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1) Which one of the following statements about membranes is true?

A) Most plasma membranes contain more than 70% proteins.


B) Sterol lipids are common in bacterial plasma membranes.
C) Sterol lipids are common in human cell plasma membranes.
D) Sterol lipids are common in plant cell plasma membranes.
Sol: (c) Sterol lipids are common in human cell plasma membranes
2) The shortest alpha helix segment in a protein that will span a membrane bilayer
has about _____ amino acid residues.
(a) Five.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Fifty
(d) Hundred
Sol: Twenty
3) A hydropathy plot is used to:
A) determine the water-solubility of a protein.
B) deduce the quaternary structure of a membrane protein.
C) determine the water content of a native protein.
E) predict whether a given protein sequence contains membrane-spanning segments.
Sol: (a) predict whether a given protein sequence contains membrane-spanning
segments.
4)In a bacterial cell, the DNA is in the:
A) cell envelope.
B) cell membrane.
C)nucleoid.
D)nucleus.
Sol: (c) nucleoid

5) Which of the following is an imino acid?

a) Serine

b) Alanine

c) Glycine
d) Proline
Sol: (d) proline.

6) Which of the following makes water a liquid at room temperature?

a) Noncovalent interactions

b) Hydrogen bonds between water molecules

c) Van der Waals forces of attraction


d) Covalent bonding
Sol: (b) Hydrogen bonds between water molecules

7) Who deduced the double-helical structure of DNA?

a) Watson and Francis Crick

b) Frederick Sanger

c) Anton van Leeuwenhoek


d) Mendel
Sol:(a) Watson and Francis Crick

8) Which of the following is abundantly found in collagen?

a) Tryptophan

b) Alanine

c) Glycine
d) Serine
Sol: (c) Glycine
9) Chaperone protein are?

a) Provides a template for how the proteins should fold

b) Degrades proteins that have folded properly

c) Degrades proteins that have folded improperly


d) Rescues proteins that have folded improperly and allowed them to refold properly
Sol: (d) Rescues proteins that have folded improperly and allowed them to refold
properly

10) Which of the following involves carrying genetic information from DNA for
protein synthesis?

a) r-RNA

b) m-RNA

c) sn-RNA
d) t-RNA

Sol: (b) m-RNA


11) Which of the following enzyme is used in PCR?
a) EcoRII
b) EcoRI
c) Taq DNA polymerase
d) HRP
Sol: (c) Taq DNA polymerase

Source: Biochemistry by lehninger


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