General Biology 1 Review Quiz

1. Why is cyclization important?

Answer: to produce a numeric carbons

2. Which of the following is an example of a monosaccharide?

a. Glucose
b. Maltose
c. Lactose
d. Sucrose
Answer: B

3. Can disaccharides be directly utilized by animals? Yes or No

Answer: No

4. Which of the following consist of three to six monosaccharide units, are rather
infrequently found in natural sources, although a few plant derivatives have been
identified.
a. Monosaccharides
b. Disaccharides
c. Polysaccharides
d. Oligosaccharides
Answer: D

5. Which monosaccharide has this structure from?

a. Glucose
b. Lactose
c. Maltose
d. Ribose
Answer: A

6. What is the difference between storage and structural polysaccharide?

Answer: Storage polysaccharides are composed of glucose and starch and are mainly
for animals and plan. While Structural are composed of cellulose

7. This polysaccharide is the polysaccharide found in animals to store energy and is

composed of alpha-1,4-glycosidic bonds with branched alpha-1,6 bonds present at about
every tenth monomer. It is mainly produced by the liver and muscles.
a. Cellulose
b. Starch
c. Glycogen
d. Glucagon
Answer: C
 8. – 10 What comprises a nucleotide?
Answer: Phosphate Groups, Ribose Sugar (5pentose sugar). Nitrogenous Phases

1. Which of the following options are the pyrimidine bases found in DNA?
a. uracil and thymine
b. thymine and cytosine
c. adenine and thymine
d. cytosine and uracil
Answer: B

1. A piece of DNA was analyzed and 15% of its nucleotides were adenine. What
percentage would be uracil?
a. 0%
b. 15%
c. 30%
d. 35%
Answer: D
2. Which of the following bonds are broken during DNA replication?
a. hydrogen bonds between bases
b. phosphodiester bonds
c. covalent bonds between bases
d. ionic bonds between bases and phosphate groups
Answer: A
3. Three of the bases found in nucleic acids are pyrimidines and two are purines. Which of
the following is correct?

Pyrimidines Purines
adenine and cytosine and
A
thymine guanine
adenine and thymine and
B
cytosine guanine
uracil and adenine and
C
thymine guanine
cytosine and thymine and
D
uracil cytosine
Answer: A

15 – 16 What are the most abundant amino acids in the structure of collagen?

Answer: glycine, proline, and hydroxyproline

17. Which of the following amino acids is a precursor for a mediator of allergies and
inflammation?
a. Histidine
b. Tyrosine
 c. Phenylalanine
d. Tryptophan
Answer: A

18. What are the 2 examples of contractile protein?

Answer: Myosis and Actin
19. What is a characteristic of protein quaternary structure?
20. What is a characteristic of both an α-helix and a β-pleated sheet?

21. A certain genetic disorder prevents the production of signals that molecules direct the
intracellular trafficking of proteins. If the disease exclusively affects the signal which
directs proteins to the proteasome, what primary effect would most likely be observed?
a. Increased synthesis of protein
b. Decreased degradation of protein
c. Increased degradation of protein
d. Decreased synthesis of protein
Answer: A
22. Which of the following molecules is a typical fatty acid?
a. A molecule that has an even number of carbon atoms in a branched chain.
b. An amphipathic dicarboxylic acid with unconjugated double bonds.
c. A molecule that has one cis double bond in a linear carbon chain.
d. A polar hydrocarbon that reacts with NaOH to form a salt.
Answer: B
23. Which is a property of integral membrane proteins?
a. All integral membrane proteins contain hydrophilic regions.
b. All integral membrane proteins span the entire membrane.
c. All integral membrane proteins contain carbohydrate groups within the membrane.
d. All integral membrane proteins transport non-polar molecules through the membrane
Answer: B

24. What is the function of channel proteins?

Answer: It is the passed way or Channel

25. They are amphipathic molecules, meaning that they have a non-polar portion, due to
the
long fatty acid chains, and a polar portion, due to the phosphate group.
Answer: Phospholipids

26. Bile salts, cholesterol, the sex hormones estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone,
corticosteroids and pro-vitamin D are examples of triglycerides.
a. True
b. False
Answer: True

27 – 30 Give at least 3 examples of essential amino acids.

Answer: lysine, methionine and valine