
and cytoplasm.
a. Pyruvate
b. Fumarate
c. None
d. Malate
7. Which Inherited enzyme deficiency causes classical galactosemia in pathway of
galactose metabolism
a. Galactokinase
b. Hexokinase
c. Galactose 1 P uridyl transferase
d. None
8. UDP Galactose and UDP Glucose are interconvertible and catalysed by the
enzyme epimerase, which requires.
a. FADH 2
b. ATP
c. NAD + -
d. pyrophosphate
9. Which is the first compound formed in the TCA cycle?
a. None of the above
b. Oxaloacetate
c. Isocitrate
d. Citrate
10. Galactose 1 P reacts with UDP Glucose to form UDP galactose and glucose 1 P,
in presence of the enzyme.
a. Galactokinase
b. Lactase
c. None
d. Galactose 1P uridyl transferase
11. Which intermediate compound combines with acetyl co A to produce citrate?
a. None
b. Malate
c. Oxaloacetate
d. Fumarate
12. Which compound generates acetyl-CoA?
a. Fructose
b. Pyruvate
c. Lactate
d. Glucose
13. Which monosaccharide is present in seminal fluid to provide energy to
spermatozoa?
a. Arabinose
b. Fructose
c. Galactose
d. Mannose
14. Gluconeogenesis occurs mostly in:
a. Liver and kidney
b. Liver and muscles
c. Brain and muscles
d. Spleen and brain
15. Which enzyme is inhibited by arsenate?
a. Hexokinase
b. Alpha ketoglutarate dehydrogenase
c. Glucokinase
d. +AKA-Fumarase
16. Which enzyme converts glucose 1 phosphate into glucose 6 phosphate in a
reversible reaction?
a. Transferase
b. None
c. Phosphoglucomutase
d. Hexokinase
17. Glucose 1-phosphate reacts with uridine triphosphate to form the active
nucleotide uridine diphosphate glucose and
a. NADH and FADH2
b. ATP
c. Phosphate
d. Pyrophosphate
18. The TCA cycle occurs in
a. Nucleus
b. Mitochondrial matrix
c. Cytosol
d. Ribosomes
19. Amino acids were used to produce the glucose by the gluconeogenesis process
except
a. Proline
b. Alanine
c. Leucine
d. Isoleucine
20. Which one is involved in allosteric regulation during the glycogenolysis and
glycogenesis?
a. ATP
b. Calcium ion
c. Glucose 6-Phospahte
d. All