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Contents
1 BIOMOLECULES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1 Carbohydrates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2 Classification of Carbohydrates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
1.3 Monosaccharides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
1.4 Preparation of Glucose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
1.5 Structure of Glucose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
1.6 Fructose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
1.7 Disaccharides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
1.8 Polysaccharides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
1.9 Importance of Carbohydrates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
1.10 Proteins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
1.11 Amino acids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
1.12 Structure of Proteins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
2 Enzymes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
2.1 Enzymes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
2.2 Mechanism of Enzyme Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
2.3 Vitamins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
2.4 Classification of Vitamins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
2.5 Nucleic Acids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
2.6 Structure of Nucleic Acids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
2.7 Hormones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
1. BIOMOLECULES
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1.1 Carbohydrates
1. The 3 categories of carbohydrates are: C. double sugar
A. Monosaccharide, disaccharide, D. used for energy
polysaccharide
5. How many categories of carbohydrates
B. glucose, fructose, galatose are there?
C. starch, cellulose, chitin A. 1
D. There are no categories of carbohy-
B. 2
drates
C. 3
2. All carbohydrate names end with which
D. There are no categories
ending:
A. ise 6. What two groups are removed from
monosaccharides to form disaccharides or
B. ase
polysaccharides
C. ese
A. water and oxygen
D. ose
B. hydrogen and hydroxyl group
3. What elements make up carbohydrates? C. carbon and hydrogen
A. Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen D. water and carbon
B. sulfur, carbon, hydrogen
7. These are all properties of a disaccharide
C. glucose and fructose EXCEPT:
D. carbon, hydrogen, oxygen A. made up of two sugars
4. These are all properties of a monosaccha- B. sucrose
ride EXCEPT: C. 2 monosaccharides joined by dehydra-
A. simple sugar tion synthesis
B. 1:2:1 ratio D. ratio of 1:2:1
1. A 2. D 3. D 4. C 5. C 6. B 7. D
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8. C6H12O6 is the molecular formula for 14. The whole grain form of rice is:
what carbohydrate? A. Wild Rice

A. Sucrose
B. Instant Rice
B. Glucose
C. Conventional Rice
C. Fructose
D. Brown Rice
D. Both glucose and fructose
15. The principal storage form of carbohy-
9. How do the number of H atoms compare to drates in the mammalian body
the number of O atoms in a carbohydrate?
A. Starch
A. There are TWICE as many H
B. Glucose
B. They are the same amount
C. Glycogen
C. There are THREE times as many H
D. There are TWICE as many O D. Fructose
10. How are disaccharides broken down? 16. Which is not a function of fibre?
A. dehydration synthesis A. Helps strengthen our immune system
B. Hydrolysis B. Makes us feel full for longer, helping
to control how much we eat
C. catabolism
C. Slows down the rate of digestion
D. metabolism
D. Helps to keep our digestive system
11. Used as energy storage functioning and eliminate waste
A. Cellulose
17. Carbohydrate used by animals to store en-
B. Glycogen
ergy?
C. Starches
A. glycogen
D. none of above
B. starch
12. What is the health effect of a low CHO Diet C. cellulose
(<50%).
D. chitin
A. Weight gain, risk of type 2 diabetes &
heart disease. 18. A single unit of sugar is referred to as:
B. Strokes, weight loss & vitamin defi- A. Monosaccharide
ciency.
B. Monocarbohydrate
C. Headaches, weakness, weight loss,
dizziness and irritability. C. Mononutrient
D. Osteoporosis, liver & kidney damage. D. Monopolymer
13. Ways in increase fiber in the diet: 19. Which is not a function of carbohydrates?
A. use whole wheat flour, A. defense
B. eat the skins/peels B. energy
C. eat candy C. structure
D. a and b D. all are not
8. D 9. A 10. B 11. C 12. C 13. D 14. D 15. C 16. A 17. A 18. A 19. A 20. C
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20. What is the RICE YIELD ratio in cups? 25. Which of these are polysaccharides?
A. 1:1 A. Glucose and fructose
B. 1:2 B. Glucose and glycogen
C. 1:3 C. Glycogen and Starch
D. 1:4 D. Lactose and sucrose
21. What are Polysaccharides 26. Your body breaks down most complex car-
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bohydrates into:
A. Complex Sugar that is the basic
Molecule of Carbohydrates A. Fructose
B. Simple sugar comprised of 2 or more B. Sucrose
monosaccharides C. Glucose
C. Compounds comprised of more than D. Strach
10 monosaccharides bonded together
D. Compounds that are the basic 27. It is also referred to as blood sugar.
molecules of carbohydrates A. glucose
22. When a product claims that it is “Whole B. sucrose

Wheat”, that means: C. fructose
A. it must use the entire wheat kernel. D. galactose
B. it only need to use the brain and en- 28. What is the function of starch?
dosperm.
A. Store glucose in plants
C. it only need to use 85% of the wheat
kernel. B. Store glucose in animals
D. it only needs to use half of the wheat C. Create cell walls in plants
kernel D. Create cell walls in fungi
23. How many calories per gram do carbohy- 29. When you eat carbohydrates, what does
drates have? your body use them for?
A. 4 A. Sleep
B. 6 B. Vitamins
C. 9 C. Energy
D. 3 D. Food
24. When two monosaccharides combine in a 30. Your body breaks down carbohydrates
dehydration reaction they form into what?
A. amino acids A. Glucose
B. disaccharides B. Protein
C. glycogen C. Refined Sugars
D. cellulose D. Vitamins
21. C 22. A 23. A 24. B 25. C 26. C 27. A 28. A 29. C 30. A 31. B
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31. What monosaccharide is the most impor- 37. When we eat disaccharides, our cells do
tant abundant in nature? what first before energy is obtained?

A. galactose A. make the disaccharide a polysaccha-
B. glucose ride
C. fructose B. break the disaccharides down to
D. sucrose monosaccharides
C. leave the disaccharides as is, and ob-
32. A carbohydrate with a polyhydroxy ke- tain energy
tone structure
D. throw the disaccharide out, because
A. Aldase
we can’t use it.
B. Ketose
C. Ketase 38. How many calories per gram does carbo-
hydrates provide for energy?
D. Aldose
A. 9
33. Nitrogenous bases present in the DNA can
be grouped into two categories: B. 6
A. adenine and guanine C. 4
B. cytosine and uracil D. 10
C. purines and pyrimidines
39. What are the correct 3 polysaccharides
D. cytosine and thymine
A. starch, fiber, and glycogen
34. The relative sweetness of Fructose
B. starch, fiber, and lactose
A. 100%
C. starch, glucose, and whole grain
B. 16%
C. 32.5% D. whole grain, galactose, and glycogen
D. 173.3% 40. What is the ratio of elements in carbohy-

drates?
35. The monomer of a carbohydrate is called
A. 1:2:few
A. a monosaccharide B. 1:1
B. a fatty acid C. 1:2:1
C. an amino acid
D. none
D. a nucleotide
41. How many percent does Amylopectin
36. Who cannot eat cereals that contain
found in starch?
gluten?
A. 80-90%
A. Overweight person
B. Vegetarian person B. 10-20%
C. Coeliac person C. 30-40%
D. Sleepy person D. 50-60%
32. B 33. C 34. D 35. A 36. C 37. B 38. C 39. A 40. C 41. A 42. A
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42. This test will give purple or violet coloured C. 10-40%

ring at the junction as the positive result
D. 50%
for carbohydrates.
A. Molisch test 48. How many sugar units make up disaccha-
B. Anthrone test rides?
C. Iodine test A. one

D. Barfoed test B. two
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43. Which is an example of a simple carbohy- C. three
drates? D. zero
A. Digested slowly
49. Which organic molecule serves as the main
B. Digested quickly source of energy for cells?
C. I have no idea
A. amino acids
D. Digested normally
B. glucose
44. Test used to detect lipids: C. proteins
A. Biuret test D. starch
B. Iodine test
C. Benedict’s test 50. When cooking pasta, you should:
D. Brown paper bag test A. cover the pot

B. leave the pot uncovered with water
45. For better health, choose foods that have
boiling until al dente
fewer added
A. Sugars C. turn thre water down to a simmer
B. Protein D. none of these
C. Starch 51. When simple sugar pass through the small

D. Fiber intestine and into the blood they then
travel to
46. Polysaccharides are also known as ?
A. the kidneys
A. monomers
B. the heart
B. simple sugars
C. the lungs
C. complex carbohydrates
D. quick energy D. the liver
47. Depending on diet and activity level peo- 52. It is an indigestible carbohydrate.
ple’s carb intake will vary. Either way it is A. cellulose
still recommended that what percent of a
person’s diet should be made from carbs? B. starch
A. 20-30% C. chitin
B. 45-65 D. glycogen
43. B 44. D 45. A 46. C 47. B 48. B 49. B 50. B 51. D 52. A 53. B
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53. What is a carbohydrate? C. It has four nutrients present

A. A biological polymer that stores and D. It was made in a science lab

transmits genetic information
B. a group of organic molecules that in- 59. If we eat too much carbohydrate it is
cludes sugars, starches, and glucose stored in the body as ?
C. An oil used for your car A. fat
D. hydrocarbon that contains only single B. extra cells
bonds
C. flouride
54. Natural starches are mixture of what D. none of above
molecules
A. Amylase and Amylopectic acid 60. The prefix “carbo” stands for
B. Amylase and Amylopectin A. carbon
C. Amylose and Amylopectin B. energy
D. Ammonia and pectin C. contains
55. The organic compounds that have many D. water
structural purposes and are used in many
processes within thecell are called 61. What carbohydrate gives the body 0 en-
A. Carbohydrates ergy but is still important to body func-
tion?
B. Lipids
A. Fiber
C. Proteins
D. Nucleic Acids B. Glucose
C. Glycogen
56. Sucrose is what kind of sugar?
A. Fruit D. B12
B. Grains 62. This is the primary form of sugar that is

C. Table sugar stored in the body as a source of energy.
D. Milk A. glucose
57. Carbohydrates are one of the four major B. galactose
groups of C. maltose
A. Specific carbohydrates
D. fructose
B. Organic molecules
C. Complex Carbohydrates 63. Which reaction is needed to break down
complex sugars?
D. Cellulose
A. Hydration
58. What does it mean when a breakfast ce-
real is “fortified”? B. Dehydration
A. It is high in fat C. Dehydrogenation
B. It has added vitamins and minerals D. Hydrolysis
54. C 55. C 56. C 57. B 58. B 59. A 60. A 61. A 62. A 63. D 64. A 65. A
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64. Test used to detect protein in a sample: 70. All organic compounds contain the element
A. Biuret test A. carbon
B. Iodine test B. nitrogen
C. Benedict’s test C. phosphorus
D. Brown paper bag test D. sulfur
65. Property of disaccharide when mixed with 71. What happens to the grain when it is pro-
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water cessed?
A. Soluble A. The grain stays whole

B. The endosperm is removed
B. Slightly soluble
C. The bran and germ are removed
C. Insoluble
D. The bran is removed
D. none of above
72. Where do you mostly find pectin?
66. The 3 parts of the wheat kernel are:
A. nucleus
A. bran, endosperm, and germ
B. cell membrane
B. bran, haul, and shell
C. mitochondira
C. endosperm, germ, haul
D. cell wall
D. shell, endosperm and germ
73. A group of organic molecules that includes
67. Plants store extra sugar as sugars, starch, and cellulose care called
A. starch
A. proteins
B. cellulose
B. carbohydrates
C. glycogen
C. nucleic acids
D. glucose
D. lipids
68. Which are examples of monosaccharides?
74. Carbohydrates are the first source of
A. Starch and glycogen for the body?
B. Starch and glucose A. repair
C. Glucose and fructose B. hygiene
D. Glycogen and cellulose C. fuel
D. none of above
69. Which of these polysaccharides is made of
repeating units of β -glucose? 75. The relative sweetness of lactose
A. starch A. 100%
B. cellulose B. 16%
C. glycogen C. 32.5%
D. chitin D. 173.3%
66. A 67. A 68. C 69. B 70. A 71. C 72. D 73. B 74. C 75. B 76. A 77. A
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76. Which of the following are all disaccha- 82. What might happen to a person who con-
rides? stantly spikes their blood sugar through-
out the day?

A. Maltose, sucrose, lactose
B. Glycogen, lactose glucose A. Might develop insulin resistance, type
2 diabetes, blindness and kidney failure.
C. Cellulose, starch, lactose
B. Might develop headaches, dizziness
D. Maltose, lactose, cellulose and fatigue.
77. Your body breaks down starches into this: C. Might become obese
A. Glucose D. All of the above
B. Sugar 83. Which one of the following would give you
C. Protein the most carbohydrates
D. Fat A. steak
B. carrot
78. All polymers are made up of
C. lettuce
A. monosaccharides
D. pasta
B. monomers
C. proteins 84. What is a refined cereal product?
D. None of these A. All the bran and germ are removed
B. There is more fat added
79. Which carbohydrate provides us with a
feeling of fullness? C. There is more nutrients like vitamins
and minerals added
A. Sugar
D. There is less cooking time needed
B. Starch
C. Fibre 85. What do all carbohydrates do for us?
D. Fruit A. provide energy
B. make brains
80. Osteoporosis is a disorder that can be
caused by not consuming enough calcium. C. build muscle
What can you infer about osteoporosis? D. make hair
A. It affects the nervous system
86. How many sugar units make up polysac-
B. It affects the skin charides?
C. It affects the stomach A. one
D. It affects the bones B. two
81. The carbohydrate that provides support in C. more than two
plants is called D. zero
A. Starch 87. How many simple sugars are in a Disaccha-
B. Cellulose ride?
C. Glycogen A. 2
D. Chitin B. 20
78. B 79. C 80. D 81. B 82. A 83. D 84. A 85. A 86. C 87. A
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C. 10 C. Cellulose
D. many D. Glycogen
88. Grains produce what kind of sugar: 94. Monosaccharide and disaccharide names
A. sucrose end with which ending:
B. fructose A. ise
C. maltose B. ase
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D. lactose C. ese
89. Sucrose (table sugar) Lactose (Milk Sugar) D. ose

Maltose (Grain sugar) are examples of 95. Glycogen, a polysaccharide, in your liver
A. polysaccharides may be broken down to glucose by the pro-
B. monosaccarides cess of
C. disaccharides A. hydrolysis
D. none of above B. dehydration synthesis dehydration
synthesis
90. Select the group of foods from below that
C. condensation
contain the most fibre content
D. isomerization isomerization
A. Cheese, eggs and fish
B. Silverbeet and potatoes 96. Organic molecules that always contain car-
C. Carrots, oranges and corn bon, oxygen and hydrogen, often in a
1:2:1 ratio
D. Brocoli, spinach and grains
A. carbohydrates
91. If you string together 8 glucoses, how B. functional groups
many water molecules will come out?
C. enyzme
A. 1
D. monosaccaride
B. 4
C. 7 97. Glycogen is a form of carbohydrate de-
posits in the human body containes in
D. 8
A. Muscle and liver
92. Which elements is NOT found in carbohy-
drates? B. Liver and blood
A. Carbon C. Muscle and kidney

B. Hydrogen D. Liver and kidney
C. Oxygen 98. Which of the following is an example of a
D. Nitrogen complex carbohydrate?
A. Whole wheat bread
93. Which carbohydrate makes up the cell wall
of plants? B. Jelly
A. Glucose C. Honey
B. Chitin D. Table sugar
88. C 89. C 90. D 91. C 92. D 93. C 94. D 95. A 96. A 97. A 98. A 99. D
99. Which carbohydrate is known as table 104. Carbohydrates provide

sugar? A. long tern energy

A. Lactose
B. genetic information
B. Maltose
C. cell membrane
C. Glucose
D. short term energy
D. Sucrose
105. It is referred to as the Hexose monophos-
100. When large amounts of glucose is present phate shunt
Benedicts turns
A. Phosphate pathways
A. purple
B. Pentose phosphate pathways
B. blue-black
C. pentose pathways
C. brick-red
D. green D. all of the above
101. Which characteristic BEST explains why 106. Stored in the liver of animals
carbon is relevant to living organisms? A. Starch
A. Carbon is the most common element B. Glycogen
on Earth.
C. Cellulose
B. Carbon can form a wide variety of
molecules. D. none of above
C. Many carbon isotopes are radioactive 107. How many calories does 1 gram of a car-
D. Many carbon allotropes occur in na- bohydrate contain?
ture. A. 1
102. Nutritionally adequate diets should pro- B. 4
vide what percentage of energy from car- C. 7
bohydrates?
D. 15
A. 60% to 80% of total energy from carbs.
108. What elements are part of carbohy-
B. 30% to 50% of total energy from carbs. drates?
A. Carbon, nitrogen and oxygen
C. 45% to 65% of total energy from carbs. B. Carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus
C. Carbon, oxygen and glucose
D. 25% to 75% of total energy from carbs.
D. Carbon, hydrogen and oxygen
103. Glucose is a type of sugar that is
109. What two monosaccharides make up su-
A. produced by plants with the process of
crose?
photosynthesis.
A. glucose + galactose
B. broken down from glycogen by the hor-
mone insulin. B. glucose + fructose
C. A polysaccharide C. glucose + glucose
D. more than one answer is correct D. fructose + maltose
100. C 101. B 102. C 103. A 104. D 105. B 106. B 107. B 108. D 109. B 110. A
110. What are carbohydrates sometimes re- C. You’d develop serious vitamin deficien-
ferred to as? cies
A. Saccharides D. Your bones and teeth would become
B. Bread weaker
C. Carbos 116. What is the source of most carbohy-

D. Glycogen drates?
A. Animals
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111. Sucrose (table sugar) is made of of
B. Plants
A. two glucose molecules
C. Eggs
B. 2 fructose molecules
D. Mother Nature
C. 1 glucose and 1 fructose
D. 2 sucrose molecules 117. Choose correct answers:The monomers
of carbohydrates/polysaccharides are
112. Fat is the way that the body for later
use. A. sugars/monosaccharides
A. Moves B. amino acids
B. Stores energy. C. nucleotides
C. Produces energy. D. none of above
D. Stores excess vitamins and minerals. 118. Carbohydrate insect exoskeleton is made
of?
113. Which carbohydrate is found in dairy
products and helps with the absorption of A. glycogen
calcium and magnesium? B. starch
A. Galactose
C. cellulose
B. Sucrose
D. chitin
C. Lactose
119. Excess carbohydrates are stored in the
D. Maltose
liver as
114. You should eat grains a day A. Starch
A. 4 or more a day B. Glycogen
B. 5 or more a day C. Cellulose
C. 6 or more a day D. none of above
D. 7 or more a day
120. What is the gas that makes baked prod-
115. What might happen if you didn’t eat ucts rise?
enough carbohydrates?
A. Oxygen
A. Your body wouldn’t be able to build
B. H2O
muscle
B. Your body wouldn’t have enough en- C. Helium
ergy to function D. CO2
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want to make sure you eat enough starch, D. -ose
what food could you eat to increase your

starch intake? 127. What kind of flour contains added
A. Cranberry Sauce gluten?
B. Turkey A. Self Raising
C. Gravy B. Strong
D. Stuffing C. Whole wheat
122. Quality biscuits are D. Gluten free
A. peak topped 128. Which is the most common monosaccha-

B. pale in color ride?
C. flat top A. Fructose
D. dry and brittle B. Glucose
C. Galactose
123. It is a polysaccharide that is a major com-
ponent of the plant’s cell wall. D. Sucrose
A. cellulose 129. What are the building blocks (monomers)
B. glycogen of carbohydrates called?
C. glucose A. Monosaccharides
D. starch B. Disaccharides
124. What are the monomers of a polysaccha- C. Polysaccharides
ride? D. Amino Acids
A. glycerol
130. Monomer of nucleic acids; consists of
B. amino acid a phosphate group, deoxyribose (sugar),
C. fatty acid and a nitrogen-base. ATP is an example
of this.
D. glucose
A. steroid
125. Which of the following sugars are small
enough to be absorbed out of the small in- B. nucleotide
testine C. polypeptide
A. Polysaccharides D. polymer
B. Disaccharides
131. Which carbohydrate slows down diges-
C. Monosaccharides tion the most or is the hardest to break
D. Starch down?
A. Sugar
126. Sugars all end with what three letter end-
ing? B. Starch
A. -ote C. Fiber
B. -ate D. none of above

132. Polymers are joined together by: 138. What is the chemical formula for maltose
A. synthesis (a disaccharide)?
B. hydration synthesis A. C6H26O6
C. dehydration synthesis B. C12H24O12
D. polymer synthesis C. C12H22O11
D. C12H22O12
133. To make stronger by adding an extra nu-
trient.
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139. What types of starches are found in pota-
A. Fortified toes?
B. Restored A. Glucose
C. Converted B. Amylose and Amylopectin
D. Enriched C. fructose
134. is called carbohydrate though it is not D. Galactose and glucose

a hydrate of carbon 140. What happens if you stop boiling action
A. Acetic acid while cooking pasta?
B. Glucose A. The pasta will stick together.
C. Deoxy ribose B. It will wash away nutrients.
D. Di hydroxy acetone C. The sauce won’t stick to the noodles.
135. The monomer (building block) of a carbo- D. none of above
hydrate is called a
141. How do lipids function for cells?
A. monosaccharide
A. store information
B. fatty acid
B. store energy
C. enzyme
C. breakdown wastes
D. bread
D. join with substrates
136. A carbohydrate that cannot be hy-
drolyzed to a simpler carbohydrate 142. Which of the following is the healthiest
type of carbohydrate?
A. Monosaccharide
A. Bread made with white flour
B. Polysaccharide
B. Rice made with whole grains
C. Disaccharide
C. Cereal made with refined grains
D. Oligosaccharide
D. White rice
137. A carbohydrate that contain two
monosaccharide units bound together by 143. Common leavening agents include of all
a covalent bond. of the following EXCEPT:
A. monosaccharide A. Air and eggs
B. disaccharides B. Baking Soda and Baking Powder
C. saccharides C. Yeast
D. polysaccharides D. Salt

144. The general formula of a monosaccharide C. Endosperm

is
D. flour

A. CnH2nOn
B. CnH2nO2n 150. How many sugar units make up monosac-
charides?
C. CnHnOn
A. one
D. C2nHnOn
B. two
145. How many calories of glucose can the
body store if it is not used immediately? C. three
A. 1500 D. zero
B. 1000 151. Which statement is false?
C. 2000
A. triose is sugar with 3 carbon atoms
D. 200
B. hexose is sugar with 7 carbon atoms
146. Fibre helps to reduce the risk of which C. aldose is suagr with-CHO group
health related diseases?
D. ketose is sugar with-CO group
A. Constipation, Bowel Cancer, Obesity,
type II Diabetes and heart disease 152. Which of these are examples of carbohy-
B. Strokes and heart disease drates?
C. Cancer only A. DNA, RNA
D. Constipation only B. Fats, hormones
147. Classification of monosaccharides are C. amino acids
D. starches, glucose, chitin
A. Glucose, lactose, and maltose
B. Sucrose, maltose, and lactose 153. What are the elements of carbohy-
drates?
C. Glucose, fructose, and galactose
A. CHO
D. Sorbitol, mannitol, and dulcitol
B. CHON
148. Carbohydrates that are made up of one
or two sugar units are called: C. CHONP
A. Complex carbohydrates D. CHOP

B. Polymers 154. This test will give blue green colored com-
C. Saccharomyces plex as the positive result for the presence
of pentoses.
D. Simple sugars
A. Bial’s orcinol test
149. What part of the kernel has the most nu-
trition? B. Fehling’s Test
A. Bran C. Seliwanoff’s Test
B. Germ D. Barfoed Test

155. Which one is NOT an example of a carbo- C. The excess fat in our bodies.
hydrate we consume in our daily lives? D. The carbon dioxide we breathe out.
A. Bread
161. Carbohydrate used for plant cell walls?
B. Pasta
A. glycogen
C. Cookies
B. starch
D. Grapes C. cellulose
156. It is a five-carbon sugar molecule that
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D. chitin
helps form the phosphate backbone of
DNA molecules 162. Which reaction is needed to join two
monosaccharides?
A. Ribose
A. Hydration
B. Deoxyribose
B. Dehydration
C. RNA
C. Dehydrogenation
D. DNA
D. Hydrolysis
157. What is the ratio of uncooked to cooked 163. These are the simplest form of carbohy-
rice? drates.
A. 1:2 cups A. monosaccharides
B. 1:3 cups B. polysaccharides
C. 1:1 cups C. disaccharides
D. none of above D. polymers
158. If you’re hungry, but don’t want your 164. What is found in liver and muscle cells?
blood sugar to spike, what should you A. chitin
eat?
B. cellulose
A. An apple
C. starch
B. A baked potato
D. glycogen
C. Sushi with white rice
165. What is the first nutrient to break down
D. A candy bar
in the body?
159. What type of foods provide dietary A. Carbohydrates
fiber? B. Fat
A. foods from plant sources C. Protein
B. only fruits D. Discretionary calories
C. only vegetables
166. Most carbohydrate names end with
D. only grains which ending:
160. In science, when we talk about carbohy- A. ise
drates, what are we referring to? B. ase
A. Specific types of molecules. C. ese
B. Chitin D. ose

167. This organic compounds that contain car- C. polysaccharide

bon, hydrogen, and oxygen in various com-
D. none of above
binations

A. Carbohydrates 173. Fructose is:
B. Simple Carbohydrates A. aldose sugar
C. Complex Carbohydrates B. ketose sugar
D. Monosaccharides
C. pentose sugar
168. Which of the following results of Bene- D. heptose sugar
dict’s Test indicates presence of a large
amount of reducing sugar? 174. Which of the following is NOT a common
A. blue precipitate food examples of carbohydrates? *
B. green precipitate A. pectin
C. orange precipitate B. cellulose
D. brick-red precipitate C. legume
169. With enzymes, biochemical reactions D. starch
would occur far too slowly to sustain life.
A. TRUE 175. How much water should you add to 1 cup
of rice?
B. FALSE
A. 1 1/4 cup
C. DI AKO SURE
D. none of above B. 1/2 cup
C. 3 cups
170. What type of bond is formed between
two monosaccharides? D. 2 cups
A. Ester bond
176. These are the main sources of energy of
B. Glycosidic bond the body.
C. Peptide bond A. carbohydrates
D. Double bond
B. protein
171. In condensation reaction of 2 simpe sug- C. nucleic acids
ars
D. lipids
A. disaccharide is formed and water
B. disaccharide is formed and hydrogen 177. Lactose is made up of D-galactose and
C. polysaccharide is formed and water one unit of D-glucose joined by a gly-
cosidic bond.
D. disaccharide is formed and oxygen
A. a-1, 4
172. sugars formed by linking two monosac-
charides are called B. b-1, 4
A. monosaccharide C. a-1, 2
B. disaccharide D. b-1, 2

178. Carbohydrates are C. Pasta

A. hydrophilic D. Lettuce
B. hydrophobic 184. carbohydrate is found in exo skeleton
C. neither of insects
D. both A. Pectin
B. Peptidoglycan
179. What is the difference between amylose
and amylopectin? C. Chitin
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A. amylose is branched, amylopectin is a D. Inulin
chain
185. Glycogen differs from starch in that
B. Amylopectin releases easily, amylose glycogen
does not
A. provides a way for glucose to be
C. Amylopectin loses shape, amylose stored within our bodies
holds shape of potato
B. is broken down by the cell walls of the
D. amylose is chain, amylopectin is plant
branched C. is a polysaccharide, while starch is a
180. What colour is the carbohydrates section monosaccharide
on the Eatwell Guide? D. is the monosaccharide for glucose
A. yellow 186. Which is a carbohydrate containing two
B. green subunits?
C. blue A. disaccharide
D. pink B. diglyceride
181. A carbohydrate with a polyhydroxy alde- C. dipeptide

hyde structure D. base pair
A. Aldase 187. Which elements make up carbohy-
B. Ketase drates?
C. Aldose A. Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen
D. Ketose B. sulfur, carbon, hydrogen
C. glucose and fructose
182. Which one is NOT a function for Carbohy-
drates? D. carbon, hydrogen, oxygen
A. Short Term Energy 188. Why are potatoes included in this
B. part of Cell walls group?
C. waterproofing A. The main nutrient they contain is
starchy carbohydrate
D. part of Plant Structures
B. They are the same colour as other
183. Which is NOT an example of Carbs? foods in this group
A. Potato C. They provide fibre
B. Corn D. They contain vitamin C

189. How did quick breads get their name? 195. Another word for complex carbohy-
A. they are easy to make drates:

A. Protein
B. they do not need to rise
B. Fiber
C. they are quick cooking
C. Starches
D. all of the above
D. Fat
190. The simple sugar in milk is
196. Other name for Osazone test
A. lactose
A. Sodium acetate test
B. maltose
B. Kowarsky test
C. sucrose C. Glacial acetic test
D. fructose D. Fehling’s Test
191. Fructose is come from: 197. The four organic compounds found in liv-
A. fruit sugar ing things are?
B. malt sugar A. Carbohydrates, Lipids, Nucleic Acids,
and Oxygen
C. Milk sugar
B. Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins, and
D. Blood sugar Carbon
192. What monomer makes up proteins? C. Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins, Nu-
cleic Acids
A. Monosaccharides
D. Carbon, Lipids, Proteins, Nucleic Acids
B. Amino Acids
198. Plant and animal cells can combine glu-
C. Fatty acids & glycerol
cose molecules into long chains called
D. Nucleotides
A. Monosaccharides
193. This test is highly specific for galactose B. Disaccharides
A. Osazone formation C. polysaccharides
B. Mucic acid test D. none of above
C. Barfoed Test 199. Function:cells use to get and store en-
D. Bial’s Orcinol Test ergy
A. Lipids
194. What is the muffin method?
B. Proteins
A. dry ingredients in one bowl and wet in-
C. Nucleic Acids
gredients in another then gently mix
D. Carbohydrates
B. put all ingredients in one bowl and mix
gently 200. What type of leavening agents does
C. making muffins and dropping in tin pan QUICK BREAD uses?
A. a. Baking Soda
D. none of above B. b. Baking Powder

C. c. Yeast 206. What suffix indicates that a chemical is a

D. Both a and b sugar?
A. -ose
201. How are the structures of starch and cel-
lulose different? B. -ase
A. Starch has 5 C C. -ate
B. Cellulose has 5 C D. -ite
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C. The OH is in a different position 207. Sucrose is formed by reaction between:
D. There is no difference A. Glucose and Fructose
202. Which carbohydrate is the preferred B. Glucose and Glucose
source of energy for the brain and central C. Fructose and Galactose
nervous system?
D. Galactose and galactose
A. Complex
B. Simple 208. The simple sugar from fruit is called
C. Glucose A. sucrose
D. Glycogen B. lactose
C. fructose
203. What element must be present for a
molecule to be considered organic? D. maltose
A. nitrogen 209. Which organic molecule is described as
B. water high in fiber?
C. hydrogen A. amino acid
D. carbon B. cellulose
C. fatty acid
204. Which statement is true?
D. glucose
A. monosacharides contain a carboxyl
group 210. One example of a simple carbohydrate.
B. monosacharides contain only 1 hy- A. Bread
droxyl group
B. Oatmeal
C. monosacharides have empirical for-
mula CH2O C. Candy Bar
D. example of monosacharide is glucose D. Pasta
and celullose
211. what compound is LOST in the reaction
205. The most abundant class of biomolecules that links two monosaccharides?
A. lipids A. water
B. carbohydrates B. oxygen
C. proteins C. hydrogen
D. nucleic acids D. carbon

212. Adding SOME of the nutrients lost during 218. The fiber rich outer layer of the grain that
processing. protects the seed is the

A. Restored A. endosperm
B. Enriched B. germ
C. Converted C. bran
D. Fortified D. none of above
213. Which is not a source of carbohydrates? 219. How many sugar units (monomers) make
up disaccharides?
A. Meat
A. one
B. Underground stems
B. two
C. Vegetables
C. three
D. Ripe fruits
D. zero
214. Carbohydrtaes are made up of 220. Which of the following correctly pairs the
A. CHO molecule to its function?
B. CHON A. Glucose:Exterior structure in animals
(exoskeletons).
C. CHONS
B. Glycogen:Energy storage in animals
D. CHONPS
C. Starch:provides quick energy
215. If a sugar compound has 6 carbons, how D. Chitin:Energy storage in plants
many hydrogen atoms does it have?
221. The percentage of our daily calories that
A. 12
should come from carbohydrate should be
B. 6 in the range of to %
C. 18 A. 5-10%
D. 24 B. 45-65%
C. 20-25%
216. The scientific name for table sugar is
D. 90-100%
A. lactose
B. sucrose 222. Which one is a non reducing sugar?
C. galactose A. Glucose
D. glucose B. Galactose
C. Maltose
217. Which health problems is a consequence
D. Sucrose
of eating too much added sugar?
A. overweight 223. A scientist examines the source of the
carbon atoms found in a person’s breath.
B. heart disease
Which food substances are most likely the
C. diabetes source?
D. all of the above A. lipids

B. proteins 229. Which sugar is a disaccharide?

C. nucleic acids A. sucrose
D. carbohydrates B. ribose
224. Which elements make carbohydrates or- C. glycogen
ganic? D. rybulose
A. carbon
230. Table sugar is a combination of:
B. hydrogen
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A. glucose + glucose
C. oxygen
B. glucose + fructose
D. carbon and hydrogen
C. glucose + galactose
225. The following are materials used in the D. glucose + sucrose
Isolation of Liver Glycogen experiment,
EXCEPT: 231. What is the usable form of energy in the
A. 95% Ethanol cell?
B. Sand A. glucose
C. 5% TCA B. ATP
D. Table sugar C. starch
226. Sucrose is formed by: D. glycogen

A. condensation reaction of glucose and 232. What is the energy source of the cell?
fructose A. ATP
B. polymerization reaction of glucose and
B. DNA
fructose
C. RNA
C. condensation reaction of glucose and
galactose D. mRNA
D. polymerization reaction of glucose and 233. What are Monosaccharides?
galactose
A. Complex Sugar that is the basic
227. these are converted to glucose for use by molecule of carbohydrates
body cells B. Simple sugar comprised of 2 disaccha-
A. fructose rides
B. ribose C. Simple sugar that is the basic molecule
C. galactose of carbohydrates
D. deoxyribose D. Complex Sugar comprised of 2 disac-
charides
228. are the reactants in chemical reac-
tions. 234. What is the molecular formula of ribose?
A. Substrates A. C2H40
B. Enzymes B. CH71207
C. Proteins C. C5H10O5
D. Active Sites D. C6H1206

235. What do all heterotrophs have in com- C. quick energy

mon? D. renewable energy

A. Their diets must include meat
241. polysaccharides have
B. They must drink at least one liter of wa-
ter each day to survive A. one molecule
C. They must consume nutrients to sur- B. two molecules
vive C. three molecules
D. They must breathe oxygen to survive D. many molecules
236. Which are composed of many carbohy- 242. This term means “sugar”
drate monomers?
A. Glycerol
A. monosaccharides
B. Fatty Acid
B. disaccharides
C. Saccharide
C. polysaccharides
D. Nucleotide
D. dadomeres
243. What is reducing sugar?
237. Carbon forms this kind of bond with other
atoms: A. A reaction of monosaccharides
A. covalent B. An oligosaccharide
B. ionic C. A function of polysaccharides
C. polar D. A chemical property
D. hydrogen
244. Humans store energy in their body in the
238. Chemical process that breaks bonds using form of
water. A. Starch
A. Biomolecule B. Glycogen
B. Dehydration Synthesis C. Cellulose
C. Hydrolysis D. Chitin
D. Protein
245. Also known as glycogen primer
239. A carbohydrate that is found only in milk A. Glycogenase
is
B. Glucose
A. Sucrose
C. Glycogenin
B. Glucose
D. Galactase
C. Maltose
D. Lactose 246. the major site of metabolism occurs in:
A. large intestine
240. What kind of energy do complex carbo-
hydrates provide us with? B. small and large intestine
A. stored energy C. small intestine
B. kinetic energy D. intesine

247. It is commonly known as table sugar. 253. How many calories per gram do carbohy-
A. sucrose drates provide?
B. glucose A. 9
C. lactose B. 0
D. fructose C. 4
D. 20-35
248. It is the simplest carbohydrates or the
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simplest sugars. 254. Which of these is a pasta dish?
A. saccharides A. Carbonara
B. monosaccharides B. Paella
C. disaccharides C. Risotto
D. polysaccharides D. Moussaka
249. Which of these foods would contain a sim- 255. Which is a carbohydrate?
ple sugars?
A. starch
A. potatoes
B. enzyme
B. cauliflower
C. fat
C. loaf of bread
D. DNA
D. apple
256. Proteins are made of monomers called
250. which is the monomer of a carbohy-
drate?
A. Nucleotides
A. amino acid
B. nucleotide B. Monosaccharides
C. monosaccharide C. Amino Acids
D. fatty acid D. Glycerol and fatty acids
251. Plants store its energy as this.. (humans 257. Which of the following is NOT TRUE of a
eat it) disaccharide?
A. Starch A. made up of two sugars

B. Glycogen B. sucrose is an example
C. Cellulose C. lactose is an example
D. none of above D. fructose is an example
252. It is also known as animal starch. 258. What is the formula of Glucose?
A. glycogen A. C3H16O36
B. cellulose B. C632H123O239
C. starch C. C6H12O6
D. chitin D. C12H6O12

259. The following are the sugars that formed C. Seliwanoff’s test
needle shaped or broomstick crystals dur-
D. Bial’s Orcinol test
ing Osazone test, EXCEPT:

A. Galactose 265. Which elements combine to form carbohy-
B. Xylose drates?
C. Glucose A. Carbon, Nitrogen, and Oxygen
D. Fructose B. Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen

C. Carbon, Potassium, and Calcium
260. What type of reaction is used to create
polymers from monomers? D. Carbon, Calcium, and Hydrogen
A. Condensation
266. carbohydrates come from sugar.
B. Hydrolysis They do not supply many nutrients.
C. Hydrogenation A. complex
D. Digestion B. optional
261. How plants like a potato will store carbs C. simple
A. Starch D. loaded
B. Glycogen
267. How many grams of fiber should the av-
C. Cellulose erage American consume each day?
D. none of above A. 10-20 grams
262. It is the primary carbohydrate derived B. 20-35 grams
from fruits and honey. C. 4-9 grams
A. fructose
D. 45-70 grams
B. glucose
C. sucrose 268. What is a condensation reaction?
D. galactose A. Breaking of a hydroxyl bond

B. Formation of a hydroxyl bond
263. Match the basic ingredient to the purpose
in the quick bread:Provides leavening to C. Formation of a water molecule
make light, airy and porous D. Removal of one water molecule
A. Sugar
269. In the phrase, “Unhealthy diets often con-
B. Flour
tain disproportionate amounts of carbohy-
C. Leavening Agent drates, “ what does “disproportionate”
D. Fat mean?
A. Dangerous
264. This test will give positive result for ke-
tohexoses. B. Unbalanced
A. Barfoed Test C. Nutritious
B. Osazone formation D. Perfect

270. Which part of the grain kernel contains B C. Maltose

vitamins and fiber?
D. Cellulose
A. endosperm
B. germ 276. Which organic molecules supply energy to
cells?
C. bran
A. carbohydrates and nucleic acids
D. starch
B. proteins and nucleic acids
271. Chemical process that combines
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molecules by releasing water as a waste C. lipids and carbohydrates
product. D. lipids and nucleic acids
A. Dehydration Synthesis
277. The food source for glucose is:
B. Hydrolysis
A. milk
C. Protein Synthesis
B. fruit
D. Transcription
C. veggies, grains, fruits
272. Which is not a leavening agent?
D. grains
A. air
B. steam 278. What happens if you don’t eat enough
C. baking soda carbohydrates?
D. baking flour A. Your body won’t build enough muscle

B. Your body would stop functioning be-
273. Skim milk is better for you than whole
cause it ran out of energy
milk. What can you infer about skim
milk? C. You would develop serious vitamin de-
A. It’s low in fat ficiencies
B. It’s high in calories D. You boost your immune system

C. It’s high in protein 279. Carbohydrates are to the human body as
D. It’s low in liber what is to a car?
274. What are carbohydrates? A. Transmission fluid

A. The second most source of energy our B. Antifreeze
body gets. C. Motor oil
B. A potato. D. Gasoline
C. The main source of energy our body
gets. 280. are large molecules made of smaller
repeating
D. The stuff that makes our bones strong.
A. monomers, polymers
275. Dairy products have what disaccharide in
them? B. polymers, monomers
A. Lactose C. monomers, monomers
B. Fructose D. polymers, polymers

281. Which of these performs the same func- 287. The storage form of carbohydrates in
tion as gasoline in a car? liver and muscle cells

A. Water A. starch
B. Protein
B. glycogen
C. Carbohydrates
C. cellulose
D. Fats
D. glucagon
282. The categories of carbohydrates based on
structural complexity are:
288. Which of the following in not a hydrate
A. Monosaccharide, disaccharide, of carbon?
oligosaccharide, polysaccharide
B. glucose, maltose trehalose, starch A. Dihydroxy acetone
C. Aldoses and ketoses B. Acetic acid

D. There are no categories of carbohy- C. Deoxy ribose
drates based on structure
D. All
283. What word describes two monomers of
a carbohydrate bonded together? 289. How many types of important complex
A. Monosaccharide carbohydrates are there?
B. Disaccharide A. 4
C. Trisaccharide
B. 5
D. Polysaccharide
C. 3
284. Classification of carbohydrates are
D. 6
A. Simple carbs and disirable carbs
B. Simple carbs and complex carbs
290. Which nutrient provides the body with
C. Monosaccharides and disaccharides the ready source of energy?
D. Glucose and lactose A. Fats
285. Glucose (honey, jam, soft drinks) & fruc- B. Carbohydrates
tose (fruit) are examples of
A. Monosaccharides C. Protein
B. Disaccharides D. Fiber
C. Polysaccharides
291. Which of the following is not a monosac-
D. none of above
charides?
286. What monosaccharide is found in milk?
A. fructose
A. galactose
B. galactose
B. sucrose
C. fructose C. glucose
D. lactose D. sucrose

292. Important to the structural integrity of C. Texture

plant cells, this is the single most popular D. its elements
polysaccharide in the world. Note:humans
do not have the ability to digest this. 298. In DNA, T is referred to as thymine, how-
#chewyourcorn ever, in RNA, it is represented by what
A. Starch nitrogenous base?
B. Glycogen A. U (Uracil)
B. C (Cytosine)
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C. Cellulose
D. Chitin C. A (Adenine)
293. What are different examples of lipids? D. G (Guanine)
A. monosaccahrides, disaccharides, 299. Can fanny play violin much worse is an

starch, cellulose mnemonic to remember which nutrients
B. dipetide, polypeptide, amino acids A. carbohydrates, fiber, protein, vitamin,
C. DNA, RNA, ATP minerals, water
D. triglycerides, waxes, steroids, phos- B. carbohyrates, fats, protein, vitamins,
pholipds water
C. Prot
294. Molecules made primarily of elements
NOT found in living organisms. D. none of above
A. Inorganic 300. The perfect muffin looks like:
B. Organic A. cauliflower top, some-but few tunnels,
C. Carbonic will be tender
D. Hydraulic B. flat top, big tunnels and a lot of them
295. This phase produce nicotinamide adenine C. Cone top and crumbly
dinucleotide phosphate hydrogen D. Flaky and layers
A. non-oxidative phase
301. An example of a quick bread would be
B. oxygen phase
C. oxidative phase A. Pizza crust
D. non-oxygen phase B. Cinnamon Rolls
296. What are the 3 monosaccharides C. Pretzels
A. glucose, fructose, and galactose D. Muffins
B. glucose, fructose, and lactose
302. chemical breakdown is also referred to
C. glycogen, fructose, and galactose as:
D. glucose, maltose, and galactose A. anabolic
297. When a protein denatures it changes B. catabolic
A. Shape C. metabolic
B. Color D. lolabolic

303. How does the human body store excess 309. A monosaccharide is a
carbohydrates? A. carbohydrate

A. Blood B. lipid
B. Muscle C. nucleic acid
C. Fat D. protein
D. Bone
310. When you eat a plant, you derive energy
304. What is the body trying to do when it from the stored , but not from the
stores fat? component.
A. Stores it for later use. A. starch chitin
B. Uses it as a cushion for your organs. B. cellulose chitin
C. Uses it as extra energy. C. starch cellulose
D. Transports it to other parts of the body. D. glycogen cellulose
305. Which of the following are often called 311. What would the molecular formula of a
complex carbohydrates? polysaccharide with 4 glucoses be?
A. Monosaccharides A. C6H12O6
B. Disaccharides B. C24H42O21
C. C24H48O24
C. Oligosaccharides
D. C48H94O48
D. Polysaccharides
312. Please choose the example that is NOT a
306. What is a polymer of a carbohydrate
simple carb.
called?
A. Snickers
A. Monosaccharide
B. Gummy Bears
B. Polysaccharide
C. Coke
C. Fructose
D. Rice
D. Starch
313. Monomers combine to form through
307. If we eat too many carbohydrates they the process of
are stored in the body as ?
A. polymers; hydrolysis
A. fat
B. polymers; dehydration synthesis
B. extra cells
C. monomers; hydrolysis
C. flouride
D. monomers; dehydration synthesis
D. none of above
314. Which can be formed from its subunits by
308. Which of the following are the simplest dehydration synthesis (removing H2O and
form of carbohydrates? joining two subunits)
A. Monosaccharides A. proteins
B. Disaccharides B. carbohydrates
C. Oligosaccharides C. lipids
D. Polysaccharides D. all of them

315. Robert wants to serve a whole grain side C. Weight gain

dish. Which dish should he consider?
D. Muscle gain
A. brown rice
B. pasta 321. Which of the following polysaccharides is
in fungi and arthropods?
C. couscous
A. Chitin
D. white bread
B. Glycogen
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316. What compounds make up cellulose?
C. Saccharin
A. amino acids
D. Starches
B. enzymes
C. sugars 322. The main function of carbohydrates is:
D. lipids A. To maintain healthy bones and teeth.

B. to provide energy.
317. These foods should make up a of the
food you eat everyday. C. the build and maintain body tissues.
A. 1/3 D. to regulate ody functions.
B. 1/2
323. What does hydrolysis mean?
C. 1/4
A. breaking of water molecules
D. 1/10
B. Formation by water
318. Pancakes are an example of a bat- C. Splitting by water
ter.
D. Getting rid of water molecules
A. Drop batter
B. Pour batter 324. what is the storage(s) form of carbohy-
C. stiff dough drate found in mammals?
D. soft dough A. Glucose and glycogen

B. Glycogen
319. What is the name of the reaction in-
volved in breaking apart polysaccharides C. starch
to monosaccharides? D. Fiber and glycogen
A. Monosaccharide synthesis reaction
325. It is stored in the liver and muscles. It
B. Hydrolysis reaction
also serves as a reservoir of the readily
C. Hydrosynthesis reaction available glucose that is releases from the
D. Dehydration synthesis reaction liver when the glucose level in the blood
becomes low.
320. Which of the following is not a conse- A. glycogen
quence of eating a lot of simple sugars
over a period of time? B. cellulose
A. Diabetes C. starch
B. Heart Disease D. chitin

326. Which of the following bread is the C. They’re both sources of fatty acids
healthiest? D. They’re both sources of glycerol

A. White
332. The simple sugar which comes from fruit
B. Italian is called
C. Whole wheat A. sucrose
D. Sourdough B. lactose
327. Starch is an example of a polysaccharide C. fructose
found in plants. What is the monomer of D. maltose
starch (Hint:it is an example of a monosac-
charide)? 333. If a carbohydrate has six carbon, how
many hydrogens does it have?
A. sucrose
A. 3
B. glucose
B. 6
C. glycogen
C. 9
D. lactose
D. 12
328. Products are known as alditols
334. What forms the exoskeleton of anthro-
A. Reduction to alcohols pods?
B. Oxidation A. Glycogen
C. Osazonne Formation B. Cellulose
D. Benedict’s Test C. Chitin
329. How are carbohydrates stored in D. Glucose
plants?
335. Which element is NOT essential to life
A. Starch A. Carbon
B. Glycogen B. Oxygen
C. Cellulose C. Iron
D. Chitin D. Hydrogen
330. Each carbohydrate molecule is composed 336. It is obtained from starchy foods such as
of the following EXCEPT potatoes and corn.
A. nitrogen A. maltose
B. carbon B. sucrose
C. oxygen C. lactose
D. hydrogen D. galactose
331. What do carbohydrates and fats have in 337. Carbohydrates are made of what ele-
common? ments?
A. They’re both sources of glucose A. CHO
B. They’re both sources of protein B. CHON

C. CHONP C. Hereditary Information

D. CHONS D. Energy & Structural Building Blocks
338. Which of these is included in a healthy 344. It is the major constituent of the ex-
meal? oskeleton of fungi and arthropods.
A. complex carbohydrates A. chitin
B. sauces, spreads, and gravies that are B. glycogen
high in fat and calories
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C. cellulose
C. added sugar
D. starch
D. none of above
345. Which answer best describes the function
339. Carbohydrates come primarily from: of fibre?
A. animal sources. A. To make us feel fuller for longer
B. plants sources. B. To help regular bowel movements
C. plant and animal souces C. To bulk out our stomach, promote
D. none of the above. bowel movement and make us feel fuller
for longer
340. Stored in the liver
D. To lower the blood glucose levels in
A. Starch our body
B. Glycogen
346. What is a type of food that does NOT con-
C. Cellulose tain carbohydrates?
D. none of above A. Dairy
341. Examples are starch, glycogen, and cellu- B. Meat
lose C. Fruit
A. polysaccharides D. Sugary Sweets
B. monosaccarides
347. The polysaccharide found in the exoskele-
C. disaccharides ton of an invertebrates is
D. none of above A. pectin
342. This polysaccharide is important to the B. chitin
structure of plant cell walls, C. cellulose
A. Starch D. starch
B. Glycogen
348. are particularly important in the
C. Cellulose metabolism of sugars to provide energy.
D. Chitin A. Phosphoric Esters
343. Organisms use carbohydrates for B. Glucose
A. Energy C. Glycosidic Bond
B. Structural Building Blocks D. Polysaccharides

349. A monomer splits from a polymer C. Fiber

through
D. Carbohydratets

A. ATP synthesis
B. monomerization 355. What is the purpose of flour in quick
breads?
C. hydrolysis
A. structure
D. condensation reaction
B. moisture
350. What is significant about C6H12O6?
C. sweetness
A. It is the chemical formula of glucose
D. color
B. It is the general formula for monosac-
charides 356. It is a soft, white, and tasteless powder
C. It is the general formula for amino that is soluble in warm water but insoluble
acids in cold water.
D. It is the chemical formula of maltose A. starch

B. chitin
351. Which of the following elements is NOT
found in carbohydrates? C. cellulose
A. Carbon D. glycogen
B. Hydrogen
357. + = sucrose
C. Nitrogen
A. glucose + glucose
D. Oxygen
B. glucose+ fructose
352. The following is an example of a complex C. glucose + galactose
carbohydrate
D. none of above
A. can of pop
B. poptart 358. A large molecule made up of many similar
C. sweet potato or identical subunits.
D. Snickers A. lipids
B. polymer
353. What is the chemical formula for glu-
cose? C. monomer
A. C1 H2 O1 D. monosaccharide
B. C6 H12 O6
359. What is the molecule involved in the
C. C12 H22 O11 building and breakdown of carbohy-
D. H2O drates?
A. NaCl
354. Which nutrient is your body’s most effi-
cient fuel? B. H2O
A. Glucose C. C6H12O6
B. Protein D. Glycogen

360. What is the monomer of a protein C. Maltose

called? D. Cellulose
A. Amino acid
366. What is the ratio of the carbohydrate el-
B. Fructose ements?
C. Monopeptide A. 1:2:1
D. Carboxylic acid B. 2:1:2
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361. Which of the following is considered a C. 1:2:3
monosaccharide? D. 1:1:1
A. glucose
367. It is the principal structural component of
B. sucrose plant cell walls, making stems, leaves, and
C. starch branches strong.
D. cellulose A. cellulose
B. starch
362. The 4 macromolecules are
C. chitin
A. vitamins, lipids, water, micronutrients
D. glycogen
B. micronutrients, macronutrients, wa- 368. Hydrolysis literally means

ter, vitamins A. To join with water
C. Lipids, Waxes, Vitamin A, Water B. To split with oil
D. Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins, Nu- C. To split with water
cleic Acids
D. To join with oil.
363. Polysaccharides are large molecules con-
369. Function of carbohydrates is:
taining
A. energy & energy storage
A. 10 or more monosaccharide units
B. raw & structural materials
B. 10 or more disaccharide units.
C. none of the above
C. 10 or more trisaccharide units.
D. all of the above
D. All above answers are wrong.
370. In order to yield 3 cups of cooked rice,
364. Monosaccharides are sugars how much uncooked rice should be used?
A. Simple A. 1 cup
B. Complex B. 2 cups
C. Sweet C. 3 cups
D. Sour D. 6 cups
365. What carbohydrate is referred to as di- 371. is an example of a good source of
etary fiber? complex carbohydrates
A. Starch A. Can of soda
B. Glycogen B. Poptart

C. Sweet Potato 377. What does it mean that the blue portion
of the plate is rather small?
D. Cupcake

A. Vegetables should be eaten in abun-
372. What monosaccharide is found in fruit dance
and honey? B. You shouldn’t consume all that much
A. fructose dairy
B. sucrose C. You should consume a non-fat diet
C. glucose D. Fruits are a poor source of nutrients
D. lactose 378. C stands for?

A. cat
373. Which of these is not type of rice?
B. calcium
A. Farfelle
C. carbon
B. Arborio
D. krypton
C. Basmati
379. Which organic molecule is paired with its
D. Sushi function?
374. Cereals are ideal for what type of diet A. nucleic acid:to store energy
due to their LBV protein content? B. proteins:to provide insulation
A. Vegan C. lipids:to regulate metabolic processes
B. High fat
D. carbohydrate:to provide quick-release
C. Coeliacs energy
D. Babies
380. Insufficient carbohydrates intake can
375. What kind of food is an example of a com- cause?
plex carbohydrate? A. tooth decay and gum diseases
A. Whole wheat bread B. weight loss
B. Jams C. diabetes
C. Honey D. none of above
D. Table sugar 381. What suffix is used in the names of most

carbohydrates?
376. What is insulin?
A. -ase
A. Hormone that helps regulate blood glu- B. -nic
cose levels
C. -ose
B. hormone that helps raise blood glu-
D. -yme
cose levels
C. hormone that helps lower blood glu- 382. The main function of a carbohydrate is
cose levels A. long term energy storage
D. none of above B. stores genetic information

C. short term energy storage 388. Makes up the plants cell wall and is fiber
D. regulates and controls all body proc- in our diets
cesses A. Starch
B. Glycogen
383. What polysaccharide is found in grain
products and contains large amounts of en- C. Cellulose
ergy? D. none of above
A. Starch
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389. When preparing rice, which would be a
B. Glycogen recommended cooking practice?
C. Sucrose A. Stir the rice frequently as it cooks.
D. Cellulose B. Allow the rice to boil for 10 minutes.
C. Fluff the rice with a fork after cooking
384. This polysaccharide is most abundant in it.
liver and skeletal muscle:
D. Cook the rice in an uncovered pot.
A. Mucin
B. Glycogen 390. Primary element found in every Fehling’s
reagent
C. Starch
A. Iron
D. Cellulose
B. Copper
385. Alpha-glucose differ from its beta isomer C. Sulfur
in position of: D. Magnesium
A. OH group at carbon 1
391. Why did we use cold rice to fried rice?
B. OH group at carbon 4
A. To add texture.
C. lack of O at carbon 3
B. To add better flavor.
D. OH group at carbon 2
C. To keep structure.
386. Match the basic ingredient to the purpose D. So you don’t overcook.
in the quick bread:Flavor enhancing
392. Which type of food provides fiber?
A. Fat
A. Food from plant sources
B. Salt
B. Only from vegetables
C. Eggs
C. Only from fruits
D. Sugar D. Only from grains
387. It is an enzyme that catalyzes the re- 393. Which of the following items is a polymer
moval of water from a compound. of glucose?
A. catalyst enzyme A. starch
B. carbonic enzyme B. cellulose
C. anhydrase C. glycogen
D. carbonic anhydrase D. All of These

394. What might happen if you didn’t get C. Fructose

enough fatty acids in your diet? D. Glucose

A. Your brain wouldn’t have enough en-
ergy 400. What is the RDA of CHO for non en-
durance based sports?
B. Your muscles wouldn’t have enough
energy A. 30-40%
C. Your kidneys and liver might not func- B. 40-50%

tion properly C. 50-60%
D. Your bones might become brittle D. 65-70%
395. What happens if you eat more carbohy- 401. Pasta in volume when cooked
drates then your body needs? A. doubles
A. becomes DNA B. triples
B. turns to fat C. reduces
C. creates extra energy D. none of above
D. becomes waste
402. Where in your body are complex carbohy-
396. Percentage of glycogen found in the mus- drates broken down into simple sugars?
cles A. In your bloodstream
A. 6% B. In your intestines
B. 8% C. In your mouth
C. 5% D. In your liver
D. 1%
403. Which of the following is NOT carbohy-
397. what are examples of proteins? drate?
A. starches/sugars A. starch
B. glucose, lactose, galactose, fructose B. cellulose
C. hemoglobin, insulin, keratin C. wax
D. waxes, fats, water D. sucrose
398. This nutrient is the body’s main source of 404. Which carbohydrate is the exoskeleton of
energy an insect composed of?
A. Protein A. Cellulose
B. Fat B. Chitin
C. Carbohydrates C. Starch
D. Water D. Glycogen
399. Tough fibrous component of many plants 405. Which is an example of a whole grain
like celery product?
A. Cellulose A. all-purpose flour
B. Lactose B. white rice

C. oatmeal C. Storing genetic information

D. pasta D. Long term energy storage
406. What ending do most carbohydrates 412. What is the function of proteins?
have? A. Short term energy
A. ose B. storage, transport and enzymes
B. ase C. Forms cell membrane, long term en-
ergy, and insulation
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C. ate
D. in D. Carries genetic information
407. Sugars and starches are examples of 413. A carbohydrate that is found only in DNA
which organic molecules? is
A. Sucrose
A. Carbohydrates
B. Ribose
B. Proteins
C. Deoxyribose
C. Lipids
D. Lactose
D. Nucleic Acids
414. Which do all carbohydrates do for us?
408. Which is the healthiest type of meat?
A. provide energy
A. Red meat
B. make muscle
B. Brown meat
C. make brains
C. Raw meat
D. make hair
D. Lean meat
415. Which represents the elements in a car-
409. Which would be the healthiest way of bohydrate? (Choose the best)
cooking potatoes? A. CHONP
A. Baked jacket potatoes-with skin B. CHO, in the ratio CH2O
B. Deep fried as chips-no skin C. CHON
C. Oven baked as wedges-no skin D. CHO, mostly C and H with a little O
D. deep fried as chips-with skin
416. The following are carbohydrate sources,
410. Glycerol and fatty acids are the except
monomers of A. Rice, corn, and wheat
A. Carbohydrates B. Crackers, rice, and fruit
B. Lipids C. Sweet potato, cassava, noodles
C. Proteins D. Wheat, rice, potato
D. Nucleic Acids 417. Which is a Carbohydrate’s monomer?
411. What is the major function of carbohy- A. Fatty acid
drates? B. Amino acids
A. Short term energy storage C. Monosacharide
B. Storing sunlight D. Nucleotide

418. What is the essential macro-nutrient 424. Which monosaccharides are found in lac-
found in wholegrains and green leafy veg- tose?
etables?

A. Glucose and galactose
A. Fat
B. Fructose and galactose
B. Fibre
C. Maltose and galactose
C. Sugar
D. Sucrose and galactose
D. Sodium
425. disaccharides have
419. Which is an example of disaccharide?
A. Sucrose A. one molecule
B. Fructose B. two molecules

C. Galactose C. three molecules
D. Glucose D. many molecules
420. A carbohydrate with a simple chemical 426. monosaccharides have

structure (ex:pop and candy)
A. one molecule
A. complex carbohydrate
B. two molecules
B. simple carbohydrate
C. three molecules
C. small carbohydrate
D. many molecules
D. simchem carbohydrate
421. What health problems are a consequence 427. Muscles, meat, beans, and insulin are ex-
of eating too much CHO? amples of which organic molecules?
A. Weight Loss A. Carbohydrates

B. Dizziness B. Proteins
C. Type 2 Diabetes C. Lipids
D. all of the above D. Nucleic Acids
422. Lactose is formed by reaction between: 428. Which biomolecule does NOT have a
A. Glucose and Glucose carbon-nitrogen bond?
B. Galactose and Fructose A. protein
C. Fructose and Glucose B. peptide
D. Galactose and Glucose C. nucleic acid
423. Which correctly describes a function of D. carbohydrate
carbohydrates?
429. Different sugars all end in the suffix
A. build and repair body tissues
A. ly
B. body’s main source of energy
B. itis
C. helps keep immune system functioning
C. ose
D. cushions organs D. ion

430. What is not a type of carbohydrate? 436. Where is glycogen stored?

A. Fat A. Liver and muscle
B. Fiber B. Muscle and kidney
C. Starch C. Kidney and stomach
D. Sugar D. none of above
431. Which monosaccharides are found in su- 437. Monosaccharides and disaccharides are
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crose? also known as ?
A. Glucose and maltose A. polymers
B. Glucose and galactose B. simple sugars
C. Fructose and galactose C. complex carbohydrates
D. Glucose and fructose D. starches
432. What is the PASTA YIELD ratio in cups? 438. Glucose and glycogen are examples of
A. 1:1 how carbohydrates
B. 1:2 A. Are stored and circulate.
C. 1:3 B. Circulate and are stored.
D. 1:4 C. Are stored in the liver and muscles.

D. Provide energy to the body.
433. Carbohydrates must be in what form in
order for cells to use them as an energy 439. Alpha-amylase, an enzyme present in
source? saliva, breaks down starch. Which food
A. Cellulose does it help to digest?
B. Fructose A. milk
C. Glucose B. candy
D. none of above C. steak

D. potato
434. Which is NOT a function of carbohy-
drates? 440. The physical appearance of Cellulose
A. Energy storage A. White crystalline
B. compose cell membrane B. Amorphous powder
C. structural materials C. Fibrous
D. Energy relase D. none of above
435. What is the ratio for carbohydrates? 441. It is an example of gluconeogenesis

A. 4:2:1 A. biogeochemical cycle
B. There is no ratio B. glyoxylate cycle
C. 2:1:1 C. chemical cycle
D. 1:2:1 D. oxalate cycle

442. What elements make up all carbohy- 448. Wholegrain cereals provide , which
drates? prevents bowel disease.

A. Carbon, Sulfur, Hydrogen A. sugar
B. Carbon, Oxygen, Phosphorus B. dietary fibre
C. Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen C. starch
D. Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen D. gluten
443. When two sugar molecules combine they 449. A tool that should not be used when mak-
release a water molecule in a process ing quick breads is
called
A. spoon
A. dehydration synthesis
B. pastry blender
B. hydrolysis
C. electric mixer
C. triphosphate
D. rubber spatula
D. macromolecule
450. Monosaccharides are known as
444. All carbohydrates are broken down into
what? A. complex sugars
A. fructose B. easy fats
B. sucrose C. simple proteins
C. glucose D. simple sugars
D. galactose 451. Animals store glucose in the form of
445. Sugar present in DNA is A. cellulose
A. Ribose B. glycogen
B. Deoxy Ribose C. wax
C. Glucose D. lipids
D. No sugar is present in DNA 452. When making biscuits and muffins, over-
446. What element is used in PROTEINS and mixing causes:
NOT CARBOHYDRATES? A. bread to tough and/or have tunnels.
A. Carbon B. a nice fluffy top.
B. Hydrogen C. smooth flaky layers
C. Oxygen D. none of these
D. Nitrogen
453. Which of the following organic com-
447. The main function of carbohydrates in to pounds is the main source of energy for
provide for the body? living things?
A. Fun A. carbohydrates
B. Energy B. lipids
C. Fat C. nucleic acids
D. Protein D. proteins

454. C6H12O6 is the chemical formula for- 460. How many molecules of water would be
A. glucose created by joining 5 monosaccharides to
make 1 polysaccharide?
B. fructose
A. None
C. galactose
B. 2
D. sucrose
C. 4
455. The Main difference between Quick D. 5
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Breads and Yeast Breads is
461. Monosacharides do not contain:
A. the leavening agent that is used
A. aldehyde group
B. the liquid that is being used
B. ketone group
C. flour used
C. hydroxyl group
D. all of the above
D. carboxyl group
456. This process removes a water molecule in
order to bond monomers together: 462. Which is an example of a carbohydrate?
A. Dehydration Synthesis A. Olive oil
B. Exocytosis B. Avocado
C. Brown rice
C. Osmosis
D. Greek Yogurt
D. Hydrolysis
463. Carbohydrates yield how many Calories
457. Which foods do not contain natural
per gram?
sugar?
A. 0 Cal/gram
A. apple
B. 9 Cal/gram
B. milk
C. 4 Cal/gram
C. strawberry
D. 2.25 Cal/gram
D. they all do
464. What is the characteristic of a pancreatic
458. This test will give bluish green color as juice as it contains a rich supply of bicar-
the positive result for carbohydrates. bonate?
A. Molisch test A. very basic
B. Anthrone test B. basic
C. Iodine test C. acidic
D. Seliwanoff test D. very acidic
459. Which is the best example of a monosac- 465. What is the ratio of elements found in
charide, or simple sugar? carbohydrates?
A. starch A. 1:1:1
B. glucose B. 1:2:1
C. cellulose C. 2:1:2
D. glycogen D. 2:2:2

466. Which polysaccharide makes up the struc- C. fructose

ture of plant cell walls? D. none of above

A. fructose
472. Which is an important tip for including
B. starch foods from this group in your diet?
C. cellulose A. Eat a wide variety of foods from this
D. glucose group
B. Just eat the foods that you like
467. Which polysaccharide is found in the ex-
oskeletons of insects and crustaceans? C. Eat the same foods at the same time
everyday
A. Celluose
D. Only eat these foods early in the day,
B. Starch
not after lunchtime
C. Chitin
473. Which best explains the process that oc-
D. Glycogen
curs in order for energy to be derived from
468. Found in fruits, vegetables, grains, pota- starch?
toes, pasta, breads that our bodies have A. It must be dissolved in water
the natural ability to break down.
B. It must be converted into glucose.
A. Starch C. It must be combined with another
B. Glycogen polysaccharide.
C. Cellulose D. It must be decomposed into carbon,
D. none of above hydrogen, and oxygen
469. The biscuit method of mixing involves 474. Table sugar is also known as ?
A. Sucrose
A. melted butter B. Glucose
B. oil C. Fructose
C. solid fat D. Maltose
D. no fat 475. A product that contains lots of hydro-
genated oils is probably rich in:
470. Which of the following is NOT a monosac-
charide? A. Saturated fat
A. Glucose B. Unsaturated fat
B. Galactose C. Monosaturated fat
C. Fructose D. Trans fat
D. Sucrose 476. What happens to the cereal grain when
it is processed?
471. High-fructose corn syrup is made from
corn. The main carbohydrate in corn is a A. The grain stays whole
polysaccharide called B. The endosperm is removed
A. cellulose C. The bran and germ are removed
B. starch D. The bran is removed

477. Which word ending is typical of carbohy- 483. What is the function of a carbohydrate?
drates? A. Stores energy
A. -in B. Movement
B. -ol C. Stores genetic information
C. -ase D. Speeds up reactions
D. -ose
484. What atoms make up all carbohydrates?
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478. building reactions needed to maintain life A. Carbon, Sulfur, Hydrogen
is considered as:
B. Carbon, Oxygen, Phosphorus
A. catabolic
C. Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen
B. lolabolic
D. Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen
C. metabolic
D. anabolic 485. Which is the healthiest choice?
A. Whole grains
479. Test used to detect simple sugar in a sam-
ple: B. Refined grains
A. Biuret test C. Enriched grains
B. Iodine test D. none of above
C. Benedict’s test 486. The most abundant polysaccharide on

D. Brown paper bag test Earth is
A. Glycogen
480. What reagent is used to test for reducing
sugars? B. Starch
A. Biurets C. Cellulose
B. Iodine D. Pectin
C. Lugol’s 487. Which of the following polysaccharides is

D. Benedicts stored in the liver and the muscles?
A. Glycogen
481. Which food contains the most starch?
B. Chitin
A. Pasta
C. Cellulose
B. Broccoli
D. Starches
C. Table sugar
D. Steak 488. Biomolecules contain a variety of atoms.
Which biomolecule maintains a ratio of 1
482. Humans break carbohydrates down dur- carbon atom to 2 hydrogen atoms to 1
ing what process? oxygen atom?
A. Metabolism A. lipid
B. None of the choices B. protein
C. Photosynthesis C. protein
D. Protein Synthesis D. carbohydrate

489. What is the function of salt in quick 495. What’s an example of consuming candy
breads? in moderation?

A. Tenderizing Agent A. Eating a candy bar every day
B. Adds Flavor B. Eating a candy bar once a week
C. Gives structure
C. Avoiding candy bars at all costs
D. Adds moisture
D. Eating candy bars whenever they’re
490. What kind of energy do simple sugars available
provide us with?
A. stored energy 496. What must fiber have in order to “do its
job” effectively?
B. kinetic energy
C. quick energy A. Protein
D. renewable energy B. Vitamin
491. What are the 3 correct disaccharides C. Water
A. sucrose, maltose, and lactose D. Fat

B. glucose, maltose, and lactose
497. Wholegrain carbohydrates contain which
C. sucrose, maltose, and galactose of the following nutrients?
D. sucrose, fructose, and galactose A. Fiber
492. Monosaccharides can be broken down B. Minerals
into simple sugars which one is not found
in food? C. Vitamins
A. Glucose D. All of the above
B. Fructose
498. What is the type of reaction that is
C. Galactose used during the digestion of carbohydrates
D. Clutose called?
493. The most common disaccharide that we A. Condensation

used almost every day as table sugar is: B. Dehydration
A. fructose C. Hydrolysis
B. glucose
D. Hydrogenation
C. galactose
D. sucrose 499. In humans and other organisms, which
substance below acts as the main energy
494. When choosing carbohydrates, choose source?
ones low in added
A. proteins
A. Fiber
B. Sugar B. lipids
C. Fat C. carbohydrates
D. Vitamins D. Nucleic Acids

500. The function of Carbohydrates are 505. The digestion of sucrose (table sugar) re-
sults in what two monosaccharides?
A. Maintaining body temperature and giv-
ing sweetness to food A. Fructose and glucose
B. source of energy and maintain body B. Maltose and glucose
temperature C. Glucose and galactose
C. Protein saver and protecting organs D. Galactose and fructose
D. Protein saver and energy source 506. Why is it important to eat brown or
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wholemeal versions of foods from these
501. What is the purpose of adding Sulfuric groups?
acid to a sugar molecule? A. These contain more fibre
A. To precipitate B. These contain more vitamin C
B. To dehydrate C. These contain less fat
C. To crystallize D. These contain less fibre
D. To dissolve 507. What are two main functions of fats

within the body?
502. How is fiber different from most other A. energy storage and cellular transport
foods you eat?
B. energy storage and insulation
A. It doesn’t contain any sugars at all C. building blocks for DNA and hormones
B. Consuming it robs your body of nutri-
ents D. storing cellular information and in the
C. Your body can’t digest it cell membrane
D. It contains elements of all the major 508. Lactose is found in

food groups A. Milk
B. Milk products
503. Which is an example of a complex carbo-
hydrate? C. All of the above
A. Digested slowly D. none of above
B. Digested quickly 509. What is correct function for a carb?
C. I have no idea A. build and repair body tissues

B. body’s main source of energy
D. Digested normally
C. helps keep immune system functioning
504. Which statement is not correct?
A. monosacharides are simple sugars D. cushions organs
B. disacharides are formed from 2 simple 510. Which of these is not a type of bread?
sugars A. Gorilla
C. polysacharides are condensation poly- B. Tiger
mers C. Bloomer
D. fructose is example of disacharide D. Bagel

511. What shapes can monosaccharides 517. How are sugars formed in nature?
have? A. Photosynthesis

A. Straight chains of carbon, and 5-sided B. Cellular respiration
and 6-sided rings of carbon
C. Hydrolysis
B. Rings of carbons with up to 9 sides
D. Dehydration
C. Straight chains of carbon and triangles
of carbon 518. The monomer of the a carbohydrate poly-
mer is:
D. 3-sided and 4-sided rings of carbon
A. Saccharide
512. which is NOT a function of a protein? B. Amino Acid
A. Transport substances in/out of cells C. Nucleotide
B. Enzymes control reaction rates D. Fatty Acid
C. waterproof coverings
519. Why is fat an important part of our diet?
D. Fight diseases
A. Because it tastes good
513. Cellulose is major structural material of B. Because it carries so much energy
cell wall of:
C. Because it contains nutrients you can’t
A. Animals get from anything else
B. Plants D. Because it contains oxygen atoms
C. Bacteria 520. What is the most common and most abun-
D. Insects dant disaccharide?
514. Most names of sugars end in- A. sucrose
A. ase B. maltose
B. ese C. lactose
C. ose D. glucose
D. ise 521. Which word comes closest to meaning
“carbohydrates”?
515. Which of the following is a food source
A. fats
for a carbohydrate?
B. sugars
A. Apple
C. proteins
B. Bread
D. vitamins
C. Rice
D. all of the above 522. Which best describes the importance of
the carbohydrate cellulose to plant cells?
516. Which nutrient provides the body with A. It lubricates cell organelles.
the most amount of energy?
B. It provides enzymes for the cell.
A. Fats
C. It serves as a storage center for water
B. Carbohydrates and wastes.
C. Protein D. It provides the main structural ele-
D. Fiber ments in the cell wall.

523. Which disaccharide is found in milk? C. The 3D folding of the chain into a spe-
A. glucose cific shape
B. galactose D. The joining of two or more polypeptide

chains
C. lactose
D. fructose 529. What is the function of carbohydrates in
humans?
524. Animal’s storage carbohydrates in form
A. structure
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of:
A. starch B. energy
B. glycogen C. defense
C. glucose D. signaling
D. cellulose 530. Can form 4 bonds and is the “backbone
525. Why shouldn’t you worry about getting of life”
enough fat in your diet? A. Phosphorus
A. Because all fat is bad for you B. Nitrogen
B. Because it’s found in so many foods C. Oxygen
C. Because you don’t need any fat at all D. Carbon
in your diet
D. Because you can take it as a vitamin if 531. This term means “one/single”
you don’t eat it A. Mono
526. molecular formula of deoxyribose B. Di
A. Its surface is 12 watts C. Tri
B. 12 pcs D. Poly
C. C5H10O4
532. The creation of tunnels and peaks in
D. C5H10O5 muffins is a sign of
527. Which of the following tests for starch? A. not adding enough gluten
A. Iodine B. under mixing
B. Benedict’s C. Over mixing
C. Biuret D. not making a well
D. Emulsion
533. Which carbohydrate do we store in our
528. What is meant by the primary structure liver and serves as an energy reserve?
of a protein? A. Starch
A. The sequence of amino acids in the
B. Glycogen
chain
C. Glucose
B. The initial twisting of the chain into α -
helices and β -pleated sheets D. Cellulose

534. What type of bonds are found as a result C. monosaccarides

of dehydration synthesis of two monosac-
D. none of above
charides?

A. nonpolar covalent bond 540. What do we call of the bonds between
B. glycosidic linkage nucleotides?
C. ionic bond A. covalent bond

D. hydrogen linkage B. phosphodiester bonds
535. What substances are classified as lipids? C. nucleotide bonds
A. Fats, sugars, phosphates D. all of the above

B. DNA and RNA 541. Which carbohydrate is made up of two
C. Triphosphates, glyercol-lipids and glucose molecules?
testosterone.
A. Lactose
D. Fats, oils, waxes, hormones
B. Maltose
536. Carbohydrates not used by the body for C. Sucrose
energy are stored as ?
D. Galactose
A. Fat
B. Protein 542. A sedentary lifestyle can cause glucose to
C. Fluoride turn into body fat. What is the best syn-
onym for “sedentary?”
D. Maltose
A. Healthy
537. A single unit that can bond to other single
B. Hyperactive
units to form a polymer is a:
A. polypeptides C. Sleep-deprived
B. polymers D. Inactive
C. glycerol 543. The sweetest sugar is

D. monomer A. Maltose
538. Match the basic ingredient to the purpose B. Galactose
in the quick bread:Tenderness, some flavor
and richness C. Fructose
A. Fat D. Glucose
B. Salt 544. Carbohydrates are one of the four major
C. Eggs groups of:
D. Liquids A. Proteins
539. Simple sugars are B. Subatomic particles

A. polysaccharides C. Organic molecules
B. disaccharides D. DNA strands

545. What do carbohydrates provide for the C. Polysaccharides

body? D. Amino Acids
A. Helps build and repair body tissue
551. Carbohydrates, the most abundant
B. Helps hydrate your body biomolecules on earth, are produced by
C. Provides your body’s main source of A. All bacteria, fungi and algae
energy B. Viruses, fungi and bacteria
D. Helps vital processes C. Some bacteria, algae and green plant
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cells
546. Which is not considered a nutrient?
D. Fungi, algae and green plant cells
A. Dietary Fiber
B. Fructose 552. Lipids are made of
C. Glucose A. C H O
B. C H O N
D. Proteins
C. C H O N P
547. It is an enzyme that catalyzes the decom- D. C H O N S
position of carbonic acid into carbon diox-
ide and water 553. Plants store glucose in the form of
A. carbonic anhydrase A. starch
B. enzymes B. glycogen
C. catalysts C. cellulose
D. anhydrase D. chitin
554. The element is found in all of the or-
548. select the element that is NOT present in
ganic compounds.
carbohydrates
A. Iron
A. carbon
B. Nitrogen
B. hydrogen
C. Carbon
C. oxygen
D. Oxygen
D. nitrogen
555. Match the basic ingredient to the purpose
549. Different types of sugars all end in the in the quick bread:Body/Structure
suffix A. Eggs
A. ly B. Flour
B. itis C. Liquid
C. ose D. Salt
D. ion 556. Sucrose is made up of
550. What are the building blocks of carbohy- A. glucose + fructose
drates called? B. glucose + glucose
A. Monosaccharides C. glucose + ribose
B. Disaccharides D. glucose + galactose

557. What kind of food is an example ofempty 563. Monosaccharides are bonded with a
calories? to form polysaccharides.

A. Carrots A. Amino bond
B. Salad B. Glycosidic bond
C. Sweets C. Peptide bond
D. Grains D. Hydrogen bond
558. What does the leavening agent do? 564. Which is not a chemical element needed
to build sugars?
A. explode
A. Carbon
B. makes the dough rise
B. Oxygen
C. makes the bread flat
C. Nitrogen
D. kills the yeast D. Hydrogen
559. Carbon can form bonds with other 565. Which best identifies a function of carbo-
atoms. hydrates?
A. 2 A. building of cell
B. 3 B. source of energy
C. 4 C. development of hormones
D. 6 D. production of antibodies
560. What monomer makes up carbohy- 566. Which of the foods listed below from this
drates? group do not come from grains (cereals)?
A. Monosaccharides A. Plantain
B. Amino Acids B. Porridge
C. Fatty acids and glycerol C. Bread
D. Nucleotides D. Pasta
561. Carbohydrates 567. The simple sugar which comes from milk
is
A. 1:3:1 ratio
A. Lactose
B. 2:2:2 ratio
B. Maltose
C. 1:2:1 ratio C. Sucrose
D. 1:2:3 ratio D. Fructose
562. Which of the following is NOT one of the 568. What is the ratio of C:H:O in a carbohy-
elements that make up carbohydrates? drate?
A. Carbon A. 1:3:1
B. Nitrogen B. 1:2:1
C. Hydrogen C. 2:3:2
D. Oxygen D. 1:1:2

569. Which statement is not true? 574. What might happen if you didn’t consume
enough protein?
A. polysaccharides formed as a result of
the esterification reaction A. Your body wouldn’t be able to build
muscle mass.
B. carbohydrates have higher ratio of oxy-
gen to hydrogen comapred to lipids B. You wouldn’t have any energy at all.
C. general formula of carbohydrates is C. You would feel really thirsty all the
Cx(H2O)y time.
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D. You would become overweight.
D. fructose is soluable in water
575. This sugar is found in sugar cane and
570. What does the term ‘dimer’ mean? sugar beets (Known as Table sugar)
A. single unit A. fructose
B. double unit B. maltose
C. triple unit C. glucose
D. many units D. sucrose
576. Which element is not found in carbohy-

571. Which of these foods would contain com-
drates?
plex carbohydrates?
A. carbon
A. orange
B. sulfur
B. syrup
C. hydrogen
C. boroccoli
D. oxygen
D. banana
577. Humans store excess sugar in muscle and
572. Carbon is different from many other ele- liver cells in the form of
ments in that A. glucose
A. it has four electrons in its outermost B. glycogen
energy level C. starch
B. it readily bonds with other carbon D. cellulose
atoms
578. What does cellulose do for our body?
C. it can form single, double and triple
bonds with other atoms A. keeps food moving through digestive
track
D. all of the above
B. builds lean muscle
573. What activities are powered by glu- C. promotes heart health
cose?
D. purifies blood stream
A. walking
579. carbohydrates supply longer lasting
B. thinking energy.
C. breathing A. simple
D. all of the above B. complex

C. generic 585. What do fats do for a baked good?

D. none of above A. rises breads

B. tenderizes and adds flavor
580. Found in fruits, vegetables, grains, pota-
toes, pasta, breads. C. binds together ingredients
A. Starch D. none of above
B. Glycogen 586. A carbohydrate that needs to be trans-

formed to glucose in the liver before it can
C. Cellulose
be utilized.
D. none of above A. galactose
581. What would be the classification of a B. fructose
monosaccharide made up of 5 carbons? C. sucrose
A. Triose D. maltose
B. Tetrose 587. Carbohydrates are sometimes called
C. Pentose A. saccharide
D. Hexose B. monosaccharide
C. disaccharide
582. Milk and other dairy products contain
what specific type of sugar? D. polysaccharide
A. Glucose 588. Carbohydrates are made of
B. Sucrose A. C H O
C. Fructose B. C H O N
D. Lactose C. C H O N P
D. C H O N S
583. Monosaccharides and polysaccharides
can be found 589. The generic name for the monomer that
makes up carbohydrates is:
A. in your blood as they are being di-
gested or transported A. glucose
B. in cell walls of plants for protection B. monosaccharide
and structure C. disaccharide
C. in yo mama as she’s as sweet as a D. polysaccharide
plate of yams with extra syrup
590. What are the four macromolecules?
D. in all of these places
A. proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates,
584. Proteins can also act as and lipids
A. Enzymes B. monosaccharides, lipids, polysacca-

harides, and proteins
B. Carbohydrates
C. RNA, DNA, proteins, and carbohy-
C. Lipids drates
D. Nucleic Acids D. proteins, DNA, RNA, and steroids

591. What is the type of bond that forms be- C. hydrates

tween amino acids in a dipeptide? D. hydrates of carbon
A. Glycosidic bond
597. Monomer is to Macrocolecule like is
B. Peptide bond to
C. Protein bond A. Building is to Bricks.
D. Ester bond B. Brick is to Building.
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592. Which carbohydrate provides energy be- C. Carpenter is to Building.
tween meals?
D. Building is to Carpenter.
A. Complex
598. Simple sugars, like glucose, are called
B. Simple
A. monosaccharides
C. Glucose
B. disaccharides
D. Glycogen
C. polysaccharides
593. Which of the following nutrients are
D. starch
known as the energy nutrients?
A. carbohydrates, fats, protein 599. When cooking rice, you should:
B. carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals A. cover the pot
C. protein, water, fiber B. leave the pot uncovered
D. none of above C. keep the water at a boil the whole time
594. is sugar found in FRUIT, honey and

D. it doesn’t matter
vegetables.
A. Maltose 600. Where does carbohydrate digestion be-
gin?
B. Lactose
A. In the nose
C. Fructose
B. In the ear
D. Sucrose
C. In the mouth
595. Which of the following contains complex
D. In the shoulder
carbohydrates?
A. Chocolate 601. Which of the following is likely to be a
carbohydrate
B. Pure Sugar
C. Watermelon A. C4H8O4
D. Soda B. C3H3O3
C. C5H10O2
596. The word carbohydrate comes from the
French term hydrate de carbone which D. C6H6O6
means 602. Monosaccharides include three main
A. hydrates of sugar types:
B. hydrates of milk A. Glucose, fructose and galactose

B. Retinol, Alpha-tocopherol and Mena- 608. What reagent is used to test for starch?
dione
A. iodine

C. Arginine, Glycine and Serin
B. Benedicts
D. All above answers are wrong!
C. Sudans
603. The type of bond that forms when a dis- D. Lugol’s
accharide is formed from two monosaccha-
rides is called: 609. Starch has two different types:
A. peptide bond A. Maltose and Lactose
B. carbohydrate bond B. Maltose and Sucrose
C. glycosidic bond C. Lactose and Sucrose
D. none of above D. Amylose and Amylopectin
604. When starch is present iodine turns 610. Vitamins, minerals & fibre are found in
A. purple
B. blue-black A. Simple CHO
C. orange B. Complex CHO

D. brick red C. Unsaturated fats
D. Complete proteins
605. Test used to detect starch in a sample:
A. Biuret test 611. What is the difference between amy-
lose and amylopectin regarding gelatiniza-
B. Iodine test
tion?
C. Benedict’s test
A. amylose gelatinizes with water
D. Brown paper bag test
B. amylopectin gelatinizes in water
606. Glucose bonded to galactose; also known C. amylose gelatinizes with water and
as milk sugar. heat
A. sucrose D. amylopectin gelatinizes with water
B. lactose and heat
C. maltose 612. The details shows the elements found

D. dexatrose in the food classess X and Y.Food class
X:Elements C, H, OFood class Y:Elements
607. The 3 types of types of carbohydrates C, H, O, NWhat are food classess X and
are: Y?
A. sugars, starches, and fibers A. X:Carbohydrate, Y:Lipid
B. complex, fiber, and starches B. X:Lipid, Y:Protein
C. simple, fibers, and sugars C. X:Protein, Y:Carbohydrates
D. none of the above are correct D. X:Protein, Y:Lipids

613. Starch, cellulose, and glycogen are exam- 619. Six sided ring
ples of A. Glucose
A. lipids B. Sucrose
B. carbohydrates C. Maltose
C. proteins D. Lactose
D. nucleic acid
620. Which of the following is NOT made of
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614. It is also called milk sugar. thousands of glucose molecules?
A. lactose A. Polysaccharide
B. Maltose
B. galactose
C. Glycogen
C. sucrose
D. Amylose
D. maltose
621. What molecules are removed from
615. What is an example of a polysaccharide? monosaccharides to form disaccharides or
A. White bread polysaccharides
B. Honey A. water and oxygen
C. Sports Drinks B. hydrogen and hydroxyl group
D. Brown rice C. carbon and hydrogen
D. water and carbon
616. In disacchcarides two simple sugars are
conneted by: 622. How many tails does a phospholipid
have?
A. gydrogen bonds
A. One
B. glycosidic bonds
B. Two
C. ether linkage
C. Three
D. polymer linkage
D. Four
617. Which is a carbohydrate consisting of a
chain of monosaccharide molecules? 623. Monosaccharides are monomers of
A. Carbohydrates
A. amino acid
B. Lipids
B. enzyme
C. Proteins
C. glycogen
D. Nucleic Acids
D. hemoglobin
624. What is the main function of starchy car-
618. Which of these is NOT a disaccharide? bohydrate?
A. Sucrose A. it provides us with energy
B. Lactose B. It provides us with fibre
C. Maltose C. It provides us with vitamin C
D. Galactose D. It makes us feel full

625. How are carbs stored in animals? 630. The middle layer of a kernel of grain that
contains carbohydrates and proteins is the
A. Starch

A. bran
B. Glycogen
B. endosperm
C. Cellulose
C. hull
D. none of above
D. germ
626. An example of a simple carbohydrate
631. How many do classes of carbohydrate
could be
have?
A. bread
A. 1 class:monosaccharides
B. oatmeal B. 2 classes:monosaccharides, disaccha-
C. cupcake rides
D. pasta C. 3 classes:monosaccharides, disaccha-
rides and oligosaccharides
627. A carbohydrate made of multiple units of D. 4 classes:monosaccharides, disaccha-
glucose attached together in a form the rides, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides
body can digest; also known as complex
carbohydrate. 632. For good solubility of carbohydrates are
resposible:
A. fiber
A. large number of hydroxyl groups
B. starch
B. aldehyde groups
C. sugar
C. large number of carbon atoms in car-
D. none of above bohydrate chain
628. The following are the sugars that formed D. large number of hydrogen atoms
brick red precipitate during Barfoed test,
633. Some carbohydrate foods are
EXCEPT:
A. fruits
A. Sucrose
B. grains
B. Lactose
C. vegetables
C. Glucose
D. all the above
D. Fructose
634. How are carbohydrates stored in ani-
629. What are Carbohydrates mals?
A. Class of nutrients that is a major A. Starch
source of energy for the body. B. Glycogen
B. Class of nutrients that is a minor C. Cellulose
source of energy for the body.
D. Chitin
C. A type of nutrient that breaks down
sugar in the body. 635. What is found in plants in the cell wall?
D. A type of nutrient that breaks down fat A. chitin

in the body. B. cellulose

C. starch C. Glycogen
D. glycogen D. Galactose
636. What is the name for a monosaccharide
642. Carbohydrates that contain 10 monosac-
with five carbons in it?
charide units or more are called .
A. triose sugar
A. Disaccharides
B. pentose sugar
B. saccharide
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C. hexose sugar
C. polysaccharides
D. fructose sugar
D. monosaccharides
637. Carbohydrate used by plants to store en-
ergy? 643. What is a function of a polysaccharide,
A. glycogen like starch?
B. starch A. Stores energy
C. cellulose B. Movement
D. chitin C. Stores genetic information
638. Which of the following foods would con- D. Speeds up reactions
tain the most fibre?
A. Steak 644. What is a monomer of a carbohydrate
called?
B. Sugar cookie
A. Glucose
C. Whole wheat toast
D. Corn B. Starch
C. Monosaccharide
639. Name a polysaccharide:
A. Starches:potato D. Polysaccharide
B. Glucose:Grape juice 645. If you eat too much saturated fat, choles-
C. Sucrose:beets terol might build up:
D. none of above A. In your brain
640. Which is not a chemical element in the el- B. In your liver
emental composition of carbohydrates? C. In your veins and arteries
A. Carbon
D. In your bones
B. Oxygen
C. Nitrogen 646. What does the body use next for energy
after carbohydrates?
D. Hydrogen
A. Fats only
641. Which is NOT an example of a polysac-
charide? B. Protein only
A. Cellulose C. Both fats and protein
B. Chitin D. None of the above

647. In which of the following foods might we C. carbohydrates

expect to find lactose?
D. steroids

A. Potatoes
B. Rice 653. The color of the positive result for Iodine
test
C. Corn
A. Blue-violet
D. Cheese
B. Yellow-orange
648. is sugar found in fruit, honey and veg-
etables. C. Pink
A. Maltose D. Green
B. Lactose
654. Which elements are present in carbohy-
C. Fructose drates?
D. Sucrose A. C, N, O
649. The place where a substrate fits an en- B. C, H, O
zyme to be catalyzed is called the
C. H2O
A. Substrate
D. CO2
B. Active site
C. Protein 655. What is the name of the bond that forms
D. Carbohydrate between monosaccharides in a disaccha-
ride?
650. Carbohydrates are composed of 2 atoms
A. glycosidic bond
of for every one atom and
A. hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon B. peptide bond
B. hydrogen carbon, oxygen C. ester bond
C. carbon, oxygen, sulfur D. glucose bond
D. carbon, oxygen, hydrogen
656. Which foods listed below contain carbo-
651. Important to the structural integrity of hydrates?
plant cells (makes up plant cell walls), this A. Fruits
is the single most popular polysaccharide
in the world. B. Grains
A. Starch C. Vegetables
B. Glycogen D. All the above
C. Cellulose
657. The prefix “hydrate” stands for
D. Chitin
A. carbon
652. Which of these has the general chemical
formula CH2 O? B. energy
A. proteins C. hydrogen
B. lipids D. water

658. Which of the following is NOT a function D. Both dissolve nutrients in the digestive
of carbohydrates? system.
A. Quick Energy
664. Jeff needs 4 cups of cooked macaroni for
B. Long-term energy storage his pasta salad. How many cups of dried
C. Short-term energy storage pasta should he use?
D. Structure in plants and animals A. 1 cup
659. Which of the following is NOT a reducing B. 2 cups
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sugar? C. 4 cups
A. glucose
D. 6 cups
B. fructose
C. maltose 665. Metabolic process used to break down
sugars into energy (ATP)
D. sucrose
A. Photosynthesis
660. What are excess sugars converted to if
your glycogen reserves are full? B. Cellular respiration
A. starch C. Hydrolysis
B. glucose D. Dehydration
C. adipose tissue
666. What do organisms use carbohydrates
D. ATP for?
661. It is also called fruit sugar. A. many different jobs
A. fructose B. storing information
B. glucose C. long-term energy storage
C. sucrose D. quick energy
D. galactose
667. What is the ratio of uncooked to cooked
662. Important to the structural integrity of pasta?
plant cells, this is the single most popular
polysaccharide in the world. A. 1:2 cups
A. Starch B. 1:3 cups
B. Glycogen C. 1:1 cups
C. Cellulose D. none of above
D. Chitin
668. Which carbohydrate provides the most
663. How are the functions of a carbohydrate bulk to the diet?
and a lipid similar?
A. Fructose
A. Both are a source of energy.
B. Lactose
B. Both are replicated during meiosis.
C. Fiber
C. Both lower the activation energy of re-
actions. D. Sucrose

1.2 Classification of Carbohydrates 61
669. Saturated fats are at room tempera- A. Peptidoglycan

ture.
B. Cellulose
A. liquid

B. gases C. Pectin
C. plasma D. All of the above
D. solid
672. Which of the following polysaccharides is
670. It is the principal carbohydrate in milk. in fungi and arthropods (organisms with
A. lactose shells)?
B. galactose A. Chitin
C. sucrose
B. Saccharin
D. maltose
C. Starches
671. An unique carbohydrate found in bacterial
cell wall is D. Cellulose
1.2 Classification of Carbohydrates

1. An important saccharide that is formed in B. DNA
metabolic processes. C. water
A. D-Ribulose D. fat
B. D-Lyxose
5. what is another name for carbohydrates
C. D-Ribose A. amino acids
D. L-Xylulose B. lipids
2. What is the chemical difference between C. nucleotide
carbohydrates and lipids? D. sacaride
A. carbs have a 1:2:1 ratio of C, H, O 6. Organic compounds are used as building
B. carbohydrates don’t have hydrogen blocks for
C. lipids don’t have hydrogen A. water, DNA, and starches
D. lipids have a 1:2:1 ratio of C, H, O B. water, proteins, and oxygen
C. proteins, DNA, and carbon dioxide
3. When several monomers link together,
they form a D. proteins, starches, and fats
A. macromer 7. Deficiencies in galactosamine 6-sulfatase
B. polymer and B-galactosidase that degrade keratan
sulfate result in
C. carbohydrate
A. Hurler syndrome
D. compound
B. Sanfilippo syndrome
4. Which substance is an inorganic molecule? C. Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome
A. starch D. Morquio syndrome

8. Digestion means to D. to help improve physical fitness

A. to build
14. Choose the correct answer:This disaccha-
B. break down ride is made of a glucose and galactose
C. synthesis molecule bonded together
D. none of above A. a-Maltose
9. This disease can be treated by bone mar- B. b-Lactose
row or cord blood transplantation, prefer-
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C. c-Sucrose
able before 18 months.
D. d-Galactose
A. Hurler Syndrome
B. Sly syndrome 15. As you add small piece of unripe banana +
C. Sanfilippo syndrome 1 mL DI water + 1 mL Iodine reagent, what
was the interpretation of the solution?
D. Hunter syndrome
A. presence of starch
10. Sucrose is classified as a
B. absence of starch
A. monosaccharide
C. presence of reducing sugar
B. disaccharide
C. polysaccharide D. absence of non-reducing sugar
D. cellulose 16. Monosaccharides and disaccharides are

types of
11. The 4 organic molecules are
A. vitamins, lipids, water, micronutrients A. Fiber
B. Starches
B. micronutrients, macronutrients, wa- C. Sugars
ter, vitamins
D. All of the above
C. Lipids, Waxes, Vitamin A, Water
D. Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins, Nu- 17. are negatively charged polysaccha-
cleic Acids rides.
12. What does hydrophilic mean? A. Glycosaminoglycans
A. loves water B. Proteoglyan
B. scared of water C. Heparan sulfate
C. dissolves in water D. Glycan
D. made of water
18. Which biomolecule is often stored in the
13. What is the main reason for eating a wide body’s tissues as energy?
variety of foods?
A. proteins
A. to learn the food label
B. carbohydrates
B. to provide all the nutrients you need
C. lipids
C. to keep from getting bored with your
diet D. nucleic acids

19. what bio molecule gives you body heat 25. What is the main purpose of carbohy-
A. Lipids drates?
A. to provide energy

B. Carbohydrate
B. to build muscle
C. protein
C. to pass on traits
D. nucleic acids
D. to digest food
20. Which one is not one of the four macro-
26. As you add 1 mL Fructose + 2 mL Bene-
molecules necessary for survival?
dict’s reagent, what was the final color of
A. minerals the solution?
B. lipids A. green/yellow
C. carbohydrates B. blue
D. nucleic acids C. orange/red
D. dark blue
21. Out of the three main dietary sources of
carbohydrates, Which one stays in the di- 27. Whats the number 1 function of lipids?
gestion period the longest? A. give you energy (fruits and vegetables)
A. Fruits and Vegetables
B. Starches B. Long term energy (stores energy)
C. Sugars C. Helps with cell structures
D. none of above D. Be water proof

28. are intermediates in the hydrolysis of
22. What is carbohydrates main function? starch.
A. Gives you non-hormonal steroids A. Agar
B. Gives you antibiotics B. Dextrins
C. keeps you warm when you are cold C. Inulin
D. Main source of energy D. none of above
23. Sucrose is an example of which type of 29. Lipids make up what part of the cell?
sugar? A. Nucleus
A. Monosaccharides B. Golgi Body
B. Disaccharides C. Cell Membrane
C. Oligosaccharides D. Mitochondria
D. Polysaccharides 30. Classification of carbohydrates that con-
tains many monosaccharide units cova-
24. Oligosaccharides consist of: lently bonded to each other.
A. 4 up to 10 molecules of simple sugars A. Monosaccharide
B. 3 up to 10 molecules of simple sugars B. Disaccharide
C. 2 up to 10 molecules of simple sugars C. Oligosaccharide
D. 1 up to 10 molecules of simple sugars D. Polysaccharide

31. Starchyose consists 37. This type of carbohydrate is found in

A. D-fructose, D-glucose and two plants and cannot be digested by humans.
molecules of D-galactose Cotton
B. D-fructose, D-glucose and one A. glucose
molecules of D-galactose
B. cellulose
C. D-fructose, D-glucose and three
molecules of D-galactose C. fructose
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D. D-fructose, D-glucose and four D. starch
molecules of D-galactose
38. Which of the following would help you to
32. what is a example of lipids increase your fibre intake?
A. fats
A. Eat high fibre breakfast cereal
B. sugars
B. Snack on high sugar foods
C. amino acids
C. Choose white bread instead of whole-
D. enzymes
meal
33. An important saccharide that is a con-
D. Eat less nuts and seeds
stituent of glycoproteins.
A. D-Arabinose 39. The simplest and most common carbohy-
B. L-Xylulose drate is
C. D-Xylose A. sucrose
D. D-Ribose B. fiber
34. Carbohydrates digestion starts on the C. fructose
A. Stomach
D. glucose
B. small intestine
C. large intestine 40. Choose the right answer:This polysaccha-
ride is the storage form of glucose in
D. none of the above
plants
35. What does Poly mean?
A. a-Fiber
A. Many
B. b-Glycogen
B. One
C. c-Starch
C. Large
D. Small D. d-Galactose
36. An energy-rich organic compound needed 41. What does the word macro mean?
byorganisms is
A. really big
A. water
B. really small
B. salt
C. oxygen C. includes everything
D. glucose D. includes nothing

42. Choose the right answer:Not found in na- C. amino acids

ture on its own, this monosaccharide pairs D. minerals
with glucose to form lactose.

A. a-Lactose 48. Another name for an enzyme is
B. b-Maltose A. biological catalyst
C. c-Galactose B. starch
D. d-Sucrose C. lipid
43. The Main dietary source of Protein is D. glucose
A. Meat (Beef and Chicken) 49. What is the bond that links the two
B. Nuts and beans monosaccharides of a diasaccharide to-
gether?
C. Fruits
A. glycosidic linkage
D. Eggs
B. amino acids
44. The greater the , the smaller the field
C. ionic bond
you are actually viewing.
D. covalent bond
A. detail
B. objective 50. As you add 1 mL Mayonnaise + 1 mL Io-
C. magnification dine reagent, what was the interpretation
of the solution?
D. body
A. absence of reducing sugar
45. What common sugar do lactose, maltose, B. presence of reducing sugar
corn syrup and high fructose corn syrup all
share? C. presence of starch
A. sucrose D. absence of starch
B. glucose 51. Choose the right answer:This disaccharide
C. fructose is made of a glucose and fructose molecule
bonded together
A. a-Maltose
46. Carbohydrates are in the shape of a
B. b-Fructose
A. C
C. c-Glucose
B. cross
D. d-Sucrose
C. hexagon
D. square 52. What is the Scottish Dietary Goal for sugar
intake?
47. Most of the starch stored in the cells of a
A. 20% total energy
potato iscomposed of molecules that origi-
nally entered thesecells as B. 5% total energy
A. enzymes C. 15% total energy
B. simple sugars D. 25% total energy

53. Raffinose is 59. Which compound is inorganic?

A. A monosaccharide A. glucose (C6Hl2O6)
B. A disaccharide B. carbon dioxide (CO2)
C. A tetrasaccharide
C. ethane (C2H6)
D. A trisaccharide
D. stearic acid (Cl8H36O2)
54. What are the end products of thehy-
drolysis/digestion of a polysaccharide 60. Which of the following statements about
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(starch)? dietary fiber is not true?
A. simple sugars/glucose A. dietary fiber is found in fruits, vegeta-
B. amino acids bles, legumes and whole grains
C. fatty acids B. dietary fiber provides structure in
D. nucleotides plant cell walls
55. A monosaccharide consists of 6 carbons, C. dietary fiber is easily digested by di-

one of which is in a ketone group, is clas- gestive enzymes
sified as a(n) D. none of the above
A. aldohexose D. ketopentose
61. what do carbohydrates provide for cells
B. aldopentose
C. ketohexose A. ribosomes
D. ketopentose B. nucleus
56. Which food would give you the most en- C. energy, cell wall
ergy for the next day? D. cell membrane
A. Broccoli
62. A characteristic shared by all enzymes,
B. Snickers
hormones, and antibodies is that their
C. Spaghetti function is determined by the
D. Candy A. shape of their molecules
57. Lactose is made up of which two monosac- B. DNA they contain
charides?
C. inorganic molecules they contain
A. Glucose and fructose
D. none of above
B. Glucose and galactose
C. glucose and glucose 63. Which of the following is oxidized by a
D. glucose and maltose weak oxidizing agent in basic aqueous so-
lution?
58. what process produces sugars
A. reducing sugar
A. photsysentis
B. carbohydrates B. non-reducing sugar
C. proteins C. lactose
D. fats D. fructose

64. What are the three most common elements C. dissolves in water
in all macromolecules
D. made of water

A. Nitrogen, Carbon, Hydrogen
B. Nitrogen, Carbon, Oxygen 70. Which of the following is made up of one
molecule of glucose and one molecule of
C. Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen fructose joined together?
D. Carbon, Hydrogen, Phosphorous
A. lactose
65. Raffinose is product of the reaction B. sucrose
among:
C. fructose
A. Galactose, Glucose and Fructose.
D. glucose
B. Galactose, Glucose and Glucose
C. Galactose, Fructose and Fructose. 71. if your body is out of energy, where would
D. Fructose, Glucose and Glucose it break down next
A. organs
66. Glucose molecules are the building blocks
of whatclass of macromolecule? B. stored energy(lipids)
A. Proteins C. nucleic acids
B. Lipids D. DNA
C. Nucleotides
72. Another term for carbohydrate is
D. Carbohydrates
A. protein
67. Is an atom in a molecule that has four dif-
B. fat
ferent groups bonded to it in a tetrahedral
orientation. C. sugar
A. Achiral molecule D. DNA
B. chiral molecule
73. As you add 10 drops Lactose + 2 mL Seli-
C. Chiral center wanoff’s reagent, what was the final color
D. none of above of the solution?
68. The shape of a protein is originally deter- A. orange

mined by the.. B. blue
A. size of the protein molecule C. no changes in color
B. location of the protein within the cell D. red
C. arrangement of amino acids in the pro-
tein 74. This carbohydrate is found in fruit
D. none of above A. sucrose
69. What does hydrophobic mean? B. fiber

A. loves water C. fructose
B. scared of water D. starch

75. Which factors affect enzyme activity? 81. Plants store carbohydrates in the form of
A. Temperature, abiotic A. amino acids
B. pH, carbohydrate B. fatty acids
C. pH, lipid levels C. starch
D. pH, Temperature D. nucleic acids
76. Which of the following are examples of 82. Shrimp that live in the cold waters off
Alaska will die if introduced into warm wa-
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monosaccharides?
ter. One likely reason these shrimp do not
A. Glucose survive is that enzymes in the shrimp..
B. Fructose A. start to replicate
C. Lactose B. change shape
D. a & b C. break down into small starch
molecules
77. Another name for lipids is
D. none of above
A. fats
B. proteins 83. Which of the following do not generate
any compounds containing an aldehyde
C. sugar group?
D. DNA A. lactose
78. What is the main function of fibre? B. starch
A. Growth and repair of muscles C. reducing sugar
B. Provides energy D. non-reducing sugar
C. Prevents constipation and bowel prob- 84. Lipids are considered because they con-
lems tain more carbon than oxygen.
D. Production of hormones, enzymes and A. hydrophobic
antibodies.
B. carbs
79. Maltose is formed by reaction between: C. organic
A. Glucose and Galactose D. proteins
B. Glucose and Fructose 85. Synthesis means to
C. Glucose and Glucose A. to build
D. Galactose and Fructose B. breakdown
80. Large polymers can be broken down C. digest
through a process called: D. none of above
A. dehydration synthesis
86. Starch molecules are hydrolyzed, broken
B. combustion down into smaller units known as
C. single replacement A. glycerols
D. hydrolysis B. amino acids

C. simple sugars C. Pancakes

D. proteins D. Hamburgers

87. Are images that coincide at all points when 93. They are stereoisomers whose molecules
the images are laid upon each other. are nonsuperimposable mirror images of
A. Nonsuperimposable mirror image each other.
B. Superimposable mirror image A. Diasteriomers
C. chiral center B. Enantiomers
D. achiral C. Epimers
88. Why are carbohydrates so important in D. Isomers
our diet?
A. They help make us sleepy 94. What are the three elements in CHO
B. They make it hard to concentrate A. Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen

C. They give us energy B. Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen
D. none of above C. Oxygen, Carbon, Hydrogen
89. An Enzyme is a type of D. Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen

A. Carbohydrate 95. What does Polar mean?
B. Protein A. Always stays a solid
C. Nucleic Acid
B. Does not mix with water
D. Lipid
C. Mixes with water
90. what organelles are constructed with D. Turns into a liquid or already a liquid
carbs
A. mitochondria 96. When glycosamnoglycans are attached to
B. chromosomes a protein molecule, the compound is called
C. nucleus
A. Heparan sulfate
D. cell walls
B. Proteoglycan
91. Which of the following is not a classifica-
C. Agar
tion of Carbohydrates
A. Sugar D. Glycan
B. Starch 97. Example of GAGS that contains alternating
C. Fibre residues of glucuronic acid and galactose
N-acetyl 4-sulfonate.
D. Saturated and Unsaturated
A. dermatan sulfate
92. The highest percentage of Maltose can be
found in B. keratan sulfate
A. French bread C. heparan sulfate
B. Sweet potatoes D. Chondroitin sulfate

1.3 Monosaccharides 70
98. Most organisms contain 103. A lipid is a polymer that is made of what
A. organic compounds, only kind of monomers?
B. inorganic compounds, only A. monosacchirides
C. both organic and inorganic compounds B. amino acids
C. triglyceride
D. neither organic nor inorganic com-
D. nucleic acid
pounds
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99. Energy giving food are of types 104. Whats the main monomer of Protein
A. two A. Proline
B. three B. Serine
C. four C. Amino acid
D. none of above D. Stomach acid
100. Proteins digest into 105. What is the common name for a lipid?
A. carbohydrates A. Protein
B. nucleotides
B. Fat
C. amino acids
C. Sugar
D. glucose
D. Starch
101. Which of the following generate one or
more compounds containing an aldehyde 106. What does Macro mean?
group? A. Many
A. non-reducing sugar
B. One
B. reducing sugar
C. Large
C. lactose
D. Small
D. starch
107. what are complex carbohydrates made
102. The type of polysaccharide that is used
from
as an energy source in cells.
A. Heparin A. polymer
B. Structural Polysaccharide B. macromer
C. Acidic Polysaccharide C. monosacaride
D. Storage Polysaccharide D. compounds
1.3 Monosaccharides
1. n = 3 monosaccharides D. none of above
A. Hexose
B. Pentose 2. n = 6 monosaccharides
C. Triose A. Hexose

B. Pentose 8. Which monosaccharide is found in fruit?

C. Triose A. glucose

D. none of above B. fructose
3. Cyclic structures of monosaccharides are C. galactose
called D. sucrose
A. acetals
9. Classify the Monosaccharide:Psicose
B. hemiacetals
A. Triose
C. ethers
B. Tetrose
D. esters
C. Pentose
4. What happens to the bonds when doing
the Fischer Projection Formula? D. Hexose
A. The vertical bonds come forward, on 10. Why is deoxyribose called the “2-deoxy”
wedges
A. Indicates the lost of oxygen
B. The horizontal bonds come forward,
on wedges B. Indicates the lost of hydrogen
C. The horizontal bonds come forward, C. Indicates the lost of carbon

on dashed wedges D. All of the above.
D. The vertical bonds come forward, on
11. What elements(atoms) make up carbohy-
dashed wedges
drates?
5. Classify the Monosaccharide:Xylulose A. Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen
A. Aldopentose B. sulfur, carbon, hydrogen
B. Ketopentose
C. glucose and fructose
C. Aldohexose
D. carbon, hydrogen, oxygen
D. Ketohexose
12. Which biomolecule has sugars and
6. Monosaccharides in their ring structure starches?
have more stereocenters (chiral car-
bons) than their straight chain form. A. Lipids
A. 1 B. Proteins
B. 2 C. Carbohydrates
C. 3 D. Nucleic Acid
D. 4 13. A carbohydrate that generally has 3-6 car-
7. Which monosaccharide is the sweetest? bon atoms in a chain
A. glucose A. Hexaccharide
B. fructose B. Trisaccharide
C. galactose C. Monosaccharide
D. sucrose D. Polysaccharide

14. Classify the Monosaccharide:Allose 20. What is the most sweetest Monosaccha-
A. Triose ride sugar
A. Glucose
B. Tetrose
B. Fructose
C. Pentose
C. Maltose
D. Hexose
D. Sucrose
15. Classify the Monosaccharide:Erythrose
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21. Classify the Monosaccharide:Ribose
A. Triose
A. Triose
B. Tetrose
B. Tetrose
C. Pentose
C. Pentose
D. Hexose
D. Hexose
16. which of the following a non-reducing
sugar? 22. What is the carbon-oxygen bond called
found in Disaccharides?
A. sucrose
A. Polar Covalent Bond
B. maltose
B. Ether
C. galactose
C. Glycosidic Linkage
D. glucose
D. Ester
17. A carbohydrate that cannot be split or hy-
23. What is the monomer of carbohydrates
drolyzed into smaller carbohydrates.
A. disaccharides
A. Polysaccharide
B. monosaccharides
B. Disaccharide
C. amino acids
C. Sucrose
D. fatty acids
D. Monosaccharide
24. Classify the Monosaccharide:Dihydroxyacetone
18. Which monosaccharide is found in milk?
A. glucose A. Ketotriose
B. fructose B. Aldotriose
C. galactose C. Ketotetrose
D. none of above D. Aldotetrose
19. What are the single sugars that are the 25. What kind of monosaccharide molecule
building blocks of carbohydrates? produces maltose?
A. monosaccharides A. Alpha-glucose + Alpha-glucose
B. disaccharides B. Alpha-D-glucose + Alpha-D-glucose
C. polysaccharides C. Beta-D-glucose + Alpha-D-glucose
D. amino acid D. Beta-D-glucose + Beta-D-glucose

1.4 Preparation of Glucose 73
26. What are foods that are high in carbs? B. They are the same amount
A. Eggs, fish, poultry C. There are THREE times as many H

B. Cheese, meats, vegetables D. There are TWICE as many O
C. Bread, potatoes, and pasta
30. Out of all the choices here, which one is
D. Multitude of oils, butter and condi- the ketose?
ments
A. Ribose
27. A chiral carbon is attached to how many B. Deoxyribose
different functional groups or atoms?
C. Fructose
A. 3
D. Galactose
B. 4
C. 5 31. Classify the Monosaccharide:Mannose
D. 6 A. Aldopentose
B. Ketopentose
28. n = 5 monosaccharides
C. Aldohexose
A. Hexose
D. Ketohexose
B. Pentose
C. Triose 32. What kind of glycosidic linkage do sucrose
have?
D. none of above
A. (alpha 1→beta 2)
29. How do the number of H atoms compare to
the number of O atoms in a carbohydrate? B. (alpha 1→alpha 2)
(think about the ratio) C. (Beta 1→beta 2)
A. There are TWICE as many H D. (Beta 1→ Alpha 2)
1.4 Preparation of Glucose

1. Which is the highly thermostable enzyme A. Carbohydrates
A. Pullulanase type 1 B. Starch
B. Pullulanase type 2 C. Glucose
C. All of the above D. All of the above
D. None of the above
4. The degree of liquefaction was assessed
2. Which enzymes are belongs to alpha- by
amylase family A. Brook field viscosity
A. Alpha-amylase B. Amount of reducing power
B. Glucoamylase C. All of the above
C. Pullulanases D. None of the above
D. All of the above
5. The process of breaking the intermolecular
3. is an tastless and odourless power bonds of starch is called ?

1.5 Structure of Glucose 74
A. Liquification 9. The exosplitting enzyme is ?

B. Gelatinization A. Beta amylase
C. Granual swelling B. Alpha amylases
D. Saccharification C. None of the above
D. All of the above
6. Which is the major form of amylase found
in humans 10. How many groups in starch converting en-
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A. Pullulanases zymes
A. 3
B. Cyclodextrin glycosyltransferases
B. 4
C. Amylomaltase
C. 6
D. Alpha amylase
D. 5
7. Which is served as a Biomarker
11. Which is insoluble in cold water
A. Alpha amylase
A. Glucose
B. Pullulanases
B. Starch
C. Beta amylase
C. Both of the above
D. None of the above D. None of the above
8. Which is act as a plasticizer in gelatiniza- 12. Which enzyme will cleave alpha 1-4 glyco-
tion process sidic bond of the starch
A. Alpha amylase A. Exo amylase
B. Heat B. Endo amylase
C. Water C. Debranging enzymes
D. Stabilizing ion D. None of the above
1.5 Structure of Glucose

1. Glucose on oxidation with bromine water B. Changes
gives 1 which is a 2 C. Strengthens
A. 1. saccharic acid2. monocarboxylic D. none of above
acid
B. 1. saccharic acid2. dicarboxylic acid 3. Dextrose is another name for
C. 1. gluconic acid2. dicarboxylic acid A. Glucose
D. 1. gluconic acid2. monocarboxylic acid B. Fructose

C. Galactose
2. Cellulose the cell wall and reinforces
the structure, allowing the plant to grow D. Sucrose
tall without any support. 4. In 1891, who determined the actual struc-
A. Weakens ture of glucose?

A. Hermann Henking 10. Glucose pentaacetate doesnot react with

B. Vicente Marcano hydroxylamine. This indicates that

A. CHO Group is absent
C. Emil Fischer
B. CHO group is present but not free
D. Marie Curie
C. free CHO group is present
5. Which statement describes unsaturated
D. cann’t predict
fat?
A. Found in coconut oil 11. What is NOT a safe sweetener?
B. Originates from animal sources A. Xylitol
C. Contains a double bond between car- B. Sucralose

bon atoms C. Honey
D. Contains a single bond between car- D. Ethylene glycol
bon atoms
12. Ribose is a
6. Glucose is a major component of A. monosaccharide
A. Galactose B. disaccharide
B. Sucrose C. oligosaccharide
C. Lactose D. polysaccharide
D. Fructose
13. Between 1900-1964, What percent did
7. = sugar production increase?
A. SQUARE OF 2 A. 125%
B. 250%
B. SQUARE OF [-2]
C. 700%
C. POSITIVE SQUARE ROOT OF 16
D. 500%
D. ALL OF THESE ARE CORRECT
14. A condensation reaction can combine glu-
8. Where are the major stores of triglyc- cose molecules to formI. Monosaccha-
erides in the body? ridesII. DisaccharidesIII. Polysaccharides
A. Liver A. I and II only
B. Skeletal muscle B. I and III only
C. Liver and adipose tissue C. II and III only
D. Skeletal muscle and adipose tissue D. I, II and III
9. It belongs to series and is a com- 15. Glucose adds a molecule of to form
pound. cyanohydrin
A. 1. L2. Dextrorotatory A. NH3
B. 1. D2. Laevorotatory B. HCl
C. 1. L2. Laevorotatory C. HCN
D. 1. D2. Dextrorotatory D. CO

16. What plant is sugar usually extracted C. oligosaccharide

from? D. polysaccharide
A. Sugar beet
22. Plants use some of the glucose they pro-
B. Tomato duce for respiration. Respiration occurs in
C. Sugarcane the (in cells).
D. Corn A. Ribosome
B. Mitochondria
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17. The word equation for respiration is:
C. Chloroplast
A. Carbon dioxide + Water → Glucose +
Oxygen D. Vacuole
B. Glucose + Oxygen → Carbon dioxide 23. What is the composition of the triacylglyc-
+ water + Energy erol molecule?
C. Carbon Dioxide + Oxygen + Water → A. Three glycerol molecules and one fatty
Glucose + Energy acid
D. none of above B. Three glycerol molecules and three
fatty acids
18. What is the chemical composition of a pro- C. One glycerol molecule and two fatty
tein molecule? acids
A. Oxygen and nitrogen D. One glycerol molecule and three fatty
B. Carbon, oxygen and nitrogen acids
C. Hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen 24. What area of the tongue is most sensitive
D. Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitro- to sweetness?
gen A. Sides
19. An oxime contains bond between C and B. Middle
N C. Front
A. Single D. Back
B. Double 25. Anomeric carbon in D-[+]-glucopyranose
C. Triple is
D. Cann’t predict A. C-1
B. C-2
20. Which is an unsaturated fat?
C. C-3
A. Palm oil
D. C-5
B. Olive oil
26. What is the chemical composition of a glu-
C. Tropical oil
cose molecule?
D. Coconut oil
A. CH3 and COOH
21. Fructose is a/an B. C, H and O
A. aldose C. C, H, O and N
B. ketosis D. C, H and OH

1.6 Fructose 77
27. On prolonged heating with HI, glucose B. Front

forms C. Sides

A. iso pentane D. Back
B. n-hexane
29. Glucose reacts with hydroxylamine to
C. iso hexane form
D. neo hexane A. oxime
28. What area of the tongue is most sensitive B. cyanohydrin
to sourness? C. bisulphite adduct
A. Middle D. none of these
1.6 Fructose
1. Glucose is the source of 4. Glucose is NOT a
A. some health problems A. source of energy
B. energy production B. sugar
C. sugar within some foods C. source of fat
D. all of the above D. monosaccharide
2. High Fructose Corn Syrup will increase 5. What part of your body digest corn syrup
your risk of into energy
A. brain damage
A. small intestant
B. all of the above
B. large intestant
C. finger nail growth
C. stomach
D. obesity
D. metabolism
3. High amounts of fructose are commonly
found in 6. Glucose should be eaten
A. apples A. as much as possible
B. fresh steak B. a minimal amount
C. breads C. in moderation
D. soda D. none, ever
1.7 Disaccharides
1. What differentiates the disaccharides? C. The name of the bond
A. The direction it is bonded (up or down) D. The number of acetal bonds
2. What is oxidation? Reduction?

B. The direction it is bonded (left or right)
A. Oxidation:loses an electron

1.7 Disaccharides 78
B. Oxidation:gains an electron 8. Lactose is composed of

C. Reduction:loses an electron A. glucose + fructose
D. Reduction:gains an electron B. glucose + glucose
3. What does glycogen phosphorylase do? C. glucose + sucrose
A. breaks off 2 glucoses at a time for gly- D. glucose + galactose
colysis
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B. breaks off 1 glucose at a time for gly- 9. Which polysaccharide is used by plants to
colysis make their cell wall?
C. breaks off glucoses from glycogen A. starch
found anywhere BUT the liver and mus-
cles B. glycogen
D. none of above C. cellulose
4. What is a polysaccharide? D. chitin
A. a long chain of proteins 10. What is cellulose’s function?

B. many disaccharides linked together
A. used for energy storage in plants
C. many monosaccharides linked to-
gether B. carbohydrate storage in animals
D. none of above C. the major structural component of

plants, especially wood and plant fibers
5. What two monosaccharides make up mal-
D. none of above
tose?
A. glucose + galactose 11. What catalyzes the hydrolysis of α 1, 6
B. glucose + glucose bonds?
C. glucose + fructose A. amylase
D. glucose + glycogen B. debranching enzymes
6. Which polysaccharide is used by plants to C. glycogen phosphorylase
store glucose?
D. none of above
A. glycogen
B. cellulose 12. How are disaccharides created?
C. starch A. When the hemiacetal of one sugar
D. chitin bonds with the hydroxyl group of another
B. When the hemiacetal of one sugar
7. What makes up the disaccharide sucrose? bonds with the hydrocarbon group of an-
A. glucose + glucose other
B. glucose + fructose C. When you mix sugars together
C. glucose + galactose D. When the acetal is bonded to the hy-
D. glucose + maltose drocarbon of a sugar

1.8 Polysaccharides 79
13. What is a disaccharide? B. Acetone

A. Two simple sugars held together by ac- C. Aceratin

etal
D. Keratin
B. Two simple sugars held together by
acetone 16. Which polysaccharide is energy storage in
C. Simple salts held together by amino animals?
acids A. Starch
D. Simple sugars made by amino acids B. Glycogen
14. What is the polysaccharide used by ani- C. Cellulose
mals to store glucose?
D. none of above
A. glycogen
B. fructose 17. Why is glycogen more highly branched
than amylopectin?
C. starch
D. cellulose A. plants don’t move but people do
B. plants need more energy than people
15. What is the linkage of the disaccharide
bond called? C. people need more energy than plants
A. Acetal D. none of above
1.8 Polysaccharides
1. polysaccharide founnd in a plant’s cell C. DNA
walls D. Glycerol
A. chitin
4. Which of the following is an example of a
B. glcosaminoglycans polysaccharide?
C. starch A. Starch
D. cellulose B. Galactose
2. what does not describe polysaccharides? C. Glycerol
A. carbohydrate chains with three or D. Phospholipids
more monosaccharides 5. Starch, glycogen and cellulose all contain
B. always highly branched monomers.
C. can have different types of monosac- A. Glucose
charides B. Galactose
D. have two types C. Fructose
3. Which of the following is a polymer of sim- D. Sucrose
ple sugars? 6. What is cellulose?
A. Galactose A. Long chains of a-glucose molecules
B. Cellulose linked together

1.8 Polysaccharides 80
B. Structural material found in the cell 12. chitin is similar in structure to what other
walls of plants polysaccharide?
C. Material held by 1, 6 glycosidic links A. cellulose
D. A fibre B. glucose
7. which of of these is not a homopolysaccha- C. glycosaminoglycans
ride? D. glycogen
A. starch
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13. What molecule is the monomer (building
B. glycosaminoglycans
block) for all polysaccharides?
C. cellulose
A. amino acid
D. chitin
B. glucose
8. Disaccharide formed from a condensation C. cellulose
reaction between two glucose molecules
D. starch
A. Fructose
B. Galactose 14. What is a cell wall made from?
C. Lactose A. Amylose microfibrils
D. Maltose B. Amylase microfibrils
9. What are amyloplasts? C. Cellulose microfibrils
A. Non-pigmented storage organelles D. Microfibrils
within plant cells
15. what units repeat in glycosaminoglycans?
B. A molecule which turns into a helix as
a result of glycosidic bonds A. monosaccharides
C. Pigmented storage organelles within B. disaccharides

plant cells C. polysaccharides
D. An unbranched polymer D. none of above
10. What is starch? 16. What two a-glucose polymers make up
A. A compound that contains 70% of amy- starch?
lose A. Cellulose and Amylose
B. Energy storage molecule in plants
B. Glycogen and Cellulose
C. Energy producing molecule in plants
C. Amylose and Amylopectin
D. Molecule which stores water
D. Amylopectin and Glycogen
11. Disaccharide formed from a condensation
reaction between a glucose molecule and 17. Macromolecule formed by the polymerisa-
a fructose molecule tion of monomers
A. Galactose A. Polysaccharide
B. Sucrose B. Polymer
C. Lactose C. Monosaccharide
D. Maltose D. Monomer

1.9 Importance of Carbohydrates 81
18. main carbohydrate in roots of plants B. Hydrolysis

A. starch C. Condensation

B. glycogen D. Exothermic
C. chitin
21. What is starch a polymer of?
D. cellulose
A. Glucose
19. How much percentage does Amylose make B. Lipids
of starch?
C. Carbohydrates
A. 50%
D. Minerals
B. 25-30%
C. 40-50% 22. Type of reaction that breaks glycosidic
bonds
D. 30-40%
A. Polymerisation
20. Type of reaction that joins monomers to
form polymers with the removal of a B. Hydrolysis
molecule of water C. Condensation
A. Polymerisation D. Exothermic
1.9 Importance of Carbohydrates

1. Proteins, fats, and carbs are known as D. A ruler
macromolecules because
4. Complex carbohydrates can be found in all
A. The body needs them in large amounts.
the following foods EXCEPT:
A. A:Past
B. The body needs them in small amounts.
B. B:Bread
C. The body needs them to function C. C:Crackers
slowly. D. D:Candy
D. The body needs them in a lifetime.
5. Which specific lipid has the following char-
2. Which process adds carbon dioxide to acteristics:1. Makes up the cell mem-
Earth’s atmosphere? brane2. Has a polar, hydrophilic head3.
A. Cellular respiration Has 2 non-polar, hydrophobic tails
B. Photosynthesis A. waxes
C. Protein Synthesis B. phospholipids
D. None of the Above C. steroids
3. What has a foot but no leg? D. triglycerides
A. A sandwich 6. In a normal diet, about how many of your
B. A stool calories should be carbohydrates?
C. A keyboard A. 30%-40%

B. 45%-65% 11. Which of these molecules is the main hu-

C. 70%-80% man storage of carbohydrates for ani-
mals?
D. 80%-85%
A. Glycogen
7. All the following statements are TRUE EX- B. Glucose
CEPT:
C. Starch
A. A:Simple sugars can be found in nutri-
tious foods. D. Lactose
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B. B:Complex sugars are often found in 12. Large molecules that form when many
nutritious foods. monosaccharides bonded together are
C. C:Complex carbohydrates can also be A. calcium
called sugars. B. sugars
D. D:Vitamins and minerals are needed C. monosaccharides
for good health.
D. polysaccharides
8. A good source of quick energy is but
if they are not used they will be stored in 13. A complex carbohydrate which comes from
the body as the non-digestible part of plants.
A. lipids, carbohydrates A. Glycogen
B. proteins, amino acids B. Sucrose
C. starches, nucleic acids C. Starch
D. carbohydrates, lipids D. Dietary Fiber
9. One side of a DNA ladder has the base 14. The element carbon must be present to in-
pairs in the following order:ATCGGTTCCA. dicate
What is the order of base pairs on the A. an inorganic molecule
other side of the DNA ladder? B. it is a rock
A. CGATTGGAAC C. an organic molecule
B. ATCGGTTCCA D. air
C. GCTAACCTTG
15. Which of the following compounds is NOT
D. TAGCCAAGGT organic?
10. What is the source of proteins used by A. DNA
your body? B. Carbohydrate
A. You use complete proteins from other C. Sulfuric Acid
organisms
D. Corn oil
B. Your body synthesizes them after
breaking down the proteins you eat 16. You may enter, but you may not come in, I
C. You produce them through photosyn- have space, but no room, I have keys, but
thesis open no lock. What am I?
D. You produce them during cellular res- A. A computer

piration. B. A door

C. A phone 22. Examples of lipids are

D. A room A. Dogs, Cats, Horses

B. Fats, Waxes, Oils
17. are energy-rich compounds, such as
starch, glucose, and sucrose. C. Salt, Pepper, Paprika
D. Fingers, Toes
A. proteins
B. acids 23. The human body is mostly made of the el-
ements
C. carbohydrates
A. carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and hydro-
D. water molecules gen.
B. oxygen, calcium, carbon, and hydro-
18. What two colors are the cat’s hat in “The
gen.
Cat in the Hat”?
C. hydrogen, iron, nitrogen, and oxygen.
A. Red and White
D. carbon, sodium, nitrogen, and hydro-
B. Red and Blue gen
C. Blue and White
24. Hydrolysis means to
D. White and Black A. (remove water) (put together)
19. When proteins are broken down, what do B. (remove water) (break apart)
you get? C. (add water) (put together)
A. sugars D. (add water) (break apart)
B. amino acids 25. Which of the following foods contains un-
C. starches saturated fats?
A. fish
D. nucleotides
B. olive oil
20. Which of these molecules is the carbohy- C. cheese
drate found in the blood stream?
D. eggs
A. Starch
26. What is the function of nucleic acids?
B. Glyocgen
A. store genetic information
C. Glucose
B. store energy (long-term)
D. ATP
C. store energy (short-term)
21. Carbon’s importance is life is due to its: D. build skin, hair, nails, muscles
A. four valence electrons. 27. The complete set of reactions carried out
B. ability to form straight chains, branch- by an organism is called
ing chains, and rings. A. metabolism
C. ability to bond with as many as four B. catabolism
other elements. C. anabolism
D. All of the above D. none of above

28. Which of the following is NOT a carbon 34. John went to Howard’s steakhouse. While
compound found in living things? there, he ate steak and dipped it a creamy
A. Carbohydrates buttery sauce. What is the butter?
B. Proteins and fats A. Protein

C. Water B. Carbohydrate
D. Nucleic acids C. Nucleic Acid
D. Lipid
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29. Which of the following is an organic
molecule?
35. The more you take, the more you leave be-
A. water hind. What am I?
B. ice
A. Bank money that you always drop
C. nitrogen
B. footsteps
D. lactose
C. This should be getting easier know.
30. The monomer unit for cellulose is D. STOP ASKING THESE QUESTIONS
A. Glucose
B. Galactose 36. allow your body to initiate chemical re-
actions and control the reaction rates.
C. Amino acids
A. Fats
D. Glucose and fructose
B. Carbohydrates
31. Amino Acids
C. Enzymes
A. Are a type of marinade.
D. DNA
B. Help transport fats in the body.
C. Are the building blocks from which pro- 37. What is the function of fats in plants and
teins are made. animals?
D. Are only found in plants. A. A quick source of energy.
32. Which of the following is NOT a main ele- B. Storage of energy in reserve for long
ment that carbohydrates are made of? periods.
A. Carbon C. Breaking down of proteins into amino
acids
B. Nitrogen
C. Oxygen D. Synthesis of proteins.
D. Hydrogen 38. Carbohydrates enter the body, and the

body breaks them down into which of the
33. is a nucleic acid that contains the infor-
following?
mation cells need to make proteins.
A. Starch A. A:Simple sugars
B. Hemoglobin B. B:Complex sugars

C. DNA C. C:Simple starches
D. Glucose D. D:Complex starches

39. Pasta has a lot of which biomolecule? 45. The reaction that breaks down glucose and
A. Carbohydrates releases its stored energy is called:

A. photosynthesis
B. Protein
B. cellular respiration
C. Nucleic Acids
C. organic chemistry
D. Lipids
D. neutralization
40. What is the job of nucleic acids
46. Which kind of biomolecule has a 1:2:1 ra-
A. store and transmit genetic info tio of Carbon to Hydrogen to Oxygen?
B. main source of energy A. Carbohydrates
C. insulation B. Lipids
D. fight disease C. Proteins
D. Nucleic acids
41. What is the most important sugar to the
body because it is fast acting? 47. What question can you never answer
“yes” to?
A. Glucose
A. Do you like me?
B. Maltose
B. Are you Asleep?
C. Lactose
C. Do you like the show?
D. Fructose
D. Do you know who I am?
42. Cells convert the energy from glucose into 48. What is the job of lipids
A. DNA molecules A. store and transmit genetic info
B. ATP molecules. B. main source of energy
C. Phosphorus molecules. C. control rates of reactions
D. RNA molecules. D. store energy and insulate
43. Which of the following is a type of 49. Which of these is not a function of lipids?
steroid? A. Quick energy
A. Fructose B. Sturctural components in cell mem-
B. Testosterone branes
C. Glycerol C. Waterproofing
D. Long term energy storage
D. Margarine
50. A “kinky structure” due to the double
44. Which of these is the primary storage of bonds between carbon atoms creates a
carbohydrates in plants? lipid known as what?
A. Glycogen A. saturated fat
B. Starch B. wax
C. Glucose C. steroid
D. ATP D. unsaturated fat

51. What 2 functional groups characterize car- 57. Which biomolecule is mainly hydrocarbons
bohydrates? and therefore very hydrophobic?
A. ketone, alcohol A. carbohydrate
B. ketone, aldehyde B. nucleic acid
C. aldehyde, alcohol C. protein
D. amine, amide D. lipid
58. are made from simpler molecules called
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52. Single sugars, called monosaccharides sup-
ply to cells. amino acids.
A. energy A. Proteins
B. Carbohydrates
B. health
C. Lipids
C. calcium
D. Starches
D. hydrolysis
59. Most of the compounds that make up life
53. Where do pencils go on vacation? contain the element
A. Pennsylvania A. Sulfur
B. New York B. Phosphorus
C. Boca Raton C. Carbon
D. Florida D. Oxygen
54. Lipids provide an organism with: 60. Athletes require more carbs to replace
muscle glycogen, their diet can consist of
A. Instant Energy
up to % of carbohydrates
B. Stored Energy
A. 50%
C. Insulation and Protection
B. 60%
D. Stored Energy, Insulation and Protec- C. 70%
tion
D. 80%
55. Which of the following food is least likely
to be healthy for the body? 61. Which of the following is made up of amino
acids
A. A:Oatmeal
A. Cooking oil
B. B:Vegetables
B. Animal fur
C. C:White rice C. Cellulose
D. D:Whole-grain wheat bread D. Cholesterol
56. What do organic chemists study 62. Foods such as contain starch.
A. water A. eggs and meat
B. carbon compounds B. peanut butter, nuts and beans
C. optics C. rice, potatoes and bread
D. anatomy D. milk, cheese and yogurt

63. Digestion breaks down proteins into: 69. Which is a monosaccharide?

A. Carbohydrates A. sucrose

B. Fats B. glucose
C. DNA C. starch
D. amino acids D. glycogen
64. Which of these is a lipid? 70. What is the primary benefit of carbs?
What do they give us?
A. triglycerides
A. Repair
B. steroids
B. Energy
C. fatty acids
C. Protection
D. all of the above
D. Calories
65. What are lipids mostly made of
(monomers)? 71. The monomer of a lipid is
A. Sugar and Honey A. glycerol
B. Glycerol and Fatty Acids B. fatty acid

C. glucose
C. Water and Salt
D. glycerol and fatty acids
D. Oxygen
72. What is the building block of a Carbohy-
66. Which of the following monosaccharide
drate?
combination produces sucrose?
A. Monosaccharide
A. Glucose + fructose
B. Disaccharide
B. Glucose + galactose
C. Polysaccharide
C. Fructose + galactose
D. 3 Fatty Acids and a Glycerol
D. Glucose + glucose
73. At the end of DNA replication, each strand
67. What belongs to you but others use it of the original DNA molecule:
more than you do?
A. has been altered
A. Your name
B. remains intact
B. Your toys
C. has been tripled
C. Your life
D. YO MAMA!
74. One function of a carbohydrate is
68. Hydrophilic compounds are
A. to provide the body with immediate en-
A. Attracted to water ergy
B. Repel water B. keep the heart functioning smoothly
C. Don’t exist C. store and transport genetic material
D. none of above D. control the rate of reactions

75. Which of these categories includes all of 81. An important carbohydrate polymer is
the others shown? A. lactose
A. disaccharide B. glucose
B. carbohydrate C. starch
C. starch D. fructose
D. polysaccharide
82. is/are used to build and repair mus-
cle.
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76. Where is the energy stored in organic
molecules? A. carbohydrates
A. bonds B. fiber
B. elements C. protein
C. hydrogen D. fat
D. carbon 83. Which of the following is a characteristic
77. Your body obtains the vitamins it needs of lipids?
from A. They are polar molecules.
A. Synthesis B. They are nonpolar molecules.
B. Cellular respiration C. They dissolve in water.
C. food D. They are hydrophilic.
D. Photosynthesis 84. produces the energy that supports the
food chain on Earth.
78. Butter is a/an
A. Cellular respiration
A. Saturated fat
B. DNA
B. Unsaturated fat
C. Photosynthesis
C. Trans-fat
D. Carbon
D. Saturated protein
85. Substances in food that the body needs to
79. Which of the following hormones is re- function properly such as in growing, in re-
leased by the pancreas? pairing itself, and in having supply of en-
A. A:Carbs ergy.
B. B:Insulin A. Nutrient Density
C. C:Starch B. Nutrition
D. D:Sugar C. Shelf Life
D. Nutrients
80. Water is essential to life because:
A. It is a good solvent 86. DNA and RNA are examples of
B. It is liquid over a wide range of tem- A. Carbohydrates
peratures B. Lipids
C. it has a high specific heat C. Proteins
D. All of the above D. Nucleic Acids

1.10 Proteins 89
87. Which process adds oxygen to Earth’s at- 90. The carbohydrate, , is used by plants
mosphere? to give their structure strength

A. Cellular respiration A. glucose
B. Photosynthesis B. sucrose
C. Protein synthesis C. cellulose
D. None of the above D. starch
88. The function of lipids is 91. Waxes are needed to

A. transport A. provide structural support
B. storage B. protect from water loss
C. long-term energy C. absorb water
D. quick energy D. hair color
89. Testosterone and estrogen are types of 92. Which of the organic compounds listed be-
low is rich in CARBOHYDRATES?
A. Waxes A. Olive Oil
B. Steroids B. Lard
C. Cholesterol C. Butter
D. Carbohydrates D. Pasta
1.10 Proteins
1. Which type of protein gives shape to dif- C. Gelatin.
ferent cell and body parts?
D. none of above
A. Signaling
B. Storage 4. What are the small sub-units that make up
a protein called?
C. Contractile
D. Structural A. Bases
B. Phosphates
2. How many nucleotides in DNA or mRNA
code for a specific amino acid? C. Amino acids
A. 1 D. Nucleotides
B. 2
C. 3 5. Which level of structure includes the amino
acid sequence of the polypeptide chain?
D. 4
A. Primary
3. Which food product is an excellent protein
emulsifier? B. Secondary
A. Egg white. C. Tertiary

B. Egg yolk. D. Quaternary

1.10 Proteins 90
6. What term means the protein’s shape is C. Insulin

changed and becomes non-functional? D. Immunoglobulin
A. Modification
11. What structure mediates and controls the
B. Denaturation formation of polypeptides?
C. Distortion A. ribosome
D. Helication B. nucleus
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7. Which of these statements describes how C. mitochondria
monomers combine and create macro- D. golgi apparatus
molecules?
12. What is an organic molecule, smaller than
A. Amino acids combine to make proteins.
protein, that contains nitrogen?
A. Polypeptide
B. Glucose molecules combine to make
nucleic acids. B. protein
C. Nucleic acids combine to make starch C. amino acid
D. Proteins combine to make glucose D. peptide bond
8. What is a peptide bond? 13. Which of the following statements are

true regarding tertiary structure of pro-
A. Bond that holds two amino acids to- teins
gether.
A. 3 dimensional structure of a protein
B. A bond that holds hydrogen and oxy-
gen molecules together. B. It is the biologically active conforma-
tion
C. A bond that holds the phosphate group
of one nucleotide and a sugar of a neigh- C. Primary structure of protein deter-
boring nucleotide. mines the tertiary structure
D. A bond that is formed by the sharing of D. All of these

electrons. 14. What kind of bonds form the alpha helix
structures in proteins?
9. Which is not an example of a fibrous pro-
tein? A. disulfide bonds
A. Shape:Long & narrow B. ester bonds
B. Examples:Collagen, myosin, actin, C. covalent bonds
elastin D. hydrogen bonds
C. Function:Structure
15. In step 1 of translation, the ribosomal sub-
D. Soluble in water units, the , and the carrying
bind together.
10. The most abundant structural protein in
the human body is found in ligaments and A. mRNA, tRNA, amino acid
skin. What is the name of this protein? B. sRNA, tRNA, methionine
A. Collagen C. DNA, tRNA, methionine
B. Hemoglobin D. mRNA, tRNA, methionine

1.10 Proteins 91
16. A 4 polypeptide globular protein in red 22. Which protein structure describes a pro-
blood cells. Binds oxygen in lungs and re- tein’s three-dimensional shape?
leases it in tissues.

A. Primary
A. Integrin
B. Secondary
B. Hemoglobin
C. Tertiary
C. Lysozyme
D. Quaternary
D. Rubisco
17. How many essential Amino acids must we 23. Minimum temperature to cook beef to.
obtain from the food we eat? A. 145
A. 2
B. 155
B. 4
C. 165
C. 6
D. 175
D. 8
18. it is a transport protein present in the 24. Which organic compound is involved in al-
blood most every function in the human body,
including structure, transport, muscle con-
A. Fat traction, and regulation of chemical reac-
B. Glucose tions?
C. Hemoglobin A. Lipids
D. none of above B. Proteins
19. Why proteins different from each other? C. Carbohydrates
A. Types of the amino acids D. Monosaccharides
B. Number of the amino acids
25. How can you tenderize meat?
C. Order of the amino acids
D. All above them A. marinade, pound, fry
B. marinade, pound, liquid cooking
20. How many amino acids are there?
method.
A. 4
C. freeze
B. 10
D. boil
C. 20
D. 30 26. In step 4 of translation, the tRNA in the
site and leaves its amino acid be-
21. Extra protein that is not used by the body
hind.
is stored as glycogen and
A. P, attaches
A. carbohydrate
B. water B. P, detaches
C. glucose C. A, detaches
D. adipose tissue D. A, attaches

1.10 Proteins 92
27. How many different amino acids are B. B tertiary and quaternary only
there? C. C quaternary only
A. 15
D. D tertiary only
B. 20
33. What is the central dogma or molecular bi-
C. 25
ology?
D. 30
A. DNA →RNA →Protein
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28. Which of the following is NOT a function B. RNA →DNA →Protein
of proteins
C. tRNA→DNA →Protein
A. Assist in blood clotting
D. Protein →RNA →Protein
B. Fight infections and diseases
C. Assist in the processing of glucose 34. Which of the following cell organelles is
involved in the process of protein synthe-
sis?
29. If a mutation occurs in a cell, how will it A. chloroplasts
be passed on to the daughter cells?
B. ribosomes
A. The mutation will be passed on to nei-
ther daughter cell. C. mitochondria
B. The mutation will be passed on to one D. vesicles

daughter cell.
35. Which part of an Amino Acid distinguishes
C. The mutation will be passed on to both which one it is and its properties?
daughter cells.
A. the carboxyl group
D. None of the above.
B. the amino group
30. What type of organic molecules are en- C. the R group
zymes?
D. the Ester group
A. carbohydrates
B. lipids 36. Which of these enzymes is in your saliva
and helps to breakdown carbohydrates
C. nucleic acids
into sugars?
D. proteins
A. Sucrase
31. What is the name of the bond that joins B. Galactose
two amino acids together?
C. Fructose
A. Ester bond
D. Amylase
B. Glycosidic bond
C. Peptide bond 37. The function of collagen is
D. Nucleic bond A. tensile strengthening.
B. membrane transport.
32. Which levels of protein structure are main-
tained by disulfide bonds? C. immunity.
A. A secondary, tertiary and quaternary D. muscle contraction.

1.10 Proteins 93
38. Approximate calories in one egg. B. single strands of RNA that temporarily
A. 60 carry a specific amino acid on one end.

C. molecules that are part of the struc-
B. 70
ture of ribosomes
C. 80
D. none of above
D. 90
44. Pleats and coils are part of what level of
39. Which are examples of proteins? protein structure?
A. collagen, enzymes A. primary
B. hemoglobin, insulin, antibodies B. secondary
C. both a & b C. tertiary
D. none of the above are correct D. quaternary
40. The number of essential amino acids in the 45. A covalent bond that joins amino acids, at
human diet is (choose all correct an- the carboxyl group of one amino acid to
swers) the amino group of the other amino acid,
with the release of a molecule of water.
A. 4
A. Ionic Bond
B. 8
B. Glycosidic bond
C. 16
C. Peptide bond
D. 20
D. Ester bond
41. What are the building blocks from which
46. Meat that comes from calves younger than
proteins are formed?
one year.
A. amino acids
A. mutton
B. esters
B. veal
C. fatty acids
C. beef
D. carboxylic acids D. stew
42. During Step 7 of translation, the process 47. Dry heat cooking method in an oven.
is repeated until a codon is reached.
the ribosomes complex falls The newly A. roast
made protein is B. grill
A. stop, apart, released C. broil
B. start, apart, released D. braise
C. stop, together, kept 48. What results from the hydrolysis of a pro-
D. stop, together, released tein?
A. Amino acids
43. rRNA is
B. Glucose
A. a form of RNA that carries the instruc-
tions for making a protein from a gene and C. Fatty acids
delivers it to the site of translation. D. Nucleotides

1.10 Proteins 94
49. What is the term used for an inorganic 55. What are the proteins that serve to pro-
molecule that activates a protein by bind- tect against diseases?
ing and changing its conformation? A. receptors
A. inhibitor B. hormones
B. enzyme protein C. antibodies
C. cofactor D. enzymes
D. coenzyme
56. What are the monomers that make up pro-
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50. DNA and RNA are what type of macro- teins?
molecule? A. Monosaccharides
A. lipids B. Amino acids
B. nucleic acids C. Nucleic acids
C. carbohydrates D. Fatty acids
D. enzymes 57. Where does a cell get the information it
51. Which protein food would provide all nine needs to determine which order the amino
essential amino acids? acids should be in a polypeptide?
A. almonds A. Ribosomes
B. tuna B. DNA
C. RNA
C. peanuts
D. The sequence is random
D. black-eyed peas
58. What elements make up a protein/amino
52. What resembles the structure of the pep-
acid?
tide bond?
A. Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen
A. Millon’s reagent
B. Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen
B. Biuret
C. Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen
C. Xanthoproteic process
D. carbon, nitrogen
D. Any of the anteriors
59. Which of the following would be correctly
53. What is the role of enzymes? classified as a protein?
A. Copy DNA A. Cholestrol
B. Catalyze Reactions B. Enzyme
C. Transport Molecules C. Starch
D. Makes RNA D. Cellulose
54. Enzymes are that bind specifically to a 60. Enzymes belong to which category of or-
like a lock and key. ganic molecule?
A. fats; hormone A. Proteins
B. proteins; substrate B. Edible fats and edible oils
C. lipids; hormone C. Carbohydrates
D. carbohydrates; substrate D. Esters

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61. Meat from a young sheep. C. Antibodies

A. mutton D. Enzymes

B. veal
67. The process of transcription occurs in the
C. lamb
D. beef
A. amino acids
62. What type of covalent bond joins together B. cytoplasm/ribosome
amino acids?
C. nuclues
A. polypeptide
B. peptide bond D. protein
C. enzyme 68. Vegans can consume complete protein

D. none of above by combining certain incomplete proteins.
These are called:
63. is not a classified form of conjugated
proteins. A. Non-complete proteins
A. complete proteins B. Adversary proteins
B. metalloproteins C. Simple Proteins
C. glycoproteins D. Complimentary proteins
D. lipoproteins
69. Tendons
64. Egg whites are high in
A. connect bone to bone
A. iron
B. connect muscle to bone
B. fat
C. connect hair to plants
C. protein
D. Vitamin A D. are enzymes
65. All metabolic functions fall into one of 70. Which of the following is a complete pro-
two categories:a breaking down process tein?
(catabolic) or a building up process (an- A. hummus and celery
abolic). Which is an example of an anabolic
process? B. black beans and salsa
A. respiration C. a cheeseburger
B. protein synthesis D. peanut butter
C. oxygen transport
71. Collagen and elastin are
D. carbohydrate digestion
A. examples of fibrous proteins
66. What is a proteins that acts as a chemical
messenger by sending signals for changes B. found in muscle fibers, ligaments, and
in cell activities? tendons
A. Receptors C. helix-shaped strands
B. Hormones D. All of the above.

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72. Which of the following terms can be used B. signals cells to take in glucose (sugar)
to describe the secondary structure of a to control blood sugar levels
protein? 1 dipeptide 2 specific order of C. makes up your hair
amino acids 3 α -helix 4 fibrous structure
5 β -pleated sheet D. is only made on Wednesdays
A. A 1, 3, 4 and 5 78. These chief source of protein is/are
B. B 1, 2 and 4 A. milk
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C. C 2 and 4 only B. fish
D. D 3 and 5 only C. peanuts
73. The function of insulin is D. All of these
A. a hormone. 79. What is one function of proteins?
B. packing of DNA. A. Help muscles contract.
C. catalysis. B. Long-term energy storage.
D. blood clotting. C. Short-term energy storage.
74. can cause denaturation of proteins be- D. Storing genetic information.
cause vibrations within the molecule break
the intermolecular bonds. 80. What makes up the secondary structure of
the protein?
A. Heat
A. α -helices
B. Acids
B. β -bends (proline-kinks)
C. Bases
C. β -sheets
D. Cold
D. All of the above
75. During , the instruction for making a
protein are from a gene to an RNA 81. How many different R groups are com-
molecule, monly found in living organisms? (ie how
many different Amino Acids are there)
A. transcription, transferred
A. 5
B. transcription, deleted
C. translation, transferred B. 10
D. translation, deleted C. 15
D. 20
76. Which organelle is DNA usually found in?
A. cell membrane 82. Which molecules are globular proteins?
1 amylase 2 haemoglobin 3 DNA poly-
B. vacuole merase
C. ribosome A. A 1, 2 and 3
D. nucleus B. B 1 and 2 only
77. Insulin C. C 1 and 3 only
A. controls how warm your blood is D. D 2 only

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83. Except glycine, all other naturally occur- B. transcription

ring α -amino acids are optically , since C. translation
the α -carbon atom is

D. replication
A. active, symmetric
B. inactive, symmetric 89. Which characteristic is used to identify an
amino acid?
C. active, asymmetric
A. the presence of nitrogen
D. inactive, asymmetric
B. the composition of the R-group
84. The carboxyl group of an amino acid C. the number of carbon atoms present
(COOH) typically releases an H+, leaving
the rest of the group as a(n) D. the number and types of bonds
present
A. anion
90. A structural protein that forms strong
B. cation
fibers, found in skin, connective tissue and
C. R group bone (the most abundant protein in the an-
D. none of above imal kingdom).
A. Insulin
85. Which of the following binds to the active
site of an enzyme? B. Immunoglobulins
A. substrate C. Rhodopsin
B. product D. Collagen
C. codon 91. What are the bonds that connect amino
D. none of the above acids in a protein called?
A. peptide bonds
86. alpha helix can be destabilized by presence
of B. ester bonds
A. proline residue C. glycosidic bonds
B. histidine residue D. phosphodiester bonds
C. lysine residue 92. Which of the following are formed from
D. alanine residue many amino acids linked together?
A. Protein
87. How many fatty acid residues are nor-
mally present in a phospholipid molecule? B. Polyester
A. A 1 C. Carbohydrate
B. B 2 D. Fat
C. C 3 93. Which of the following is NOT an example
D. D 4 of a protein?
A. myosin
88. What are the three adjacent nucleotides in
DNA or mRNA that code for amino acids B. keratin
called? C. lactase
A. codon D. glucose

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94. Which food product is made by texturizing C. Rubisco

the proteins? D. Proteome
A. Gelatin dessert.
100. How many essential amino acids do com-
B. Instant pudding. plete proteins contain?
C. Processed cheese. A. 7
D. none of above B. 8
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95. Linking several amino acids together pro- C. 10
duces what polymer? D. 9
A. polysaccharide
101. Which type of protein is found in cartilage
B. polypeptide or tendons?
C. polynucleotide A. Defensive
D. triglyceride B. Transport
96. Which of these is NOTa form of post- C. Structural
translational protein modification? D. Catalysts
A. Phosphorylation 102. How many steps are in translation?
B. Adenylation A. 5
C. Glycosylation B. 3
D. Lipidation C. 7
97. Fats that provide long term energy stor- D. 9
age
103. These molecules are made up of amino
A. Lipids acids.
B. Glycogen A. proteins
C. Saturated fatty acid B. bases
D. Glucose C. ribosomes
98. During denaturation [a] and D. nucleii
[b] structures are destroyed but
104. What is the bond between each amino
[c] structure remains intact.
acid in a protein?
A. secondary, b. tertiary, c. primary
A. Peptide bond
B. primary, b. secondary, c. tertiary
B. Amnio acids
C. tertiary, b. primary, c. secondary
C. Polypeptide
D. none of above
D. Nitrogen
99. The enzyme that catalyses the first step 105. Which of the following is an example of
of carbon fixation in photosynthesis denaturation of protein
A. spider silk A. The coagulation of egg white on boiling
B. Rhodopsin

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B. Curdling of milk B. Dehydrogenation

C. Both C. Hydration

D. none of above D. Hydrolysis
106. Step 2 in translation, the tRNA carrying 111. Are biocatalyst made of proteins that in-
the amino acids specified by the codon in creases reactions inside your body
the site A. Enzymes
A. P, dies B. Blood
B. P, arrives C. Muscles
C. A, dies D. There are no antibodies in the plasma
D. A, arrives
112. During transcription, the information on
107. The 20 different amino acids found in a molecule is rewritten onto a
polypeptides exhibit different chemical molecule
and physical properties because of differ- A. DNA, tRNA
ent
B. DNA, mRNA
A. amino groups attached to an alpha car-
bon C. DNA, rRNA
B. asymmetric carbons. D. none of above
C. carboxyl groups attached to an alpha 113. What must organisms possess to make
carbon them radiation-resistant?
D. side chains (R groups). A. a protective coat of peptidoglycan
108. Which types of enzymes continue the di- B. enzymes that repair damage to DNA
gestion of proteins in the small intestine? C. melanin, the pigment that darkens skin
A. polypeptide enzymes color
B. stomach enzymes D. the ability to mutate into a radiation-

resistant organism
C. pancreatic enymes
D. there are no enzymes involved 114. Proteins cannot be denatured by
A. heat
109. The folding and coiling into a three dimen-
sional structure based on interactions be- B. high pH
tween R-groups is known as the struc- C. low pH
ture of a protein. D. Freezing
A. primary
115. which of the following terms refers to the
B. secondary order in which amino acids are linked to-
C. tertiary gether in a protein.
D. quaternary A. Primary
110. Which reaction is needed to bond two B. Secondary

amino acids together? C. Tertiary
A. Dehydration D. Quaternary

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116. At which level of protein structure are 122. Define exon.

interactions between the side chains (R A. series of three-nucleotide sequences
groups) most important? on the mRNA
A. Primary B. long segment of nucleotides that have
B. Secondary no coding information
C. Tertiary C. portions of a gene that are translated
D. Quaternary into proteins
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D. none of above
117. The purpose of mitosis is:
A. to repair damaged cells. 123. What happens when proteins are heated
to a high temperature?
B. to remove mutations from DNA.
A. The enzymes die.
C. to create exact copies of cells.
B. The shapes of the enzyme are altered
D. to create proteins from amino acids. denature
118. A dipeptide is made up of amino acids C. The enzymes’ amino acid sequence
A. two changes.
B. three D. The enzymes remain the same
C. cann’t predict 124. The functions of many proteins is deter-
D. none of above mined by the shape. Shape is often de-
termined by characteristics of amino acids.
119. Albumin is a protein found in egg whites The region of a protein would orient
which provides the necessary nutrients for towards the watery surface of a cell.
baby animals. What type of protein is al- A. Hydrophobic
bumin considered?
B. Hydrophilic
A. Contractile
C. Charged
B. Storage
D. none of above
C. Signaling
D. Defense 125. Grades of meat are based on 3 things.
A. bone, type of animal, tenderness
120. Proteins are made of
B. amount of protein, bone, connective
A. CHO tissue
B. CHON C. cut, bone, and tenderness
C. CHONP‘ D. poultry, beef, pork
D. CHONS
126. Refers to the three-dimensional structure
121. silk fibroin consist of polypeptide chain of an entire amino acid chain in a protein
that are arranged in the form of molecule
A. alpha helix A. tertiary structure
B. beta helix B. primary structure
C. beta pleated sheet C. secondary structure
D. none of the above D. fibrous proteins

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127. Proteins are made of 21 building blocks 133. Kwashiorkor is a deficiency disease
known as caused by

A. monosaccharides A. Protein Energy Malnutrition
B. nucleic acids
B. Lack of Carbohydrates in the diet
C. amino acids
C. Lack of Vitamins and minerals in the
D. cholesterol diet
128. In the stomach, this enzyme breaks the D. Fat Energy Malnutrition
protein into polypeptides.
A. Carboxypeptidase 134. What is an element found in amino acids
B. Amylase and proteins but NOT typically found in car-
bohydrates or fats?
C. Pepsin
A. Amino Acids
D. Rennin
B. Nitrogen
129. These long molecules carry out most cell
functions. C. Peptide bond
A. DNA D. Polypeptide
B. RNA
135. If dipeptides carboxyl group reacts with
C. Amino Acids
the amino group, what is formed?
D. Proteins
A. The next peptide bond
130. The shape of a polypeptide chain
B. The next protein
A. Primary
C. The next amino acid
B. Secondary
C. Tertiary D. The next ionic bond
D. Quaternary
136. Why are proteins important?
131. Which is NOT a key idea that explains the
A. Proteins are essential for survival
huge range of possible polypeptides?
A. They could be any length. B. Proteins provide all sorts of functions
B. There are 20 amino acid possibilities. C. Every cell in the human body uses pro-
teins
C. The amino acids could be in any order
or combination. D. All of the above
D. Prokaryotes only use 10 amino acids.
137. The bond between two or more amino
132. During digestion proteins are broken acids is called a
down into
A. Ionic bond
A. amino acids
B. ester bond
B. sugars
C. bones C. glyosidic bond
D. glucose D. peptide bond

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138. Where would contractile proteins be 144. In step 3 of transcription, RNA poly-
found? merase and then links complementary
A. Blood RNA nucluotides and the gene.
B. Brain A. deletes, copies
C. Muscles B. deletes, reads
D. Skin C. adds, copies

D. adds, reads
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139. Which of the following is a simple pro-
tein? 145. How do cells recognize the ‘delivery ad-
A. Lentils dress’ in a protein?
B. Chicken A. Position of the signal sequence and se-

quence of certain amino acids
C. Cheese
B. The type of protein
D. Seafood
C. Length of the amino acid
140. Where does N-glycosylation begin? D. The side chains
A. In the ER
146. What does an amino acid look like?
B. In the mitochondria
A. It’s a central carbon with two different
C. in the cytosol groups attached.
D. In the Golgi apparatus B. It’s a central carbon with three differ-
141. The monomers of DNA and RNA are ent groups attached.
A. nucleotides C. It’s a central carbon with four differ-

ent groups attached.
B. nucleic acids
D. It’s a central carbon with five different
C. amino acids groups attached.
D. monosaccharides
147. CHEMICAL digestion of protein begins in
142. are the portions of a gene that are the
into proteins. A. smal intestine
A. Exons, transcripted B. colon
B. introns, translated C. stomach
C. Exons, translated D. mouth
D. Introns, teanscripted
148. Where in the cell does transcription hap-
143. Unbranched starch in helix form pen?
A. Amylopectin A. peptide
B. Glycogen B. ribosome
C. Amylose C. cytopasm
D. Cellulose D. nuclues

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149. The enzyme that fixes CO2 from the at- C. tertiary structure
mosphere into a usable form is D. beta bends

A. rubisco.
155. Type of protein that breaks down nutri-
B. insulin.
ents so that they can be absorbed by the
C. rhodopsin. body.
D. immunoglobulins. A. Contractile proteins
150. What is the minimum number of carbon B. Structural proteins
atoms in an amino acid?
C. Digestive enzyme
A. A 1
D. Signaling proteins
B. B 2
C. C 3 156. Another name for an immunoglobulin is
D. D 4 A. Antigen
B. Macrophage
151. The breaking of bonds between R-groups
results in a conformational change in a pro- C. Antibody
tein called D. Pathogen
A. denaturation.
157. Enzymes are that chemical reac-
B. insolubility.
tions.
C. a genome.
A. hormones, slow down
D. a peptide bond.
B. catalysts, speed up
152. What test can be used to determine the C. catalysts, slow down
presence of proteins?
D. hormones, speed up
A. Bromenthol test
B. Iodine test 158. Which proteins give structure to skin, ten-
dons, and ligaments?
C. Biuret test
D. Acid test A. collagen & elastin
B. activation energy
153. Proteins present in the cell membrane
help to transport the materials. C. nucleotides and lipids
A. Channel proteins D. water and hemoglobin
B. Lipids 159. Which of the following is not true about
C. Cholestrol the denaturing of proteins?
D. none of above A. Intermolecular bonds are broken.
154. The amyloid protein deposition associ- B. The amino acid sequence in the protein
ated with Alzheimer’s disease is composed changes.
of C. The protein changes shape.
A. alpha helix D. In foods causes the texture to change
B. beta pleated sheets when it is cooked.

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160. What colour forms the aromatic rings C. oxygen

of phenylalanine, tyrosine and tryptophan D. nitrogen
under the effect of nitric acid? What’s the
name of this process? 166. Amino acids with basic side chains.
A. Yellow, Xanthophobic reaction. A. Lysine
B. Yellow, xanthoproteic reaction. B. Arginine
C. Blue, xanthophobic reaction. C. Histidine
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D. All the anteriors
D. Blue, xanthoproteic reaction.
167. Proline and hydroxyproline are amino
161. Each amino acid is different from the acids?
other due to
A. Yes
A. The R group
B. Yes, because of its amino group
B. The amino group
C. No, are imino acids
C. The carboxyl group
D. No, are proteins
D. The central carbon
168. The is all of the proteins in a cell, tis-
162. Which of the following statements about sue, or organism.
enzymes is NOT true? A. genome
A. Enzymes work best at a specified pH. B. proteome
B. Enzymes are destroyed after being C. nucleosome
used once. D. none of above
C. Enzymes are proteins.
169. In addition to carbon, hydrogen, and oxy-
D. Enzymes are organic catalysts. gen, proteins also contain which element?
163. Immunoglobulins are also known as A. calcium
A. antibodies. B. nitrogen
B. hormones. C. chlorine
D. sodium
C. actin and myosin.
D. prosthetic groups. 170. The monomers of proteins/polypetides
are
164. What forms nitrophenols? A. sugars/monosaccharides
A. Red-colored complexes with silver B. amino acids
B. Red-colored complexes with copper C. nucleotides
C. Red-colored complexes with mercury D. none of above
D. yellow-colored complexes with copper 171. What are polypeptides?
165. What element does an amino acid contain A. chains of carbohydrates
that other organic molecules don’t? B. chains of amino acids
A. Carbon C. chains of fatty acids
B. hydrogen D. chains of nucleic acids

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172. Identify the element found in a protein 177. What colour forms the raction of trypto-
that is not present in a carbohydrate phan indole ring with glyoxylic acid in the
presence of sulphuric acid (VI)?

A. Carbon
B. Oxygen A. red-violet
C. Hydrogen B. red-blue
D. Nitrogen C. blue-yellow
D. blue-brown
173. What color changes the biuret reacton
in the presence of NaOH and sodium- 178. Which is a least likely primary function of
potassium tetrate? proteins?
A. From blue to brown A. to act as an organic catalyst
B. From blue to green B. to supply short-term energy
C. From blue to red C. to build and repair damaged cells
D. From blue to purple D. to defend against foreign invaders
174. The amine group of an amino acid (NH2)
179. Which of the following is an essential
typically bonds to an H+, making the group
amino acid?
a(n)
A. Tryptophan
A. anion
B. Proline
B. cation
C. Tyrosine
C. R group
D. Cystine
D. none of above
175. All of the following are correct about 180. Jo Anne is putting together recipes for
proteins EXCEPT? (choose all correct an- cooking lean protein sources for a commu-
swers) nity event. Which recipe would be best to
include?
A. they make reactions occur that would
not normally occur A. grilled shrimp kebabs with pineapple
rice
B. they act a reaction catalysts
B. grilled beef cheeseburger
C. they are polymers of amino acids
C. buffalo chicken dip with fried chips
D. they can denature at high tempera-
tures D. smoked pork belly tacos
176. What is the name of the bond that is 181. What is a high biological protein?
formed when a polypeptide is made? A. One with most if not all amino acids
A. Ester bond supplied.
B. Glycosidic bond B. Protein that is bio-available.
C. Peptide bond C. Protein that is easy to digest.
D. Amine bond D. All answers are correct

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182. Ligaments C. It’s function ceases

A. connect bone to bone D. none of above
B. connect muscle to bone 188. Exon is a
C. connect hair to plants A. amino acid
D. are enzymes B. protein
183. Each enzymes works at an optimal C. peptide
Fluctuations in acidity can destroy or de-
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D. polymerase
nature enzymes.
A. Temperature 189. Insulin contains amino acids
B. pH A. 41
C. Hydration B. 51
D. Concentration C. 61
D. 71
184. What is a proteome?
A. The number of genes found in a organ- 190. Which parts of your body are made of
ism proteins?
B. The number of proteins produced by an A. Hair

organism B. Fingernails
C. The number of amino acids found in an C. Muscles
organism D. All of these
D. The number of amino acids found in a
polypeptide 191. What conditions usually do not cause de-
naturation?
185. The process that builds molecules by re- A. Extreme heat
moving water to bind them together is
B. Extreme pH
A. Hydrolysis
C. Dissolving in water
B. Protein Synthesis
D. none of above
C. Dehydration Synthesis
D. Lysis 192. What is found in insulin molecules?
A. Phosphates
186. What is a chain of Amino Acids called?
B. Nucleotides
A. Polymer
C. Peptide bonds
B. Peptide
D. Glycerol
C. Polypeptide
D. Acidic chain 193. Which of the following best describes
DEAMINATION?
187. What happens when an enzyme is placed A. the breaking down of proteins into
outside it’s normal environment? polypeptides
A. It functions normally B. the stripping of the nitrogen amine
B. It functions better group from amino acids

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C. the conversion of ammonia to urea 199. Which type of molecules combine to make
D. the breakdown of polypeptides by car- up the protein portion of hemoglobin?

boxypeptidase A. fatty acids
B. amino acids
194. Enzymes are
C. monosaccharides
A. nucleic acids
D. polysaccharides
B. proteins
C. lipids 200. The two types of folding in the secondary
structure are
D. carbohydrates
A. alpha-helix & beta-pleated sheets
195. Hydrogen atoms at a double bond are on B. polypeptide & nucleotide
the same side; bends; oils
C. globular & fibrous
A. hydrolysis D. none of above
B. Cis
201. Which parts of the amino acid react with
C. Trans another amino acid to form a peptide
D. Glycogen bond?
A. The carboxyl group and the R group
196. Which are enzymes?
B. The carboxyl group and the amino
A. simple carbohydrates group
B. proteins that speed up chemical reac- C. The amine group and the R group
tions
D. The R group and carbon backbone
C. lipids that make up the cell membrane
202. Which of the following patients would
need to increase their protein intake?
D. a building block of DNA
A. breastfeeding womien
197. What is an example of protein denatura- B. children
tion?
C. the elderly
A. Inhaling oxygen and exhaling carbon
D. all of the above
dioxide
B. Lifting weights 203. what would be the complementary
DNA strand to the following sequence-
C. Cooking an egg
ATTCGCTTACCCGAGATA
D. Injecting insulin A. TAAGCGAATGGGCTCTAT
198. Examples of amino acids with nonpolar B. TAAGCGAATGGGCTCTAT
chains C. UAAGCGAAUGGGCUCUAU
A. Alanine D. TTAGCGTATGGGCCCATA
B. Valine
204. Collagen is a protein that helps maintain
C. Leucine the of your skin.
D. All the anteriors A. Color

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B. Tone 210. Which of the following statements about

C. Elasticity DNA is NOT true?
D. Roughness A. DNA is found in all organisms.
B. DNA is made up of five subunits.
205. Dried beans and peas
C. DNA has a structure like a twisted lad-
A. lentils
der.
B. legumes
D. Mistakes can be made when DNA is
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C. variety copied.
D. mutton
211. If nucleic acids code for proteins, which is
206. The sum total of all chemical reactions a function of proteins?
that occur within an organism is it’s A. to store hereditary information
A. metabolism. B. to store energy for long-term use
B. enzyme-driven reaction. C. to provide a quick supply of energy
C. glycolysis. D. to provide structure and transport ma-
D. activation energy. terials in cells
207. What is the function of codons in RNA? 212. Which level of structure includes 2 or
more polypeptide chains and looks like
A. They store the genes of a cell.
a 3D knotted structure? This is the
B. They are bonded together to form pro- level in which there is a functional protein
teins. molecule.
C. They code for a specific amino acid in A. Primary
a protein.
B. Secondary
D. They translate the genetic code in
RNA. C. Tertiary
D. Quaternary
208. What happens when enzymes are heated
to a high temperature? 213. It is unwise to regularly ingest large
A. The enzymes die. amounts of protein because
B. The shapes of the enzyme are altered A. it can cause acne

or denatured B. it can cause uremic poisoning
C. The enzymes’ amino acid sequence C. it can contribute to heart disease
changes. D. it may reduce the work of the nervous
D. The enzymes remain the same system
209. What is the type of bond formed between 214. What is a common function of carbohy-
amino acids as they ultimately make up a drates, proteins, and fats?
protein? A. to build and maintain body tissues
A. nitrogen B. to carry iron and oxygen in the blood
B. enzyme C. to form hormones, enzymes, and anti-
C. polypeptide bodies
D. peptide bond D. to provide energy

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215. The region of a protein would orient C. London dispersion forces

away from the watery surface of a cell. D. Ionic bonds

A. Hydrophobic
221. The level of structure most important to
B. Hydrophilic enzyme function is the structure.
C. Charged A. primary
D. none of above B. secondary
216. How many structures or stages are there C. tertiary
in proteins? D. quaternary
A. 1
222. What are the monomers of proteins?
B. 2
A. triglycerides
C. 3 B. monosaccharides
D. 4 C. nucleotides
217. What kinds of food can you get protein D. amino acids
from in your diet?
223. Aminoacids are represented by writ-
A. Eggs ing the-NH2 group on hand side
B. Meat and Fish A. L, left
C. Nuts and Legumes B. L, right
D. All of the above C. D, left
218. Each molecule of DNA consists of smaller D. cann’t predict
segments called genes.
224. Amino acids are usually
A. True A. coloured
B. False B. colourless
C. True and False C. can’nt predict
D. What’s a molecule? D. none of above
219. What percentage of the human body is 225. The sequence of amino acids forming a
made up of proteins? polypeptide is known as the structure
A. 5% of a protein.
B. 10% A. primary
C. 20% B. secondary
D. 40% C. tertiary
D. quaternary
220. Which bonds form with nearby Amino
Acids to coil and fold a polypeptide into al- 226. What two parts of an amino acid join to-
pha helices or beta pleated sheets? gether to form a polypeptide?
A. Hydrogen bonds A. The amino group and carboxyl group
B. covalent bonds B. The carboxyl group and the R-group

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C. The central carbon and the R-group 232. Which property of proteins BEST allows
D. The amino group and the R-group them to perform an enormously diverse
range of functions?
227. Two or more polypeptides attached to-
A. their large, chemical-energy reserve
gether and work as one unit
B. their large, stored-electric potential
A. Primary
C. the complexity of their folded struc-
B. Secondary
ture
C. Tertiary
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D. the wide variety of elements they in-
D. Quaternary clude
228. proteins are the polymers of α -amino
233. What describes only the quaternary
acids and they are connected to each other
structure of haemoglobin? 1 α -helix 2 a
by
dipeptide 3 a globular structure 4 the spe-
A. glycosidic bond cific order of amino acids 5 four polypep-
B. covalent bond tide chains joined together
C. dative bond A. A 1, 2 and 3
D. peptide bond B. B 2, 4 and 5
229. A codon containing a changed base may C. C 1 and 4

code for a different amino acid, leading to: D. D 5 only
A. A missense mutation
234. the carries the amino acid to add to
B. A nonsense mutation the protein
C. A non-codon A. DNA
D. A silent mutation B. mRNA
230. What determines the order of amino C. rRNA
acids in a protein? D. tRNA
A. The number of DNA bases
235. Which colour form the amino acids that
B. The order of phosphates
cointauins an alfa-amino group in a reac-
C. The order of DNA bases in a gene tion with ninhydrine?
D. How clever the ribosome is A. violet-red
231. Why are proteins important to the sur- B. violet-blue
vival of animals? C. red-blue
A. Proteins provide the body with energy.
D. yellow-blue
B. Proteins provide energy storage for 236. A cell’s DNA strand has the following
cells. sequence:GGTACTAfter mitosis, the cell’s
daughters have this sequence:GTTACT This
C. Proteins provide genetic information
is an example of what kind of mutation?
to cells.
D. Proteins provide structural functions A. substitution
for the body. B. insertion

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C. deletion 242. The distortion (change in shape) of en-

D. duplication zyme molecules which occurs at very high
temperatures is known as

237. An is a three-nucleotide sequence on A. synthesis
a tRNA that is to an codon.
B. specificity
A. codon, complimentary, mRNA
C. replication
B. anticodon, opposite, mRNA
D. denaturation
C. anticodon, complimentary, mRNA
D. codon, opposite, tRNA 243. dictates the function of a protein
238. Define codon. A. Shape
A. series of three-nucleotide sequences B. Temperature

on the mRNA C. pH
B. long segment of nucleotides that have D. Time
no coding information
244. What is the monomer of proteins?
C. portions of a gene that are translated
into proteins A. amino acids
D. none of above B. polypeptides
C. nucleotides
239. Which statement about enzymes is
FALSE? D. monosaccharides
A. They are made from amino acids 245. The RNA instructions are written as a se-
B. They can be used multiple times ries of sequences on the mRNA called
C. They lower the energy needed for re-
actions A. three-nucleotide, codons
D. A single enzyme has many different B. three-nucleotide, extrons
functions C. two-nucleotide, codon
240. Catalysts perform which of the following D. three-nucleotide, intron
functions?
246. Minimum temperature to cook pork to.
A. Carry essential nutrients around our
bodies A. 140
B. Assist in chemical reactions B. 150
C. Convert DNA into RNA C. 160
D. Provide structure for our bodies D. 170
241. The instructions to make proteins come 247. The reaction which occurs when a
from? polypeptide is formed is called
A. DNA A. a condensation reaction
B. amino acids B. a hydrolysis reaction
C. nucleic acids C. a hydration reaction
D. enzymes D. a peptide reaction

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248. Enzymes lower the activation energy of 253. What is polypeptide?

a reaction by A. A chain of many amino acids joined to-
A. stressing the bonds in the substrate gether
molecule. B. A chain of monosaccharides joined to-
B. increasing the net energy output of the gether
reaction. C. Two amino acids joined together
C. reacting with the allosteric site of the D. Glucose
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substrate.
254. An egg is easier to peel when boiled if it
D. none of above is
249. Enzymes are composed of which of the A. old
following monomers? B. fresh
A. amino acids C. grade A
B. carbohydrates D. Grade AA
C. nucleotides 255. Amino Acids:
D. monosaccharides A. are a type of marinade.
B. help transport fats in the body.
250. When a protein unfolds, it is
C. are the building blocks from which pro-
A. Denatured teins are made.
B. Building D. are only found in plants.
C. Adding amino acids 256. What are the 2 groups that make up the
D. Making food typical amino acids?
A. amino groups and acids groups
251. What is an excellent way for vegetari-
ans and vegans to obtain all amino acids B. amino groups and carboxylic acid
for good health? groups
A. Combining legumes (beans) and C. carboxylic acid groups and peptide

wheat. groups
D. oxygen groups and amino groups
B. Combining legumes (beans) and rice.
C. Combining nuts and rice. 257. Hair, nails, feathers, and hooves all con-
tain
D. All answers are correct.
A. Collagen
252. What color forms proline and hydrox- B. Cellulose
yproline containing the imino group?
C. Keratin
A. Yellow D. Antigens
B. Red
258. Which best describes the role of
C. Blue hemoglobin in red blood cells?
D. Green A. It hydrates human body tissues.

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B. It supplies support to human body tis- B. 25

sues. C. 20

C. It transports oxygen to human body D. 15
tissues.
D. It increases the rate of reactions in 264. Heart, liver, tongue, gizzards and in-
body tissues. testines are examples.
A. connective meats
259. What happens in Interphase?
B. variety meats
A. Spindle fibers form in the cell.
C. complete meats
B. The nuclear membrane dissolves.
D. veal
C. The chromosomes are duplicated.
D. Nuclear membranes form around the 265. How many different kinds of amino acids
chromosomes. are in our bodies?
A. 10
260. Viruses target specific types of cells.
How are they like enzymes? B. 20
A. They work very quickly C. 40
B. They bind to specific reaction sites D. 80
C. No-one understands either viruses or 266. If a third amino acid combines to a ,

enzymes the product is called a
D. They are both made of protein and A. dipeptide, tripeptide
DNA
B. dipeptide, dipeptide
261. is any change of the shape of a pro- C. tripeptide, tripeptide
tein molecule without breaking the peptide D. tripeptide, dipeptide
bonds.
A. Denaturation 267. Which of the following factors is not
responsible for the denaturation of pro-
B. Deterioration teins?
C. Degrading A. Heat
D. Deleting B. Charge
262. During denaturation, proteins lose C. organic solvent
what? D. pH change
A. Shape
268. This is one job proteins do NOT have in
B. Size the body
C. Elements A. storing genetic information
D. Mobility B. structure
263. How many amino acids does your body C. speed up chemical reactions
use to build proteins? D. transport things through cell mem-
A. 40 brane

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269. How many ESSENTIAL amino acids are C. zwitter

there? D. zwaer
A. 115
275. Structural proteins
B. 20
A. form structures needed in the body
C. 11
B. are enzymes
D. 9
C. are fats
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270. What is the name for the copy of DNA D. are not needed for humans to live
formed in the nucleus?
276. the most common secondary structure is
A. tRNA
A. antiparallel beta pleated sheets
B. rRNA
B. alpha helix
C. mRNA
C. beta turns
D. uRNA
D. parallel beta pleated sheets
271. The enzyme responsible for making RNA
is 277. In zwitter ionic form, amino acids show
behaviour
A. ribosomal subunits
A. acidic
B. amino acids
B. basic
C. RNA polymerases
C. amphoteric
D. none of above
D. none of above
272. To brown meat in a small amount of fat
278. What level of structure is used to de-
and then cook slowly in a pan with liquid.
scribe 2 or more 3D polypeptides coming
A. slow cook together to form a functional protein?
B. Braise A. Primary
C. Simmer B. Secondary
D. pressure cook C. Tertiary
D. Quaternary
273. Which is a part of the DNA that consists
of a sugar, a phosphate, and a nitrogenous 279. Gluten is a protein that is found in
gas?
A. Dairy
A. DNA
B. Bacon
B. nucleotide
C. Wheat
C. base
D. Rice
D. mutation
280. The chains of amino acids folding or turn-
274. Which is the dominant form of an amino ing on themselves is known as the
acid? structure of a protein.
A. zwitteria A. primary
B. zwitterion B. secondary

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C. tertiary 286. Which proteins facilitate the communica-

tion between different body systems?
D. quaternary

A. Signaling
281. RNA consists of a of instead of B. Transport
the 2 strands found in DNA.
C. Storage
A. single, promotes
D. Contractile
B. single, nucleotides
287. Polar molecules form hydrogen bonds
C. double, nucleotides
with each other. Which properties of wa-
D. double, promotes ter result from its molecules being polar?
1 good solvent 2 high specific heat capac-
282. Define intron. ity 3 high surface tension 4 cohesive
A. series of three-nucleotide sequences A. A 1, 2, 3 and 4
on the mRNA B. B 1, 2 and 3 only
B. long segment of nucleotides that have C. C 1, 2 and 4 only
no coding information
D. D 3 and 4 only
C. portions of a gene that are translated
into proteins 288. What is a type of protein that speeds up
chemical reactions?
D. none of above
A. sucrose
283. Amino acids all have the same general B. insulin
morphology except for the:
C. enzyme
A. Amino Group
D. antibodies
B. Carboxyl Group
289. How many amino acids are naturally oc-
C. ‘R’ Group curring (synthesized by ribosomes)?
D. Carbonyl Group A. 19
284. DNA can’t leave the B. 20

C. 21
A. ribosome
D. 22
B. cytoplasm
C. mitochondria 290. What differentiates one protein from an-
other?
D. nucleus
A. size of amino acids
285. Foods that are short of one or more of B. color of amino acids
the essential amino acids C. sequence of amino acids
A. aldehydes D. chemical structure of amino acids
B. maillard reaction
291. Chaperone proteins
C. complete protein
A. make sure other proteins have the cor-
D. incomplete protein rect shape

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B. break down sugars that we eat 297. Cells must produce many different en-
C. allow muscles to contract zymes because
D. allow muscles to relax A. enzymes are quickly used up

B. most cellular reactions require a spe-
292. the three bases on mRNA is called a
cific, unique enzyme
A. exon
C. They have to have some way to use up
B. codon the protein that they consume
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C. intron
D. enzymes are not very effective at
D. anticodon speeding up reactions
293. Condensation between two amino acids 298. What describes the secondary structure
results in a , joined by a bond. of a protein?
A. dipeptide, peptide
A. A α -helix
B. dipeptide, ester
B. B a dipeptide
C. disaccharide, peptide
C. C a globular structure
D. disaccharide, ester
D. D the specific order of amino acids
294. Antibodies are proteins that
A. identify, attack, and destroy foreign 299. What is the rate of increase for protein
substance ( Virus ) in your body denaturation for each increase in tempera-
ture of 10◦ C?
B. can be identification markers on the
outside of cells or an entire foreign sub- A. 10 times faster.
stance B. 100 times faster.
C. can determine your blood type
C. 600 times faster.
D. can cause sickness
D. none of above
295. If meat was unavailable, what could you
combine with rice to create a complete pro- 300. Which of the following is not a function
tein? of proteins
A. soy sauce A. important in muscle contraction
B. mushrooms B. store genetic information
C. lentils C. transporting oxygen in the blood
D. barley D. necessary for the immune system
296. How many codons are repre-
301. Most enzyme names end in which 3 let-
sented in the following RNA se-
ters?
quence?GAUCCAUGUACA
A. 12 A. -ase
B. 4 B. -ate
C. 1 C. -ose
D. 3 D. -ion

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302. With waht reacts tyrosine? 308. What are organic molecules that are the
A. Carboxyl group building blocks of protein?

B. Millon’s reagent A. Amino acids
C. Millon’s agent B. Nitrogen
D. Nitrogen C. Peptide bond
303. Proteins are made up of D. Polypeptide
A. long chains of amino acids.
309. Which of the following four levels of pro-
B. different combinations of RNA and
tein structure is defined as the 3D struc-
amino acids.
ture of a single protein molecule?
C. short strands of RNA.
A. primary structure
D. none of above
B. secondary structure
304. What is directly related to a protein’s
specific function? C. tertiary structure
A. name D. quarternary structure

B. type
310. A polypeptide with more than hundred
C. shape amino acid residues, having molecular
D. number mass higher than is called a protein
305. Which is the weakest type of bonding A. 10u

found in proteins? B. 100u
A. A disulfide bonds C. 1000u
B. B hydrogen bonds
D. 10000u
C. C hydrophobic interactions
D. D ionic bonds 311. The building blocks of proteins are know
as
306. A protein molecule made from two amino
acids A. amino acids
A. polypeptide B. nucleotides
B. gluten C. alkali acids
C. dipeptide D. bases
D. myoglobin
312. how many amino acids can
307. Which of the following does not describe be made from this mRNA se-
the link which forms between two amino quence:CCG/GUA/AAG/CUA/AAC/UCG
acids?
A. 3
A. peptide link
B. ester link B. 4
C. amide link C. 5
D. -CONH- D. 6

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313. What aspect of proteins determine their 319. tRNA is

function? A. a form of RNA that carries the instruc-
A. Size tions for making a protein from a gene and
B. Shape delivers it to the site of translation.
C. Elements B. single strands of RNA that temporarily
carry a specific amino acid on one end.
D. Location
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314. The secondary structure is primarily ture of ribosomes
maintained by
D. none of above
A. van der waal forces
320. Which reaction is needed to break the
B. hydrogen bond
bond between two amino acids?
C. disulphide bond
A. Dehydration
D. ionic bond
B. Dehydrogenation
315. Which are the 4 DNA bases? C. Hydration
A. RNA, adenine, thymine, guanine D. Hydrolysis
B. uracil, adenine, guanine, thymine,
321. The protein (myosin and actin) are re-
C. adenine, thymine, cytosine guanine
sponsible for your muscles contracting and
D. RNA, DNA, ribosome, protein relaxing. This is an example of what func-
tion of proteins?
316. Since DNA can’t leave the nucleus, mRNA
carries the message from the nucleus to A. Defense/Identification
the B. Movement
A. ribosomes C. Transport
B. mitochondria D. Structure
C. chloroplast
322. What is an organic molecule with many
D. lysosomes important functions; the main structural
317. The energy needed to start a chemical re- component of muscle skin and bone?
action is called: A. Amino Acids
A. Activation energy. B. Nitrogen
B. Chemical energy. C. Polypeptide
C. Enzyme energy. D. Protein
D. Energy of reaction.
323. are proteins that bind to specific sub-
318. Hemoglobin is a protein that stances to speed up the reaction.
A. transports oxygen in the blood A. Viruses
B. makes sugar B. Substrates
C. breaks down fats C. Enzymes
D. builds muscles D. none of above

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324. To cook slowly for a long period of time. C. calcium

A. simmer D. enzymes

B. broil
330. Amino acids are made of which of the fol-
C. braise lowing?
D. stew A. C, H, O, AND P
325. How many specific shapes are there that B. x (CH2O) Where x can be any whole
a protein can be folded into to determine number
its function? C. C, H, O, AND N
A. 1 D. C, H, O and long C-H side chains
B. 2
331. Which of these is NOT part of an amino
C. 3 acid?
D. 4
A. R-Group
326. Which protein structure is only found in B. Amino Group
proteins with more than one polypeptide
C. Phosphate Group
chain?
D. Carboxyl Group
A. Primary
B. Secondary 332. Which subunits make up the structure of
C. Tertiary all proteins?
D. Quaternary A. glucose
B. amino acids
327. Proteins are made by
C. carbohydrates
A. Ribosomes
D. phospholipids
B. Nucleus
C. Cytoplasm 333. Once a new product leaves an enzyme,
the enzyme is unchanged and ready for the
D. Mitochondria
next substrate. What is this called?
328. Chemically, peptide linkage is an A. reusable
formed between-COOH group and-NH2
group B. catalyst
A. amine C. specific
B. ether D. fragile
C. amide 334. How many of your daily intake of calo-
D. ester ries should come from protein?
A. 2%-5%
329. almost everything in a living organism is
made of or made by B. 10%-35%
A. waxes C. 40%-50%
B. proteins D. 55%-70%

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335. To cook on grill using charcoal, gas or 341. Amino acids that must be supplied by
wood. foods in the diet
A. Broil A. essential amino acid
B. Grill B. complete protein
C. Roast C. emulsion
D. Bake D. collagen
336. Examples of amino acids with polar 342. Proteins are composed of what smaller
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chains without charge. building blocks?
A. Cysteine A. amino acids
B. Serine B. monosaccharides
C. Tyrosine C. fatty acids
D. All the anteriors D. nucleotides
337. The chain of amino acids folds and coils 343. What is a biuret reaction?
on itself A. A colour reaction
A. Primary B. A denaturation reaction
B. Secondary C. An oxydation reaction
C. Tertiary D. A reduction reaction
D. Quaternary
344. The order of the amino acids occur in the
338. Bond formed between two amino acids chain
that results in a water molecule being re- A. disulfide cross-link
leased
B. hydrophobic
A. peptide bond
C. primary structure
B. complete protein
D. secondary structure
C. dipeptide
D. casein 345. are regulatory proteins that influence the
metabolism of cells.
339. Crab, lobsters and oysters are examples A. Enzymes
of this.
B. Hormones
A. sea food
C. Blood
B. Alaskan fish
D. none of above
C. shell fish
D. Fin fish 346. Which choice contains several places
where proteins are found?
340. Keratin is present in A. Egg whites, human muscle tissue, hair
A. hair
B. wool B. Pasta, egg whites, olive oil
C. silk C. Hair, bacon grease, glucose
D. all of these D. Human finger nails, pork chops, rice

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347. Which is the function of the protein B. Hydrolysis

hemoglobin? C. pHolysis

A. to transport oxygen in the body
D. Rehydration synthesis
B. to act as an enzyme during digestion
353. The linear arrangement of amino acids
C. to build and repair cells in the body
D. to defend the body against bacteria A. Primary
and viruses B. Secondary
348. The amino acid sequence determines the C. Tertiary

shape or conformation of the resulting pro- D. Quaternary
tein because of
354. Which of these is a peptide?
A. hydrogen bonding
B. ionic bonding A. Creatine
C. covalent bonding B. Oxytocin
D. all of these answers C. Melanin

D. all of the above
349. Antibodies protect the body from
pathogens. What type of proteins are 355. Which part of an amino acid is used to
they considered? identify the amino acid?
A. Transport A. Side chain R
B. Signaling B. Carboxyl group
C. Defense C. Amino group
D. Contractile D. Hydrogen atom
350. From what are constructed out proteins?
356. What is the final shape/conformation of
A. D-alfa-amino acids a protein determined by?
B. aminoacids A. The number of amino acids in the chain
C. L-alfa-amino acids
D. L-beta-amino acids B. the sequence of the amino acids in the
chain
351. After the substrate binds to the enzyme’s
active site, the active site is altered to C. the number of tasks that kind of pro-
reach the tein is required to carry out
A. transition state. D. none of above

B. allosteric site. 357. Most enzymes are what type of
C. reaction path. molecule?
D. net amount of energy. A. carbohydrate
B. nucleic acids
352. Two amino acids will bond together as
the result of C. proteins
A. Dehydration synthesis D. lipids

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358. The amount of energy needed for a chem- 364. mRNA is

ical reaction to occur is called
A. a form of RNA that carries the instruc-
A. amino energy tions for making a protein from a gene and
B. polypeptide bonds delivers it to the site of translation.
C. activation energy B. single strands of RNA that temporarily
D. denaturation carry a specific amino acid on one end.
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359. Which of these enzymes breaks down the ture of ribosomes
sugar in milk?
D. none of above
A. lactose
B. lactase 365. What is used to test for proteins?
C. Fructose A. Biuret reagent
D. Amylase
B. benedict solution
360. What are the elements that make up C. all of the above
amino acids?
A. amino and acids
B. carbon, hydrogen, oxygen 366. What is a gene?
C. carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen A. A package of DNA
D. oxygen, amino, acids B. A string of amino acids
361. To cook directly under a heating unit us- C. A organelle that assembles proteins
ing dry heat method.
D. A section of DNA that codes for a pro-
A. broil tein
B. grill
367. Which example of denaturation is not re-
C. bake
versible?
D. roast
A. Beating egg whites until frothy.
362. How many different proteins are there?
B. Breaking hydrogen bonds.
A. 20
C. Breaking disulfide cross-links.
B. 50, 000
D. none of above
C. 1, 000
D. indefinite 368. Of the amino acids are essen-
tial to your body for growth and develop-
363. Which food pairing provides the least
ment.
complete protein?
A. 9 / 20
A. peas and carrots
B. beef and chicken B. 6 / 12
C. dried beans and rice C. 20 / 6
D. yogurt and flax seeds D. 20 / 9

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369. Enzymes work best at specific As the C. Polypeptide

rises the enzyme activity generally in- D. Enzyme
creases but when it increases to much the

enzyme is destroyed or denatured. 375. RNA nucleotides contatin the five-carbon
A. Temperature sugar rather then the sugar found
in DNA.
B. Pressure
A. ribose, deoxyribose
C. Hydration
B. deoxyribose, ribose
D. concentration
C. protein, ribose
370. Turkey, cornish hens, chicken D. ribose, protein
A. mutton
376. Ionic bonds are chemical bonds formed by
B. lamb the:
C. poultry A. sharing of electrons between
D. stew molecules.
371. Corn, peas, and beans B. donation of protons from one atom to
another.
A. are complete proteins
C. transfer of electrons from one atom to
B. contain no protein another.
C. lose protein when cooked D. acceptance of neutrons from one atom
D. are incomplete proteins by another.
372. Long thins tissue that holds the muscle 377. How do enzymes speed up chemical reac-
together in meat. tion?
A. fat A. Increasing activation energy
B. ligaments B. Decreasing activation energy
C. connective tissue C. Increasing deactivation energy
D. variety D. Decreasing deactivation energy
373. Kendra, an athlete, wants to increase her 378. What are the 4 main elements of an
strength by lifting weights. She includes amino acid?
a shake made with protein powder after A. Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, and Oxy-
every workout. This extra protein is con- gen
sidered a:
B. Carbon, Calcium, Sodium, Chloride
A. Mistake
C. Carbon, Hydrogen, Helium, Lead
B. Mineral
D. Carbon, Calcium, Kryptonite, Pluto-
C. Supplement nium
D. Antioxidant
379. What would a protein be broken down
374. A chain of amino acids into?
A. Monosaccharide A. Glucose
B. Polysaccharide B. Peptide bond

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C. Amino acid 385. What is RNA made of?

D. Maltose A. DNA
B. proteins
380. Molecules that are nonpolar and have no
charged regions are repelled by water, or C. nucleotides
they stay away from water. We call those D. chromosomes
molecules
386. In step 3 of translation, a bond forms
A. electrostatic between amino acids.
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B. hydrophilic A. peptide, opposite
C. hydrostatic B. polymerase, adjacent
D. hydrophobic C. peptide, adjacent
D. polymerase, opposite
381. Enzymes bind substrate at a place called
the 387. What elements make up amino acids?
A. Active site A. Carbon, hydrogen and oxygen only
B. Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitro-
B. Complex site
gen only
C. Reaction site
C. Carbon, hydrogen and phosphorus
D. none of above only
D. Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxy-
382. A prosthetic group of protein is a nonpro- gen; and sometimes also sulfur
tein structure that is
A. permanently associated with protein 388. Enzymes are
A. Proteins
B. part of secondary structure of protein
B. Nucleic Acids
C. a ligand of the protein
C. Sugars
D. a substrate the protein
D. Lipids
383. Enzymes speed up a reaction by 389. The longest known polypeptide is and
A. lowering activation energy contains amino acids.
B. increasing temperature A. titin; 30, 000
B. aspartame; 3, 000
C. creating more reactants
C. insulin; 300, 000
D. increasing activation energy
D. catalase; 3, 000, 000
384. The beta pleated sheet structure of a pro-
390. Of the 6 essential nutrients, only protein
tein is a result of
can do this
A. the sequence of amino acids A. Produce carbon dioxide
B. interaction of R-groups B. Provide energy
C. interaction of H-bonds C. Regulate body functions
D. interaction between proteins D. Build and Repair tissues

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391. Which amino acid component is DIFFER- 397. the two parts of protein synthesis
ENT among the 20 amino acids? A. transcription, transpiration

A. amino group B. transpiration, translation
B. carboxyl group C. transcription, translation
C. R group D. transpiration, transcriptionn
D. H atom 398. Proteins differ from CHO and lipids be-
392. At which organelles does translation take cause of their chemical composition and
place?
A. In the nucleus A. they are only present in meat
B. they are the only nutrient that provides
B. At the ribosomes
energy
C. At the Golgi apparatus
C. they are inorganic
D. At the mitochondria D. they contain nitrogen
393. Outline the central dogma of molecular bi- 399. Which of these is not a base found in
ology. DNA?
A. DNA → RNA → Protein A. Adenine
B. RNA → DNA → Protein B. Thymine
C. Protein → DNA → RNA C. Guanine
D. Protein → RNA → DNA D. Uracil
394. Amino acids in our bodies come from 400. Intron is a
A. food or are synthesized in the cell. A. amino acid
B. the cell. B. protein
C. food. C. apprialjoed
D. the air we breath in. D. promotes
395. Amino acids are 401. Changes in pH and temperature can dam-
age a protein’s shape, impacting its func-
A. water soluble tion. What is this called?
B. water insoluble A. reusable
C. sparingly soluble in water B. catalyst
D. none of above C. specific
396. Enyzmes are a very important type of D. denature
protein used to 402. How many amino acids make up a pro-
A. Build bones in skeleton tein?
B. Send hormonal signals throughout A. 30
body B. 4
C. Speed up chemical reactions C. 20
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403. Which molecules contain C=O bonds? 1 B. The role of the carboxyl group in a
amino acids 2 fatty acids 3 glycerol amino acid.
A. A 1, 2 and 3 C. The role of the protein in a amino acid.
B. B 1 and 2 only
D. The role of the amino acid in a protein.
C. C 1 and 3 only
D. D 2 and 3 only 409. Which of the following is NOT group of
amino acids?
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404. what is true about primary structure of
A. Acidic
proteins
B. Basic
A. they are three dimensional structure
C. Zwitterion
B. they are helical structure
D. Polar
C. they are sequence of amino acids
joined by peptide bond 410. Disulphide bonds are formed between
D. they are globular structure A. two cystine residues that are close to
each other
405. what is mRNA
B. aspartate and glutamate residues that
A. complementary copy of DNA are close to each other
B. an exact copy of DNA C. two cysteine residues that are close to
C. What genes are made of each other
D. what brings amino acids to the ribo- D. cysteine and cystine residues that are
some close to each other
406. What protein is a chemical messenger? 411. The process of translation happens in the
A. polypeptide
A. cytopalsm/nucleotide
B. hormone
B. cytoplasm/ribosome
C. receptors
C. cytoplasm/protein
D. nucleus
D. ribosome/nucleotide
407. What gives a protein its unique shape? 412. It means cheap for what you get.
A. the unique sequence of amino acids in A. versatile
its polypeptide chain
B. variety
B. the unique folding due to the sequence
of amnio acids in the polypeptide chain C. special
D. economical
C. hydrogen bonding & unique interac-
tions between the ‘R’ groups 413. Alpha helix and beta sheet are examples
D. all of these of what type of protein structure?
A. Primary
408. What determines the side chain struc-
ture? B. Secondary
A. The role of the amino group in a pro- C. Tertiary
tein. D. Quaternary

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414. In unsaturated lipid molecules, where are 420. Which of the following is responsible for
double bonds located? specifying the 3D shape of a protein?

A. A between fatty acids and glycerol A. interaction with other polypeptide
B. B within fatty acids and within glycerol B. interaction with chaperones
C. the peptide bond
C. C within fatty acids only
D. D within glycerol only D. the amino acid sequence
415. Which of the following is produced by the 421. What structural protein makes up hair,
beta cells of the pancreas? nails, skin, feathers, beaks, hooves, horns
A. Glucagon and fur?
B. Insulin A. elastin
C. Glycogen B. collagen
D. Testosterone C. keratin
416. Which of the following is a globular pro- D. hemoglobin
tein
A. albumin 422. Figure out the Protein need for a 17 old
Male student. He is 5 ft 9 inches and
B. keratin
weighs 175 pounds. This person is very
C. myosin active.
D. None of these A. 48 grams
417. A gene can be all of the following EXCEPT B. 119 grams
A. a set of instructions for a trait C. 400 grams
B. a complete chromosome
D. 375 grams
C. instructions for making a protein
D. a portion of a strand of DNA 423. Keratin and silk protein is the example of
which level of protiens?
418. To brown or cook quickly in a small
amount of fat. A. Primary
A. saute’ B. Secondary
B. fry C. Tertiary
C. braise D. Quaternary
D. sear
424. In step 6 of translation, a bond is
419. Identify some foods you eat that you formed.
know are high in protein.
A. peptide
A. Strawberries
B. Meat B. close
C. Peanuts C. polymerase
D. Water D. none of above

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425. Non-meat examples of protein include D. can be met by combining incomplete

A. broccoli, kale, carrots proteins.
B. beans, legumes, eggs 431. What is the name for a chain of amino
C. tofu, apples, spinach acids?
D. none of above A. Polypeptide chain

B. Triglycerides
426. The process of making polypeptide chains
C. Polysaccharides
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is called
D. Nucleotides
A. photosynthesis
B. protein synthesis 432. Minimum temperature to cook chicken
to.
C. cellular respiration
A. 150
D. cell transport
B. 160
427. Which of these can be built directly using
C. 170
amino acids?
D. 180
A. Carbohydrates
B. Lipids 433. What is an example of a protein?
C. Proteins A. Strawberries
D. Minerals B. Bread
C. Pasta
428. RNA has
D. Steak
A. A, C, D, U
B. C, G, U, Y 434. The U in RNA stands for and bonds
with because no T in RNA).
C. A, C, G, V
A. Uracil, G
D. A, C, G, U
B. Uracil, C
429. What is the Formula to convert your body C. Uracil, A
weight from Pounds to Kilograms (kg)?
D. Uracil, Y
A. Body weight (Pounds) multiplied by 2.2
435. Choose which molecule below would be
B. Body weight (Pounds) divided by 2.2 the protein, (HInt:think about the atoms)
C. Body weight (Pounds) divided by .66 A. C5H12O6
D. Body weight (Pounds) mulitplied by .66 B. C6H12O6
C. C3H7NO2
430. An individual’s protein requirement
D. C26H65O3
A. can only be met by eating complete
proteins 436. Good sources of plant-based proteins are
B. is difficult to achieve in the United
States A. All correct
C. is not affected by health status B. Pulses

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C. Nuts and Seeds 442. Where is the site of protein synthesis

D. Quorn and Tofu A. ribosome

B. nucleus
437. Two amino acids joined together are
called C. chloroplast
D. cytoplasm
A. dipeptide
B. disaccharide 443. Meat from sheep older than one year.
A. mutton
C. protein
B. lamb
D. amino acids
C. veal
438. Egg yolk is high in D. beef
A. protein 444. Which protein has the highest tensile
B. Vitamin B strength (ability to resist breaking when
stretched)?
C. Fat
A. Cellulose
D. Vitamin C
B. Actin
439. What is a chain of amino acids? C. Spider silk
A. Nitrogen D. Albumin
B. Peptide bond 445. What is the role of RNA in a cell?
C. Polypeptide A. To serve as the building block of pro-
teins.
D. Protein
B. Change code in the DNA sequence.
440. As substrate concentration increases, the C. Transcribe and translate genetic code.
rate of reaction is initially reduced in
compared to a reaction without an in-
hibitor present. D. All of these answers
A. competitive inhibition 446. What are some shorter chains of amino

acids considered?
B. non-competitive inhibition
A. hormones
C. both competitive and non-competitive
B. lipids
inhibition
C. polypeptides
D. none of above
D. carbohydrate side chains
441. Examples of amino acids with acid side
447. Which of the following are conisdererd
chains.
“complimentary proteins”?
A. Glutamic acid A. Pasta and tomato sauce
B. Aspartic acid B. Red beans and brown rice
C. Both C. Spinach and olive oil
D. none of above D. Crackers and cheese

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448. What is a protein: 454. What is the essence of the denatura-

A. A polymer composed of many sugars. tion?
B. A polymer composed of many amino A. Desintegration of low-energy bonds

acids. B. Desintegration of peptide bonds
C. A polymer composed of fatty acids. C. Desintegration of amino acids
D. A polymer composed of nucleotides. D. Desintegration of proteins
455. The building up of large complex sub-
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449. In their primary structure proteins exist
in which shape? stances from many small individuals units
with the release of water is called
A. Alpha helicies
A. hydrolysis
B. Beta pleated sheets
B. peptide formation
C. A folded structure
C. dipeptide assimilation
D. Roughly linear shape D. dehydration synthesis
450. Proteins give you how many calories per 456. What makes up the primary structure of
gram? proteins?
A. 4 A. Amino acid sequence
B. 6 B. α -helices
C. 7 C. Multiple folded proteins
D. 9 D. Hydrogen bonds
451. The primary function of protein is to 457. Amino acids contain amino (-NH2) and
A. provide energy carboxyl (-COOH) functional groups.
A. only (-NH2) functional group
B. build are repair body tissues
B. only (-COOH) functional group
C. metabolize vitamins and minerals
C. both (-NH2) and (-COOH) functional
groups.
452. Which of the following is an amino acid? D. None of these
A. leucine 458. What bonds hold together amino acids?
B. glucose A. Ester linkages
C. monosaccharide B. glycosidic linkages
D. fructose C. peptide bonds
453. Changes in pH and temperature can dam- D. hydrogen bonds
age an enzymes active site. What is this 459. Streaks of fat running through the meat
called? is called
A. reusable A. connective tissue
B. catalyst B. marbling
C. specific C. marinade
D. denaturation D. mutton

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460. The statements are about the properties 465. This is a change in the DNA sequence of
of water. 1 ability to form hydrogen a gene.
bonds with other molecules 2 less dense

A. change
when frozen 3 able to hold a lot of heat
What allows a small insect to rest on the B. mutation
surface of a pond? C. bond
A. A 1 and 2 D. tomorrow
B. B 2 and 3
466. how many amino acids repeats are there
C. C 1 only in one turn of an α helix
D. D 2 only A. 3.4
461. Where in the cell does translation hap- B. 3.0
pen? C. 3.6
A. polypeptide D. 4
B. nucleus
467. The polymer which folds into proteins
C. cytoplasm/ribosome
A. Polypeptide
D. membrane
B. Amino Acids
462. In a DNA molecule, which of the follow-
C. Nucleic Acids
ing bases pair together?
D. Polynucleotides
A. adenine and cytosine
B. thymine and adenine 468. Amino acids all have the same general
structure except for the:
C. thymine and guanine
A. Amino Group
D. cytosine and thymine
B. Carboxyl Group
463. An internal signal sequence tells the cell
to put the protein where? C. ‘R’ Group
A. Import into the ER D. Carbonyl Group
B. Import into the nucleus 469. The fundamental cause of sickle cell ane-
C. Retention of the protein in the ER lu- mia is a change in the structure of
men A. blood
D. Transport to the membrane B. RBC
464. In step 1 of transcription, it begins when C. WBC
polymerases bind to the gene’s (a D. hemoglobin
specific sequence of DNA that acts as a
signal for transcription.) 470. What are the monomers for Proteins?
A. DNA, start A. Nucleic Acids
B. RNA, stop B. Amino Acids
C. RNA, start C. Monosaccarides
D. DNA, Stop D. Nucleotides

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471. What are called the fragments of B. 20

molecules of amino acids that are fixed C. 32
with the alfa-carbon?
D. 45
A. Radical
477. What is meant by low biological pro-
B. Side chains/side substituents
tein?
C. Substituents
A. Protein with an insufficient amount of
D. peptides amino acids for good health.
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472. High concentrations of urea break all B. Protein that is not bio-available.
bonds, except covalent bonds, in protein C. All answers correct
molecules. Which level of protein structure D. Protein that takes a lot of digesting.
would remain unchanged when a protein is
treated with urea? 478. A biological molecule is analyzed, and it is
A. A primary discovered that the molecule is composed
of several amino acids. Which of these
B. B secondary identifies the biological molecule?
C. C tertiary A. It is a lipid.
D. D quaternary B. It is a protein.
473. Which of the following atoms is NOT C. It is an unsaturated fat.
found in amino acids? D. It is a monosaccharide.
A. carbon 479. The interaction between multiple
B. phosphorous polypeptides or prosthetic groups is
C. oxygen known as the structure of a protein.
D. nitrogen A. primary
B. secondary
474. How many amino acids are coded for in
C. tertiary
the genetic code?
D. quaternary
A. 45
B. 20 480. Which of the following is the most abun-
dant ORGANIC compound in living organ-
C. 15
isms?
D. 22 A. proteins
475. Peptide bonds form between: B. water
A. two amine groups C. carbohydrates
B. two carboxyl groups D. lipids
C. two R groups 481. One gram of protein contains
D. an amine and a carboxyl group A. 12 calories
476. How many essential amino acids are B. 9 calories
needed by adults? C. 7 calories
A. 10 D. 4 calories

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482. Proteins are composed of what smaller 487. What are all proteins made of?
subunits? A. amino acids

A. amino acids B. lipids
B. nucleic acids C. enzymes
C. fatty acids D. receptors
D. nucleotides 488. What is the RDA (Recommended Daily Al-
483. Good sources of animal based proteins lowance) for Protein?
are A. .8-1.5 g/kg of body weight
A. All correct B. 1.5-3.5 g/kg of body weight
B. Fish C. 1/2 of your body weight in pounds
C. Meat and fish D. .66 x body weight in pounds
D. Milk and eggs 489. In non-competitive inhibition, the enzyme

is able to reach the same maximum
484. What is a polypeptide with more than rate of reaction because some of the en-
100 amino acids? zymes are to react.
A. Amino acid A. always, available
B. Polypeptide B. not, available
C. Oligopeptide C. always, unavailable
D. Protein D. not, unavailable
485. In step 2 of transcription, the RNA poly- 490. Collagen and keratin are examples of
merases and separate the 2 strands of what type of protein?
the double helix, exposing the DNA on A. Fibrous
each strand.
B. Globular
A. unwind, promotes C. Multifunctional
B. wind, nucleotides D. Digestive enzymes
C. wind, promotes
491. The entire polypeptide forms a three-
D. unwind, nucleotides dimensional structure
486. What are the four steps of translation in A. Primary
order? B. Secondary
A. Elongation, initiation, activation, termi- C. Tertiary
nation D. Quaternary
B. Activation, elongation, initiation, termi-
492. The repeating unit of proteins are
nation
A. glucose units
C. Activation, initiation, elongation, ter-
mination B. amino acids
D. Initiation, activation, elongation, ter- C. peptides
mination D. fatty acids

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493. The building blocks of proteins are called 499. At which level of protein structure is hy-
A. ascorbic acids drogen bonding most important?
B. meat A. Primary
C. nitrogen molecules B. Secondary
D. amino acids C. Tertiary

D. Quaternary
494. What is the monomer for a protein?
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A. Monosaccharide 500. What are catalysts?
B. Amino Acid A. chemicals that change the rate of

chemical reactions
C. Protein
B. DNA
D. Polysaccharide
C. RNA
495. It means you can fix it in many ways. D. Punnett Squares
A. versatile
501. Proteins and carbohydrates are alike in
B. special that both
C. variable A. encode DNA information in cells.
D. economical B. provide structural support in cells.
496. during transcription, the genetic code is C. transmit RNA information in cells.
copied from DNA to D. dissolve structural support in cells.
A. DNA
502. Denaturation can be caused by
B. tRNA
A. pressure
C. rRNA
B. sound waves
D. mRNA
C. freezing
497. The protein hemoglobin, which carries D. All of the above
oxygen in our red blood cells, is an exam-
ple of what type of protein? 503. An example of denaturation by mechani-
A. Enzymes cal agitation is
B. Defensive A. kneading bread
C. Transport B. exposure to sound waves
D. Structural C. freezing meat

D. none of above
498. How many amino acids exist? How many
of them are present in almost all pro- 504. Where are the instructions for how to
teins? make a protein located in a cell?
A. 300, 20. A. Ribosomes
B. 200, 30. B. Nucleus
C. 300, 10 C. Mitochondria
D. 200, 20 D. Cytoplasm

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505. when protein is made using the mRNA 511. The breaking down of large complex sub-
template in the ribosome stances into many small individual units
with the addition of water is called

A. transpiration
B. transcription A. hydrolysis
C. replication B. peptide formation
D. translation C. dipeptide assimilation
506. A food that contains all 9 essential amino D. dehydration synthesis
acids
A. globular proteins 512. What is the function of an enzyme?
B. complete proteins A. enzymes break themselves into small
C. fibrous proteins pieces
D. whey B. they slow down chemical reactions
507. Hemoglobin is a protein that binds to oxy- C. they speed up chemical reactions
gen and helps carry it in the blood and de- D. enzymes combine products to form re-
liver it to other parts of the body. This is actants
an example of what type of protein?
A. Transport 513. A binds to an mRNA codon, the
detaches from the tRNA molecule
B. Signaling
and attached to the growing (hydrogen or
C. Storage polypeptide) chain.
D. Contractile A. tRNA molecule, amino acid
508. Another name for the protein B. rRNA molecule, amino acid
A. acid C. tRNA molecule, ribosomal subunit
B. carbohydrates
D. rRNA, ribosomal subunit
C. amino acids
D. fats 514. myoglobin is
509. What determines the shape and function A. protein with primary structure
of a protein? B. protein with secondary structure
A. The type of bases in DNA C. protein with tertiary structure
B. How the protein folds
D. protein with quaternary structure
C. The number of amino acids
D. The order of amino acids 515. Which of the following amino acids is es-
sential amino acid
510. Insulin is a
A. Asparagine
A. A storage protein
B. A transport protein B. Threonine
C. A hormone C. Serine
D. An antibody D. Cysteine

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516. Which is a molecule that is present in all C. Alpha helices

living cells and that contains the informa-
D. Beta pleated sheets
tion that determines the traits that a living
thing inherits and needs to live? 522. Which protein structure describes the se-
A. DNA quence of amino acids?
B. nucleotide A. Primary
C. base B. Secondary
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D. mutation C. Tertiary
517. Another word for protein is D. Quaternary
A. nucleic acid
523. Branched, globular starch
B. carbohydrate
A. Amylopectin
C. lipid
B. Glycogen
D. polypeptide
C. Amylose
518. Water-repelling D. Monosaccharides
A. hydrophobic
524. Why are proteins among the most di-
B. myoglobin
verse molecules?
C. coagulation
A. They create nucleic acids.
D. gluten
B. They form muscle in animals.
519. What are the monomers for Nucleic C. Amino acids can link up in different
Acids? combinations.
A. Monosaccarides
D. Amino acids are made up of more than
B. Amino Acids 20 different proteins
C. Nucleotides
525. Meat from cattle over one year.
D. Nitrogen Acids
A. mutton
520. Proteins are compounds formed in the B. veal
cells of plants and animals. Which element
is included in every protein molecule? C. beef
A. calcium D. variety
B. carbon
526. amino acid regions allow the protein
C. fluorine to interact with substances with comple-
D. sodium mentary charges. (+-)
A. Hydrophobic
521. Which kind of shape do globular proteins
take on? B. Hydrophilic
A. Roughly linear shape C. Charged
B. Rounded shape D. none of above

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527. Severe protein deficiency that causes A. 2-3 times per week
edema and a swollen abdomen.
B. It doesn’t need to be replenished, the
A. marasmus

body produces more
B. negative nitrogen balance disorder
C. daily
C. CHO malnutrition syndrom
D. kwashiorkor D. weekly
528. each amino acid is linked together by a 530. What is the function of DNA?
bond to make proteins
A. amino A. Tells you it is a nucleic acid and not a
protein
B. peptide
C. hydrogen B. Carrier of genetic information
D. nucleic C. Creates proteins
529. How often should protein be replenished D. Allows things to enter and leave the
in the body? cell
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1. A monomer that results when two ormore 4. Which element is found in protein but not
amino acids combine and remove water- carbohydrates or fats
molecules. A. Carbon
A. Residue B. Hydrogen
B. Hydrogen atom C. Nitrogen
C. Carboxyl group D. Oxygen
D. Amino group
5. IgM is an example of what class of protein
2. Chiral Center Leucine? based on function
A. 0 A. Storage
B. 1 B. Defense
C. Catalytic
C. 2
D. Transport
D. 3
6. Simple protein, EXCEPT
3. is a molecule that has a positive charge
on one atom and a negative charge on an- A. Albumin
other atom but which has no net charge. B. Globulin
A. Cation C. Prolamine
B. Isoelectric point D. Hemoglobin
C. Zwitterion
7. Which of the following has the highest boil-
D. Anion ing point?

A. CH3CH2COOH 13. This bond is disrupted by applying heat on

the protein.
B. CH3CH2CH2NH2
A. disulphide bond
C. NH2CH2COOH
B. peptide bond
D. NH2CH2COCl
C. glycosidic bond
8. Which among the following amino acids
D. hydrogen bond
will yield a positive result with Millon’s
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test 14. All of the following are polar amino acids
A. tyrosine except
B. arginine A. alanine
C. valine B. arganine
D. isoleucine C. serine
D. glutamine
9. The amino group in amino acids found in
proteins is always covalently bonded to: 15. All are α -amino acids, except:
A. β -carbon of the carboxylic acid. A. asparagine
B. α -carbon of the carboxylic acid. B. threonine
C. oxygen atom of the carboxylic group. C. arginine
D. carboxyl carbon of the carboxyl group. D. proline
10. The simplest amino acid is: 16. Absorbance at 280 nm exhibited by pro-
tein is due to presence of
A. Proline
A. polar amino acids
B. Methionine
B. nonpolar amino acids
C. Valine
C. aromatic amino acids
D. Glycine
D. hydroxyl group containing amino acids
11. Asp
17. Insulin is a protein classified based on func-
A. Aspartic Acid tion as
B. Asparagine A. Catalytic
C. Arginine B. Structural
D. Alanine C. Transport
D. Messenger
12. The chemical formula for an amine group
is 18. Two proteins found in milk are
A. COOH A. albumin and casein
B. NH2 B. casein and whey
C. OH C. gluten and myoglobin
D. NH3 D. whey and hemoglobin

19. What are the key elements of an amino C. 3 amino acids and 3 peptide bonds
acid? (do not consider the side chain) D. 3 amino acids and 4 peptide bonds

A. Si, N, O, H
25. This amino acid has a second primary
B. N, C, S, H
aminogroup at the position on its aliphatic
C. C, N, P, He chain.
D. C, N, O, H A. Lysine
20. On a ramachandran plot, the entries for B. Arginine
hemoglobin would be clustered around:
C. Histidine
A. all four corners.
D. Serine
B. the extended chain conformation
C. the left handed α -helix confirmation. 26. The peptide bond in proteins is:
D. the right handed α -helix conforma- A. planar, but rotates to three preferred
tion. dihedral dihedral angles.
B. non-polar, but rotates to three pre-
21. imidazole group as a side chain is present
ferred dihedral angles.
in
C. non-polar, and fixed in a trans confir-
A. histidine
mation.
B. glycine
D. planar, and usually found in a trans
C. lysine configuration.
D. tryptophan
27. Yogurt
22. Amino acid is a compound that consists of
A. denaturation
at least one group of
A. amino and one amide group B. emulsion
B. hydroxyl and one amine group C. foam

C. amino and one hydroxyl group D. gelatinization
D. amino and one carboxyl group 28. Which of the following amino acids is
acid?
23. Which of the following statements is TRUE
about HOCH2COOH and H2NCH2COOH? A. Histidine
A. Both are insoluble in water. B. Arginine
B. Both can form zwitterion. C. Lysine
C. Both can be obtained from hydrolysis D. Aspartic acid
of protein.
D. Both can easily dissolve in sodium hy- 29. Amino Acids are all unique doe to their
droxide solution. A. Attached ‘R-Group’
24. A tripeptide has B. Attached ‘A-Group’
A. 3 amino acids and 1 peptide bond C. Attached ‘P-Group’
B. 3 amino acids and 2 peptide bonds D. none of above

30. What is a more common and familiar name 36. Sulphur at terminal and can forms disulfide
for monoamino-dicarboxylic amino acids? bonds.
A. Polar amino acids A. Isoleucine
B. Basic amino acids B. Tryptophan
C. Acidic amino acids
C. Lysine
D. Aliphatic amino acids
D. Serine
31. This is the only common amino acid hav-
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ing anionizable side chain with a pKa near 37. Which of these statement about polymers
neutrality. is not correct?
A. Histidine A. Polyesters are condensation polymers
B. Arginine
C. Cysteine B. Alkenes and halogenoalkenes can
D. Serine form addition polymers
32. Which of the following is NOT an aromatic C. Addition polymers are always made up
amino acid? of two different types of monomer
A. Phenylalanine D. none of above

B. Tryptophan
38. Number of chiral centers in isoleucine (Ile)
C. Alanine is?
D. Tyrosine A. 1
33. Which molecule is optically active? B. 2
A. 2-aminoethanoic acid C. 3
B. 2-aminopropanoic acid
D. 0
C. 3-amino-3-methylbuthanoic acid
D. 2-amino-2-methylpropanoic acid 39. The tertiary structure folding in proteins is
primary due to the interactions of
34. Which one among the following is a
strongest base A. the ‘R’ groups
A. methyl amine B. the ‘P’ groups
B. Ammonia C. the ‘A’ groups
C. Phenyl amine D. the ‘S’
D. none of above
40. How many macromolecules are there in na-
35. N-terminal amino acid in a protein is deter- ture?
mine by
A. 1
A. ninydrin reagent
B. formaldehyde B. 2
C. sangers reagent C. 4
D. carboxypeptidase D. 8

41. Collagen and elastin are 47. This conjugated protein is responsible as
oxygen binder in muscles
A. examples of fibrous proteins

A. LDL
B. found in muscle fibers, ligaments, and
tendons B. Interferon
C. helix-shaped strands C. Iron-ferritin

D. myoglobin
D. all of the above
48. Number of chiral centers in isoleucine is?
42. Meringue
A. 1
A. foam
B. 2
B. emulsion C. 3
C. coagulation D. 4
D. texturization
49. The bond formed between two amino acids
43. Molecules with many peptide bonds is a bone
A. fibrous
A. dipeptide
B. hydrogen
B. tertiary structure
C. ionic
C. essential amino acid
D. peptide
D. polypeptide
50. Hydrophilic and contained a hydroxyl in
44. Basicity of α − amino acids is due to side chain.
A. Free-COOH A. Lysine
B. Free-NH2 B. Cysteine
C. Isoleucine
C. Carboxylate ion
D. Serine
D. Ammonium ion
51. Bond formed between two amino acids
45. Pudding that results in a water molecule being re-
A. gelatinization leased is called
B. texturization A. peptide bond

B. complete protein
C. coagulation
C. dipeptide
D. denaturation
D. nitrile bond
46. Which of the following is a tertiary
52. When two amino acids are linked, you
amines?
have a
A. RNH2 A. Tripeptide
B. RN(CH3)2 B. Polypeptide
C. RNHCH3 C. Amino Acid
D. RN+(CH3) D. Dipeptide

53. Running the xanthoproteic test on this 59. Reaction between aldehyde, NH4Cl and
compound would yield what result? HCN to prepare α -aminoacids is
A. Alanine; yellow A. Curtius method
B. Phenylalanine; purple B. Darapsky synthesis
C. Tyrosine; purple C. Strecker’s synthesis
D. Phenol; yellow D. Phthalimidomalonic ester synthesis
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54. Which group does contain only an amino 60. Which among the following is both gluco-
acid? genic and ketogenic?
A. Benzene, Phenylalanine & Lysine A. leucine
B. Glycine, Formalin & Proline B. lysine
C. Proline, Hisidine & Serine C. histidine
D. Hydroxy Benzene, Cysteine & Valine D. isoleucine
55. Amino Acids that have to be gotten 61. Which amino acid has a sulfur atom in its
through your diet are called R-group and can forms disulfide bonds.
A. Essential Amino Acids A. Isoleucine
B. Dietary Amino Acids B. Tryptophan
C. Gastrointestinal Amino Acids C. Methionine
D. none of above D. Cysteine
56. Which of the following amino acids is achi- 62. Which among the following tests is consid-
ral? ered to be a general test for amino acids?
A. Alanine A. Sakaguchi test
B. Glycine B. Hopkins-Cole test
C. Serine C. Biuret test
D. Valine D. Millon test
57. Which is the smallest amino acid in protein 63. Positively charged at neutral pH
A. Proline A. Lysine
B. Valine B. Proline
C. Glycine C. Cysteine
D. Glutamine D. Tryptophan
58. Actin and myosin 64. Name the peptide N-C-W

A. Structural A. Tryptophylcysteinylasparagine
B. Messenger B. Asparaginylcysteinyltryptophan
C. Contractile C. Asparagylcysteyltryptophyl
D. Defense D. Asparagylcysteinyltryptophan

65. Which statement best describes amino 71. Amino acid that contain two chiral centres
acids?
A. Isoleucine

A. They are acidic.
B. Phenylalanine
B. They are basic.
C. Tryptophan
C. The are both acid and basic.
D. Histidine
D. They are neither acidic nor basic.
66. Which of the following amino acids is ba- 72. Which protein is hydrophobic
sic? A. albumin
A. Lysine B. casein
B. Tryptophan C. gluten
C. Cysteine
D. whey
D. Methionine
73. Acid Groups are made of
67. Total number of protein building amino
acids is A. O=C-O-H
A. 20 B. O=C-O-O-H
B. 21 C. O=N-O-H
C. 22 D. O-C-O-H
D. 23
74. An example of denaturation by mechanical
68. What type of amino acid MUST be pro- agitation is
vided by the diet?
A. exposure to sound waves
A. All amino acids
B. freezing meat
B. Non-essential
C. frying eggs
C. Conditionally essential
D. Essential D. kneading bread
69. Hydrogen bonds do not play a part in 75. All amino acids share all of these but
which level of structure of a protein? A. R-group
A. primary B. Amine Group
B. secondary
C. Acid Group
C. tertiary
D. Protein
D. none of above
76. H-bond belongs to what level of structural
70. Sulfur in R group can forms disulfide
organization
bonds.
A. Isoleucine A. Primary
B. Methionine B. Secondary
C. Serine C. Tertiary
D. Cysteine D. Quaternary

77. Complete proteins 83. Amino acids are classified based on their
A. are found only in animal products chemical properties of?
B. are found only in beans and legumes A. Amine group
C. contain all the essential amino acids B. Carboxylic group
D. contain all 20 amino acids C. Side chain

D. Benzine group
78. which of the following are Sulphur contain-
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ing amino acids 84. Electrophoresis is defined as
A. methionine and histidine A. the movement of electrons through
B. cysteine and methionine pores
C. cysteine and threonine B. the movement of charged or ionic parti-
D. methionine and threonine cles under the influence of an electric field
79. The polarity of asparagine and glutamine C. the movement of proteins under the in-
is contributed by their fluence of a field
A. hydroxyl group D. the movement of amino acids through
B. sulfhydryl group an agarose gel
C. amide group 85. Pyruvic acid on reductive amination gives
D. carboxyl group
A. Valine
80. Has a ring structure directly attaching the B. Alanine
R group to the alpha amino group
C. Glycine
A. Glycine
D. Leucine
B. Proline
C. Alanine 86. Amino acids react to form peptides and
proteins. This process is known as
D. Serine
A. addition polymerization
81. Hydrophobic amino acid side chains are B. substitution polymerization
A. forced to go to outside of protein
C. condensation polymerization
B. electrically negative
D. hydration polymerization
C. electrically positive
D. electrically neutral and nonpolar 87. Amino acids present in most of the biolog-
ically active peptides and proteins are:
82. What is included in a Tri peptide bond? A. levorotatory
A. 2 acids 3 bonds B. dextrorotatory
B. 3 acids 2 bonds C. either levorotatory or dextrorotatory.
C. 3 acids 3 bonds D. neither levorotatory or nor dextrorota-
D. none of above tory.

88. Fibrous proteins found in blood clots 93. This group of amino acids has second car-
boxyl group.
A. Collagen

A. negatively charged
B. Fibrin
B. positively charged
C. Myoglobin
C. polar
D. Immunoglobulins
D. nonpolar
89. In an acid-base reaction, the following
statements are true, EXCEPT: 94. The chemical bonds between amino acids
in the primary sequence of proteins are
A. Low pH:All acid groups are protonated
A. Hydrogen bonds
B. Low pH:All amino groups protonated B. Disulfide bonds.
C. High pH:All acid groups are proto- C. Peptide bonds

nated D. Ionic bonds.
D. Neutral pH:All amino groups are proto-
95. How is the isoelectric point of an amino
nated
acid defined?
90. A mixture of protein molecules of various A. PH molecule carries no electric charge
molecular weights can be separated by:
A. electrophoresis B. PH molecule carries positive electric
charge
B. molecular-size chromatography
C. PH molecule carries negative electric
C. ion-exchange chromatography
charge
D. affinity chromatography
D. none of above
91. If an amino acid with a positively charged 96. This property of amino acids refers to their
R group and one with a negatively charged ability to act as an acid or a base.
R group are near one another, the two
amino acids will likely A. zwitterionic
A. form an ionic bond B. chirality
B. form a covalent bond C. UV absorptive
C. form a hydrogen bond D. amphoteric
D. be repelled by one another 97. The level of protein structure that results
from hydrogen bonding causing the protein
92. According to biochemical classification of to fold into α -helix and β -pleated sheets
amino acids valine is ? is known as
A. with non polar side chain A. primary structure
B. with polar side chain B. secondary structure
C. with positive side chain C. tertiary structure
D. with negative side chain D. quaternary structure

98. Some protein molecules act as emulsifiers C. Glycine

because D. Phenylalanine
A. the peptide bonds are tangled
104. The polarity of serine and threonine is
B. the protein surrounds air, creating a contributed by their
foam
A. hydroxyl group
C. they have polar and nonpolar side B. sulfhydryl group
chains
C. amide group
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D. they will dissolve in water
D. carboxyl group
99. indole ring is present in 105. Which of the following compounds is a
A. proline secondary amine?
B. histidine A. CH3CH2CH2NH2
C. tryptophan B. (CH3CH2)3N
D. lysine C. CH3CH2NHCH3
D. (CH3CH2)2NCH3
100. Which bond is present between two
amino acids? 106. Xanthoproteic test is used for all amino
acids descirbed below except?
A. Glycosidic Bond
A. proline
B. Phosphodiester bond
B. tryptophan
C. Ester Bond
C. tyrosine
D. Peptide Bond
D. phenylalanine
101. Amino acids are ampholytes because they
107. This group of amino acids is hydrophobic.
can function as either a(an):
A. negatively charged
A. acid or base
B. positively charged
B. neutral molecule or an ion
C. polar
C. polar or non polar molecule
D. nonpolar
D. positive or negatively charged
108. The amino acid commonly used as an in-
102. Amides are converted to amines by gredient in the buffer of SDS PAGE
A. Oxidation A. aspartic acid
B. Reduction B. glycine
C. Hydrolysis C. glutamic acid
D. Ammonolysis D. histidine
109. out of these, the acidic amino acids are
103. It is the only amino acid with no asym-
metric carbon because it has two hydro- A. aspartic acid and histidine
gens attached to alpha carbon. B. aspartate and glutamine
A. Tyrosine C. asparagine and glutamate
B. Alanine D. aspartic acid and glutamic acid

110. The pH at which the amino acid exists in C. I

its zwitterionic form is called:
D. F

A. isolectric point
B. electric pH 116. which is the special bond found in poly
peptides
C. isotonic pH
A. Ionic bond
D. isoelectric pH
B. Peptide bond
111. The bond between amino acids is called a
C. Covalent bond
A. Peptide Bond D. salt bridge
B. Peptic Bond
117. What type of reaction breaks peptide
C. Protein Bond bonds?
D. Transpeptic Bond A. Condensation reaction
112. This amino acid has a positively-charged B. Hydrolysis reaction
guanidino group.
C. Anabolic reaction
A. Lysine
D. Denaturation reaction
B. Arginine
C. Histidine 118. State the reagent used to convert butanol
D. Serine to butanamide.
A. Nitric acid
113. It is a test used to detect presence of pep-
tide bond. B. Ammonia
A. Biuret Test C. Water
B. Xanthoproteic Test D. Nitrous acid
C. Millons Test
D. Lead Acetate Test 119. Which group doesn’t contain an amino
acid?
114. Glycine* 2-aminoethanoic acid) is an opti- A. Methionine, Tryptophane & Lysine
cally inactive amino acid. Which of the fol-
lowing compounds is formed NOT because B. Glycine, Formalin & Proline
of the acid-base property of glycine? C. Glutamine, Hisidine & Serine
A. H2NCH2COONa
D. Threonine, Cysteine & Valine
B. CH3OOCCH2NH2
C. HOOCCH2NH3Cl 120. If pK1 = 2.34 and pK2 = 9.60, then the
isoelectric point pI is?
D. HOOCCH2NHOOCCH3
A. 6, 0
115. Non polar amino acid with aliphatic R
group, EXCEPT: B. 5.96
A. L C. 5.97
B. V D. 6.02

121. Two amino acids that contain sulfur 127. which amino acid lacks the free amino
atoms are: group
A. cysteine and serine A. threonine
B. cysteine and threonine B. valine
C. methionine and cysteine C. isoleucine
D. methionine and serine D. proline
128. Proteins are held in their native confor-
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122. Name given to C between amine and car-
boxylate groups mations by which of the following bonds:
A. center C A. hydrogen bonds

B. ionic bonds
B. alpha carbon
C. disulfide bonds
C. side chain C
D. all of the above
D. Cindy
129. These amino acids have the R groups that
123. Xanthoproteic test is specific for? have a significantpositive charge at pH 7.0
A. glycine EXCEPT for one.
B. tyrosine A. Arginine
C. alanine B. Lysine
D. proline C. Glycine
D. Histidine
124. During peptide synthesis, Tert-
Butoxycarbonyl is used to protect 130. Proteins are made up of a combination of
A. -NH2 group how many unique amino acids?
A. 10
B. -COOH Group
B. 20
C. Not used for protection
C. 25
D. Used for activation
D. 50
125. What three amino acids make up glu-
tathione? 131. It is used to detect presence of aromatic
amino acids.
A. Glutamic acid, cysteine, glycine
A. Xanthoproteic test
B. Glutamic acid, leucine, glycine
B. Sakaguchi Test
C. Glutamic acid, leucine, alanine C. Hopkins-Cole Test
D. none of above D. Lead Acetate Test
126. In the folding of proteins, the amino acids 132. What is the common naming for the “side
that are hydrophilic will chain”?
A. stay in the middle A. -A
B. move to the outside B. -S
C. move to the inside C. -R
D. not change D. -K

133. What test will you use to distinguish val- C. Dextrose

une from glutation? D. Laboratory

A. Tollens test
139. Has a ring structure
B. Buret test
A. Glycine
C. Frederiks test
B. Proline
D. none of above
C. Alanine
134. It is used to detect presence of guanidino D. Serine
group found in the amino acid arginine.
140. Mayonnaise
A. Biuret test
A. emulsion
B. Sakaguchi test
B. foam
C. Ninhydrin test
C. denaturation
D. Millon test
D. coagulation
135. Which is not a use or function of protein?
141. Gelatin is made from
A. forms enzymes and hormones
A. collagen
B. forms transport channel in cell mem-
B. elastin
brane
C. myoglobin
C. forms structural proteins in the body
D. all of the above
D. quick energy
142. The unscrambling of complete proteins is
136. What is the amino acid which contains 2
called
carboxylic groups?
A. Hydrolisys
A. Alanine (A)-Ala
B. Denaturation
B. Serine (S)-Ser
C. Amino Acids
C. Aspartate (D)-Asp
D. Hydrochloric Acid
D. Tyrosine (Y)-Tyr
143. Identify the amino acids containing non-
137. Why are many enzymes soluble in wa- polar, aliphatic R groups.
ter?
A. Phenylalanine, tyrosine, and trypto-
A. They contain large numbers of hydro- phan
gen bonds
B. glycine, alanine, leucine
B. They contain many amino acids with hy-
C. lysine, histidine and arginine
drophilic side chains
D. aspartate, glutamate
C. they contain an active site
D. none of above 144. Why do most proteins test positive using
the lead acetate test?
138. This rotates light to the right. A. lead is a very dense heavy metal
A. Dextrorotatory B. lead coordinates with the nitrogen
B. Levorotatory lone pairs of amino acids

C. cysteine is a super common amino acid 150. Amino acid that contain two chiral (four
contained in most proteins different groups attached to a carbon) cen-
ters
D. none of above
A. Isoleucine
145. Contains a methyl group as side chain B. Phenylalanine
A. Histidine C. Tryptophan
B. Glycine D. Histidine
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C. Alanine 151. Which test will you use for the presence
of protein?
D. Proline
A. Iodine test
146. Number of chiral centers in glycine (Gly) B. Benedicts test
is?
C. Ethanol Emulsion test
A. 0 D. Biurets test
B. 1
152. Lysine is an example of what type of
C. 2 amino acid?
D. 3 A. Acidic Amino acid
B. Basic Amino acid
147. Chemicals used for Biurets test?
C. Neutral Amino acid
A. Sodium Hydroxid + copper
D. It is not amino acid
B. Sodium Hydroxid + silver
153. Hard-cooked eggs
C. Sodium Hydroxid + gold
A. coagulation
D. none of above B. emulsion
148. Primary structure of protein is stabilized C. foam

by: D. texturization
A. glycosidic bond 154. The following are nonpolar amino acids
B. hydrogen bond with aromatic R groups EXCEPT:
A. Phenylalanine
C. ionic bond
B. Tyrosine
D. peptide bond
C. Tryptophan
149. Which has occurred when the shape of D. Proline
a protein molecule is changed without the
breaking of peptide bonds 155. The simplest amino acid which can accom-
modate in a small space is
A. coagulation
A. proline
B. denaturation B. alanine
C. gelatinization C. glycine
D. hydrolysis D. valine

156. What are the building blocks of pro- B. Bromocresol green

teins? C. Ruhemann purple

A. amino acid D. Crystal violet
B. fatty acid
162. amino acids with aromatic side chains
C. nucleotide
are
D. lipid
A. proline, alanine, leucine
157. Which of the following is not a shape B. tryptophan, proline, aspartate
of the secondary structure of protein
C. tryptophan, phenyl alanine, tyrosine
molecules
D. tryptophan. tyrosine, alanine
A. chain
B. helix 163. cystine is the combination of
C. pleated sheet A. cystine-methionine
D. random coil B. methionine-serine
C. cysteine-cysteine
158. Which of the following samples gives a
negative result on Ninhydrin Test? D. none of above
A. Albumin 164. Which of the following is a function of
B. Proline protein in the body
C. Starch A. growth and repair
D. Tyrosine B. regulation of body temperature
159. One of the two methods of classifying C. transportation of body temperature

amino acids D. all of the above
A. based on nutritional use
165. Non Polar amino acids means
B. based on chemical nature of their side
A. Water soluble
chains
B. Waler insoluble
C. both are the methods of classifying
amino acids C. Acid soluble
D. none of above D. Alkali soluble
160. Denaturation can be caused by 166. Secondary structure of protein is stabi-

lized by:
A. freezing
A. peptide bond
B. pressure
B. hydrogen bond
C. sound waves
C. ionic bond
D. all of the above
D. disulphide bond
161. This color is produced upon the reaction
of ninhydrin solution with the amino acids 167. Is one nitrogen and two hydrogen atoms
in paper chromatography. bonded to a carbon atom
A. Methy red A. primary structure

B. polypeptide 173. Which of the following samples gives a

C. amine group positive result on Biuret Test?
D. protein gel A. Starch
168. What is the reagent required to carry out B. Glycine

the following conversion?Methylamine → C. Tyrosine
N-methylethanamide D. Casein
A. NaOH
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B. Methanoyl chloride 174. The smallest amino acid with no chiral
center
C. HNO2
A. Cysteine
D. Ethanoyl chloride
B. Alanine
169. hydroxyl group containing amino acids
are C. Glycine
A. cysteine, serine, threonine D. Serine

B. serine, lysine and histidine 175. Phenyl isothiocyanate is used in
C. tryptophan, serine and threonine A. sanger’s method
D. tryptophan, lysine, serine B. Edman’s method
170. How many bases are required in a genetic C. Hydrizinalysis
sequence to code for one amino acid?
A. one
B. two 176. which is not a essential amino acid
C. three A. methionine
D. four B. alanine
171. which amino acid contain the aromatic C. arginine
ring D. lysine
A. threonine
177. In oil hydrophobic nonpolar amino acids
B. tryptophan will
C. tyrosine
A. group together
D. none of above
B. effectively dissolve
172. What’s the correct definition of these C. move to the inside of the protein
keywords?polyester
D. move to the outside of the protein
A. A condensation polymer formed from
a dicarboxylic acid and an alkene 178. This rotates light to the left.
B. An addition polymer formed from a di- A. Dextrorotatory
carboxylic acid and a diol
B. Levorotatory
C. A condensation polymer formed from
a dicarboxylic acid and a diol C. Dextrose
D. none of above D. Laboratory

179. Arrange the basic strength of the 185. This enzyme is released from the pan-
following compound from weak- creas into the small intestine.
est to strongestI:AmmoniaII:N, N-

A. Pepsin
dimethylpropanamineIII:Phenylamine
B. Proteases
A. III, I, II
C. Protazoas
B. I, II, III
C. II, I, III D. Porosises
D. They are all the same 186. What’s the correct definition of these
keywords?polyamide
180. the amino acid that tastes bitter is
A. An addition polymer formed from a di-
A. leucine
carboxylic acid and a diol
B. histidine
B. An condensation polymer formed from
C. arginine a dicarboxylic acid and a diol
D. proline C. An condensation polymer formed from
181. Amino acid with Sulpuhur a dicarboxylic acid and a diamine
A. Leucine D. none of above

B. Glutamine 187. Why does an amino acid yield a negative
C. Aspartate biuret test result?
D. Arginine A. it depends on the side group
182. The chemical bonds between amino acids B. because there are no peptide bonds
in the primary structure of proteins are present
A. Hydrogen bonds C. because it’s not a reducing sugar

B. Disulfide bonds. D. because it is a charged compound
C. Peptide bonds 188. If-NH2 group of glycine reacts with-
D. a. Hydrophilic bonds. COOH group of alanine, dipetide formed
is
183. Hydrophilic and contained alcohol in side
chain. A. Glycylalanine
A. Lysine B. Glycinealanine
B. Cysteine C. Alanylglycine
C. Isoleucine D. None
D. Serine 189. Insulin is an exceptional molecule (made
184. which is a basic amino acid up of 50 amino acids), it is an example of:
A. alanine A. a monosaccharide
B. histidine B. a polysaccharide
C. serine C. a peptide
D. proline D. a protein

190. In chromatography, it is usually a high- 196. Which of the following amino acids will
quality filter paper or an adsorbent. yield a positive result on Millon’s Test?
A. mobile phase A. Glycine
B. stationary phase B. Phenylalanine
C. blank phase C. Tryptophan
D. none of above D. Tyrosine
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191. It is used to visualize the spots of differ- 197. The hydroxyl group of tyrosine can form
ent amino acids.
A. Ninhydrin Solution A. disulfide bond
B. Butanol-Acetic Acid Solution B. hydrogen bond
C. Starch-Saliva Mixture C. ionic bond
D. Fehlings Solution D. covalent bond
192. Which of the following amino acids is ca- 198. Which of the following amino acids will
pable of ionic bond or salt bridges give a positive result on sakaguchi test?
A. V + G A. phenylalanine
B. C + C B. glycine
C. D + K C. tryptophan
D. R + H D. arginine
193. If pH is lower than pI, then amino acid 199. The following are examples of non-polar
will migrate towards amino acids, EXCEPT for one.
A. Cathode A. Tryptophan
B. Anode B. Lysine
C. Do not migrate C. Methionine
D. none of above D. Proline
194. Hydrophilic amino acid side chains are at- 200. This bond is disrupted by extreme change
tracted by in pH.
A. H20 molecules A. hydrogen bond
B. K molecules B. ionic bond
C. Na molecules C. disulphide bond
D. Cl molecules D. peptide bond
195. Chiral Center Isoleucine? 201. Aromatic amino acids include

A. 0 A. phenyl alanine, tyrosine & tryptophan
B. 1 B. phenyl alanine, serine & tryptophan
C. 2 C. threonine, tyrosine & tryptophan
D. 3 D. aspergine, tyrosine & tryptophan

202. Qualitative test used to confirm presence C. the pH where the molecule carries
of amine group. negative electric charge

A. Hopkins Cole Test D. none of above
B. Millons Test
208. Type of bonds between COOH terminal of
C. Lead Acetate Test
one amino acid and NH2 terminal of an-
D. Ninhydrin Test other amino acid is ?
203. Absorbs UV light at wavelength 280 nm A. covalent
A. Histidine B. peptide
B. Tryptophan C. amide
C. Lysine D. all answers are correct
D. Cysteine
209. The central carbon in amino acid is called
204. Amino acid is a compound which has at
least one A. Achiral centre
A. Amino group and one amide group B. Chiral Centre
B. Amino group and one hydroxyl group C. Both
C. Amino group and one carboxyl group D. None
D. Hydroxyl group and one carbonyl group
210. What is the enzyme in the stomach that
205. Definition of a dipeptide? begins chemical breakdown of protein?
A. 1 amino acid A. Denaturation
B. 2 amino acids B. Hydrolysis
C. 3 amino acids
C. Proteases
D. none of above
D. Pepsin
206. Amino acids are organic compounds that
contain 2 functional groups & a side chain 211. Which is not a result of overcoagulation
specific to each amino acid. What are A. clumps in meringue
those 2 functional groups?
B. collapsed yeast dough
A. Amine & Ketone group
B. Ketone & Aldehyde group C. rubbery cheese
C. Amine & Carboxylic group D. tough, dry meat
D. Carboxylic & Amide group
212. How many essential amino acids are
207. The isoelectric point of an amino acid is there?
defined as: A. 3
A. the pH where the molecule carries no B. 9
net electric charge
C. 12
B. the pH where the molecule carries pos-
itive electric charge D. 20

213. It formed whenever a carbon atom is C. histidine lysine

bonded to four different groups. D. none of above
A. pI
219. In a neutral solution, most amino acids
B. Chirality exist as:
C. Zwitterion A. positively charged compounds
D. Amphoteric B. zwitterion molecules
C. negatively charged compounds
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214. These amino acids contain hydroxyl
groups: D. hydrohobic molecules
A. Serine and Alanine 220. The difference between amino acid and
B. Alanine and Valine imino acid is
C. Serine and Threonine A. bonding of carbonyl group with amide
group
D. Valine and Isoleucine
B. bonding of nitrogen in the amide group
215. Alanine has two pKa (2.35, 9.87). What
is the net charge of alanine at pH = 11? C. bonding of nitrogen in the carboxyl
A. 0 group
B. -1 D. presence of covalent bond between
amide and carbonyl group
C. +1
D. none of above 221. is the protein in muscle tissue that is
a deep red pigmen
216. Which of the following statement is true
A. albumin
about aminoethanoic acid?
B. casein
A. It exhibits optical isomerism.
C. hemoglobin
B. It exists in the anionic form in acidic
solution. D. myoglobin
C. It forms zwitterions in aqueous solu- 222. Which among the following bonds is af-
tion fected by heavy metals?
D. It is soluble in non-polar solvents. A. disulfide bonds
B. hydrogen bonds
217. Amylase
C. ionic bonds
A. Catalytic
D. none of above
B. Defense
223. of the 20 amino acids used to build pro-
C. Transport
teins are chiral. Which enantiomer of
D. Storage these amino acids is present in proteins.
218. Which amino acids have positively A. L
charged Basic R groups? B. D
A. lysine arganine histidine C. R
B. lysine arganine D. Glycine

224. A protein is effectively deprotonated by A. disulfide bond

a buffer leaving a net [blank] charge and B. hydrogen bond
a tendency to migrate toward the

C. peptide bond
A. negative; anode
D. ionic bond
B. positive; anode
230. When protein is present, Biuret turns?
C. negative; cathode
A. violet
D. positive; cathode
B. pink
225. Which statement is NOT true with re-
C. blue
gards to zwitterions?
D. blue-purple
A. Zwitterions have a positive and nega-
tive charge in its structure. 231. The single letter symbol of aspartic acid
B. Zwitterions are dipolar ions. is
C. Zwitterions’ melting and boiling point A. A
are lower than expected. B. C
D. Amino acids can exist as zwitterions. C. D
D. E
226. What is the amino acid which contains
smallest side chain? 232. It is a test used to detect presence of
A. Alanine (A)-Ala guanidino group in an amino acid.
B. Serine (S)-Ser A. Sakaguchi Test
C. Glycine (G)-Gly B. Xanthoproteic Test
D. Tyrosine (Y)-Tyr C. Lead Acetate Test
D. Hopkins-Cole Test
227. potassium phtalamide is the reagent used
for amino acid synthesis using 233. Which is the major protein component in
A. Gabriel synthesis serum and displays the most prominent ab-
sorbance band in an electrophoretic sepa-
B. Strecker Synthesis ration of serum proteins?
C. Merrifield synthesis A. albumin
D. O donnell synthesis B. alpha-1
228. The polarity of cysteine is contributed by C. beta
its.. D. gamma
A. hydroxyl group
234. The chirality of an amino acid results from
B. sulfhydryl group the fact that its a carbon that:
C. amide group A. has no net charge
D. carboxyl group B. is a carboxylic acid
229. Heavy metals can form strong bond with C. is bonded to 4 different chemical
to form an insoluble metal-protein groups
salt. D. is symmetric

1.12 Structure of Proteins 158
235. Select the amino acid group which con- D. 3

tains “Aromatic” side chain
239. Which of the following is a true state-
A. Methionine & Pheylalanine ment?
B. Tryptophan & Glutamate A. Aspartate is an essential amino acid
C. Pheylalanine & Tryptophan B. Lysine is a non-essential amino acid
D. Lysine & Hisidine C. Leucine is commonly used as an ingre-
dient in the buffers of SDS page
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236. It is used to detect sulfur containing
amino acid. D. Tryptophan and tyrosine are signifi-
A. Sakaguchi Test cantly more polar than phenylalanine
B. Hopkins Cole Test 240. Which of these statements is not cor-

C. Lead Acetate Test rect?
D. Millons Test A. Addition polymers formed from

alkenes do not biodegrade
237. The central carbon of an amino acid is B. Condesation polymers may photode-
called? grade
A. alpha carbon C. All condensation polymers biodegrade
B. beta carbon within a couple of years
C. chiral carbon D. none of above
D. asymmetric carbon 241. This amino acid is non-polar:
238. Chiral Center Glycine? A. Glycine
A. 0 B. Serine
B. 1 C. Threonine
C. 2 D. Asparagine
1.12 Structure of Proteins

1. Association of two or more polypeptides 3. If 20% of the nitrogen base molecules in
A. Primary Structure a DNA sample are guanine, what will the
percentage of cytosine molecules be?
B. Secondary Structure
A. 20%
C. Tertiary structure
B. 30%
D. Quaternary Structure
C. 40%
2. TransLation based on the mRNA tran-
script. D. 60%
A. links amino acids together 4. How many amino acids are found on one
B. creates tRNA tRNA?
C. creates rRNA A. 20
D. makes more DNA B. 4

C. 1 10. Which component of DNA determines the

D. 3 traits of an organism?

A. Nitrogen Bases
5. Which base is used in synthesis of RNA,
but not DNA? B. Sugar-Phosphate Backbone
A. Cytosine C. Hydrogen bonds
B. Adenine D. none of above
C. Thymine 11. This is a result that doesn’t fit the pattern,

D. Uracil what is it?
A. an outlier or anomaly
6. Which series is arranges from largest to
smallest in size? B. an error
A. chromosome, nucleus, cell, DNA, nu- C. a mistake

cleotide D. a control
B. cell, nucleus, chromosome, DNA, nu- 12. Physical trait, characteristic, or expression
cleotide due to the structure or function of protein
C. nucleotide, chromosome, cell, DNA, A. Genotype
nucleus
B. Phenotype
D. cell, nucleotide, nucleus, DNA, chromo-
some C. tertiary structure
D. quaternary structure
7. Amino acids in a line
A. primary structure 13. What are the backbones (sides) of the
DNA structure made up of?
A. repeating phosphates and sugars
C. tertiary structure
B. nitrogen bases
C. nucleotides
8. Which levels of protein structure differ D. adenine and thymine
based on having a single polypeptide chain
versus multiple polypeptide chains inter- 14. What kind of sugar is found in DNA?
acting? A. Glucose
A. Primary to secondary B. Fructose
B. Secondary to tertiary C. Sucrose
C. Tertiary to quaternary D. Deoxyribose
D. none of above
15. The order of nucleotides in a goes that
9. fibrous proteins are codes for which proteins are made
A. primary A. Genotype
B. secondary B. phenotype
C. tertiary C. primary structure
D. quaternary D. secondary structure

16. Which organelle is the location where pro- C. rRNA

tein is made? D. more DNA
A. Ribosome
22. The two strands of a DNA molecule are
B. Nucleus
connected across the center by that
C. Cytoplasm form in very specific ways between their
D. Nucleotide nitrogen bases.
17. Transcribe the following DNA strand:CTG A. strong bonds
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AAT B. weak bonds
A. GAC TTA C. deoxyriose
B. CTG AAT D. phosphate
C. GAC UUA
23. The two types of secondary structures are
D. CUG AAU
A. Alpha Pleated Sheet, Beta Helix
18. If a portion of mRNA contained the codon
B. Alpha Helix, Beta Pleated Sheet
U-A-G then the corresponding anticodon
on tRNA would be C. Polypeptide, Globular Protein
A. A-U-C D. Fibrous, Globular
B. U-A-G
24. Which of these is present in both prokary-
C. A-T-C otic cells and eukaryotic cells?
D. A-T-G A. nucleus
19. How are the subunits of proteins linked to- B. ribosome
gether? C. chloroplast
A. ionic bonds
D. mitochondrion
B. amino acids
25. A specific class of proteins that regulate
C. monomers
metabolism are known as
D. peptide bonds
A. Carbohydrates
20. Which level of protein structure is primar- B. Monomers
ily formed by hydrogen bonds between re-
gions of the carbon backbone? C. Catalysts
A. Primary D. Cholesterol
B. Secondary 26. Contains hydrophobic bonds, ionic bonds,
C. Tertiary disulfide bonds, hydrogen bonds, and van
D. Quaternary der waals force.
A. Primary and secondary
21. TransCription makes based on a DNA
template. B. secondary and tertiary
A. mRNA C. tertiary and quaternary
B. tRNA D. quaternary and secondary

27. The chain of amino acids folds and coils on 33. What kind of organic molecule is DNA?
itself into structure A. Protein

A. Primary B. Nucleic Acid
B. Secondary C. Lipid
C. Tertiary D. Carbohydrate
D. Quaternary
34. Proteins that are roughly spherical and
28. Many monomers can be cross-linked to- have a non-repetitive amino acid sequence
gether to form are called
A. molecules A. fibrous proteins
B. plastic material B. globular proteins
C. polymers C. enzymatic proteins
D. balloons and silly putty D. storage proteins
29. What gets altered when proteins are de- 35. Sequence of amino acids
natured? A. Primary Structure
A. atoms B. Secondary Structure
B. hydrogen bonding C. Tertiary structure
C. temperature D. Quaternary Structure
D. wavelength
36. The image below shows a polymer of
30. The attractions in the secondary structure glucose molecules. What type of macro-
of a protein is due to molecule is this?
A. covalent bonding A. carbohydrate
B. ionic bonding B. protein
C. hydrogen bonding C. lipid
D. polar bonding D. nucleic acid
31. An unknown molecule contains a sugar and 37. Amino Acids are joined by
a phosphate group. It is likely what? A. peptide bonds
A. carbohydrate B. helium bonds
B. protein C. any bonds
C. lipid D. none of above
D. nucleic acid
38. During translation, this type of ribonucleic
32. The process to go from DNA to mRNA is acid is responsible for delivering amino
acids to help make a protein.
A. translation A. mRNA
B. transcription B. rRNA
C. replication C. tRNA
D. none of above D. dRNA

39. Which variable is investigated and there- C. tertiary

fore changes for each set of repeats?
D. quaternary
A. Control
B. Dependent 45. Normal-AGA-TTC-ATA-GCGMutant-AGA-
TTC-AAT-AGC-G
C. Independent
A. deletion frameshift
D. Hyper
B. insertion frameshift
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40. Amino Acids are made up of
C. substitution
A. hydrogen
B. carbon and oxygen D. nonsense
C. an amino group, carboxyl group, and 46. The bond between glucoses in maltose is
R-group side chain called
D. cytosine, guanine, and adenine A. 1, 4-alpha-glycosidic
41. Larger polymers are formed when B. 1, 4-beta-glycosidic
monomers are joined together by a
reaction. C. 1, 6-beta-glycosidic
A. redox D. 1, 6-alpha-glycosidic
B. digestion
47. What makes digital equipment more pre-
C. hydrolysis cise?
D. condensation A. Can measure to 2 decimal places
42. What is the term for a chain of amino acids B. Can be turned off and on
containing 6 to 30 residues
C. Can be set to zero
A. Essential Amino Acids
D. Can be calibrated
B. Peptide bond
C. Oligopeptide 48. Where do substrates bind on an enzyme?
D. Polypeptide A. voltage-gated channels
43. What is the function of fats for living or- B. surface receptor
ganisms? C. calcium channels
A. short term energy storage
D. active site
B. store hereditary information
C. long term energy storage 49. The last column in a results table usually
contains the
D. catalyze metabolic reactions
A. average
44. The entire protein forms a three-
dimensional structure B. conclusion
A. primary C. values for the 3rd set of repeats
B. secondary D. independent variable

50. What is the role of Tertiary structure of 55. Makes up the core of many proteins (Beta
proteins? sheets, alpha helixes)

A. Amino acid sequence A. primary structure
B. Conformation of portions of the B. secondary structure
polypeptide chain C. tertiary structure
C. Conformation of the entire polypeptide D. quaternary structure
56. The bond between two amino acids is

D. How subunits are arranged in the pro-
called
tein
A. A peptide bond
51. These are considered globular protiens
B. An amino acid bond
A. primary and secondary C. Nothing. There isn’t a name for it.
B. secondary and tertiary D. A hydrogen bond
C. secondary and quatenary
57. The unique amino acid sequence of a
D. quatenary and tertiary polypeptide ultimately determines its
three-dimensional shape, which in turn,
52. What will be the complementary DNA se- determines the protein’s
quence resulting from the following:GAT-
TAC-AGA-TTA-CAT? A. function
A. CTA-ATG-TCT-AAT-GTA B. fate
B. GAU-UAG-UGA-UUA-GUT C. lifespan
D. none of above
C. CUA-AUG-UCU-AAU-GUA
D. CAT-ACA-TAC-ATA-TAG 58. local folding arrangement, relationship of
an amino acid to its neighbours in the chain
53. What is the role of secondary structure in
proteins?
A. Amino acid sequence
C. tertiary structure
B. Conformation of portions of the
polypeptide chain D. quaternary structure
C. Conformation of the entire polypeptide 59. Contains hydrogen, peptide, and disulfide
bonds (hydrogen being the major bond)
D. How subunts are arranged in the pro- A. primary structure
tein B. secondary structure
54. Where is DNA found in eukaryotic cells? C. tertiary structure
A. Cytoplasm D. quaternary structure
B. Vacuole 60. During protein synthesis, mRNA
C. Cell Membrane A. Carries anticodons to mRNA.
D. Nucleus B. Begins to translate tRNA.

C. Delivers DNA’s instructions for making 65. The main bonding in the secondary struc-
proteins to the ribosome. ture of the protein is due to
D. None of the above. A. covalent bonding
B. ionic bonding
61. Which of the following levels of struc-
C. hydrogen bonding
ture refers to the order in which amino
acids are linked together in a polypeptide D. polar bonding
chain? 66. What is the term used for a protein
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A. Primary molecule that assists in the proper folding
of other proteins?
B. Secondary
A. Denaturing Protein
C. Tertiary
B. Chaperonin
D. Quaternary C. Renaturing Protein
62. Katie is analyzing a particular DNA strand D. Enzyme Protein
that’s composition is 20% adenine. Which 67. Which of the following structures in-
of the following represents the percent volves the R groups interacting in a single
thymine? polypeptide?
A. 20% A. primary
B. 30% B. secondary
C. 40% C. tertiary
D. quaternary
D. 60%
68. Two types of motifs found in the secondary
63. The third structure a protein forms whilst structure are
folding, the 3-D configuration, is classified A. alpha-helix & beta-pleated sheets
as:
B. polypeptide & nucleotide
A. primary
C. globular & fibrous
B. secondary D. alpha globins & beta globins
C. tertiary
69. The monomer of a protein is a(n)
D. quaternary A. Carbohydrate
64. Which of the following best defines a B. amino acid

gene? C. nitrogenous base
A. A diploid cell containing two sets of D. disacharide
chromosomes 70. At what temperature do most proteins
B. A unit made up of chromosomes that function properly?
control for a specific trait A. about 37◦ C
C. A segment of DNA that codes for a par- B. about 40◦ C
ticular protein C. about 20◦ C
D. All the other answers are correct. D. it varies

71. What is the subunits of DNA and RNA? C. CAUCAGU

A. Nucleotide D. CATCAGT

B. Fatty Acids 77. What are the four bases found in DNA?
C. Amino Acids A. Adenine, Thymine, Guanine and Cyto-
D. Monosaccharides sine
72. Proteins have many functions. Collagen is B. Uracil, Thymine, Adenine and Guanine
a component of connective tissue that pro-
vides C. Guanine, Phosphate, Adenine,
A. Structure Thymine
B. Hormones D. Adenine, Uracil, Guanine and Cytosine

C. Immunity 78. The DNA nucleotide is composed of three
D. Transport parts. Which two components make up the
nucleotide backbone?
73. What is a codon? A. ribose sugar and base
A. a sequence of 3 amino acids B. ribose sugar and phosphate group
B. a sequence of three nitrogen bases C. nitrogen base and deoxyribose sugar
C. a sequence of 3 enzymes
D. deoxyribose sugar and phosphate
D. a sequence of 3 proteins group
74. Which of the following refers the chain of 79. What is the most prevalent protein in egg
amino acids folding and coiling on itself to white?
form arrangements called motifs?
A. albumin
A. Primary
B. casein
B. Secondary
C. hemoglobin
C. Tertiary
D. gamma globulin
D. Quaternary
80. Which of these is most likely an enzyme?
75. What will be the resulting mRNA from this
A. Sucrose
DNA sequence:GAT-TAC-AGA-TTA-CAT?
B. Galactose
A. CTA-ATG-TCT-AAT-GTA
C. Fructose
B. GAU-UAG-UGA-UUA-GUT
D. Amylase
C. CUA-AUG-UCU-AAU-GUA
D. CAT-ACA-TAC-ATA-TAG 81. bond between a Hydrogen atoms and an
electronegative atom
76. Choose the nucleotide sequence of the RNA
strand that would be complementary to A. peptide bond
the following strand:GTAGTCA B. disulfide bond
A. UATUAGA C. hydrogen bond
B. ACGACTG D. Van der Waals

82. How many amino acids are coded in the C. Protein

strand A U G U A C D. none of above
A. One
88. Pentose found in DNA
B. Two
A. fructose
C. Three
B. lactose
D. Four
C. deoxyribose
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83. RNA contains the sugar
D. ribose
A. ribose
B. deoxyribose 89. This transport protein is used to move
Oxygen throughout the body (to and from
C. glucose red blood cells).
D. lactose
A. hemoglobin
84. During development, HOX proteins tell a B. collagen
group of cells what organ to become.
C. insulin
A. signaling
D. antibodies
B. enzyme
C. transport 90. The correct sequence of amino acids is
called the
D. regulatory
A. Primary Structure
85. What is the role of primary structure of B. Secondary Structure
proteins?
A. Amino acid sequence
B. Conformation of portions of the
polypeptide chain 91. The primary structure of a protein has the
C. Conformation of the entire polypeptide following bonds?
A. Hydrogen
D. How subunits are arranged in proteins B. Peptide
86. What type of bonds are found between the C. Peptide and Hydrogen
nitrogen bases in DNA?
D. Peptide, Hydrogen, ionic
A. strong bonds
92. Hydrophobic or Nonpolar Side Chains tend
B. weak bonds
to
C. peptide bonds
A. form barriers along the outside of the
D. unbreakable bonds protein
87. What is the three base sequence of mRNA B. fold inward during folding when placed
that codes for a single amino acid? in aqueous environments
A. Anticodon C. be involved in forming active sites
B. Codon D. none of above

93. Haemoglobin is a quartenary protein be- 99. A string of nucleotides that contain the in-
cause; formation to make a specific protein

A. It has more than one peptide bonds A. Ribose
B. Its shape is globular B. Amino Acids
C. It consists of more than one polypep- C. tRNA
tide chains D. Gene
D. It has iron in each heme group
100. Tertiary protein structures are mainly sta-
94. bonds many polypeptides into one func- bilized by
tional protein unit. A. Hydrogen Bonds
A. primary structure B. DiSulfide Bridges
B. secondary structure C. Covalent Bonds
C. tertiary structure D. All of the Above
101. During transcription, this type of ribonu-
95. tRNA brings the anticodons to the cleic acid is responsible for copying the
A. Nucleous DNA and brining it out of the nucleus.
B. Ribosome A. tRNA
C. DNA B. mRNA
D. Chromosome C. rRNA
D. dRNA
96. Which is FALSE?
A. simple sugars are monosaccharides. 102. The protein forms a three-dimensional
structure in the
B. DNA is made up of nucleotides.
A. Primary structure
C. Proteins are made of amino acids.
B. Secondary structure
D. Monomers are made of polymers.
97. Proteins have many functions. Insulin is a D. Quaternary structure
component produced by the pancreas and
triggers a reduction in blood glucose levels. 103. What 3 letters do enzymes typically end
This serves as a in?
A. Structure A. -ose
B. Hormone B. -ase
C. Immunity C. -ese
D. Transport D. -tic
98. What is the shape of DNA? 104. Enzymes end with the letters
A. single stranded A. -IDE
B. double helix B. -ATE
C. circular C. -ASE
D. looped D. protein

105. The sequence of in a DNA molecule 110. Enzymes are considered to be

determine what protein will be produced. A. Lipids
A. Nucleotides B. Carbohydrate
B. amino acids C. Protein
C. Proteins D. Nucleic Acid
D. RNA 111. In terms of directionality of the protein,
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which of the following provides naming for
106. Two or more polypeptide groups join to-
the side with the amino group?
gether and work as one unit in the
A. A-terminus
A. Primary structure
B. C-terminus
B. Secondary structure
C. N-terminus
D. S-terminus
D. Quaternary structure
112. Which type of RNA delivers the genetic
107. What is the role of quaternary struc- code to the ribosome?
ture? A. tRNA
A. Amino acid sequence B. mRNA
B. Conformation of portions of the C. rRNA
polypeptide chain
D. tmRtmRNA
C. Conformation of the entire polypeptide
113. How many peptide bonds are in a protein
with 17 codons?
D. How subunits are arranged in the pro-
tein A. 17
B. 34
108. What is the function of transfer RNA?
C. 15
A. It is a part of the ribosome.
D. 16
B. It bonds to other RNA molecules, lead-
ing to their destruction. 114. Which correctly outlined the central
dogma
C. It delivers the correct amino acid to
the ribosome. A. DNA → mRNA → rRNA
B. DNA → tRNA → protein
D. It carries the information coding for
the amino acid sequence of a protein. C. DNA → mRNA → protein
D. DNA → amino acid → protein
109. DNA holds the code for
A. lipids 115. What is the Central Dogma of Genetics?
A. DNA encodes mRNA and mRNA makes
B. carbohydrates
proteins
C. protein
B. tRNA encodes DNA and DNA makes
D. sugar proteins

C. tRNA brings in anticodons and codes 120. Hemoglobin has a quaternary structure.
proteins This means:

D. None of the above A. It is in 4-D
B. It is only worth 25% of what a normal
116. The way that the protein chain folds is
protein is worth
determined by:
C. It is made of more than one protein
A. the order of the amino acid sequence
combined together.
B. the order of the bonds within the D. It is non-functional
amino acid
C. the level of protein-ness this polypep- 121. Primary structure describes
tide chain had A. order of amino acids connected by pep-
D. the different monosaccharides it en- tide bonds
counters while folding B. How alpha and beta structures inter-
act
117. Which most directly affects the sequence
C. how amino acids interact with each
of amino acids in a protein?
other to create alpha and beta structures
A. the DNA in the nucleus of the cell
B. the amino acids found in the cytoplasm D. How proteins group together to make
a protein
C. the type of cell in which the protein is 122. Which level of structure involves two or
made more polypeptides attached together and
D. the region of the cell in which the pro- working as one functional unit?
tein is made A. Primary
118. List following structures in order of small- B. Secondary
est to largest. chromosome, gene, nu- C. Tertiary
cleotide, nucleus
D. Quaternary
A. nucleotide, gene, chromosome, nu-
cleus 123. The pairing of in DNA is the key fea-
ture that allows DNA to be copied.
B. nucleus, gene, chromosome, nu-
cleotide A. phosphates
C. nucleus, chromosome, gene, nu- B. nitrogen bases
cleotide C. chromosomes
D. nucleotide, gene, nucleus, chromo- D. sugars
some
124. Two or more segments of the polypeptide
119. Where are proteins made? chain lying side by side (called β strands)
are connected by hydrogen bonds between
A. Golgi body
parts of the two parallel segments of the
B. Mitoichondrion polypeptide backbone.
C. Chromosomes A. Alpha Helix
D. Ribosomes B. Beta Pleated Sheet

C. Hydrogen Bond 130. What effect can a mutation have on an

D. Peptide Bond organism?
A. could cause cancer
125. How are DNA and RNA different?
B. could cause birth defects
A. DNA has 2 strands; RNA has 1
C. could lead to an advantageous trait
B. DNA contains thymine; RNA contains D. all of these
uracil
131. What is the monomer (building block) of
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C. DNA can’t leave the nucleus; RNA can
a protein?
D. All of the choices are correct
A. amino acids
126. The process of creating RNA using DNA B. nucleotide
as the template is
C. fatty acid
A. translation D. monosaccharide
B. transcription
132. Proteins have many functions. Actin and
C. translocation myosin are filaments found in muscles that
D. Transylvania help them contract. This gives humans, for
example, the ability to create
127. Regions stabilized by hydrogen bonds be-
A. Sensation
tween atoms of the polypeptide backbone
B. Enzymation
C. Movement
D. Transportation
133. Which of the following bonds is found in
the secondary structure of a protein?
128. DNA replication results in two DNA A. hydrogen
molecules, B. peptide
A. each one with two original strands C. covalent
B. each one with two new strands D. ionic
C. each one with one new strand and one
134. There are structures of proteins
original strand
A. 4
D. one with two new strands and the
other with two original strands B. 3
C. 6
129. One type of secondary struc-
ture/polypeptides arranged in long D. 2
strands or sheets. 135. A peptide bond is formed between
A. secondary structure A. amino acid and amine group
B. globular proteins B. amino group and “R” group
C. fibrous proteins C. “R” group and carboxyl group
D. none of above D. carboxyl group and amine group

136. Which of the following bond(s) can be C. Tertiary structure

found in a tertiary structure? D. Quaternary Structure

A. hydrogen bond
142. Which level of structure refers to the
B. disulphide bridge three-dimensional structure of the entire
C. hydrophobic interaction polypeptide?
D. all of the above A. Primary
B. Secondary
137. complete 3D structure of the protein
chain C. Tertiary
A. primary structure D. Quaternary
B. secondary structure 143. The main function of tRNA is to
C. tertiary structure A. carry a message that, when translated,
D. quaternary structure forms proteins
B. form a portion of ribosomes
138. What term refers to protein molecules
with repetitive amino acid sequences (usu- C. string together complementary RNA
ally performing a structural role)? and DNA strands
A. tertiary structure D. bring amino acids from the cytoplasm
to the ribosomes
B. globular proteins
C. secondary structure 144. What must one of the variables be like
so that the graph used is a bar chart?
D. fibrous proteins
A. Numerical
139. Genes contain instructions for assembling B. Continuous
C. Categoric
A. ribose
D. Quantitative
B. deoxyribose
145. There are different amino acids that
C. proteins
can join together to form
D. phosphate
A. 20; polypeptides
140. Which column does the independent vari- B. 40; polypeptides
able go in?
C. 25; peptide bonds
A. The first column
D. 20; amino acid
B. The 2nd column
146. Which of the following identifies the num-
C. The last column
ber of water molecules needed to remove
D. It doesn’t matter the amino acids from a polypeptide with
20 amino acids?
141. Overall protein structure that results
from the aggregation of two or more A. 19
polypeptide subunits. B. 20
A. Primary Structure C. 21
B. Secondary Structure D. 22

147. Globular proteins are A. 100

A. primary B. 99
B. secondary C. 101
C. tertiary D. 50
D. quaternary
153. There are a total of
148. What is the location in the cell for tran-
A. 12 Amino Acids
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scription?
A. nucleus B. 64 Amino Acids
B. cytoplasm C. 24 Amino Acids

C. ribosome D. 20 Amino Acids
D. mitochondria 154. Where are proteins folded into their 3D
149. Collagen and Keratin are examples of shape?
A. primary structures A. Ribosomes

B. globular proteins B. Golgi Apparatus
C. fibrous proteins C. sER
D. none of above D. rER
150. The tertiary structure of a protein has the 155. What level of protein structure requires
following bonds .. more than 1 polypeptide chain.
A. Hydrogen, Peptide, Ionic, Disulfide A. Primary
bridges
B. Secondary
B. Ionic
C. Tertiary
C. Disulfide bridges
D. Quaternary
D. Hydrogen
151. What is the difference between DNA and 156. How many structures or levels are there
RNA in proteins?
A. DNA has uracil and RNA has thymine A. 1

B. DNA is involved in transcription and B. 2
RNA is involved in translation C. 3
C. DNA contains thymine and RNA con- D. 4
tains uracil
D. DNA is made of nucleotides and RNA is 157. What elements make up a protein?
not A. CHO
152. Upon chemical analysis, a particular B. CHON
polypeptide was found to contain 100
C. CHON and sometimes S
amino acids. How many peptide bonds are
present in this protein? D. CH

158. Which type of protein speeds up chemical 163. This variable will change in response to
reactions? the variable that is changed in the investi-
gation.

A. signaling proteins
A. Independent variable
B. enzyme
B. Dependent variable
C. antibody
C. Control variables
D. contractile proteins
D. Infinite variables
159. These building blocks consist of a sugar, 164. An example of a structural protein is
phosphate, and nitrogen base.
A. Insulin
A. Ribose
B. Actin
B. Nucleotide
C. Myosin
C. Gene D. Keratin
D. Protein
165. Our bodies can synthesize some of the es-
160. Extension Question:Misfolding of sential amino acids we need, but where do
polypeptides is a serious problem in cells. we get the ones we cannot synthesize?
Which of the following diseases are asso- A. eating animal protein
ciated with an accumulation of misfolded B. taking a supplement
polypeptides?
C. eating plant protein
A. Cancer
D. drinking plenty of water
B. Eczema
166. What type of protein is hemoglobin
C. Diabetes
A. primary
D. Alzheimers
B. secondary
161. What are molecular chaperones? C. tertiary
A. 3D conformation D. quaternary
B. Speeds up metabolic reactions 167. Any change in the sequence of DNA is
C. Bind to short stretches of hydropho- A. transgenic shift
bic amino acids to help unfold proteins
B. Single Genotype
achieve their proper 3D conformation.
C. Monohybrid Trait
D. binds to a single molecule of oxygen
D. Mutation
162. The main bonding that holds together the
168. A set of three nucleotides that code for a
secondary structure of a protein is
specific amino acid.
A. covalent bonding A. Nucleotide
B. ionic bonding B. Gene
C. hydrogen bonding C. Chromosome
D. polar bonding D. Codon

169. Refers to the complex, three-dimensional 174. The secondary structure of protein has
structure of a single amino acid chain in a the following bonds
protein molecule. A. Peptide
A. tertiary structure B. Peptide and Hydrogen
B. primary structure C. Hydrogen
C. secondary structure D. no bonds
D. fibrous proteins 175. What organelle is responsible for energy
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production?
170. tick the correct box
A. nucleus
A. Secondary-silk, Tertiary-enzymes, B. mitochondria
Quaternary-haemoglobin
C. ribosome
B. Secondary-haemoglobin, Tertiary-
D. cell membrane
enzymes, Quaternary-silk
C. Secondary-Enzymes Tertiary-haemoglobin, 176. A delicate coil held together by hydrogen
Quaternary-silk bonding between every fourth amino acid
A. Alpha Helix
D. Secondary-Silk, Tertiary-haemoglobin,
Quaternary-enzymes B. Beta Pleated Sheet
C. Hydrogen Bond
171. Which two scientist developed the double
helix model of DNA? D. Peptide Bond
A. Watson and Crick 177. Which 4 elements make up most of all liv-
ing matter?
B. Darwin and Wallace
A. Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen
C. Franklin and McDermitt
B. Carbon, Oxygen, Sodium, Potassium
D. Perry and Tyler C. Carbon, Hydrogen, Calcium, Nitrogen
172. There are a total of different amino D. Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Sulphur
acids 178. Which of the following is the monomer of
A. 20 a protein?
B. 1 A. Amino Acid
C. 4 B. Monosaccharide
C. Nucleotide
D. unlimited
D. Steroid
173. Three-dimensional shape stabilized by in-
179. The bond between two amino acids is
teractions between side chains
called
A. Peptide bond
B. Secondary Structure B. Amino acid bond
C. Tertiary structure C. Nothing. There isn’t a name for it
D. Quaternary Structure D. Hydrogen bond

180. Protein Synthesis is often represented 185. Amylase breaks down starch as it encoun-
as:DNA → mRNA → protein. Which of ters saliva. What kind of protein would it
the following is step 2 of protein synthe- be?

sis?
A. structural
A. Transcription
B. enzyme
B. Translation
C. motor
C. Replication
D. signaling
D. Respiration
186. Bonds which stabilize the tertiary struc-
181. Which is the mRNA molecule that ture of a protein.
would be transcribed from this DNA tem-
A. hydrophobic interactions
plate:TGGCAAGTACGT
B. hydrogen bonds
A. ACCGTTCATGCA
C. hydrogen bonds, hydrophobic interac-
B. UGGCAAGUACGU
tions, disulfide bridges, ionic bonds
C. UCCGUUCUUGCU
D. disulfide bridges
D. ACCGUUCAUGCA
187. Sub unit that makes up a protein
182. All amino acids are made of three parts.
A. Nitrogen bases
Which is not a section of an amino acid?
B. Nucleotides
A. Carboxyl Group
C. Amino acid
B. Amino Group
D. Chromosome
C. Side Chain
D. Ester Group 188. In our experiment, what happened when
we denatured the egg whites?
183. The primary structure of a protein is a
A. They exploded!
linked together by bonds.
B. It turned green and smelled badly.
A. Polypeptide, Peptide
C. It turned white and cloudy.
B. Dipeptide, Hydrogen
D. Nothing
C. Polygon, Covalent
D. Peptidoglycan, Ionic 189. Why is folding so important in proteins?
A. It gives them a unique, functional
184. Amino acids are covalently bonded to-
shape.
gether in a condensation reaction. What
do we call this covalent bond? B. It makes them look tidier.
A. Peptide C. The folding is random so is not that im-
portant at all.
B. Covalent
D. It makes every protein molecule dif-
C. Ionic
ferent from the next even if they are the
D. Protein same type.

190. Which of these is not a monosaccharide? 196. An RNA sample is taken from a chipmunk
A. glucose and a human. Both will have
B. ribose A. The base thymine and the sugar de-
oxyribose
C. glyceraldehyde
D. maltose B. The base uracil and the sugar ribose
191. Which part of the amino acid varies for C. The sugar ribose and the base thymine
each amino acid?
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A. Carboxylic acid D. Deoxyribose and the sugar uracil
B. The central carbon
197. What happens to an enzyme when it is
C. The R Group denatured?
D. Amine group
A. Activation energy is lowered.
192. The totality of proteins expressed within
B. It becomes stronger.
a cell, tissue or organism at a certain time.
A. Proteome C. It loses its shape.
B. Genome D. Activation energy is raised.

C. Proteino
198. Identify the type of bond that links amino
D. Amino acidosis acids in a protein.
193. If you didn’t keep these the same then A. hydrogen
they would also affect the results and the
test would be unfair. B. peptide
A. Dependent variable C. glycosidic
B. Control variables D. ester
C. Independent variables
199. Where in the cell does transcription oc-
D. Repeat variables
cur?
194. The proteome may contain more than
A. nucleus
proteins.
A. 1, 000, 000 B. cytoplasm
B. 2 C. ribosome
C. 20-25, 000 D. mitochondria
D. 0
200. How are the amino acids linked together
195. Same or different types of secondary during translation?
structure folded in a globular shape.
A. by creating peptide bonds
A. secondary proteins
B. by creating hydrogen bonds
B. globular proteins
C. fibrous proteins C. by creating covalent bonds
D. none of above D. by creating phospate bonds

201. Which level of protein structure is formed C. UUG and ACU

solely by covalent bonds? D. AAC and UGA

A. Primary
207. Which of these is an example of a protein
B. Secondary with a quaternary structure?
C. Tertiary A. Hemoglobin
D. Quaternary B. Human epidermal growth factor
C. Pepsin
202. Hemoglobin and enzymes are examples
of D. Collagen
A. primary proteins 208. DNA is the template for
B. globular proteins A. amino acids
C. fibrous proteins B. tRNA
D. none of above C. mRNA
D. sugars
203. The bonding of two amino acid molecules
to form a larger molecule requires which 209. If amino acids are arranged out of se-
of the following? quence:
A. Addition of a water molecule A. The protein may not work
B. Removal of a water molecule B. There is immediate death
C. Addition of a glycosidic bond C. You can process carbohydrates
D. Formation of a hydrogen bond D. You cannot make ATP
210. What type of bonds hold the nitrogen
204. Which bases pair together in DNA?
bases in the DNA rungs together?
A. A to T and G to C
A. ionic bonds
B. A to U and G to C B. hydrogen bonds
C. A to G and T to C C. peptide bonds
D. A to C and T to G D. james bonds
205. Which of the macromolecules contain ni- 211. Tendons and ligaments are examples of
trogen? A. recognition proteins.
A. proteins only B. enzymatic proteins.
B. nucleic acids only C. transport proteins.
C. proteins and lipids D. structural proteins.
D. nucleic acids and proteins 212. Where are proteins modified and pack-
aged into vesicles?
206. Which of the following is the tRNA
that will be used to decode to this DNA A. Ribosomes
strand:AACTGA B. Golgi Body/Apparatus
A. AAC and TGA C. rER
B. TTG and ACT D. sER

213. A flower is yellow in the warm summer 218. What are the names of bonds that hold
and white in the cold winter. What does together amino acids
this show? A. ionic bonds
A. The plant changes it’s DNA in different B. covalent bonds
temperatures
C. hydrogen bonds
B. Gene expression is not influenced by
the environment D. peptide bonds
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C. Gene expression is influenced by the 219. Proteins have many functions. Im-
environment; the temperature munoglobulins produce antibodies by
D. none of above plasma cells that are capable of target-
ing specific antigens. This serves as to
214. Only occurs in amino acids with a function in
sulfhydryl(SH) group. A. Structure
A. peptide bonds B. Hormone
B. disulfide bonds C. Immunity
C. hydrogen bonds D. Transport
D. hydrophilic bonds 220. Which nucleotide is complementary to
adenine?
215. What are ways proteins can denature?
A. adenine
A. Protein folding
B. thymine
B. Binding with other amino acids
C. cytosine
C. Stretches itself
D. guanine
D. none of above
221. A polypeptide is formed with the forma-
216. This question tests your ability to random tion of two amino acids in the terminal
which answer is correct and terminal.
A. . A. A terminal, B terminal
B. . B. B terminal, A terminal
C. . C. C Terminal, N terminal
D. . D. C Terminal, M terminal
217. Proteins have many functions. 222. Proteins in your blood prefer for the envi-
Hemoglobin is a protein found in red blood ronment to be at a neutral pH. What type
cells that is responsible for oxygen of environment would proteins in the stom-
throughout the body. ach require?
A. Structuring A. acidic
B. Hormoning B. basic
C. Immunity C. neutral
D. Transporting D. none of above

223. Contains peptide bonds and di-sulfide 228. A mutation is defined as:
bonds (covalent bonds) A. A change in the cell’s structure

A. Primary structure B. Anything that changes in an embryo
B. secondary structure C. Any change in the physical features of
C. tertiary structure a human
D. quaternary structure D. A change in the DNA sequence
229. A sequence of nucleotides found in DNA

224. When these bond together, they form a
of a chromosome that code for a specific
protein
protein.
A. Amino Acids
A. Allele
B. Peptide Bonds B. Gene
C. Ribose C. Codon
D. Nucleotides D. Phenotype
225. Which is NOT a function of proteins? 230. How many amino acids can be repre-
A. They provide a hydrophobic membrane sented by a single 3-base DNA sequence?
A. 1
B. They act as antibodies in the immune B. 3
system C. 6
C. They make-up structures such as mus- D. 8
cles
231. Proteins are made up of
D. They regulate cell processes by help-
ing to speed up chemical reactions (en- A. Amino Acids
zymes) B. Sugars
226. If both variables are numeric then the C. Glycerol
only graph type you should use is D. Fatty Acids
A. a bar graph 232. How many monomers can a protein
B. a line graph molecule contain?
C. a pie chart A. 10
C. 1, 000
227. A occurs when a DNA gene is dam-
aged or changed in such a way as to alter D. 10, 000+
the genetic message carried by that gene. 233. Translation is the process where
A. mutagen A. mRNA is created in the Nucleus
B. mutation B. mRNA is decoded to form a protein
C. genetic engineering C. glucose molecules are made
D. adaptation D. is where lipids are synthesised

234. The building blocks, or subunits of pro- the cells to ability to their surround-
teins are called ings.
A. polymers. A. Sense
B. amino acids. B. Enzyme
C. monomers. C. Move
D. peptide bonds D. Transporting
240. What is the location in the cell for trans-
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235. If in a method it describes several dif-
ferent values for a variable this will most lation?
likely make this the variable. A. nucleus
A. Independent B. mitochondria
B. Dependent C. ribosome
C. Control D. chloroplast
D. none of above 241. How many different amino acids are used
to make proteins?
236. Guanine bonds with
A. 15
A. Adenine
B. 20
B. Guanine
C. 25
C. Cytosine
D. 30
D. Thymine
242. The process to go from mRNA to a pro-
237. Hemoglobin is a quaternary level protein tein is called
because
A. transcription
A. It has a globular shape.
B. rRNA
B. It has iron in each heme group.
C. replication
C. It consists of more than one polypep-
D. translation
tide chain.
D. It has more than one peptide bonds. 243. The tertiary structure folding in proteins
is primarily due to the interactions of
238. This is a structural change in a protein A. the ‘R’ group
that results in the loss of its biological
properties. B. the ‘S’ group
C. the ‘P’ group
A. Denaturation
D. the ‘A’ group
B. Deproteination
C. Amino acidation 244. Determined by bonding interactions be-
tween the side chains on amino acids
D. Naturation
239. Proteins have many functions. B. secondary structure
Rhodopsin is a pigment found in
photoreceptor cells of the retina that is re- C. tertiary structure
sponsible for the detection of light, giving D. quaternary structure

245. tRNA has a sequence of three nitrogen B. 2

bases attached called C. 6

A. Codons D. 12
B. Base pairs
251. Is like the order of letters in a very long
C. Anticodons word. If left to chance, there would be 20
D. Genes 127 different ways of making a polypep-
tide chain 127 amino acids long.
246. Water-repelling R-groups fold to the in-
side in tertiary protein structure because A. Primary Structure
they are: B. Secondary Structure
A. hydrophobic C. Tertiary structure
B. shy D. Quaternary Structure
C. hydrophilic 252. Which of the following is the comple-
D. agoraphobic mentary mRNA sequence to this DNA
strand:AACTGAA
247. Which of these is part of the description
A. UUGACUU
of protein?
B. TTGACTT
A. a folded chain of amino acids
C. AACTGAA
B. a folded chain of carbohydrates
D. AACUGAA
C. a branched chain of fatty acids
D. a branched chain of nucleic acids 253. Tertiary protein structures are mainly
maintained by
248. Formed between the amino group and
A. hydrogen bond
carboxyl group of an amino acid (formed
through dehydration synthesis) B. disulfide bridges
A. hydrogen bond C. covalent bonds
B. peptide bond D. all of the above
C. disulfide bond 254. All proteins have an optimal pH. What is
D. Van der Waals it?
A. about 3
249. A sequence of DNA which encodes a
polypeptide sequence is called: B. about 14
A. gene C. about 2
B. transcription D. it varies based on environment
C. translation 255. The two types of folding in the protein
D. DNA structure are
A. polypeptide and nucleotide
250. How many amino acids are coded for by
this sequence of nucleotides:ATG GGA ACT B. globular and fibrous
CCA C. alpha-helix and beta-pleated sheets
A. 4 D. none of above

256. Dictates protein structure, due to the A. polysaccharide

chemical nature of the backbone and the B. disaccharide
side chains (R groups) of the amino acids
along the polypeptide. C. polypeptide
A. Primary Structure D. monomer
B. Secondary Structure 258. Linear chain of amino acids

C. Tertiary structure A. Primary Structure
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D. Quaternary Structure B. Secondary Structure
257. Many amino acids bonded together C. Tertiary structure

makes up a D. Quaternary Structure

2. Enzymes
2.1 Enzymes
1. What temperature do you think our en- C. activator
zymes will work the best at?
D. substrate
A. room temperature, 25 degrees
B. 0 degree 5. An example of competitive inhibition of an
enzyme is the inhibition of
C. 50 degrees
D. 37 degrees A. Succinic dehydrogenase by malonate
B. Cytochrome oxidase by Cyanide
2. Question:A substance that speeds up the
rate of a chemical reaction is called C. Hexokinase by glucose-6 phosphate
A. a molecule. D. none of above
B. a lipid.
6. What does Amylase break down?
C. a catalyst.
D. an element. A. Vitamins
3. Pepsin and trypsin are enzymes that are B. Protein

characterized as C. Carbohydrates
A. sugars D. Fats
B. carbs
C. lipids 7. In a chemical reaction, are what you
have at the end
D. proteins
A. Products
4. The new molecule or substances released
by the enzyme are called: B. Molecules
A. products C. Reactants
B. active site D. Substances

2.1 Enzymes 184
8. Which biomolecule helps form body struc- 14. Which enzyme breaks down carbohy-
tures like muscles? drates?
A. Nucleic Acid A. Lipase
B. Carbohydrate B. Protease
C. Protein
C. Amylase
D. Lipids
D. none of above
9. hypothesis states that an enzyme un-
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dergoes a slight change in shape to achieve 15. Which of these do NOT affect enzyme ac-
an optimum fi t for the substrate. tivity?
A. Lock and Key A. Temperature
B. Induced fit B. pH
C. Jigsaw
C. Competitive Inhibitors
D. Socket and joint
D. Carbohydrates
10. Significantly changing the pH the enzyme
is exposed to will cause the enzyme to 16. Enzymes having slightly different molecu-
A. increase enzymatic action lar structure but performing identical activ-
ity are
B. fit better with the substrate
C. denature A. holoenzymes
D. evaporate B. apoenzymes
11. A reaction where electrons are moved C. isoenzymes

around is a: D. multienzymes
A. Neutralization
17. Fats are a primary example of which class
B. Hydrolysis
of biomolecule?
C. RedOx Reaction
A. Carbohydrate
D. Phosphorylation
B. Lipid
12. The monomer of a protein is called
C. Nucleic Acid
A. an amino acid
D. Proteins
B. a monosaccharide
C. a fatty acid 18. What are enzymes?
D. a nucleotide
A. Proteins that act as biological cata-
13. what is 3 groups held together with high lysts
energy bonds? B. Living organisms that act as biological
A. Adenine catalysts
B. ADP C. Complex carbohydrates that act as bi-
C. Phosphate ological catalysts
D. ribosomes D. none of above

2.1 Enzymes 185
19. What might cause an enzyme to be dena- 25. Factor(s) that can affect how an enzyme
tured? works is/are

A. temperatures above the optimal A. temperature only
B. Low pH B. pH only
C. temperatures below the optimal C. both temperature and pH
D. Temperatures at the optimal D. neither temperature or pH
20. Amylase breaks down simple 26. Which enzyme cofactor is permanently
A. fats bound to the enzyme?
B. proteins A. Inorganic ions
C. amino acids B. Organic ions
D. starches/carbs C. Prosthetic groups
21. The energy that is needed to get a chemical D. Coenzymes

reaction started is called 27. where does the energy come from again
A. exothermic energy A. carbon based molecules in your food
B. activation energy B. protein based molecules in your food
C. activation catalyst
C. lipid based molecules in your food
D. endothermic energy
D. all of the above
22. Question:What is the process that changes
28. exothermic-
one set of chemicals into another set of
chemicals? A. release energy
A. hydrogen bonding B. speed up reactions
B. cohesion C. absorb energy
C. dissolving D. chem reaction
D. chemical reaction 29. A higher can increase the reaction
23. The bonds that are most likely to form be- rate.
tween the active site of an enzyme and A. Concentration of enzyme or substrate
reversible competitive inhibitor are? B. pH
A. Peptide bonds
C. inhibitors
B. Hydrogen bonds and peptide bonds
D. all of the choices are correct
C. Ionic bonds and disulfide bridges
30. The (A) the amount of activation
D. Ionic and hydrogen bonds
energy required, the (B) the rate
24. What can destroy an Enzyme? of reaction at a given temperature
A. Poison A. A = greater, B= faster
B. Extreme Tempatures B. A = lower, B= slower
C. High Acidicity C. A = greater, B= slower
D. All of the Above D. A = lower, B= faster

2.1 Enzymes 186
31. In a chemical reaction, a reactant binds to A. Induced fit model

an enzyme at a region known as the B. Lock and Key model
A. catalyst C. both
B. substrate D. neither
C. product
37. What affects Enzyme activity?
D. active site
A. Nothing
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32. How does a catalyst affect activation en- B. Temperature, Environment, Diet
ergy?
C. Temperature, Activators, Ph levels, In-
A. raises hibitors
B. lowers D. Cataylst and Substrate
C. has no effect 38. What happens when enzymes are cooled
D. none of above down?
33. Starches and sugars are examples of what A. The enzymes die
class of biomolecule? B. The shapes of the enzyme are altered
or denatured
A. Carbohydrate
C. The enzyme slows down
B. Lipid
D. The active site is altered
C. Nucleic Acid
D. Proteins 39. What is it called when an enzyme’s shape
is changed?
34. What is the name of the molecule or sub-
A. Destroy
stance that the enzyme reacts with
B. Denature
A. Substrate
C. Delete
B. active site
D. Demolish
C. product
D. enzyme 40. Many monomers can be linked together to
form
35. What is Activation Energy? A. building blocks
A. The minimum energy to complete a B. chemical reactions
chemical reaction
C. polymers
B. The maximum energy to start a chemi-
D. energy
cal reaction
C. The minimum energy to end a chemical 41. A cell contains
reaction A. thousands of different kinds of en-
D. The minimum energy to start a chemi- zymes
cal reaction B. one kind of enzyme
36. Which model will temparoryly change C. approximately 100 enzymes
shape when stimulated by its proper sub- D. one enzyme that promotes photosyn-
strate. thesis and the cellular respiration

2.1 Enzymes 187
42. Enzymes are macromolecule that is made 48. What happens to an enzyme when its ac-
up of tive site changes shape irreversibly?

A. Carbohydrates A. It is killed
B. Lipid B. It is denatured
C. Protein C. It is diffused
D. Nucleic acid D. none of above
43. Enzymes are composed of 49. Th pH scale ranges from . . .

A. Fatty Acids and Glycerol A. 1-7
B. Nucleic Acids B. 7-14
C. Monosaccharides and nitric acids C. 1-14
D. Amino Acids D. none of above
44. Which of the following is NOT a fat- 50. What is the purpose of enzymes?
soluble vitamin? A. slow down chemical reactions in a cell
A. Vitamin A
B. Vitamin K B. regulate the size of a cell
C. Vitamin E C. regulate the shape of a cell
D. Vitamin C D. speed up chemical reactions in a cell
45. What is the optimum pH of enzymes in our 51. Which sequence of DNA bases would pair
stomach? with this partial strandATG TGA CAG
A. 2 A. ATG TGA CAG
B. 6.5 B. TAC ACT GTC
C. 8 C. GTA AGT GAC
D. 10 D. CAT TCA CTG
46. Each enzyme only has 1 substrate that will 52. What affect does enzymes have in living
fit its active site. What is this called? organisms?
A. reusable A. they speed up chemical reactions in
the body
B. catalyst
B. they slow down chemical reactions in
C. specific the body
D. fragile C. they kill organisms
47. Enzymes are composed of what organic D. none of above
molecule?
53. Which effect does a gradual decrease in pH
A. Sugars from 13 to 1 have on the action of amy-
B. DNA lase?
C. Fatty acids A. slows it down only
D. Proteins B. slows it down then speeds it up

2.1 Enzymes 188
C. speeds it up only 59. What happens when a competitve inhibitor

D. speeds it up then slows it down binds to the active site of the enzyme?
A. Catalysis occurs
54. enzymes-
B. Denaturation
A. make products
C. No catalysis occurs
B. control reactants
D. The enzyme changes to fit the inhibitor
C. speed up reactants
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D. raise activation energy 60. How can an increase in enzyme-catalysed
reaction rate be achieved if an enzyme is
55. Why do bacteria have restriction en- saturated?
zymes?
A. By adding more substrate molecules
A. To prevent being infected by viruses
B. By adding more enzymes
B. To help DNA get into the cell
C. By lowering the temperature of the re-
C. To be able to grow in an incubator action
D. They don’t-viruses have restriction en- D. By changing the pH of the reaction
zymes
61. Which of the following IS a physical
56. What happens to the reaction rate if an change?
enzyme is denatured or nonfunctional?
A. Getting a haircut
A. no change to the reaction rate
B. Rusty metal
B. increase in reaction rate
C. sour milk
C. decrease in reaction rate
D. A compound
D. decrease then increase reaction rate
57. Which of the following statement sug- 62. You are analyzing a compound in the labo-
gests that the shape of an enzyme deter- ratory. You find that it is made up of car-
mines the enzyme’s function? bon, hydrogen, and oxygen in a ratio of
two hydrogen atoms for each carbon atom.
A. enzymes can operate in a wide range How will you classify the compound?
of conditions
A. lipid
B. enzymes are specific to a substrate
B. protein
C. enzymes are activated by neighboring
molecules C. carbohydrate
D. none of above D. nucleic acid
58. With what 3 letters do enzymes typically 63. Where does the reaction between enzyme
end? and substrate take place?
A. -ose A. Active site
B. -ase B. substrate
C. -ese C. product
D. -tic D. activator

2.1 Enzymes 189
64. Most enzymes- 69. Which biomolecule is used for quick en-
A. keep the rate of the chemical reaction ergy?
A. Carbohydrate

the same
B. have no effect on the rate of the chem- B. Lipid
ical reaction C. Nucleic Acid
C. speed up the chemical reaction D. Proteins
D. slow the rate of the chemical reaction 70. when ATP is broken down, it energy
for the cell to use and becomes ADP and a
65. What type of reactions can able to change
phosphate
products back to the their original form?
A. Releases
A. Reversible reactions
B. adds
B. Irreversible reactions
C. None of the above
C. Combustion reactions
D. none of above
D. Combination reactions
71. A substrate binds to the of an en-
66. Enzymes need certain environmental condi- zyme.
tions in order to function properly. What A. Product
happens when enzymes are heated to a B. Inhibitor
high temperature?
C. Active site
A. they die
D. none of above
B. they denature
72. Which of the following is NOT a way that
C. they change their amino acid sequence enzymes speed up chemical reactions?
A. strain bonds in the structure
D. they work better
B. orient reacting molecules
67. Amylase is an enzyme found in saliva that C. provide favorable environment
helps break down starch in your mouth. In D. increase required energy of activation
this chemical reaction, starch would be an
example of a(n) 73. As the temperature increases, enzyme’s
rate of reaction increases why?
A. substrate
A. increased no. of enzymes
B. enzyme
B. substrates are active
C. active site
C. higher kinetic energy so higher colli-
D. product sions
68. The “lock and key hypothesis” attempts D. enzymes are occupied
to explain the mechanism of? 74. Enzymes are classified as:
A. Vacuole formation A. Carbohydrates
B. Pinocytosis B. Nucleic acids
C. Sharing of electrons C. Lipids
D. Enzyme specificity D. Proteins

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75. Which of the following is a not a use of D. Enzymes converts activation energy to
enzymes? chemical energy
A. hormone production 81. This can counteract the impact of competi-
B. DNA replication (synthesis) tive inhibitors
C. Protein synthesis A. Increasing the concentration of com-
D. digestion of food petitive inhibitors
B. Decreasing substrate conc.
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76. Which biomolecule is the most diveres and
has a variety of functions? C. Decreasing enzyme conc.
D. Increasing substrate conc.
A. Carbohydrate
B. Lipid 82. What are the reactants of enzyme-
catalyzed reactions?
C. Nucleic Acid
A. active sites
D. Proteins
B. subunits
77. A process that changes one set of chemi-
C. substrates
cals into a new set of chemicals.
D. products
A. chemical reaction
B. physical reaction 83. Which group of organic compounds in-
cludes the enzymes?
C. synthetic reaction
A. proteins
D. chemical production
B. starches
78. Where do you find Enzymes?
C. carbohydrates
A. Digestive System
D. lipids
B. Blood Clots
84. Lipase is an enzyme that breaks down
C. Liver
A. Lipids (fats)
D. All of the Above
B. Amylose (startch)
79. It is an enzyme that is composed only of C. Protein
proteins.
D. none of above
A. Simple enzyme
B. Conjugated enzyme 85. Why is shape important?
C. Apoenzyme A. Function determines speed
D. Holoenzyme B. Shape determines function
C. Function determines pH level
80. What is the effect of enzymes on activa-
tion energy? D. none of above
A. Enzymes have no effect on activation 86. Which of the following is the reduced form
energy of vitamin C?
B. Enzymes lower activation energy A. Ascorbate
C. Enzymes increases activation energy B. Ascorbic acid

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C. Dehydroascorbic acid B. stays the same

D. Hydroascorbic acid C. no change

87. The amount of energy required to begin a D. increases
chemical reaction is called?
93. What is the name of the enzyme found in
A. Substrate Energy your saliva?
B. Start Energy A. protease
C. Activation Energy B. carbohydrase
D. none of above C. lipase
88. With what three letters do most enzymes D. amylase
end?
94. Only protease can catalyses the break-
A. ein down of protein. This shows that enzyme
B. ate A. is a biological catalyst
C. ade B. is highly specific in action
D. ase C. able to speed up chemical reaction
89. What phase does DNA replicate in D. may catalyses reversibly
A. exothermic 95. Enzymes are that chemical reac-
B. telophate tions by the amount of activation en-
C. S phase ergy required to start the reaction.
D. metaphase A. carbohydrates, slow down, lowering

B. proteins, speed up, increasing
90. What is an enzyme?
C. lipids, speed up, lowering
A. A protein that speeds up chemical re-
actions D. proteins, speed up, lowering
B. A protein that breaks apart molecules 96. What happens when an enzyme changes
C. A protein needed for cell structure shape?
D. A neurological protein involved in cell A. The reaction speeds up
signaling B. The reaction slows down
91. Enzymes are.. C. The enzyme dies
A. lipids D. The enzyme has to change back its
shape to work
B. carbohydrates
C. proteins 97. The substance(s) released from the en-
zyme is the
D. nucleic acids
A. Product
92. How does an enzyme’s activity change
with increasing concentration of sub- B. Substrate
strate? C. Reactant
A. decreases D. Substrate or Reactant

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98. Which bond would take the most energy 104. why do enzymes bring reactants to-
to break? gether?
A. Single A. dont have to expand energy
B. Double B. to have a party
C. Triple C. make molecules
D. all are the same D. none of above
105. Enzymes will make a reaction go and
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99. What is the function of a catalyst?
use energy.
A. Slows down reactions.
A. faster, less
B. Doubles the reaction.
B. faster, more
C. Speeds up reactions.
C. slower, less
D. Denatures enzymes.
D. slower, more
100. What is broken down by the enzyme
Amylase? 106. The region on an enzyme where a sub-
strate or substrates can attach perfectly,
A. Sugar like a lock and key, is called
B. Starch A. reaction site
C. Oils B. active site
D. Meat C. product site
101. Changes in pH and can alter the work D. bonding site
of an enzyme.
107. Which of the following enzymes would
A. Substrates digest a fat?
B. Reactants A. lipase
C. Sunlight B. fatase
D. Temperature C. amylase
102. Chemical reactions typically involve the D. none of above
input of some energy in order to begin. 108. What macromolecule is an enzyme
This is known as the
A. carbohydrate
A. Rate of Reaction
B. lipid
B. Transition State
C. protein
C. Activation Energy
D. Nucleic acids
D. ATP Factor
109. Fats, oils and cholesterol are all types of
103. The shape of a protein is determined by what?
A. the type and order of its amino acids A. cell membranes
B. its size B. hormones
C. its cell location C. lipids
D. none of the above D. fatty acids

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110. The delta G of a catalyzed reaction is 30 B. 2

kJ/mol. If you double the reaction, what C. 7
would be delta G of the catalyzed reac-

tion? D. 9
A. 0 kJ/mol 116. Proteins are broken down into smaller
B. 15 kJ/mol molecules such as amino acids by what
sort of enzyme?
C. 30 kJ/mol
A. amylase
D. 60 kJ/mol
B. protease
111. An enzyme that removes H during ETC in
C. nuclease
cell respiration is:
D. lipase
A. dehydrogenase
B. nitrogenase 117. How do enzymes increase the speed of
chemical reactions?
C. ATP Synthase
D. lipase A. reducing the number of products
B. reducing the activation energy
112. What are the enzymes called when they
are at low temperature? C. increasing the temperature of the cell
A. denatured
D. increasing the concentration of reac-
B. Killed tants
C. inactive
118. After the enzyme and substrate bind to-
D. normal gether and perform the reaction, what
113. Which biomolecule includes sugars, cellu- does the substrate become?
lose and starch? A. asubstrate (s)
A. Lipids B. enzyme(s)
B. Proteins C. product(s)
C. Carbohydrates D. inhibitor(s)
D. Nucleic Acid
119. Enzymes
114. Changes in pH and temperature can A. are able to heat up molecules so that
an enzyme which causes it to lose its shape they can react
and affects its function.
B. provide CO2 for chemical reactions
A. puncture
C. are biological catalysts
B. denature
D. absorb excess heat so that reactions
C. double occur at low temperatures
D. delete
120. When the rate of the forward reaction is
115. What is the optimum pH of pepsin (found equal to the rate of the backward reaction
in the stomach gastric juice of humans) it is called
A. 5 A. Stagnate

2.1 Enzymes 194
B. Finished 126. Restriction enzymes need the right tem-

C. Equilibrium perature and buffer in order to work be-
cause . . .
D. Product
A. they recreate the conditions from the
121. Which of the following enzymes transfer bacteria at which the enzyme works
groups of molecules to water molecules?
B. they cut the DNA
A. ligases
B. isomerases C. they allow the DNA to move through
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the gel
C. hydrolases
D. transferases D. they aren’t needed-it’s just a waste of
time
122. activation energy is needed to get a
started 127. what is a reactant?
A. chemical bond A. it’s called a substrate
B. product
B. substances that are changed during a
C. reaction reaction
D. catalyst
C. all of the above
123. A catalyst is an enzyme that D. none of above
A. A) speeds up the rate of a reaction.
B. B) reduces the amount of energy 128. Enzymes are made up of monomers of?
needed for a reaction to start. A. monosaccharides
C. Both A and B are correct
B. Amino acids
D. Neither A nor B are correct
C. Fatty acids
124. Enzymes are “Specific” which best de-
scribes this? D. Glycerol
A. function best under certain environ-
129. A vitamin that was once called the “yel-
mental conditions
low vitamin” because of its color.
B. speeds up only one type of reaction.
(Like a lock and key!!!) Example:Amylase- A. Thiamin
only breaks down starches. B. Niacin
C. can catalyze the same reaction over
C. Biotin
and over again.
D. none of above D. Riboflavin
125. How does a noncompetitive inhibitor de- 130. most enzymes end in
crease reaction rates?
A. -ase
A. binds to the active site
B. -tein
B. binds to the allosteric site
C. increases the free energy C. -acids
D. increases the substrate concentration D. -lipids

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131. What factors affect an enzyme’s reaction C. Both

rate?
D. none of above

A. temperature
B. pH 137. Question:The energy needed to get a re-
action started is the
C. substrate concentration
A. chemical energy.
D. all of these
B. activation energy.
132. The substances on the left side of the ar-
row are C. adhesion energy.
A. products D. cohesion energy.

B. reactants 138. Restriction Enzymes . . .
C. inhibitors
A. cut DNA at precise locations
D. catalysts
B. help bacteria to pick up DNA
133. Which category of macromolecules do en- C. move DNA through a gel
zymes belong to?
D. copy DNA
A. Carbohydrates
B. Proteins 139. Chemical reactions that absorb energy
C. Fats/Lipids are known as
D. none of above A. Endothermic

B. Exothermic
134. Which of the following is NOT true about
enzymes? C. Boring
A. Enzymes are proteins D. Explosive
B. Enzymes lower the activation energy
140. A product of the chemical reaction involv-
C. Enzymes react with the substrate in a ing fats and the lipase enzyme is
chemical reaction.
A. fatty acids
D. Enzymes catalyzes chemical reactions
B. amino acids
135. In the equation, 2Mg + O2 → 2MgO,
which are the reactants? C. simple sugars like glucose
A. Mg and O D. starch
B. MgO 141. Which of the following is a way to
C. Mg and MgO overcome competitive inhibition of an en-
zyme?
D. O and MgO
A. increase product concentration
136. Which of the following denatures an en-
zyme? B. increase substrate concentration
A. High Temperatures C. decrease enzyme concentration
B. Incorrect pH D. decrease environmental temperature

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142. Which one of the following is not true 147. The specific location where the sub-
about enzymes? strates bind to the enzyme is called
A. enzymes catalyse chemical reactions A. specific site
in living organisms B. appropriate site
B. enzymes have a certain 3D shape that C. active site
is important
D. ignition site
C. enzymes get used up in a chemical re-
148. Substrates are the
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action
D. enzymes convert substrate(s )into A. Reactants
product(s) B. Products
C. Enzymes
143. Where do all enzymes work?
D. Catalysts
A. small intestine
B. large intestine 149. What happens to the activity of an en-
zyme as the temperature is increased?
C. stomach
A. It increases
D. liver
B. It decreases
144. Enzymes are proteins that are found in C. It increases to a maximum then it de-
cells. What is their role? creases
A. They speed up chemical reactions in D. none of above
cells.
150. What is the relatively small part of an en-
B. They lower the activation energy zyme’s structure that is actually involved
needed for some reactions. in catalysis?
C. They regulate the absorption of energy A. substrate
in chemical reactions.
B. cofactor
D. All the other answers are correct. C. active site
145. What is the optimum temperature for D. enzyme-substrate complex
most enzymes in humans
151. Identify the correct lock and key pair
A. 0 C
A. Key = Product; Lock = Substrate
B. 20 C B. Key = Product; Lock = Enzyme
C. 37C C. Key = Enzyme; Lock = Substrate
D. 80 C D. Key = Substrate; Lock = Enzyme
146. What are proteins broken down into? 152. what are the 5 ways to change the rate
of chemical reaction?
A. Fatty acids
A. Temperature, pH, Substrate, Billy, Cat-
B. Sugar
alyst
C. Amino acids
B. Temperature, Water, Air, ATP, and de-
D. Photosynthesis natured enzyme

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C. Temperature, pH, substrate concen- 158. What is a catalyst

tration, Catalyst, Competitive inhibitor
A. it speeds up reactions

B. it slows down reactions
153. Which biomolecule is responsible for insu-
lation and long term energy storage? C. None of the above
A. Protein D. none of above

B. Nucleic Acid
159. Lipase is produced by the pancreas to
C. Lipid help digest fat. Lipase breaks down the
D. Carbohydrate fats into fatty acids. What role does the
lipase play in this reaction?
154. A molecule that inactivates enzymes by
forming a strong covalent bond to an A. substrate
amino acid side-chain group at the en- B. enzyme
zyme’s active site.
A. Enzyme inhibitor C. substrate-enzyme complex
B. competitive enzyme inhibitor D. product

C. noncompetitive enzyme inhibitor
160. What do monomers do?
D. irreversible enzyme inhibitor
A. Bond to make a polymer
155. Complete the statement:The enzyme and
substrates have B. Create essential proteins
A. adverse shapes C. Stores energy

B. complimentary shapes D. Splits to make more cells
C. contrary shapes
161. A substrate is:
D. similar shapes
A. A. The reactant that an enzyme acts on
156. Transferases move? when it catalyzes a chemical reaction
A. Functional groups from one molecule
to another B. B. The product that an enzyme acts on
when it catalyzes a chemical reaction
B. H2O2
C. A and B
C. sucrose
D. fructose D. none of above
157. Which environmental condition would 162. What is an active site?

most likely have the LEAST effect on the
rate of enzyme controlled hydrolytic reac- A. The part of a substrate that binds to an
tions in humans? enzyme
A. The pH of the solution B. The region (area) of an enzyme that
binds to the substrate
B. the temperature of the solution
C. the amount of enzyme present C. A biological catalyst
D. the amount of light present D. none of above

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163. The of an enzymatic reaction can 169. Which biomolecule is your main source of
react with the to form the enzyme- energy?
substrate complex again. A. Nucleic Acid
A. enzyme; products B. Protein
B. enzyme; substrates
C. Lipid
C. products; enzyme
D. Carbohydrate
D. products; substrates
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170. on the pH scale is called . . .
164. cholinesterase breaks down?
A. Basic
A. choline
B. Acid
B. acetylcholine
C. Neutral
C. sucrose
D. none of above
D. oxidase
171. Which factor does not alter the rate of
165. enzymes are- hydrolysis of maltose, a disaccharide?
A. carbohydrates A. temperature of the environment of the
B. lipids reaction
C. proteins B. pH of the environment of the reaction
D. nucleic acids C. number of enzyme molecules present
166. Which type of macromolecules are en- D. size of the substrate molecule
zymes?
172. Enzymes are polymers of
A. Protein
A. carbohydrates
B. Carbohydrate
B. lipids
C. Lipid
C. proteins
D. Nucleic Acid
167. Which biomolecule is made of the
monomer amino acids? 173. your body needs to your cells
A. Nucleic Acid A. energy, run
B. Carbohydrate B. protein, operate
C. Protein C. happiness, function
D. Lipid D. none of the above
168. Because enzymes act this way, we say 174. What is the name for the mechanism of
that they- enzyme activity?
A. digest reactions A. Lock and key
B. convert reactions B. jigsaw puzzle
C. reverse reactions C. hammer and nail
D. catalyze reactions D. two hands pattern

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175. Restriction Enzymes come from . . . B. It is the same for all enzymes
A. viruses C. It is the pH at which the enzyme can-

B. bacteria not be damaged by heat
C. goats D. none of above
D. spiders
181. *The optimum temperature of enzymes in
176. Which is NOT a characteristic of an en- our bodies is .
zyme? A. 36◦ C
A. It is reusable. B. 37◦ C
B. It remains unchanged by the reaction.
C. 38◦ C
D. 39◦ C
C. It can act on different substrates.
D. It operates at specific temperatures. 182. the ph level can an enzyme
177. The amount of energy needed to start a A. form
chemical reaction is called: B. denature
A. the starting energy
C. bond
B. potential energy
D. break
C. kinetic energy
D. activation energy 183. Which biomolecule contains pastas and
breads?
178. The substance that binds to the active
site of an enzyme is ? A. Lipid
A. Substrate B. Protein
B. Reactant C. Nucleic Acid
C. Product D. Carbohydrate
D. Both a Substrate or a Reactant
184. Zymogen or proenzyme is a
179. The mechanism describes how each A. Modulator
substrate must fit into the enzyme.
B. Vitamin
A. lock and key
C. Hormone
B. hammer and nail
C. jigsaw puzzle D. Enzyme Precursor
D. seesaw 185. Lipase, maltase, and protease are mem-

bers of a group of catalysts known as
180. Which statement about the optimum pH
for an enzyme is correct? A. hormones
A. It is the pH at which the enzyme’s ac- B. carbohydrates
tivity is greatest with the maximum num-
C. lipids
ber of enzyme-substrate complexes being
formed D. enzymes

2.1 Enzymes 200
186. Which enzyme breaks down protein? 192. what is the number of chromosomes af-
A. Lipase ter mitosis
A. 46
B. Protease
B. 8
C. Amylase
C. 16
D. none of above
187. Enzymes are special types of
are the elements and compounds that
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193.
A. catalysts are created by a reaction.
B. proteins A. Products
C. organelles B. Reactants
D. lipids C. Molecules
D. Ingredients
188. A polypeptide that becomes an enzyme is
made up of which type of monomer? 194. Amylase is an enzyme that breaks down
A. nucleotides
B. amino acids A. Protein
C. fatty acids B. Lipase (lipids)

C. Amylose (startch)
D. steroids
D. none of above
189. Which of the following would NOT dena-
ture an enzyme? 195. Pepsin is a protease enzyme that is found
in the stomach of mammals. The stomach
A. HIGH temperature contains highly concentrated acidic juices.
B. LOW pH The optimal pH for pepsin is likely to be
C. HIGH pH A. more than 7
D. LOW temperature B. 7
C. less than 3
190. Which biomolecule’s primary function is
to store information? D. between 5 and 8
A. Carbohydrate 196. Which of the following is NOT an exam-

ple of chemical change?
B. Lipid
A. sour milk
C. Nucleic Acid
B. burning wood
D. Proteins
C. breaking a pencil
191. Which one is NOT a class of Enzymes D. rust
A. Digestive Enzymes
197. When an enzyme is no longer able to func-
B. Food Enzymes tion properly.
C. Biological Enzymes A. Active site
D. Metabolic Enzymes B. Enzyme

2.1 Enzymes 201
C. Denature C. fats
D. Products D. iron

198. How many different chemical reactions 204. All of the following affect the functioning
can a certain enzyme usually catalyse? of an enzyme EXCEPT:
A. a large number A. pH
B. about 10 B. temperature
C. only 1 C. metabolism
D. 3 to 4 D. enzyme concentration, substrate con-
centration, inhibitor molecules
199. An enzyme speeds up a reaction by
A. raising the activation energy 205. What do we call the mechanism by which
the substrate enters the active site to form
B. lowering the activation energy an enzyme-substrate complex?
C. releasing energy A. Lock and key model
D. absorbing energy. B. Substrate and enzyme model
200. A catalyst will chemical reactions. C. Lock and code model
A. slow down D. Lock of substrate model
B. speed up 206. The enzyme lactase will break down the
C. stop sugar lactose into which of the following
D. have no effect on components?
A. monosaccharides
201. The enzymes become denatured if the
temperature is compared to its opti- B. nucleic acids
mum temperature. C. amino acids
A. too high or too low D. phospholipids
B. too low 207. At high temperatures, the rate of enzyme
C. too high action decreases because the increased
D. none of above heat
A. changes the pH of the system
202. Enzymes affect the chemical reactions in
cells by changing the B. alters the active site of the enzyme
A. heat of the reaction C. neutralizes the acids and bases in the

system
B. speed of the reaction
D. increases the concentration of the en-
C. pH of the cell zyme
D. products of the reaction
208. Denaturation is when a molecule
203. *What do enzymes digest in the mouth? A. Takes its functional form
A. carbohydrate B. becomes more functional than normal
B. protein

2.1 Enzymes 202
C. begins to decay into another sub- 214. How do enzymes control chemical reac-
stance tions in the body?
D. loses its conformation (shape) and A. Enzymes speed up chemical reactions.
function
209. The enzyme and substrates have B. Enzymes slow down chemical reac-
tions.
A. adverse shapes
C. Enzymes increase the activation en-
B. complementary shapes
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ergy of a reaction.
C. contrary shapes
D. Enzymes inhibit the catalysts of a reac-
D. similar shapes tion.
210. How do enzymes work? 215. which one of the following is NOT the
A. Slow down chemical reactions property of enzymes?
B. Prevent chemical reactions from work- A. enzyme actions are specific
ing B. enzymes can be reused
C. increase the activation energy C. enzymes are affected by pH
D. speed up the chemical reaction D. Optimum temperature of all enzymes
211. are the elements and compounds that is 37
go into a reaction.
216. How many oxygen atoms will be pro-
A. Reactants duced at the end of a reaction starting with
B. Products 6 oxygen atoms?
C. Molecules A. 12
D. Ingredients B. 3
212. an enzyme a chemical reaction be- C. 6

cause it activation energy D. 0
A. slows down/raises 217. what is another word for an enzyme?
B. speeds up/lowers A. steriods
C. slow down/lowers
B. phospholipids
D. speeds up/raises
C. protien
213. Which of the follow are NOT functions of D. triglycerides
proteins?
218. After an enzyme catalyzes a chemical re-
A. build and maintain tissues and main-
action, the enzyme is released from the
tain acid-base balance
complex and the enzyme is then
B. make important compounds and regu-
late mineral and fluid balance A. restored to its original state
C. carry vital substances and provide en- B. destroyed

ergy C. chemically changed
D. all of the above ARE functions of pro- D. converted to an electrically charged
tein molecule

2.1 Enzymes 203
219. The amount of energy necessary to break C. none of the above

one mole of bonds in a substance is
D. none of above

A. Bond energy
B. Valence energy 225. Why does enzyme activity decrease
when it is in solution that has either a too
C. Break energy high or too low pH?
D. none of above
A. All enzymes only work in neutral solu-
220. The change in enzyme shape caused by tions
substrate binding is? B. Enzyme activity remains unchanged in
A. Lock and key method different pH’s
B. Induced hypothesis C. The shape of the active site changes
C. Induced fit D. The shape of the substrate changes
D. Folding of polypeptide chains
226. Substances made by a chemical reaction.
221. What is it called when the enzyme stops A. Activation energy
working?
B. Reactants
A. Denaturing
C. Products
B. fracturing
C. breaking D. Enzymes
D. none of these choices are correct 227. what is a sugar ring?

222. what happens to an enzyme when it goes A. ribose
under hot temperature?
B. adenine
A. formed
C. phosphate
B. broken
D. atp
C. denatured
D. bond 228. Which type of reaction will feel warm?
223. The energy needed to start a reaction is A. endothermic

called the B. exothermic
A. activation energy C. endergonic
B. starting energy D. none of these
C. promoting energy
229. What macromolecules make up the main
D. reacting energy
component of the cell membrane
224. what is a product? A. phospholipids and proteins
A. substances that are destroyed by a
B. chloroplast and cell well
chemical reaction
C. central vacuole
B. substances that are made by a chemi-
cal reaction D. none of these options

2.1 Enzymes 204
230. What type of macromolecule are en- 236. An enzyme that catalyzes a hydrolysis
zymes? reaction in which the addition of a wa-
A. Protein ter molecule to a bond causes the bond to
break.
B. Carbohydrate
A. oxidoreductase
C. Lipid
B. transferase
D. Nucleic Acid C. hydrolase
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231. The part of the enzyme where the sub- D. lyase
strate binds is called the:
237. Name the monomer of proteins.
A. active site A. amino acids
B. catalyst B. polypeptides
C. inhibitor C. nucleotides
D. none of above D. monosaccharides
232. Which of these is most likely an enzyme? 238. A sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitro-
(Based on the suffix) gen base form the building blocks of which
organic compound?
A. Sucrose
A. carbohydrates
B. Galactose
B. lipids
C. Fructose
C. nucleic acids
D. Amylase
D. proteins
233. The amount of energy required to start a 239. What happens when enzymes are heated
chemical reaction is called to temperatures higher than 60◦ C?
A. start up energy A. They continue working
B. lock and key energy B. The shape of the enzyme changes
C. engagement energy C. They work quicker
D. activation energy D. The shape of the enzyme does not
change
234. Restriction Enzymes are . . .
240. enzymes act as
A. proteins
A. food
B. DNA
B. catalyst
C. fats
C. energy
D. carbohydrates
D. cells
235. What does ATP stand for 241. what organelle makes enzymes
A. add telophase prophase A. all of them
B. adenosine triphosphate B. chromosomes
C. all temperatures possible C. ribosomes
D. all of the above D. cytoskeleton

2.1 Enzymes 205
242. What is an Enzyme? C. Deoxyribose

A. energy needed to get a reaction D. Ribose

started
248. What is a Substrate?
B. arge compound formed from combina-
A. it speeds up enzyme substrate process
tions of many monomers
C. proteins that act as biological catalyst
B. the substance the enzyme structure
matches
D. an organic compound C. proteins that act as biological catalyst
243. Substance(s) changed by a chemical reac-
tion. D. it slows down enzymes
A. Activation energy 249. Babies do not have well developed di-
B. Reactants gestive systems for breaking down pro-
teins; therefore baby food is prepared af-
C. Products
ter treatment with which enzyme?
D. Enzymes
A. protease
244. In a chemical equation, the substances B. lipase
that are on the right side of the arrow are C. carbohydrase
the
D. synthase
A. reactants
250. Grapefruit is an excellent source of vita-
B. products
min C. The pink and red colors of grapefruit
C. catalysts are due to the carotenoid
D. inhibitors A. Lycopene
245. Adenine bonds with B. Bromelain
A. Guanine C. Anthocyanin
B. Thymine D. Phytochemical
C. Cytosine 251. What is the dependant variable in test-

ing the effect of temperature on enzyme
D. Adenine
activity?
246. what part do the competitive inhibitors A. enzyme
attach to?
B. rate of reaction
A. subtrate C. temperature
B. active site D. time
C. somewhere other than enzyme
252. What is the purpose of an enzyme?
D. none of above
A. give permission for the reaction
247. What are nucleic acids made of? B. raise activation energy
A. Amino Acids C. speed up reactions
B. Nucleotides D. control how many reactions occur

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253. What suffix do enzymes have? C. Vitamin

A. -ose D. Polypeptide
B. -ide
259. what does a lower temperature do to an
C. -ate
enzyme
D. -ase
A. nothing
254. What is another name for enzymes?
B. just slows it down
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A. chemical catalysts
C. denatures it
B. microorganisms
D. none of above
C. biological catalysts
D. inorganic catalysts 260. what is a nitrogen base
255. The pH at which an enzyme is most effi- A. ribose
cient is called the pH of an enzyme.
B. adenine
A. neutral
C. phosphate
B. optimum
D. atp
C. minimum
D. experimental 261. The body has types of protein. Each
type performs a specific job.
256. Why does the reaction rate reaches
plateau in the experiment conducted to A. 300
test the affects of increasing concentration
of enzyme? B. 3, 000
A. time C. 30, 000

B. limited by substrate amount D. 3 million
C. enzymes are denatured
262. Enzymes change the of a chemical re-
D. enzymes are inactive actions
257. Lipase is produced by the pancreas to A. rate
help digest fat. Lipase breaks down the
fats into fatty acids. Identify the sub- B. type
strate in this reaction. C. reactants
A. lipase D. products
B. fats
C. fatty acids 263. What makes an enzyme substrate spe-
cific?
D. pancreas
A. Size
258. Any substance that is acted upon by an
enzyme is called a(n)? B. Shape
A. Coenzyme C. Name
B. Substrate D. Location it is found in

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264. When the temperature or pH causes the 269. The ideal temperature for an enzyme to
enzyme to change so it no longer works, work at is called the what?
this is called

A. Optimus
A. Allosteric
B. Optomitrist
B. Substrate
C. Oculus
C. Denature
D. Optimum
D. Active Site
265. What is the function of protease? 270. where do enzymes bind reactant
molecules?
A. break down starch into amino acids
A. active site
B. break down protein into fatty acids
B. the beach
C. break down protein into amino acids
D. break down protein into urea C. hot weather
D. organisms
266. Which is NOT true?
A. Enzymes speed up chemical reactions. 271. Which of the following organic groups in-
cludes enzymes?
B. Enzymes react best at a specific tem- A. carbohydrates
perature.
B. lipids
C. Enzymes only control ONE type of reac-
tion. C. proteins
D. Enzymes are made of fatty acids. D. nucleic acids
267. Why does the shape of an enzyme deter- 272. Sucrase has an optimum temperature of
mine its function? 37 C and an optimum pH of 6.2. What
would happen if the pH changed to 3?
A. enzymes are specific to substrates
(lock and key) A. Sucrase would continue to work the
B. enzymes can work with any substrate same
C. enzymes are activated by molecules B. The reaction sucrase catalyzes would

speed up
D. enzymes are found everywhere
C. The reaction sucrase catalyzes would
268. Which statement is true of enzyme activ- slow down
ity?
D. none of above
A. Enzyme activity depends on the num-
ber of successful collisions between the 273. Which of the following is NOT an en-
enzyme and substrate zyme?
B. Most enzymes are not sensitive to tem- A. Sucrose
perature
B. Catalase
C. Extremes of pH are unlikely to dena-
ture an enzyme C. Amylase
D. none of above D. Pepsin

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274. What does it mean for an enzyme to be 279. What do we know about the enzyme’s
denatured? structure if the enzyme is in its optimum
pH
A. It loses its shape
A. the enzyme structure is not denatured,
B. It gains a new active site
meaning that the active site is still in tact
C. It becomes more efficient B. the enzyme structure is not denatured,
D. It binds the substrate quicker meaning that the active site is changed
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C. the enzyme structure is denatured
275. What is the substrate for the enzyme
catalase? D. none of above
A. Hydrogen 280. Which statement is true about en-

zymes?
B. Water
A. The shape of an enzyme’s active site
C. Oxygen matches the shape of its substrate
D. Hydrogen Peroxide B. Enzymes are used up in biological re-
actions
276. At 40 degrees Celsius, your biological en-
C. Enzymes work faster at higher temper-
zymes will
atures
A. Functional optimally
D. Every enzyme has one specific sub-
B. Denature strate that it breaks down or builds up.
C. Wait until the temp. increases 281. What is true about enzymes?
D. Wait until the temp. decreases A. They catalyze one specific type of reac-
tion
277. Enzymes are “Sensitive” which best de-
B. They are unaffected by changes in tem-
scribes this?
perature
A. function best under certain environ- C. They are unaffected by changes in pH
mental conditions
D. Their overall shape can change with-
B. speeds up only one type of reaction. out affecting their function
(Like a lock and key!!!) Example:Amylase-
only breaks down starches. 282. Enzymes provide a site where reactants
called substrates can be brought together
C. can catalyze the same reaction over
in an enzyme-catalyzed reaction. The site
and over again.
is called the
D. none of above A. enzyme substrate complex.
278. The substance that binds to an enzyme is B. reaction site.
called a? C. active site.
A. Polypeptide D. lock and key.
B. Co-enzyme 283. At about 0 C, most enzymes are
C. Vitamin A. inactive
D. Substrate B. active

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C. destoyed 289. Evidence of Chemical Change.

D. replicated A. New Substance

B. Size change
284. energy is released or absorbed when a(n)
formed or broken C. State change
D. Mixture
A. amino acid
B. polypeptide 290. What is an engery-yielding nutrient com-
posed of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and
C. phospolipid nitrogen?
D. chemical bond A. carbohydrate
285. The location on an enzyme where the sub- B. lipid (fat)

strate fits into the enzyme is called the en- C. protein
zyme’s D. none of the above
A. receptor site 291. An enzyme is a
B. inhibitor site A. Carbohydrate
C. active site B. Lipid
D. reaction site C. Nucleic Acid
D. Protein
286. Enzymes are specific. This means that an
enzyme only works with molecules that 292. What is a Cataylst?
are A. A substance that speeds up a rate of
A. the right size and shape chemical reaction.
B. broken down already B. Molecules that make enzymes work
harder and faster
C. present in water
C. reaction of an enzyme
D. too big for the body to handle
D. A substance that slows down a rate of
287. enzymes are what biological macro- chemical reaction.
molecule 293. What are carbohydrates broken down
A. lipid into?
B. nucleic acid A. Simple sugars
B. Amino acids
C. protien
C. Fatty acids
D. none of above
D. Water
288. What is the function of amylase?
294. Which chemical is classified as an en-
A. to break down protein into fatty acids zyme?
B. to break down carbohydrates into A. Galactose
amino acids B. Lipid
C. to break down starch into glucose C. Protease
D. to break down protein into glucose D. Manganese dioxide

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295. Energy needed to start a reaction. C. mitochondria

A. Activation energy D. cell wall
B. Reactant
301. Enzymes speed up chemical reaction by
C. Product
A. destroying products
D. Enzymes
B. lowering activation energy
296. Enzymes are often represented by what
C. increasing activation energy
kind of model?
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D. allowing reactions to process at their
A. Lock and key
own speed
B. Phone and phone charger
C. Book and library 302. What is an inhibitor?
D. Car and gasoline A. the region of an enzyme that attaches

to a substrate
297. Each enzyme only has 1 substrate (bio-
B. a change in the shape of a protein
logical molecule) that will fit its active site.
What is this called? C. substance that can bind to an enzyme
and prevent the substrate from binding
A. reusable
B. catalyst D. macromolecules that contain carbon,
hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen
C. specific
D. fragile 303. Enzymes are an example of
A. Lipids
298. what is activation energy?
A. The amount of energy needed to make B. Carbohydrate
a car start C. Protein
B. The amount of energy needed to make D. Nucleic Acid
a chemical
304. RNA and DNA are which type of macro-
C. The amount of energy needed to make
molecules?
a chemical reaction start
D. The difference of energy needed to A. Carbohydrate
make a chemical reaction start B. lipid
299. what are the two things that can dena- C. nucleic acid
ture( affect) enzymes? D. protein
A. temperature and water
305. Which of these is NOT true?
B. temperature and pH
A. Enzymes can denature (change shape)
C. temperature and air
when the temperature gets too high.
D. temperature and sugar
B. Enzymes can only be used once in a
300. What organelle absorbs sunlight chemical reaction.
A. golgi apparatus C. Extreme pH can denature enzymes.
B. chloroplasts D. Enzymes speed up chemical reactions.

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306. The substance(s) that fit into the active B. induced fit
site of an enzyme are called C. jigsaw puzzle

A. Coenzyme(s)
D. lock and key
B. Substrate(s)
312. Where do substrates (biological
C. Vitamin(s)
molecules) bind on an enzyme?
D. Polypeptide(s)
A. voltage-gated channels
307. Without the presence of enzymes, the re- B. surface receptor
actions necessary to sustain life would re-
quire in order to occur. C. calcium channels
A. higer temperatures D. active site
B. larger cells 313. Place where substrate binds to the en-
C. larger proteins zyme?
D. none of above A. Activation energy
308. The substances that are present before a B. Active site

reaction are the C. Denature
A. reactants D. Products
B. products
314. Which of the following determines an
C. both of these enzyme’s effectiveness (ability to work
D. neither of these properly)?
A. heat
309. What is a substance called if it speeds up
a chemical reaction? B. pH (acidic or basic)
A. reusable C. not enough enzymes; too many sub-
B. catalyst strates
C. specific D. all are correct

D. fragile 315. Chemical reactions that release energy
are known as
310. If you are testing for the effect of enzyme
concentration on rate of reaction, what IS A. Endothermic
NOT a constant variable? B. Exothermic
A. type of enzyme C. Boring
B. enzyme concentration D. Reactions
C. concentration of substrate
316. What type of transport uses energy
D. Type of substrate
A. telaphase
311. The mechanism describes how an en-
B. active
zyme changes shape once the substrate is
bonded. C. proactive
A. hammer and nail D. passive

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317. Enzymes are what macromolecule? 322. Which biomolecule contains fats, oils, and
A. Nucleic Acid waxes?
B. Lipid A. Proteins
C. Protein B. Nucleic Acid
D. Carbohydrate C. Lipids
D. Carbohydrate
318. What are proteins made of?
323. Lipase breaks Fats into what?
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A. Nucleic Acids
A. Amino acids
B. Amino Acids
B. Sugars
C. Citric Acid
C. Fatty glycerol and acids
D. Hydrochloric Acid
D. Fatty acids and glycerol
319. In the experiment conducted to check the
effect of substrate concentration on rate 324. Amylase helps to speed up the break-
of reaction. What is the independant vari- down of carbohydrates. Amylase would
able? be an example of which group of impor-
tant biological molecules?
A. Time
A. lipids
B. Reaction Rate
B. enzymes
C. concentration of substrate
C. carbohydrates
D. concentration of enzyme
D. hormones
320. What does it mean to denature pro-
teins? 325. What will most likely happen if an appro-
priate enzyme is added to a chemical reac-
A. change them in a way that can not be
tion?
un-done
A. The reaction rate will increase.
B. keep them in the same form they are
eaten in B. The equilibrium of the reaction will be
maintained.
C. combine them to make complete pro-
teins C. The reaction rate will decrease.
D. none of the above D. The reaction will stop.
321. Enzymes influence chemical reactions in 326. What is made and used by cells to speed
living systems by up the rate of reaction?
A. providing the substrate required for A. carbohydrates
the reaction of occur B. pH regulators
B. affecting the rate at which reactions C. nucleic acids
occur D. catalysts
C. absorbing water released when poly-
mers are formed 327. where do enzymes take place?
D. combining with excess hydrogen to A. computers

form gaseous wastes B. organisms

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C. polypeptides 333. Two factors that can affect the efficiency

D. products of enzymes are

A. pH and humidity
328. A reaction that gives off heat to its sur-
roundings is B. temperature and pH
A. exothermic C. temperature and humidity
B. endothermic D. density and pH
C. endergonic 334. What happens to most enzymes above

D. none of these 60 ◦ C?
A. A They are denatured.
329. The part of the enzyme that the substrate
bonds to is called the B. B They are destroyed by white blood
cells.
A. active site
C. C They are digested.
D. D They are made more active
C. bond site
D. peptide bond 335. A change in which NEW substances are
formed.
330. what is the 1 substrate of an enzyme A. Chemical change
that will fit in its active site?
B. Physical change
A. product
C. Casual change
B. specific
D. Formal change
C. reactant
D. bond 336. where is the energy you CAN use in the
food you eat stored?
331. Lactase is a human enzyme that catalyses A. In a protein
the breakdown of lactose in milk.At which
temperature does lactase work fastest? B. in a chemical bond
A. A 0 ◦ C C. in your leg
B. B 18 ◦ C D. anywhere
C. C 37 ◦ C 337. In a chemical reaction, bonds are broken

D. D 100 ◦ C and new bonds are formed that create new
substances. The bonds that are broken are
332. What are vitamins and minerals? called what?
A. Part of our food, give us energy A. Reactants
B. activators B. Products
C. inhibitors C. Atoms
D. enzymes D. Catalysts
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1. Enzymes possess active site, so that 7. Metabolism is the sum of all that occur
A. its shape is globular in living organisms.
B. it can lowering the activation energy A. chemical reactions
C. substrate can bind B. physical reactions
D. chemical reaction is faster C. digestive reactions

D. muscular reactions
2. Amylase breaks down starch into smaller
sugar molecules. Which is the substrate? 8. What is left at the end of an enzyme-
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controlled reaction?
A. amylase
A. enzymes and products
B. starch
B. enzymes and substrates
C. sugar
C. enzymes only
D. molecules
D. products only
3. The mechanism of enzyme action can be ex-
plained by which of the following models? 9. White bread contains starch. What is the
color change when you drop iodine solution
A. Kinetic model into white bread?
B. Lock & key model A. brown to blue-black
C. Key enzyme model B. blue-black to brown
D. Substrate-product model C. remains brown
4. Enzymes are biological D. remians blue-black
A. catalysts 10. What is the test for protein called?
B. reactants A. Emulsion test
C. substrates B. Biuret test
D. products C. Benedict’s test
5. DCPIP can be used to test for vitamin D. Iodine test
C in food. Lemon juice contains vitamin 11. Which nutrient produces a purple color
C.When lemon juice is tested what are the when mixed with biuret solution?
results?
A. fat
A. starts blue, finishes colorless
B. protein
B. starts colorless, finishes blue
C. glucose
C. stays blue
D. starch
D. stays colorless
12. When a food substance is tested with io-
6. Substrate needs an initial input of energy dine solution, which color shows the pres-
so that it can pass through the ence of starch?
A. high temperature A. blue-black
B. enzyme complex B. brown
C. activation energy C. orange
D. transition state D. purple

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13. Enzymes the activation energy of a C. Benedict’s reagent

chemical reaction.
D. Biuret reagent

A. decrease
B. increase 17. Enzymes are biological catalysts. What is
meant by this?
C. absorb
A. Enzymes speed up chemical reaction in
D. release living things.
14. Which is an example of an enzyme? B. Enzymes slow down chemical reac-
A. Glucose tions in living things.
B. Lipid C. Enzymes are substrates that turn into
C. Lipase products.
D. Glycogen D. Enzymes are products that turn into

substrates.
15. Which of the following is INCORRECT
when a sample is tested for glucose? 18. Which explains how enzymes can be recy-
cled?
A. Benedict’s reagent is used
B. Water bath is involved A. Enzymes are not used up in a chemical
reaction.
C. orange/brick red is a positive result
B. Enzymes increases during a chemical
D. mauve/purple color is a positive result
reaction.
16. Which chemical is used to test for vitamin C. Enzymes change to a different type af-
C ter a chemical reaction.
A. DCPIP D. Enzymes reuse substrates in a chemi-
B. Iodine cal reaction.
2.3 Vitamins
1. Folic Acid or Folate is important for pre- D. Vit. C
venting
3. Vitamins come from
A. Birth Defects
A. vegetables and fruits
B. Bruising
B. absorbed soil and water
C. Weak bones
C. the ground
D. Night Blindness
D. junk foo
2. It helps with your immunity because it
works as an antioxidant protecting your 4. Where can you find folic acid
cells from free radicals. A. cod, salmon, tuna
A. Vit. K B. Beef, pork, lamb
B. Vit. E C. oranges, apples, pears
C. Vit. A D. Broccoli, sprouts, spinach

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5. Which of the following is a general func- 11. Which is a precursor of Vitamin A found in
tion of vitamins? plants?
A. Needed to promote good health A. Retinol
B. Provides calories B. Betaine
C. Needed for normal growth of the body C. Beta-carotene
D. Flavonoid
D. Helps to form a healthy brain
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12. This is found in beans and peas as well as
6. Substances that help your body fight infec- whole-grain breads and cereals.
tions and use other nutrients.
A. Calcium
A. Carbohydrates
B. Magnesium
B. Proteins
C. Vitamin A
C. Fiber
D. B Vitamins
D. Vitamins
13. Deficiency of causes Night blindness.
7. This vitamin is used by animals to carboxy-
late certain proteins, which are involved in A. Vitamin B1
blood coagulation and bone formation. B. Vitamin D
A. K1 C. Vitamin A
B. B6 D. none of above
C. B12
14. Which vegetables have the most vitamins
D. D and minerals?
8. Which food has the most vitamin C? A. Yellow and Red
A. Pizza B. Orange and Yellow
B. Kiwi C. Red, Orange and Dark Green
C. Orange D. Dark Green and Yellow
D. Apple 15. BMR does what?
9. How many minerals assisted the function A. Number of calories to keep organs go-
of antioxidants? ing
A. 1 B. Converts energy into the body
B. 2 C. Prevents heart attacks
C. 3 D. Breaks down simple sugars
D. 4
16. Apples, spinach, and kale are great
10. The mineral calcium is needed for sources for
A. strong bones and teeth A. protein
B. healthy thyroid gland B. carbohydrates
C. healthy nerves C. fats
D. healthy red blood cells D. vitamins

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17. Which nutrient is a compound that helps C. beta-tocopherol

regulate many vital processes, including di-
D. beta-tocotrienol
gestion, absorption and metabolism of nu-

trients?
23. helps calcium get absorbed into the
A. minerals bones efficiently
B. vitamins A. vitamin c
C. water B. vitamin d
D. carbohydrates C. vitamin e
18. Minerals that are needed in small amounts D. calcium
are called
A. macro minerals 24. causes weak bones that do not form
properly, and can be caused by a lack of
B. zirconia minerals calcium and vitamin D.
C. trace minerals
A. Kwashiorkor
D. water soluble minerals
B. Anemia
19. The amount of calories per gram that wa- C. Scurvy
ter, vitamins and minerals provide is:
D. Rickets
A. 0
B. 4 25. what are 3 food sources of Vitamin B1
C. 5 A. apples, eggs, nuts
D. 9 B. eggs, liver, nuts
20. Calcium, sodium and iron are examples of C. liver, citrus fruit, red meat
this nutrient.
D. red meat, apples, citrus fruit
A. Water
B. Vitamins 26. What practice is important if you want to
have strong bones?
C. Minerals
A. Eating foods high in iron
D. Carbs
B. Eating foods high in sodium
21. Plants absorb minerals from the
C. Eating foods high in calcium
A. sun
D. Eating foods high in vitamin K
B. soil
C. grass 27. Vitamin D-helps with tooth and bone de-
velopment.
D. water
A. Cabbage
22. It is the most prevalent and active form of
vitamin E. B. Orange Juice
A. alpha-tocopherol C. Fish
B. alpha-tocotrienol D. Wheat Germ

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28. Which of the following are important to C. Vitamin E

remember when selecting fresh fruits and
D. Vitamin K
vegetables?
A. Firm and free from decay. 34. It is a group of complex organic compounds
B. Free from bruises. required in small quantities.
C. Good smell and color. A. Fat
D. All of the above are correct B. Vitamins
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C. Carbohydrates
29. Calcium, sodium, potassium & chloride are
all D. Minerals
A. macro-minerals
35. How do we remember vitamins?
B. micro-minerals
A. They’re the building blocks that keep
C. vitamins us running.
D. none of above B. They produce blood cells.
30. Santhosh suffer from sever constipation C. They’re not important at all.
due to lack of nutrient D. V for Vito, I for Iguana, T for Tuna, A
A. Protein for Apple, M for Monkey, I for Invisible, N
B. Starch for Nutrients, S for Salad.
C. Dietry fiber 36. Which vitamin help your eyes and skin
D. None of the above stay healthy?
A. VITAMIN A
31. Mainly found in citrus fruits.
B. VITAMIN B
A. B Vitamins
B. Folic Acid C. VITAMIN C
C. Vitamin C D. VITAMIN D
D. Iron 37. Which foods are Vitamin D found in?
32. This fat soluble vitamin helps with blood A. fish
clotting and is only needed in a small B. spinach
amount.
C. milk
A. A
D. none of above
B. D
C. E 38. Which vitamins are added to (fortified)
D. K breakfast cereals
A. C, B1, Niacin
33. and calcium are needed for normal
blood clotting. B. C, B2, Niacin
A. Vitamin A C. B1, Folic acid, C
B. Vitamin D D. B1, B12, Folic acid

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39. It is the collective name for a group of fat- B. Carotene

soluble compounds with distinctive antiox-
C. Beta-carotene
idant activities.

D. Beta-retinol
A. Vitamin A
B. Vitamin D 45. It is the effect of having a Vit. B1 (Thiamin
C. Vitamin E ) deficiency.
D. Vitamin K A. Anemia
B. Beri beri
40. Vegetarians and Vegans often need to
make sure they get enough of this vita- C. Convulsion
min. D. Hypertension
A. B-12
46. Sugars and starches that occur naturally in
B. Calcium
foods, mainly plants.
C. D
A. Carbohydrates
D. A
B. Proteins
41. Which Vitamin is good for eyes.
C. Fats
A. A
D. Vitamins
B. B
C. C 47. What vitamin is involved in oxidative de-
carboxylation of alpha-keto acids and 2-
D. D keto sugars?
42. This helps your immune system, and the A. Thiamine
ability to heal
B. Niacin
A. Vitamin D
C. Riboflavin
B. protein
D. Cyanocobalamin
C. calcium
D. Vitamin C 48. Which of the following could be classified
as food?
43. This vitamin is important for growth and
A. candy wrapper
development, for the maintenance of the
immune system and good vision. B. walnut shell
A. B1 C. apple peel
B. A D. paper lunch bag
C. E
49. what food group does milk belong to?
D. C
A. Food from animals
44. It comes from animal-derived foods and is
B. Staples
a type of “pre-formed” vitamin A that can
be used directly by the body. C. fruits and vegetables
A. Retinol D. Legumes

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50. Which nutrient is our body’s MAIN source 56. The body uses this to dissolve and trans-
of energy? port materials.
A. Carbohydrates A. Carbohydrates
B. Fats
B. Water
C. Water
C. Minerals
D. Minerals
D. Vitamins
51. Which foods are the best source of Vitamin
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C: 57. This vitamin maintains a lot of your body’s
A. Fresh fruits and vegetables tissues, like the ones in your eyes, skin
B. Cooked fruits and vegetables and liver.
C. Animal foods A. vitamin K

D. none of above B. vitamin E
52. What is RDI? C. vitamin C
A. Refined Dairy Intakes D. vitamin A
B. Recommended Daily Intakes
58. Plants use the Sun’s energy to make food.
C. Resisting Daily Intakes
How do other organisms get energy?
D. Recommended Daily Iron
A. They absorb the Sun’s energy to make
53. Identify the deficiency disease where soft- their own food.
ening and weakening of bones in adults
take place due to deficiency in vitamin D. B. They consume plants or other organ-
isms for energy.
A. Osteomalacia
C. Other organisms do not need energy.
B. Night blindness
C. Rickets D. Answers A and B
D. Beri-beri
59. Unsaturated fat comes from
54. Name the vitamin which takes part in
A. Broccoli
blood clotting?
A. Vitamin E B. Butter
B. Vitamin K C. Margarine
C. Vitamin D D. Pasta
D. Folic acid
60. What percentage of our daily calories need
55. Which of the following counts as part of to come from carbohydrates?
the Fruit Group?
A. 60%
A. Canned peaches
B. 30%
B. Dried apricots
C. 100% Orange Juice C. 10%
D. All of the choices D. None

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61. Hair loss is common when there is a defi- C. Protein

ciency of this vitamin that is necessary for D. Fat
carboxylation reactions:

67. Fruits contain
A. B7
A. carbohydrates and vitamins
B. B3
B. fats and proteins
C. B9
C. carbohydrates, proteins, trace of fat
D. B12
D. vitamins and minerals
62. What do antioxidants protect our cells 68. What is a number of known vitamins?
from?
A. 10
A. bad vitamins
B. 11
B. damage caused by aging, and certain
C. 12
types of cancer
D. 13
C. Vitamin D
D. bad food 69. . Which of the following is a component of
the coenzyme A?
63. You can get more Vitamins out of Foods A. Retinol
when
B. Pantothenic acid
A. They are older than two days
C. Pyridoxine
B. They are 24 hours old D. none of above
C. They are Fresh
70. Vitamin B1-(thiamin) changes glucose into
D. none of above fat or energy and maintains our appitite.
64. This helps to prevent osteoporosis: A. Whole-grain cereals
A. Iron B. Eggs
B. Sodium C. Spinach
D. Tomatoes
C. Fluorine
D. Calcium 71. what mineral does Vitamin D support
A. iron
65. What does vitamin E do?
B. calcium
A. Helps your brain, genes, and
C. sodium
metabolism.
D. iodine
B. Helps build muscles.
C. Helps you see. 72. Using clean vehicles to maintain the cold
chain of food is which step of the Farm-to-
D. Helps your skin and eyes. Table process?
66. Which nutrients helps to build and main- A. Processing
tain muscle? B. Table
A. Carbohydrates C. Transportation
B. Minerals D. Farm

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73. Which of the following foods are a good B. vitamins

source of Vitamin B?
C. minerals
A. whole grains, such as wheat and oats
D. all of the above
B. fish and seafood
C. eggs, dairy products, like milk and yo- 79. The steroid-like vitamin involved in bone
gurt mineral metabolism is
D. all the above A. Calcitriole
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74. Water soluble vitamins are B. Calciferol
A. Not stored in the body. C. Vitamin C

B. Sometimes stored in the body. D. Calcitonin
C. Stored in the liver.
80. This fruit category requires a warm
D. Transported to the pancreas and climate and are considered more ex-
stored in the body. otic.Incorrect
75. This vitamin is important for keeping body A. tropical
tissues, such as gums and muscles in good B. berries
shape. This vitamin also helps your body
resists infections like cold. C. . citrus
A. vitamin A D. pomes
B. vitamin C
81. This can be found in red meat.
C. vitamin D
A. Iron
D. vitamin K
B. Fluoride
76. What vitamin helps our bodies process the
C. B Vitamins
food we eat?
A. E D. Vitamin E
B. B complex 82. Which vitamins are fat soluble:

C. C A. B complex and C
D. D
B. Iron and Calcium
77. Which vitamin can be obtained from the C. A, D, E, K
sun?
D. none of above
A. Vitamin D
B. Vitamin C 83. What happens if you have too much
Niacin?
C. Vitamin A
D. Folate A. Stomach pains
B. muscles wasting away
78. Fruit and milk can provide the body with
which nutrient? C. liver damage
A. water D. blindness

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84. function of Vitamin B1 90. What types of food can you Vitamin C
A. carbohydrates metabolism From?

A. Apples and watermelon
B. energy production
B. Citrus fruits and berries
C. toxicity
C. Meats
D. none of above
D. Cereal and Oats
85. What vitamin helps immunity especially
after long moderate intensity work out 91. What do vitamin C, A, and E all have in
which can decrease immunity? common
A. Vitamin E A. nothing
B. Act as antioxidants
B. Iron
C. Blood clotting support
C. Vitamin C
D. Brain function
D. Vitamin B
92. Vitamin A is known for:
86. VITAMIN B1
A. It’s vision-related function
A. RIBOFLAVIN
B. Blood clotting
B. RETINOL
C. To prevent birth defects in unborn chil-
C. TOCOPHEROL dren
D. THIAMINE D. none of above
87. A fast heart rate caused by vitamin B1 de- 93. Having iodized salt regularly in your food
ficiency will help in the prevention of
A. wet beriberi A. Goitre
B. dry beriberi B. Anaemia
C. Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome C. Rickets
D. cardiovascular beriberi D. none of above
88. A lack of iron can cause This causes 94. This vitamin do not stay in the body for
tiredness and shortness of breath. long.
A. Retinol
A. Kwashiorkor
B. Fat Soluble Vitamins
B. Anemia
C. Water Soluble Vitamins
C. Scurvy
D. Carotene
D. Rickets
95. This is the only B-group vitamin that veg-
89. Sources of vitamin D ans are not able to obtain in their diet.
A. vegetable oil A. Vitamin B2
B. Milk and the sun B. Vitamin B3
C. fruits and veggies C. Vitamin B6
D. tooth paste D. Vitamin B12

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96. What can you eat to gain vitamin B- C. calcium

complex?
D. Vitamin C
A. Whole grains
B. Citrus fruits 102. Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is
caused by what?
C. Vegetables
A. Being stressed
D. Meats
B. Too much sodium intake
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97. Mark the INCORRECT statement about
Ascorbic acid C. Too little sodium
A. It is a strong reducing agent D. Not getting enough rest

B. It can have synthesized in the body 103. What is the term used to describe when
C. Involves in hydroxylation of prolyl-and someone has too much of a vitamin in their
lysyl-residues of collagen system?
D. Shows antioxidant activity A. Hypervitaminosis
98. Stunted growth and stomach shrinkage B. Hypovitaminosis
are the symptoms of this deficiency dis- C. Hypermosis
ease.
D. Hypomosis
A. Kwashiorkor
B. Marasmus 104. A required coenzyme for DNA repair:
C. Anaemia A. B9
D. none of above B. methyl-B12
99. This nutrient regulates body processes, C. Cyanocobalamin
also become part of blood, teeth, bones
D. thiamine
A. water
B. minerals 105. Vitamin A-Needed for tooth enamel, cal-
cium, and bone formation
C. vitamins
A. Fish
D. fat
B. Sunlight
100. This vitamin is absorbed via the intrinsic
factor: C. Milk
A. B12 D. Oranges
B. B9 106. The substance that gives up electrons to
C. B2 free radicals to protect cells.
D. B5 A. Lipoic acid
101. This helps your bones and teeth B. Retinol

A. Vitamin D C. Water
B. protein D. Antioxidant

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107. What vitamin keeps our skin healthy 113. What is Metabolism?
A. B complex A. A process where the body converts en-
ergy in food into energy the body can use.

B. D
C. A
B. Element essential for good health
D. E C. Organic compounds control many body
108. was the first to describe the vitamin functions
A structure, and it was finally isolated just D. Energy providing nutrient that helps
a few years later in 1937. the body store some vitamins
A. Walter Haworth 114. Vitamin C is
B. Gilbert Blane A. Ascorbic acid
C. Paul Karrer B. Nicotinic acid
D. James Lind C. Folic acid
D. none of above
109. What are the best sources of calcium in a
person’s diet? 115. Riboflavin is
A. ice cream & cake A. Vitamin B1
B. apples & oranges B. Vitamin B2
C. milk & dairy products C. Vitamin B3
D. bread & pasta D. none of above

116. Deficiency diseases are
110. What contains Vitamin E?
A. Communicable
A. Nothing, Vitamin E isn’t real.
B. Non-communicable
B. Fruits ad Veggies.
C. infectious
C. Dairy products.
D. metabolic
D. Nuts and seeds.
117. helps heal wounds, strengthen blood
111. Beta-carotene and retinol are two types vessels, maintains skin health, and boosts
of vitamin immune system
A. Vitamin A A. vitamin c
B. Vitamin B B. vitamin d
C. Vitamin C C. vitamin e
D. calcium
D. Vitamin D
118. Vitamins B1, B2, B3, B6 and B12 can be
112. What is the chemical name of vitamin A? found in this food source
A. Thiamin A. Liver
B. Tocopherol B. Meat
C. Retinol C. Poultry
D. Cholecalciferol D. Cereals

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119. This vitamin is called ‘retinol’. 125. A nutrient the body cannot manufacture.
A. B12 A. Minerals
B. A B. Lipids
C. B6 C. Vitamins
D. K D. Water
120. Vitamins are essential for 126. Fatty substance that can’t dissolve in wa-
ter
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A. Fat Loss
A. Minerals
B. All chemical reactions in the body
B. Lipid
C. nothing.
C. Cholesterol
D. None of these are correct
D. Simple Carbs
121. What body function/part does Viramin K
help with? 127. How many calories does a Vitamin Con-
tain?
A. Brain
A. 0
B. Muscle tissue
B. 1
C. Foetus/baby
C. 2
D. Red blood cells.
D. 4-6
122. A is a chemically reactive molecule
128. what is the number of main vitamins
that can cause damage to the body and ac-
celerate the aging process. A. 11
A. folate B. 15
B. radical molecule C. 17
C. free radical D. 13
D. free molecule 129. What are vitamins and what do they
do?
123. stabilizes phosphate groups, includ-
ing those in ATP. A. Helps us with various processes in our
bodies
A. Magnesium
B. Helps us with many chemical reactions
B. Phosphorous in the body
C. Iron C. Organic compounds
D. Chloride D. All of the above
124. Vitamin C (ascorbic acid)-helps heal 130. Vitamin converts carbohydrates into
wounds and boosts the immune system. energy.
A. Milk A. B1
B. Oranges B. ba
C. Yeast C. sell
D. Cheese D. All

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131. What mineral plays a prominent role in 137. This promotes strong bones and teeth
maintaining a potential difference across and the absorption of calcium.
membranes?

A. Iron
A. Ca2+ B. Calcium
B. K+ C. Vitamin D
C. Cl- D. B Vitamins
D. P
138. This vitamin is important for keeping
132. This helps to prevent scurvy: body tissues, such as gums and muscles in
A. Iodine good shape. It is also a key if you get a
cut because it helps you heal. This vitamin
B. Vitamin C also helps your body resists infections like
C. Iron cold.
D. Vitamin D A. vitamin A
B. vitamin C
133. What vitamins is needed for healthy an-
tioxidants? C. vitamin D
A. Vitamin A, B, D and Vitamin F D. vitamin K
B. Vitamin A, K, Z and Vitamin F 139. Which of these helps in the production
C. Vitamin A, E, G and Vitamin C of red blood cells and supplies oxygen to
cells?
D. Vitamin A, D, C and Vitamin E
A. iron
134. Milk is fortified with this vitamin:
B. sodium
A. Vitamin E
C. copper
B. Vitamin K
D. calcium
C. Vitamin B
140. A lack of vitamin A can cause
D. Vitamin D
A. diabetes
135. Of the following three types of fat, which
B. night blindness
type is the most unhealthy
C. heart disease
A. polyunsturated
D. obesity
B. saturated
C. each are equally unhealthy 141. Saturated fat comes from
D. monounsaturated A. Broccoli
B. Butter
136. Which of the following statements about
DEHYDRATION is false: C. Apples
A. Dehydration is not common D. Pasta
B. Dehydration can be life threatening 142. What food contains iron?
C. None of these A. Bananas
D. none of above B. Spinach

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C. Apples 148. Without milk/dairy in the diet, it would

be difficult to consume enough:
D. Celery
A. Potassium
143. Milk, cheese and yogurt are all good
B. Vitamin C
sources of
C. Folate
A. Calcium
D. Calcium
B. Vitamin C
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C. Protein 149. Deficiency of Vitamin A causes
D. Vitamin B A. Xerophthalmia
B. Hypoprothrombinemia
144. The most essential nutrient
C. Megaloblastic anemia
A. water
D. Pernicious anemia
B. folid acid
150. Identify the deficiency diseas e where
C. calcium
bowed of legs occurs in children .
D. fat-soluble
A. Osteomalacia
145. Which of the following is an excellent B. Beri-beri
source of vitamin C?
C. Osteoporosis
A. orange juice D. Rickets
B. milk
151. Retinol is transported in blood bound to
C. bread
A. Aporetinol binding protein
D. hamburger
B. α 2-Globulin
146. Fiber is important because C. β -Globulin
A. it helps clean the blood D. Albumin
B. it repairs the muscles
152. What is the deficiency of vitamin A?
C. it helps clean the digestive system
A. Rickets
D. it sends electrical messages around
B. Beri beri
the body.
C. Anaemia
147. A vitamin is.. D. Night blindness
A. All of these answers are correct:)
153. What is the function of vitamin D?
B. A non-organic chemical naturally
found in tablets A. Forms and maintain healthy skin.
C. An organic chemical naturally occur- B. Help to maintain healthy nerves and

ring in food muscles.
D. An organic chemical unnaturally occur- C. Act as antioxidant.

ring in food D. Help to absorb calcium in the body.

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154. There are known vitamins A. K

A. 25 B. Calcium

B. 13 C. Iron
C. 16 D. Magnesium
D. 5 160. Increases your body temperature.
155. Which of the following vitamins play a A. Metabolism
very key role in eyesight including night B. Vitamins
vision and color recognition?
C. Minerals
A. vitamin A
D. Potassium
B. vitamin B
C. vitamin K 161. Proteins, fats, and carbs are known as
because they are needed in large
D. all of the above amounts.
156. Name the disease caused by the defi- A. micronutrients
ciency of Niacin? B. masconutrients
A. Pellagra C. macronutrients
B. Rickets D. micros
C. Scurvy
162. How can you get your eyes and skin
D. none of above healthy?
157. Answer the following-Vitamin A-Which A. Riboflavin:Lean meats, milk, and eggs.
disease?Vitamin B1-Which Disease?
A. Vitamin A-ScurvyVitamin B1-Night B. Vitamin A:Vegetables and greens.
Blindness C. Vitamin C:Citrus fruits.
B. Vitamin A-RicketsVitamin B1-Anemia D. Vitamin D:Milk, and other dairy prod-
C. Vitamin A-Night BlindnessVitamin B1- ucts.
Beri-Beri
163. Folate or folic acid is
D. Vitamin A-ScurvyVitamin B1-Night
Blindness A. Vitamin B6
B. Vitamin B9
158. The function of Vitamin B3 is to release
energy from & C. Vitamin B12
A. carbohydrates & fats D. none of above
B. carbohydrates & amino acids 164. What is needed to form and maintain
C. amino acids & fats healthy skin and for growth and develop-
ment of our body.
D. none of above
A. Vitamin A
159. Which mineral helps make protein, trans- B. Vitamin D
mit impulses in nerves and muscle contrac-
tion? It is found in nuts, legumes, fish and C. Vitamin E
green leafy vegetables. D. Vitamin K

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165. This is needed to build and maintain 171. Which is an excellent source of Vitamin
strong bones and teeth. D?
A. Calcium A. Potato
B. Magnesium B. Milk
C. Vitamin D C. Ghee
D. Vitamin A D. Apple
172. Which vitamin below is an example of a
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166. A lack of vitamin C in the body can cause
the disease fat soluble vitamin
A. Rickets A. Vitamin A
B. Scurvy B. Vitamin C
C. Beriberi C. Vitamin B
D. Pellegra D. Folate
167. This primary form of Vitamin A is an an- 173. Which vitamin helps our blood clot nor-
tioxidant. mally?
A. Niacin A. Vitamin A
B. Riboflovin B. Vitamin C
C. Vitamin K
C. Retinol
D. Vitamin E
D. Beta-carotene
174. There are 2 categories of Vitamins:Fat
168. The B vitamin family is made up of, how
soluble and water soluble
many B vitamins?
A. TRUE MY DUDE
A. 10
B. SAY SIKE RIGHT NOW
B. 9
C. 1 + 1 = goldfish
C. 8
D. none of above
D. 7
175. Fill in the following blanks correctly:
169. The process where the blood clots. carbohydrates are more beneficial to the
A. Coagulation factor body than carbohydrates
B. Coagulation system A. water-soluble; fat-soluble
C. Coagulation process B. polyunsaturated; monounsaturated
D. Coagulation cascade C. complex, simple
D. monounsaturated; saturated
170. Folate (B9) helps prevent:
A. Pellagra 176. What are examples of Vitamins?
B. Osteoporosis A. Fruits, vegetables and milk.
C. Neural Tube Defects (like Spina Bifida) B. Milk, paneer and pulses.
C. Milk, oil and ghee.
D. None of the above D. Wheat, rice and bread.

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177. What are vitamins needed for? C. Cyanocobalamin and folic acid
A. To give us energy. D. B12 and B3

B. To keep us weak. 184. Tocopherol is the chemical name of
C. For proper functioning of our body A. Vit.C
D. none of above B. Vit.D
178. Fish is a good source of C. Vit.E
A. Calcium D. Vit.K
B. Carbohydrates 185. How many cups of water are recom-
C. Sugar mended per day?
A. 12 cups
D. Protein
B. 4 cups
179. which of these 4 are all minerals?
C. 16 cups
A. iron Zinc sodium b6
D. 8 cups
B. fibre vitamin c vitamin D vitamin A
186. is needed to form and maintain
C. b2 b6 sodium potassium healthy skin and for growth and develop-
D. iron, zinc, sodium, potassium ment of our body.
180. A chemical name of vitamin B7. A. Vitamin D

B. Vitamin A
A. Folic acid
C. Vitamin K
B. Pantothenic acid
D. Vitamin E
C. Riboflavin
D. Biotin 187. Fat-soluble vitamins include
A. Vitamins A, D, E, K
181. Vitamin E is
B. Vitamins C, B1, B12, Foalte
A. Retinol
C. Zinc, calcium, potassium, sodium
B. Calciferol
D. ALL vitamins are fat-soluble
C. Tocopherol
188. What foods can vitamin B be found in?
D. none of above
A. Apple
182. Vitamins help boost your system B. Banana
A. Digestive C. Peach
B. Endocrine D. Persimmon
C. Immune
189. The synthesis of methionine requires vi-
D. Nervous tamin
183. Deficiency of what two vitamins can A. B12
cause megaloblastic anemia? B. B5
A. B9 and B6 C. B6
B. Folic acid and Biotin D. B7

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190. Vitamin C 196. What are people who are iron deficient
A. Gives us energy called?
B. Helps us see at night A. Fica
C. Fights off sickness B. Pica
D. Is known as the sunshine vitamin C. Lica

D. Keke
191. Less of proteins and carbs lead to
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A. Night blindness 197. The nutrients that transfoms energy and
provides immunity
B. Kwashiorkor
A. Fats
C. Pellagra
B. Calcium
D. none of above
C. Vitamins
192. Which of the following is NOT a B Vita- D. Minerals
min?
A. B 1 198. Which vitamins are stored in fatty tis-
sues?
B. B 12
A. A, D, E, K
C. B 36
B. C and B (8) vitamins
D. Folid Acid
C. A, C, D, E, K
193. This helps produce and maintain new D. none of above
cells
A. Folic Acid 199. this vitamin help you have strong bone
B. Calcium A. vitamin B
C. Fluoride B. vitamin C
D. B Vitamins C. vitamin D
D. vitamin K
194. Which vitamin is needed most when we
receive a bleeding wound? 200. On exposure to light rhodopsin forms
A. Vitamin K A. All trans-retina
B. Vitamin A B. Cis-retinal
C. Vitamin C C. Retinol
D. Vitamin B D. Retinoic acid
195. A patient suffering from pellagra likely 201. Vitamin D is abundant in the following
has a deficiency of which vitamin? foods:
A. Niacin A. milk fortified with vitamin D
B. Pyridoxine B. fish
C. Pantothenic Acid C. egg yolks
D. Pyridoxamine D. all the above

2.3 Vitamins 233
202. Cholesterol can be lowered by 208. This vitamin helps the body to absorb cal-
A. fiber cium.

B. water A. Vitamin A
B. Vitamin D
C. Vitamin A
C. Vitamin E
D. Calcium
D. Vitamin K
203. This helps to prevent night blindness and
poor eyesight: 209. It is a disease caused by dietary lack of
vitamin C ascorbic acid.
A. Vitamin A
A. Scurvy
B. Calcium
B. KWASHORCOR
C. Potassium
C. Anemia
D. Fluorine
D. COVID
204. Which vitamin helps with vision and pre-
venting night blindness? 210. What nutrient keeps our bodies hy-
drated?
A. Vitamin A
A. Vitamins and Minerals
B. Vitamin B
B. Protein
C. Vitamin D
C. Water
D. Vitamin E
D. Carbohydrates
205. Which vitamin helps in the production of
211. Different types of Vitamins are:
red blood cells and supplies oxygen to
cells? A. fat-soluble
A. iron B. water-soluble
B. protein C. both A and B
C. copper D. none of the above
D. calcium 212. Most macro minerals:
206. The definition of a deficiency means: A. Are for nerves and tissue growth
A. Not enough of something B. Become part of the body’s structure

like bones & teeth
B. Too much of something
C. Build red blood cells
C. It helps to maintain fluid balance
D. Prevent blood clotting
D. It dissolves in water
213. What is a Water Soluble Vitamin?
207. when do you have to have vitamins
A. When a vitamin is eaten with fiber
A. every other day
B. A vitamin that dissolves in water
B. once every week C. Vitamin that is difficult to overdose on
C. every day
D. none of above D. Two of these are correct

2.3 Vitamins 234
214. This category of vitamins in- 220. Fruits are an excellent source of
cludes:Vitamin A, D, E and K A. Protein
A. Water-Soluble B. Fiber
B. Phosphorus C. Sodium
C. Calcium D. Fat
D. Fat-Soluble 221. what is the deficiency disease from too
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little Vitamin B3
215. What does lack of vitamins cause?
A. Scurvy
A. Constipation
B. Beriberi
B. Diarrhea
C. Pellegra
C. None of them
D. Anaemia
D. none of above
222. Food sources rich in fiber include
216. fiber is a subcatergory of what nutrients A. whole grain
A. fats B. dairy
B. carbs C. water
C. protein D. meat
D. none of these 223. Who discovered the first vitamin B?
217. Vitamins are: A. B.C.P Jansen
A. MicroNutrients B. Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins

C. Elmer Vernon McCollum
B. MacroNutrients
D. Casimir Funk
C. Nutrients
D. none of above 224. Which is NOT a source of vitamin C?
A. Oranges
218. Deficiency of this vitamin may cause in-
B. Peas
flammation of the intestine.
C. Tomatoes
A. B2
D. Strawberries
B. B5
C. B7 225. What is Niacin?
A. A vitamin that keeps your digestive
D. B9
tract working normally, along with other
219. Another name for Ascorbic Acid is: benefits.
A. Vitamin C B. A mineral that is not an actual vitamin.
B. Vitamin D
C. Keeps your vision going strong, so you
C. Iron don’t go blind.
D. Protein D. none of above

2.3 Vitamins 235
226. is needed to heal cuts and wounds 232. Ascorbic acid is also known as
and to absorb iron from dark green veg- A. Vitamin C
etables.

B. Vitamin B
A. Vitamin A
C. Vitamin A
B. Vitamin B-group
C. Vitamin C D. Vitamin K
D. Vitamin D 233. where can you find vitamin A?
227. What is caused by too little Vitamin C? A. The sun
A. Pellegra B. sweet potato
B. Beri Beri C. Bread
C. Scurvy D. Milk
D. Rickets
234. Oils, butter and margarine are
228. Which food nutrient can be found in all
A. Fats
foods? Patients lacking this nutrient can
suffer from dehydration. B. Carbohydrates
A. Protein C. Minerals
B. Water D. Vitamins
C. Carbohydrates
235. The sailors generally suffer from the dis-
D. Lipids ease
229. An important function of vitamin A is: A. Nervous disorder
A. To act as coenzyme for a few enzyme B. Dental caries
B. To play an integral role in protein syn- C. Bleeding gums
thesis
D. Skin disorder
C. To prevent hemorrhage
D. To maintain the integrity of epithelial 236. Vitamin A is found in
tissue A. fats and oils
230. Which of these cause dehydration? B. orange-coloured fruits and vegetables
A. Diarrhoea
B. Vomiting C. red meats
C. Excessive bleeding D. refined sugar
D. All of the above 237. Oxidation occurs in cut-up fruit when it is
231. oranges contain what vitamin? exposed to:
A. vitamin c A. Air
B. vitamin d B. Vitamin C
C. vitamin k C. Ascorbic Acid
D. vitamin a D. Gelatin

2.3 Vitamins 236
238. Having foods rich in this vitamin will pre- 244. People can suffer from if they do not
vent Beriberi disease. eat sufficient food.
A. Vitamin A A. essential nutrition
B. Vitamin C B. balanced diet
C. Vitamin B1 C. obesity
D. none of above D. marasmus
245. Which vitamin is needed for healthy vi-
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239. The mineral calcium helps with
sion?
A. Blood clotting
A. Vitamin A
B. Regulating the heart
B. Vitamin B
C. keeping bones strong
C. Vitamin K
D. all of the above D. Vitamin D
240. What are chemical elements that are es- 246. This is needed for hemoglobin in red blood
sential in small amounts to maintain good cells
health?
A. Vitamin A
A. Water
B. Fluoride
B. Vitamins
C. Vitamin E
C. Minerals D. Iron
D. none of above
247. What are the two categories of Vita-
241. People who don’t get enough of this min- mins?
eral risk getting osteoporosis. A. complete or incomplete
A. Iron B. fat or water soluble
B. Calcium C. complex or simple complex
C. Potassium D. macro or micro
D. Sodium 248. What vitamin helps our bones to grow
242. Vitamin C is present in: properly?
A. A
A. tomatoes
B. B complex
B. papaya
C. E
C. guava
D. D
D. all of the above
249. This fruit category has skin covering a
243. The percentage of water in the human soft flesh that surrounds a singular hard
body is pit.
A. 75% A. berries
B. 20% B. drupes
C. 60% C. pomes
D. none of above D. citrus

2.3 Vitamins 237
250. fat soluble vitamins 256. Vitamin is important for healthy

A. are replaced everyday skin, vision, growth, immunity, and bone
health.

B. are stored in body fat
C. are constantly being replaced A. A
D. are not stored B. B1
251. The provitamin carotene is associated C. K

with Vitamin
D. B2
A. A
B. D 257. Fat soluble vitamins are
C. E A. Not stored in the body.
D. K
B. Sometimes stored in the body.
252. This fruit category has thick rinds with
thin membranes inside that separate the C. Stored in the body for a short period of
flesh into segments. time.
A. citrus D. Stored in the body for a long period of

time.
B. tropical
C. pomes
258. VITAMIN B12
D. drupes
A. FOLIC ACID
253. Vitamin A does
B. COBALAMINE
A. May Lower Your Risk of Certain Can-
cers C. NIACIN
B. Supports a Healthy immune system D. RIBOFLAVIN
C. Supports bone health
D. all of the above 259. This type of fat is usually solid at room
temperature.
254. What mineral is good for our musclesand
nerves? A. trans
A. Calcium B. unsaturated
B. Sodim C. saturated
C. Iron
D. none of above
D. Potassium
255. What are the 3 D symptoms for Niacin 260. primary antioxidants
deficiency?
A. Vitamin C
A. dermatitis, headache, vomiting
B. Vitamin A, C, E, selenium
B. dermatitis, diarrhoea, dementia
C. diarrhoea, vomiting, headache C. Vitamin D
D. diarrhoea, dementia, dog tiredness D. Thiamin

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261. Some foods have more vitamins and min- B. folic acid
erals than others. Which of the following C. water
might be considered unhealthy (non-food)
because it does not have many vitamins D. Vitamin D
and minerals?
267. It is stored in the fatty tissues of the
A. Oranges body and the liver.
B. Cheese A. Fat Soluble Vitamins
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C. Broccoli B. Water Soluble Vitamins
D. Soda C. Vitamins
262. How does the human body most likely D. Retanol
get the vitamin C it needs?
268. Which food groups are high in Vitamins
A. From the sun & Minerals?
B. From eating fruits A. Fruits & Vegetables
C. From getting sleep B. Protein
D. From drinking water C. Dairy
263. Examples of this nutrient are calcium, D. Grains
iron, and potassium
269. Which vitamin helps heal wounds, pre-
A. fats vents scurvy and is found in citrus fruits?
B. vitamins A. Vitamin A
C. minerals B. Vitamin C
D. proteins
C. Vitamin E
264. What mineral helps our bodies process D. Vitamin D
carbon dioxide?
270. Vitamin C helps to absorb from cere-
A. Zinc
als and dark green vegetables
B. Sodium
A. Calcium
C. Iron
B. Iron
D. Calcium
C. Phosphorus
265. What is one major health benefit for cal- D. Iodine
cium?
A. build strong bones and teeth. 271. What would happen to your body with-
out vitamins?
B. growth and repair of body tissues.
A. What are vitamins?
C. helps release energy from nutrients.
B. You get vitamin deficiency anemia, low
D. none of above count red of blood cells.
266. One of the most important minerals we C. Vitamin deficiency anemia, high red
need is blood cell count.
A. calcium D. You can’t get low vitamins

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272. There are many vitamins and minerals 277. Lack of is linked to higher risk of de-
needed to maintain a healthy body. What velopment of Alzheimer’s
is the best way for a person to get all

A. vitamin c
of the vitamins and minerals that are
needed? B. vitamin d
A. Eat a variety of healthy foods. C. vitamin e
B. Drink a lot of water. D. calcium
C. Eat only vegetables.
278. Where are people with nightblindness
D. Exercise everyday. likely to live
273. Lettuce, watermelon, oranges, apples, A. developing countries
pears are all sources of B. developed countries
A. water C. under water
B. vitamins
D. In the sky
C. minerals
D. folic acid 279. We can have thee vitamins in a good
bar of dark chocolate.
274. Drinking a sports drink after heavy exer- A. one
cise replenishes water, carbohydrate loss
and: B. two
A. Fat soluble vitamins C. three
B. Trace minerals D. four
C. Electrolytes
280. Which mineral helps form strong bones &
D. Calcium teeth and helps the nerves work properly.
It is found in milk, fish, eggs, meat and
275. Which of the following is a role of a min- vegetables.
eral?
A. D
A. Structure of muscles
B. Phosphorous
B. Structure of bones and teeth
C. Magnesium
C. All of these
D. B
D. Structure of teeth only
276. Which of the following is the BEST way to 281. Which nutrient is responsible for building
get the vitamins and minerals you need? and strengthening bones and teeth in the
body, as well as maintaining body func-
A. Take a multivitamin and don’t worry tions?
about what you eat
A. Carbohydrates
B. Eat a variety of foods from every food
group B. Water
C. Only eat food that comes from plants C. Vitamins
D. none of above D. Minerals

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282. The examples of are A, B, C, D, K, 288. Which vitamins and minerals help keep
etc. your bones strong
A. Vitamins A. Calcium and vitamin D
B. Fats B. Vitamin K
C. Minerals C. Magnesium and potassium
D. Starch D. All of the above
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283. How many different kinds of B Complex 289. The bone building cells.
Vitamins are there? A. Osteoclasts
A. 9 B. Osteocytes
B. 7 C. Osteoblasts
C. 8 D. osteocalcin
D. 6
290. Macro Elements =
284. This is found in bananas and tomato A. Protein, Carbohydrates & Fats
juice.
B. Sodium, Potassium & Calcium
A. Vitamin D
C. Copper, Zinc and Iron
B. Fluoride
D. none of above
C. Potassium
D. Vitamin E 291. This helps build strong strong bones; re-
leases energy for muscles.
285. Which vitamin can be manufactured by A. Vitamin D
skin exposure to the sun?
B. Iron
A. Thiamin
C. Vitamin E
B. Vitamin K
D. Magnesium
C. Vitamin D
D. none of above 292. This vitamin cannot be stored in the
body.
286. What can stop vitamin d deficiency? A. Vitamin K
A. apple B. Fat-Soluble
B. banana C. Vitamin A
C. pear D. Water-Soluble
D. dragon fruit
293. What mineral helps make our muscles
287. How many essential vitamins does your work properly especially while working
body need? out?
A. 10 A. Copper
B. 5 B. Lithium
C. 13 C. Magnesium
D. 15 D. Iron

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294. Which mineral helps in formation of C. Follicular hyperkeratosis

haemoglobin?
D. Rickets

A. Iodine
B. Sodium 300. Which vitamin can be obtained from sun-
light and helps bones?
C. Calcium
A. Vitamin A
D. Iron
B. Vitamin B
295. WHAT ARE THE 6 NUTRIENTS?
C. Vitamin C
A. Carbs, Meats, Fibers, Water, Protein,
and Dairy D. Vitamin D
B. Fruits, Milk, Fibers, Water, Pork, and
Vitamins 301. Fat-soluble vitamins
C. Carbs, Fats, Fibers, Water, Protein, A. are replaced everyday

and Vitamins B. stored for long periods of time
D. Carbs, Fats, Fibers, Cheese, Protein, C. are constantly being replaced
and Vegtables
D. are not stored
296. What is the deficiency disease for calcium
called? 302. Fruits & Veggies are called , because
A. Anemia they are low in calories but high in nutri-
ents
B. Rickets
A. Whole Foods
C. Osteoporosis
D. Scurvy B. Empty Calories
C. Extra Healthy
297. What are the two most common mineral
deficiencies? D. Nutrient Dense
A. Sodium & Calcium
303. Which of the following is a function of Vi-
B. Iron & Potassium tamin K?
C. Iron & Calcium A. It is needed to prevent constipation
D. Iodine & Magnesium
B. It is needed to keep skin healthy
298. vitamin E is a C. It is needed for normal blood clotting
A. laxative
D. It is needed to maintain healthy nerves
B. poison
C. antioxidant 304. What mineral maintains healthy blood
cells?
D. chloroform
A. Iron
299. A deficiency of vitamin A that results in
rough, dry skin and inflamed hair follicles B. Sodium
A. Xerophthalmia C. Zinc
B. Anaemia D. Calcium

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305. These are the vitamins that dissolve in D. any solid or liquid that can provide the
water but not in fats. body with minerals
A. Fat Soluble Vitamins
311. The three classes of nutrients that supply
B. Water Soluble Vitamins our body with energy are
C. Vitamins A. Glucose, Sucrose, Lactose
D. Thiamine B. Fat, proteins, carbohydrates
306. Which of the following is not a nutrient?
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C. Vitamins, minerals, fiber
A. Water D. Protein, water, carbohydrates
B. Sugar
312. which of the following is a function of
C. Carbohydrates
B12
D. Vitamins
A. makes red blood cells
307. What mineral is lost during working out B. protects the skin
and needs to be replenished?
C. digestion
A. Sodium
D. helps wounds repair
B. Gold
C. Iron 313. What mineral helps to keep the right
D. Talc amount of water in our bodies?
A. Potassium
308. How can a human obtain vitamins and
minerals? B. Zinc
A. By exercising each day C. Sodium
B. By eating healthy foods D. Calcium
C. By sleeping through the night
314. What does vitamin A do for you?
D. By drinking 8 ounces of water
A. Helps blood clots.
309. Name the vitamin which are essential for
B. Helps carbohydrates, fats, protein pro-
the health of the brain?
duce energy.
A. vitamin B6
C. Helps body fight infections, and
B. vitamin B9 wounds heal.
C. vitamin B12 D. Helps keep skin healthy, and protects
D. all the above organs with a lining.
310. Food is 315. What does vitamin A do for your body?
A. any solid or liquid that can provide the A. helps strengthen vision and prevent
body with nutrients night blindness
B. only solids that can provide the body
B. makes you smarter
with nutrients
C. strengthens immune system
C. only liquids that can provide the body
with nutrients D. cleanses your liver

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316. Vitamin D can be obtained from C. Water

A. Carrots D. Vitamins

B. Cereal
322. What mineral helps with kindy function?
C. Sunlight
A. Iodine
D. Wholegrain Food
B. Zinc
317. Name the structure analog of vitamin K,
which is used as anticoagulant? C. Selenium
A. Warfarin D. Potassium
B. Tocopherol 323. is caused by a lack of vitamin C, and
C. Ergocalciferol causes painful joints and bleeding gums.
D. β -carotene A. Kwashiorkor
318. This vitamins can get by exposing to the B. Night blindness
sunlight that can help to produce healthy C. Scurvy
bones.
D. Rickets
A. Vit. A
B. Vit.D 324. Which nutrient found in fruits would
C. Vit. E a doctor most likely recommend to help
boost the immune system?
D. Vit. B
A. Iron
319. This is found in poultry and enriched
B. Calcium
breads and cereals.
A. Calcium C. Vitamin C
B. Magnesium D. Vitamin K
C. Vitamin A 325. Vitamin C helps with

D. B Vitamins A. wound healing
320. Exercising and Eating steadily through B. iron absorption
the day does what?
C. wound healing and iron absorption
A. Control metabolic rate
D. none of above
B. Helps damaged skin and bones
C. Increases cholesterol level 326. The cut surface of fruits can be kept from
turning brown by dipping them or covering
D. Gives you 20 to 25% of your daily calo-
them with:
ries
A. Water
321. Which nutrient contributes to water bal-
ance, metabolism, and muscle function? B. Ascorbic Acid
A. Protein C. Water with Sugar Added
B. Minerals D. Salt

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327. Which fat-soluble vitamin helps the body 332. Which of the following is a good source
absorb calcium and phosphorous. It is for Vitamin A?
found in egg yolks, liver, fatty fish, for- A. Red & Orange Vegetables
tified dairy and sunlight.
B. Eggs
A. A
C. Whole Grains
B. C
D. Meats
C. D
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333. is the science or study of food and the
D. Iron
ways the body uses food
328. This helps regulate fluid balance in tis- A. Nutrients
sues; promotes proper nerve function. B. Carbohydrates
A. B Vitamins C. Nutrition
B. Folic Acid D. none of above
C. Potassium 334. Fiber is needed to
D. Iron A. prevent constipation
329. Which nutrient is vital to every body func- B. provide a source of energy
tion? C. grow and repair cells
A. lipids D. provide strong teeth and bones
B. water 335. Where does the human body get vitamin
C. minerals D?
D. protein A. From the sun
B. From the water
330. We should eat at least variety of
fruits and vegetables a day. C. From getting sleep
A. two D. From doing exercises
B. three 336. Which nutrient helps regulate the diges-

tive system?
C. four
A. Fiber
D. five
B. Calcium
331. Which of the following minerals, nor- C. Zinc
mally a partner to sodium, is essential
D. Vitamin B
in generation/maintenance of electric and
transport potential across membranes? 337. What mineral increases nerve function?
A. Potassium A. Iodine
B. Chloride B. Potassium
C. Calcium C. Sodium
D. Iron D. Iron

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338. Which of the following work to- 344. absorbs nutrients and eliminates
gether?????????????????????????? waste

A. Vitamin C and Iron A. water
B. Vitamin K and Magnesium B. vitamins
C. none of the above C. nutrients
D. all of the above D. calcium
339. Vitamin D.. 345. Select the nutrient that best applies to
the description. This nutrient helps reg-
A. Gives us energy ulate chemical reactions withinthe body.
B. Fights off sickness There are two types of this nutrient, macro
C. Is known as the sunshine vitamin and trace. What is the nutrient?
D. Helps us see at night A. Minerals

B. Vitamins
340. What is the toxicity for iron?
C. Water
A. Kidney Stones
D. Water
B. Heart Disease
346. When you don’t drink enough water you
C. Brain Hemorrhages can become:
D. Blurred Vision A. silly
341. Which vitamin can be obtained from sun- B. hyper
light? C. intoxicated
A. Vitamin A D. dehydrated
B. Vitamin B
347. Richest source of Vitamin D is
C. Vitamin C
A. Fish liver oils
D. Vitamin D
B. Margarine
342. This B-group vitamin produces amino C. Butter
acids D. Egg yolk
A. Vitamin B1
348. This can be found in fluoridated water
B. Vitamin B2 and fish with edible bones.
C. Vitamin B6 A. Vitamin D
D. Vitamin B12 B. Fluoride
343. What are the two classes of minerals? C. Potassium
A. Saturated and Unsaturated D. Vitamin E
B. Monosaccharides and Polysaccha- 349. How long is the longest fat soluble vita-
rides mins can stay in your body
C. macro and micro (trace) A. two years
D. Low biological and High biological B. one year

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C. two days 356. Iron is a mineral that helps to

D. one week A. strengthen bones & teeth
350. Which is NOT a fat-soluble vitamin? B. make red blood cells
A. Vitamin C C. maintain fluid balance in the body

B. Vitamin A D. heal wounds & infections
C. Vitamin E 357. Which is a a water-soluble vitamin?
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D. Vitamin D A. C
351. The jobs of water include: B. K
A. regulating body temp C. A
B. Helping deliver minerals to the body D. E
C. Helping with digestion 358. What is a chemical name of vitamin A?
D. All of the above
A. Thiamin
352. Why do we need fats? B. Tocopherol
A. For growth C. Retinol
B. To fight disease D. Cholecalciferol
C. To get energy
359. Which one of these is considered the
D. To be healthy “good fats” that we get from foods?
353. How many types of vitamins are there? A. Unsaturated Fat
A. 2 B. Trans Fat
B. 9 C. Saturated
C. 12 D. Carbs
D. 4 360. NUTRITION is defined as:
354. Which micro-nutrient is not manufactured A. the study of nutrients
by living things?
B. living a healthy life
A. Vitamins
C. The science or study of food and the
B. Carbohydrates ways in which the body uses the food.
C. Fats D. none of above
D. Minerals
361. Nutrients your body uses to build, repair,
355. Calcitriol synthesis involves and maintain cells and tissues:
A. Both liver and kidney A. Carbohydrates
B. Intestine B. Proteins
C. Adipose tissue C. Fiber
D. Muscle D. Vitamins

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362. Sodium, chloride and potassium are also 368. “Groans, moans, bones, and stones” are
known as associated with which of the following con-
ditions?

A. B vitamins
A. Hypercalcemia
B. Enzymes
B. Hypermagnesemia
C. Electrolytes
C. Hypercholeremia
D. Fat Soluble
D. Hemachromatosis
363. What food group does cornflakes belong
to? 369. A lack of Vitamin D can lead to
A. Staples A. rickets
B. Food from animals B. premature aging
C. Fruits and Vegetables C. night blindness
D. Legumes D. skin problems
364. Which is NOT a function of water? 370. What are the two groups of vitamins?
A. Regulates body temperature A. Water-soluble and Vitamin C
B. Protects cell membranes B. Fat-soluble and Vitamin K

C. Vitamin C and Vitamin D
C. Carries water-soluble vitamins
D. Water-soluble and Fat-soluble
D. Carries waste
371. Vitamin B1 is
365. VITAMIN A
A. Niacin
A. RETINOL
B. Riboflavin
B. PHYLLOQUINONE
C. Thiamin
C. NIACIN
D. none of above
D. FOLIC ACID
372. functions of include regulation of
366. This is an antioxidant that helps protect heart beat, muscle action, nerve function,
cells. and blood clotting
A. Iron A. vitamin c
B. Magnesium B. vitamin d
C. Vitamin D C. vitamin e
D. Vitamin E D. calcium
367. Scurvy is a deficiency of what vitamin? 373. Main component of plasma
A. Vitamin A A. iron
B. Vitamin B B. water
C. Vitamin C C. folic acid
D. Vitamin D D. blood

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374. Sleep helps you regulate metabolism. C. eyes

A. Yes D. hair
B. No
380. How much water is recommended daily?
C. Maybe
A. 16 c.
D. I dont know
B. 1 quart
375. is needed for the absorption of cal-
C. 8 cups
cium, which is needed to form strong bones
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and teeth. D. 12 c.
A. Vitamin A 381. Which Vitamin helps you maintain a
B. Vitamin B healthy connective tissue?
C. Vitamin C A. B1
D. Vitamin D B. B2
376. Riyaz fell down and suffered severe C. B12
bleeding due to lack of the nutrient D. C
A. Vit.K
382. Which of the following vitamins is
B. Iron
needed to form and maintain healthy
C. Vit.D skin?
D. Vit.C A. Vitamin D
377. What are Vitamins? B. Vitamin A
A. Organic compounds control many body C. Vitamin K
functions
D. Vitamin E
B. Process where body converts energy
in food into energy the body can use 383. plays an essential role in acid-base
balance via transport of bicarbonate.
C. An element essential for good health
D. Chemical composed of one or more A. Chloride
simple sugars B. Potassium
378. Osteoporosis is linked to a deficiency of C. Calcium
what mineral? D. Magnesium
A. Iron
384. , an entirely synthetic molecule with
B. Calcium vitamin K activity, was developed in the
C. Sodium 1940s and called (at the time) vitamin
D. Potassium K3.
A. Phylloquinone
379. Our absorbs sunlight and produce vi-
tamin D B. Menaquinone
A. skin C. Menadione
B. bones D. Phylloquanone

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385. What does Sodium impact? C. Staples

A. blood pressure D. Fruits and Vegetables

B. DNA
391. When our body is low in or missing an
C. bones and teeth essential nutrient this is called a
D. vision
A. deficiency
386. Which of the following is NOT a function B. devise
of vitamin C?
C. without
A. Needed for the formation of proteins
D. deficit
B. Acts as an antioxidant
C. Heal cuts and wounds 392. The vitamin that protects the retina in the
D. Helps in the production of red blood eyes of newborn babies
cells A. A
387. This vitamin plays a key role in the elec- B. D
tron transfer to and from FAD(H2) in carb C. E
and fatty acid metabolism:
D. K
A. Vitamin B2
B. Vitamin B1 393. Which of the following vitamin is also
C. Vitamin B6 known as cobalamin?
D. Vitamin C A. Vitamin B11

B. Vitamin B12
388. What is the purpose of vitamin A?
A. To help your muscles get stronger C. VitaminB3
B. To aid in vision D. Vitamin B9
C. To help you get rid of glasses 394. The bone resorbing cell or the cell which
D. To aid strengthening your hair breakdown bone.
389. Oxidation processes and oxygen trans- A. osteoclast

port would not be possible without which B. osteocytes
mineral?
C. osteoblast
A. Fe2+
D. osteocalcin
B. Mg2+
C. Ca2+ 395. Name the vitamin which functions as hor-
mone as well as visual pigment?
D. K+
A. Thiamine
390. which food group has the most vita-
mins? B. Riboflavin
A. Food from Animals C. Retinol
B. Legumes D. Folic acid

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396. Which vitamin helps your blood to clot? 401. compared to fats in meats, vegetable
A. Vitamin A fats contain more
B. Vitamin E A. taste
C. Vitamin K B. calories
D. Vitamin C C. unsaturated fatty acids
D. saturated fatty acids
397. Jack, Tasha, and Ruby are doing differ-
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ent things:Jack is sitting on the couch play- 402. Vitamins provide calories per gram.
ing a game.Tasha is outside jumping on a
A. 1
trampoline.Ruby is riding in the car with
her mom to the store.Which one is exer- B. 5
cising? C. 0
A. Only Tasha D. 4
B. Jack and Ruby
403. Fat soluble Vitamins are:
C. Only Ruby
A. vitamin A
D. Jack and Tasha
B. vitamin D
398. Why are vitamins important for the hu-
C. vitamin E
man body?
D. all of the above
A. They help it maintain healthy teeth,
bones and tissues. 404. Which of the following nutrients is NOT
B. They help increase the amount of exer- used by the body for energy?
cise needed A. Fat
C. They help it gain weight and become B. Carbohydrates
overweight
C. Vitamins
D. They help increase the amount of sleep
needed D. Proteins
399. Which of this vitamin is associated with 405. Water soluble vitamins
the coenzyme Biocytin? A. build up in body
A. Nicotinic acid B. absorbed by fat
B. Thiamine C. pass easily in bloodstream and dis-
C. Biotin solve in water
D. Pyridoxine D. are made in the body
400. Good sources of this vitamin include milk, 406. Identify the food that is NOT a source of
dairy products, fish and eggs. CHOLESTEROL
A. B7 A. beef
B. B12 B. chicken
C. C C. cheese
D. B2 D. none of above

2.3 Vitamins 251
407. This fruit category is juicy and large with 413. A combination of which three nutrients
a thick rind and many seeds. can prevent Rickets?

A. citrus A. calcium, nitrogen and water
B. berries B. calcium, phosphorus and vitamin D
C. melons C. Vitamin C, carbon and phosphorus
D. tropical D. carbon, calcium and Vitamin K
408. What types of minerals balance fluid in 414. Which of the following food is a source
your cells and tissues? of healthy fat?
A. Macro A. Almonds
B. Electrolytes B. Oreos
C. Iron C. Ice cream
D. Trace D. Meat
409. Which is a MACRO mineral? 415. About how much percentage of the body
is water?
A. Iron
A. 70%
B. Calcium
B. 20%
C. Sodium
C. 90%
D. Potassium
D. 10%
410. The deficiency disease of vitamin B3 is
416. All food groups have foods that are rich
A. Beriberi in
B. Aribolfavinosis A. minerals
C. Pellagra B. water
D. Pernicious anaemia C. carbohydrates
411. This vitamin B, is known to help lower D. protein
levels of bad cholesterol and enhance lev- 417. Vitamin E..
els of good cholesterol.
A. Is created through exercise
A. Vitamin B 1
B. Absorbs calcium leading to stronger
B. Vitamin B 2 bones
C. Vitamin B 3 C. Helps us see
D. Vitamin B 6 D. Is good for our hair, nails and skin
412. Excess fat soluble vitamins are stored in 418. Which mineral helps build strong bones
the and is found in milk?
A. Kidneys A. calcium
B. pancreas B. vitamin C
C. liver C. collagen
D. heart D. chromium

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419. A pale yellow solid which dissolve in fats 425. Vitamin B2-(Riboflavin) transports hy-
and oils, but nit in water. drogen and keeps skin healthy
A. Retinol A. Sugar
B. Thiamine B. Orange Juice
C. Carotene C. Lettuce
D. Vit. A D. Onions
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420. Calcium helps to: 426. helps prevent neural tube defect
A. Prevent birth defects A. calcium
B. Vision B. folic acid
C. Build strong bones C. vitamin c
D. none of above D. vitamin d
421. Which vitamin is added to milk to help the 427. Proteins, fats, and carbs are known as
body absorb calcium. because they are nutrients needed in
large amounts.
A. Vitamin A
A. micronutrients
B. Vitamin K
B. masconutrients
C. Vitamin C
C. macronutrients
D. Vitamin D
D. micros
422. How does calcium help our body?
428. Symptoms of hypervitaminosis A are
A. Builds muscle
A. Misscarriage
B. Helps eyesight B. Weight loss
C. Develops red blood cells C. night blindness
D. Strong bones D. tooth decay
423. What vitamin is good for our eyes? 429. A C D and E are all what?
A. A A. Vitamins
B. B complex B. Minerals
C. C C. Protein
D. D D. Metabolism
424. As you get older your metabolism 430. fat soluble vitamins
A. Increases A. Vitamin A
B. Decreases B. Vitamin B
C. Stays the same C. Vitamin A, D, E, K
D. None of the above D. Vitamin E

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431. Vitamin E-helps protect us from red blood 437. Which nutrient helps control body func-
cell destruction tions such as digestion, metabolism, and
wound healing?

A. Grapefruit
A. Vitamins
B. Lettuce
B. Minerals
C. Sunlight
C. Water
D. Wheat Germ
D. Vegetables
432. The rate you burn the calories you con-
sume 438. What are the Vitamin B required to main-
tain healthy nervous and neural systems.
A. Metabolism
A. vitamins B1, B2, B3 and B6
B. Vitamins
B. vitamin B1, B2, and B12
C. Minerals
C. vitamin B1, B6 and B12
D. Fats
D. all the B Vitamins.
433. Vitamins are required in 439. Which mineral helps your thyroid gland
A. Large Amounts function properly and regulates body
growth? It is found in seafood and salt.
B. Small Amounts
A. Phosphorous
C. Medium Amounts
B. B Complex
D. Zero amounts
C. Iodine
434. Which of the following is a good source D. K
of fiber?
440. Make half your plate
A. lettuce
A. Grains and fruit.
B. milk
B. Vegetables and protein
C. potato
C. Fruit and vegetables
D. butter
D. Protein and grains
435. Which is not a form of vitamin?
441. What promotes healthy skin and normal
A. MINERALS ARE VITAMINS vision?
B. Pill A. Vitamin A
C. Food B. Calcium
D. Rock C. Fluoride
D. Vitamin E
436. What vitamin helps with brain function?
A. Vitamin A 442. Coenzyme A is an important molecule
in carbohydrate, protein, and lipid
B. Vitamin B
metabolism and biosynthesis. What vita-
C. Vitamin C min is involved in the synthesis of CoA?
D. Vitamin D A. B5

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B. B6 B. Iron
C. B2 C. Calcium
D. B12 D. Zinc
443. What is an example of a healthy fat? 449. Which vitamin works together with cal-
A. Almonds cium and phosphorus to build strong bones
and teeth?
B. Oreos
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C. Ice cream A. Vitamin A
D. Beef B. Vitamin K
C. Vitamin E
444. Which of the following vitamins are fat-
soluble? D. Vitamin D
A. A, B, E, C 450. A diet lacking in leads to the develop-
B. B, C, E, K ment of a disease known as scurvy.
C. D, K, B, C A. Vitamin A
D. K, A, D, E B. Vitamin B
445. what do vitamins do to you C. Vitamin C

A. They make you feel smarter D. Vitamin D
B. They heal you 451. Vitamin B..
C. They make you fall asleep easier A. Gives us energy
D. none of above
B. Helps us see at night
446. Which if the following foods are rich in C. Heals our wounds (cuts and scrapes)
Vitamin A?
D. Is known as the sunshine vitamin
A. milk fortified with vitamin A
B. liver 452. Why is food a basic need for all living or-
ganisms?
C. orange fruits and vegetables (like can-
taloupe, carrots, sweet potatoes) A. Organisms get sick from food.
D. all of the above B. Organisms get energy from food.
C. Only plants need food.
447. Vitamin A is also known as
A. Calciferol D. Only animals need food.
B. Retinol 453. β -Carotene, precursor of vitamin A, is

C. Tocopherol oxidatively cleaved by
D. none of above A. β -Carotene dioxygenase
B. Oxygenase
448. What mineral promotes growth of
healthy bones and teeth? C. Hydroxylase
A. Potassium D. Transferase

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454. What is the most important Vitamin C. vitamin E

A. D D. vitamin K

B. E
460. Which is not a function of water in the
C. C body?
D. none of above A. temperature regulation
455. are molecules that boost the immune B. cushioning and moisturizing
system. They do so by protecting cells
C. fat burning
from harmful molecules called free radi-
cals. D. waste removal
A. Antbodies
461. Infection and bleeding of gums can be pre-
B. Surfactants vented by having foods rich in
C. Anti free radicals A. Iron
D. Antioxidants B. Calcium
456. Which of these Vitamins is an anti oxi- C. Vitamin C
dant? D. none of above
A. B1
462. What food contain calcium?
B. B12
A. Oranges
C. C
D. Niacin B. Yogurt
C. Chicken
457. Anemia is caused by a lack of what min-
eral? D. Iceberg lettuce
A. Folate 463. Vitamin D’s major function:
B. Iron A. To prevent birth defects in unborn chil-
C. Calcium dren
D. Sodium B. To keep the bones supplies with Cal-
cium
458. A young child suffering from a loss of
muscle and a large belly that sticks out C. To help the red blood cells absorb iron
may have
A. Scurvy D. none of above
B. Goiter
464. Which nutrient helps regulate body func-
C. Kwashiorkor tions and provide protection?
D. Rickets A. Fats
459. Who helps clot the bleeds? B. Vitamins
A. vitamin A C. Carbohydrates
B. vitamin C D. Protein

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465. Which of the following has the highest 470. Which fat-soluble vitamin can be con-
sodium content? sumed from the Sun?
A. Fresh fruits and vegetables. A. A
B. Lunchmeats, processed cheeses and B. D
canned soup. C. E
C. Mild, roast beef sandwich. D. K
D. Tossed salad with vinegar and oil
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471. Vitamin K..
dressing.
A. Helps us stops bleeding
466. Deficiency of vitamin D causes B. Absorbs calcium leading to stronger
bones
A. Ricket and osteomalacia
C. Fights off sickness
B. Tuberculosis of bone
D. Helps us see at night
C. Hypthyroidism
D. Skin cancer 472. Deficiency means
A. getting too much
467. Too much of what mineral is linked to high B. not getting enough
blood pressure?
C. lousy
A. Vitamin K
D. gaining
B. Folate
473. The most potent Vitamin D metabolite is
C. Sodium
A. 25-Hydroxycholecalciferol
D. Vitamin E
B. 1, 25-Dihydroxycholecalciferol
468. are inorganic substances that your C. 24, 25-Dihydroxycholecalciferol
body cannot make on its own D. 7-Dehydrocholesterol
A. vitamins
474. What is the advantage of buying fruits in
B. minerals season?
C. folic acid A. They are cheaper and higher in quality.
D. Vitamin C
B. They are more expensive.
469. The 6 CLASSES OF NUTRIENTS are as fol- C. They spoil faster.
lows:
D. There is no advantage.
A. Water, Sodium, Calcium, Potassium,
Zinc, Cholesterol 475. This promotes strong bones and teeth;
prevents tooth decay.
B. fats, Protein, Water, Vitamins, Miner-
als, Carbohydrates A. Potassium
C. Water, Cholesterol, Potassium, Cal- B. Fluoride
cium, Acids, Starches C. Vitamin E
D. none of above D. Vitamin A

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476. Vitamin K was discovered 1929, when 482. What are the symptoms of deficiency of
the Danish Nutritional scientist was in- Vitamin A?
vestigating the role of cholesterol.

A. Person gets tired easily.
A. Dr. Henry Chu
B. Swelling of gland in neck.
B. Dr. Henrik Dam
C. Bleeding of gums and swelling of joints.
C. Dr. Edward A. Doisy
D. Dr. Edwin A. Doisy
D. Person is not able to see in dim light.
477. In order to maintain a healthy body, hu-
mans need , , and 483. Vitamin D can be obtained from
A. good grades, nice clothes, and many A. Carrots

friends B. Wholegrain food
B. vitamins, minerals, and exercise C. Cereal
C. vaccinations, minerals, and haircuts
D. Sunlight
D. minerals, rocks, and exercise
484. Which mineral is in milk, yogurt, eggs,
478. Milk is fortified with what vitamins? fish & leafy greens? It helps form strong
A. A bones & teeth plus helps with blood clot-
B. B ting and muscle contraction.
C. A & B A. Calcium
D. A & D B. D
479. A lack of this B-group vitamin leads to C. K

Beri-beri D. Potassium
A. Vitamin B1
485. Eggs is not a great source of the follow-
B. Vitamin B2 ing vitamin
C. Vitamin B9 A. A
D. Vitamin B12
B. D
480. Which mineral helps build strong bones? C. E
A. calcium D. K
B. vitamin C
C. collagen 486. Which fat soluble vitamin helps your eyes
adjust to light and maintains skin, bones
D. chromium and tissues? It is found in fish, carrots,
apricots, dark leafy greens and squash.
481. What are the fat-soluble vitamins?
A. C, A, D, E A. E
B. K, A, D, E B. A
C. K, A, C, E C. C
D. C, A, K, E D. Iron

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487. What are the best sources of calcium in 493. What Vitamin helps the absorption of
the American Diet? Iron
A. ice cream & cake A. A
B. apples & oranges B. B
C. milk & dairy products C. C
D. bread & pasta D. D
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488. Which of the following is NOT a function 494. Too much sodium can cause which health
of water problem?
A. carries nutrients A. obesity
B. eliminates waste B. Diabetes
C. promotes red blood cell growth C. night blindness
D. helps regulate body temperature D. high blood pressure
489. what are vitamins good for? 495. Cheese is Rich in??
A. good for your immune system A. Vitamin A
B. good for your morning cup of coffee B. Vitamin B

C. Vitamin C
C. good for your nose
D. Vitamin D
D. good for your mailbox
496. The function of this vitamin is to promote
490. Which of the following fat-soluble vita-
the absorption of phosphorus and calcium
mins also act as an antioxidant?
and to build and maintain bones.
A. Vitamin S
A. A
B. Vitamin D B. D
C. Vitamin E C. E
D. Vitamin K D. K
491. What helps you digest your food? 497. Vitamin A..
A. fats A. Give us energy
B. proteins B. Helps us see at night
C. minerals C. Heals our wounds (cuts and scrapes)
D. fibre D. Is known as the sunshine vitamin
492. Water-soluble vitamins must be taken 498. Which vitamin is destroyed by oxygen
A. Weekly A. A
B. Monthly B. D
C. Yearly C. E
D. Daily D. K

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499. It is the only water soluble among the 505. Fiber is important for:
kinds of Vitamin K. A. strong bones

A. Vitamin K1 B. headache prevention
B. Vitamin K2 C. digestion
C. Vitamin K3 D. none of above
D. Vitamin K4
506. Meat, seafood eggs are rich in
500. What vitamin can you get from sunlight A. Vit.C
and dairy products?
B. Vit.B complex
A. C
C. Vit.A
B. E
D. none of above
C. K
D. D 507. It is most commonly known for its role in
fetal health and development as it plays a
501. conversion of glucose critical role in the proper development of
A. Vitamin B1 the baby’s nervous system.
B. Vitamin Q A. Biotin
C. Biotin B. Folic Acid
D. none of above C. Cobalamin
D. Thiamin
502. If you suffer from Anaemia you should
eat foods rich in 508. It supports carbohydrate, protein and fat
A. Vitamin A and C metabolism and may help support healthy
hair, skin and nails
B. Calcium and Phosphorus
A. Biotin
C. Iron and Vitamin B12
B. Folic Acid
D. none of above
C. Cobalamin
503. The word “vitamin” comes from D. Niacin
A. Vitaly Minkov, the Russian researcher
who first discovered vitamins 509. The function of vitamin K is to
B. “Vital” and “amines” A. regulate the heart
C. Vitumamine, the first vitamin to be dis- B. aid in digestion
covered C. help the blood to clot
D. none of above D. boost the immune system
504. Needed for healthy teeth, gums and 510. Which nutrient carries nutrients and oxy-
bones. Helps heal wounds. gen throughout the body?
A. Folic Acid A. Dairy
B. Calcium B. Minerals
C. Vitamin C C. Protein
D. B Vitamins D. Water

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511. Water is extremely important to your 517. calcium is included in which category of
health because nutrients
A. it makes us sweat. A. protein
B. it gives us energy. B. vitamins
C. it is vital in all of the body’s major func- C. minerals
tions.
D. all of these
D. it helps make our blood thicker so it
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can carry more oxygen. 518. Lack of exposure to sunlight may lead to
deficiency of this
512. The natural, plant-synthesized dietary
source of vitamin K is A. Vitamin D
A. Phylloquinone B. Vitamin K
B. Menaquinone C. Vitamin E
C. Menadione D. none of above
D. VItamin K2 519. Fat-Soluble Vitamins can be stored
513. Zinc is a A. In fruits
A. mineral B. In your body
B. vitamin C. In the air
C. both vitamin and mineral D. In the sun
D. moose
520. This vitamin is used in the food industry
514. Vitamin B6 is to stop fat from becoming rancid
A. Pyridoxine A. Vitamin A
B. Folate / Folic Acid B. Vitamin D
C. Cobalamin C. Vitamin E
D. none of above D. Vitamin D
515. The following are the most common 521. Vitamin D is
things that destroy the nutrients in fruits
and vegetables: A. Retinol
A. Heat, air and alkalines B. Cholecalciferol
B. Heat, air, and water C. Tocopherol
C. Air, water, and copper D. none of above
D. Heat, water, and alkalines 522. This vitamin is also known as the ‘Sun-
516. Why do we eat fats? shine’ vitamin.
A. growth A. Vitamin A
B. fight disease B. Vitamin D
C. energy C. Vitamin E
D. be healthy D. Vitamin K

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523. Lack of Vitamin D can lead to , the 529. Vitamin K is

softening and weakening of bones, lead- A. Retinol
ing to bowing of legs.

B. Tocopherol
A. Osteoporosis
C. Naphthoquinone
B. Pellagra
D. none of above
C. Spinal Bifida
D. Rickets 530. This mineral makes hemoglobin and my-
globin which you must have for blood pro-
524. Which is not a fat soluble vitamin duction. If you don’t have enough you may
A. D become anemic
B. E A. iron
C. C B. calcium
D. K C. zinc
D. a
525. How many vitamins are present in water
soluble vitamins? 531. What are Minerals?
A. 5 A. An element essential for good health
B. 3 B. Organic compounds that control many
C. 9 body functions
D. 12 C. Process where body converts energy
in food into energy the body can use
526. Consists of Calcium, Iron, Sodium and D. None of the above
potassium
A. Minerals 532. What are Fat Soluble Vitamins?
B. Vitamins A. Vitamins ADEK
C. Metabolism B. Vitamins ABCD
D. None of the above C. Vitamins ABKS
D. Vitamins that fat cannot absorb
527. This vitamin helps in blood clotting to pre-
vent excessive bleeding. 533. This can be found in fortified cereals and
A. Vitamin A vegetable oil.
B. Vitamin D A. Iron
C. Vitamin E B. Fluoride
D. Vitamin K C. Vitamin A
D. Vitamin E
528. Consuming too much fat
A. Increases your risk of heart disease 534. What is the main source of Vitamin C?
and stroke. A. Junk food
B. Makes you tired. B. Vegetables
C. Makes you hungry. C. Citrus foods
D. Increases your risk of lung cancer. D. Canned food

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535. Vitamin B9 works together with vitamin 541. Which of the following are fat-soluble vi-
& to form red blood cells tamins?
A. Vitamin B12 and iron A. A, D, E and K
B. Vitamin B3 and iron B. B-complex and C
C. Vitamin B6 and iron C. Vitamins A and D only
D. Vitamin B2 and iron D. Niacin and Riboflavin
536. what does vitamin C do?
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542. What language is the term vitamin de-
A. helps you see well rived from?
B. makes you run faster A. French
C. keeps you healthy by making your im- B. Greek
mune system strong. C. Latin
D. makes little students strong D. Spanish
537. vitamins and minerals are essential to 543. The vitamins below are water-soluble vi-
A. Growth tamins except
B. getting sick A. Vitamin B3
C. getting longer hair B. Vitamin B1
D. getting good grades C. Vitamin C
538. How many elements comprise the dietary D. Vitamin K
minerals?
544. What vitamin is good for our bones and
A. 21 teeth?
B. 20 A. A
C. 18 B. E
D. 17 C. C
539. Minerals come from D. B complex
A. mining 545. Which of the following vitamin serves as
B. soil and water being absorbed by a hormone precursor?
plants and then eaten by animals and then
A. Vitamin A
eaten by us
B. Vitamin D
C. precipitation
C. Vitamin E
D. Cells
D. Vitamin k
540. Identify the chemical name of vitamin D
. 546. What is a good source of vitamin C?
A. Niacin A. Apple
B. Cholecalciferol B. Lemon
C. Retinol C. Orange
D. Beta-carotene D. Pineapple.

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547. The most abundant nutrient in the body 553. All of the following are benefits of water
is EXCEPT:

A. water A. blood circulation
B. fiber B. convert food to energy
C. vitamins C. remove waste
D. carbohydrates D. storing energy
548. Vitamin A is 554. You might end up with very weak bones
without sufficient quantities of this Vita-
A. Retinol min
B. Cholecalciferol A. vitamin B
C. Tocopherol B. vitamin C
D. none of above C. vitamin D
549. A Class of energy-giving nutrients that D. vitamin K
includes sugars, starches, and a fiber are
555. What is the chemical substance obtained
called
from food and used in the body to pro-
A. Proteins vide energy, structuralmaterial, and regu-
B. Fruits lating agents to support growth, mainte-
nance, and repair of the body’s tissues?
C. Carbohydrates
A. food
D. none of above
B. vitamin
550. What food is a good source of Zinc? C. nutrient
A. Fish D. mineral
B. Steak
556. Electrolytes balance in the body.
C. Potatoes
A. energy
D. Oranges
B. fluid
551. How can you gain the vitamin Thiamine? C. blood
A. Carbonated Beverages. D. vitamins
B. Vegetables and fruits 557. What is needed for a healthy nervous
C. Meat, nuts, and whole grains. system?
D. Yogurt, and milk. A. Vitamin A
B. Calcium
552. Why do we need Vitamin B2?
C. Fluoride
A. Helps body release energy from food?
D. B Vitamins
B. Makes Red blood cells 558. Which food group is an orange in?
C. Stops Diarrhoea A. Food from Animals
D. Processes folic acid B. Staples

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C. Fruit and Vegetables 564. How many calories does a Mineral con-
D. Fats and Oils tain? PER GRAM.
A. 4
559. Fat soluble vitamins have a potential risk
of toxicity if B. 2
A. They are taken on an empty stomach C. 22
B. They are being taken as a supplement D. 0
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565. Which type of vitamin dissolves in fat al-
C. if the individual has a high percentage
lowing it to remain in the body for a longer
of body fat
period of time?
D. none of above
A. nutrients
560. Helps prevent damage to the brain and B. water soluble
spinal cord of unborn babies.
C. fat soluble
A. Niacin
D. none of above
B. Phosphorus
C. Iodine 566. What does vitamins help in keeping
healthy?
D. Folate
A. Gums and body.
561. Select ALL THAT APPLY:Vitamin C and B
are B. Face and eyes.
A. fat soluble vitamins C. Bones and teeth.

B. water soluble vitamins D. none of above
C. antioxidants 567. One of these HAS calories, which one is
D. the same as vitamin A, D, E, and K it?
562. What vitamin is found in foods like or- A. Vitamins

anges, strawberries and broccoli? B. Minerals
A. Vit C C. Fats
B. Vit A D. Water
C. Vit K
568. What is Folic acid need for?
D. Vit E
A. To prevent brain damage in newborn
563. Lack of this vitamins may cause bleeding babies
gliathesis or unusual succetibility bleed-
ing. B. To prevent anaemia in new born ba-
bies
A. Vit. E
C. To prevent Spina Bifida in new born ba-
B. Vit. B bies
C. Vit. C D. To prevent vomiting in New born ba-
D. Vit. A bies

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569. What vitamin works with calcium for 574. Also known as “English disease”.
stronger bones? A. Scurby

A. No vitamins B. Tetanu
B. Vitamin A C. Leptospirosis
C. Vitamin B-Complex D. Rickets
D. Vitamin D 575. Vitamin is important for healthy skin
and vision.
570. If a patients blood does not clot, or takes
unusually long to do so, that patient may A. A
be suffering from a deficiency B. C
A. iodine C. E
B. vitamin C D. B
C. calcium 576. This nutrient’s main role is to help other
D. vitamin K nutrient’s do their job
A. Vitamins
571. Why is exercise important in maintaining B. Minerals
a healthy body?
C. Protein
A. Movement is essential for growth and
development of the body. D. Carbohydrates
B. Movement maintains the systems of 577. This can be found in canned fish with edi-
the body. ble bones, as well as dairy products.
C. Only A A. Vitamin D
D. A and B B. Fluoride
C. Vitamin E
572. Which mineral forms hemoglobin in red
D. Calcium
blood cells, which carries oxygen in the
body. It is found in meat, eggs, leafy 578. You encounter a patient deficient in vita-
greens & dried fruits, like raisins. min B2 (riboflavin). She is complaining of
A. Iodine a sore throat/mouth as well as photopho-
bia. Which of the following is likely to be
B. C another of her complaints?
C. Iron A. Cheilosis
D. Magnesium B. Dry beriberi
C. mental confusion
573. What is the function of Vitamin K?
D. paresthesia
A. helps with eye sight
579. How could Tara most likely get needed
B. helps blood clot normally
minerals and vitamins without eating
C. helps the nervous system healthy?
D. helps form blood cells A. By exercising daily

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B. By drinking extra water 585. We get from oranges, peppers, toma-

C. By adding salt to food eaten toes and potatoes.
A. viatmin A
D. By taking dietary supplements
B. vitamin B
580. Which nutrient is the most VITAL nutrient C. vitamin D
to all bodily processes?
D. vitamin C
A. Water
586. The deficiency diseases can be prevented
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B. Calcium
by having
C. Fat
A. Junk food
D. Carbohydrates B. Balanced diet rich in fresh fruits and
581. The amount of water that should be con- vegetables
sumed one hour before a physical fitness C. Lots of water
activity is: D. none of above
A. 5-6 fl. oz. 587. What is it called when fruit turns brown
B. 8-20 fl. oz. after being cut?
C. 40-45 fl. oz. A. Rusting
D. 60-64 fl. oz. B. Oxidation
C. Aeration
582. Deficiency of which vitamin causes Beri-
Beri? D. Rotting
A. Vitamin B12 588. Retinol is the scientific name of which Vi-
tamin?
B. Vitamin B1
A. Vitamin D
C. Vitamin B2
B. Vitamin A
D. Vitamin B6
C. Vitamin E
583. Which micro-nutrients can the body syn- D. Vitamin B
thesize?
589. Identify the form of vitamin D .
A. Vitamins
A. Niacin
B. Minerals
B. Cholecalciferol
C. Some Minerals/Vitamins
C. Retinol
D. None
D. Beta-carotene
584. This vitamin is important to maintaining 590. An infant born with neural tube defects
the Na+/K+ balance and without it, sider- is deficient in which of the following vita-
oblastic anemia can result: mins?
A. Pyridoxal A. B7
B. Biotin B. B9
C. Pantothenic Acid C. B12
D. Folic Acid D. B6

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591. What does Vitamin A do? C. Helps your genes.

A. It helps your metabolism.

B. It helps you see. D. Helps your brain.
2.4 Classification of Vitamins

1. Which of the following is a disease caused 6. Vertebrates are animals that have a
by viruses to humans? A. fur
A. Cowpox in cows
B. 4 legs
B. AIDS
C. backbone
C. Rabies in dogs
D. roots
D. Dwarfism in rice
7. Which is the best way to prepare fruit to
2. How should fresh tomatoes be stored?
retain nutrients?
A. at room temperature
A. baked on a low temperature for a long
B. In the refrigerator time
C. In a cool, dry, dark place B. battered and fried in oil
D. in a warm place C. lightly grilled
3. What classification does an artichoke fit D. stewed in water and butter
into?
8. Plants reproduce through:
A. Flower
B. Stem A. seeds
C. Leaf B. cones
D. Fruit C. spores
D. all of the above
4. Which is categorized as a stem veg-
etable? 9. Which characteristics generally describe
A. potato good quality produce?
B. cauliflower A. Large, soft, wrinkled
C. tomato B. medium, firm, smooth
D. asparagus C. small, hard, discolored
5. Define “obligate parasites” D. none of above
A. can only replicate on the outside of an- 10. Which kingdom is Prokaryotic?
other living cell
A. Kingdom Animal
B. can only replicate within another living
cell B. Kingdom Fungi
C. can not replicate on a living cell C. Kingdom Protista
D. none of above D. Kingdom Eubacteria

11. Vitamins and Minerals are included in the 17. What do antibiotics kill?
classification of
A. Bacteria
A. Microminerals
B. Viruses
B. Macronutrients
C. Fungi
C. Micronutrients
D. Humans
D. Macrominerals
18. A relationship in which 2 organisms live
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12. The enzymes, vitamins, glycoside and al-
kaloids are extracted by with one another and at least one benefits
is called
A. Steam distillation
B. Distillation under reduced pressure A. Parastic
C. Flash distillation B. Symbiotic

D. Vacuum distillation C. Conjugation
13. Has membrane bound organelles D. Binary Fission

A. Prokaryotes 19. What food group supplies a large amount
B. Eukaryote of protein?
C. both A. Dairy
D. none of above B. Fruit
14. Sharks belong to which group of verte- C. Meats
brates?
D. Vegetables
A. Mammals
B. Fish 20. Which of the following is the least closely
related animal:Gray Wolf:Canis lupusAard-
C. Amphibians
wolf:Proteles cristatusCoyote:Canis la-
D. Invertebrates trans
15. Which of the following foods is not a grain A. Coyote
source?
B. Aardwolf
A. Brown Rice
C. Gray Wolf
B. Nuts
D. Need more information on body char-
C. Wheat Bread
acteristics
D. Spaghetti
21. What is the word for a substance in a food
16. When a virus invades a living cell, its
that is used by the body?
takes over the cell’s functions.
A. source
A. outer coat
B. genetic material B. nutrient
C. core C. absorb
D. cytoplasm D. none of above

22. Redwood trees can grow to be very tall. 28. Which is an example of a leaf classifica-
They can grow so tall because they are tion?

A. vascular A. Kale
B. deciduous B. Asparagus
C. nonvascular C. Pea
D. flowering D. Cauliflower
23. An example of a POULTRY product is 29. What is enzymatic browning?
A. Beef A. when fruits’ sugars carmelize
B. Lamb B. when fruits turn brown with exposure
C. Chicken to air
D. Nuts/Seeds C. when fruits flavor agents change col-
ors
24. Term given to describe the 2 name naming
system is: D. none of above
A. dichotmous key 30. What can you do when you need fruit to
B. binomial nomenclature ripen quickly?
C. 2 scientific names A. Put it in the refrigerator
D. binomial key B. Keep them at room temperature
C. Place them all around your refrigera-
25. How much fruit should the average
tor
teenager eat each day?
A. 1 cup D. Keep them in a paper sack
B. 1 1/2-2 1/2 cups 31. Asia keeps seeing a small animal in her
C. 2 1/2-3 1/2 cups backyard. She observed the animal has a
backbone, four legs and a long tail, and its
D. 3 1/2-4 1/2 cups body is covered with scales. What is the
classification for this animal?
26. An organism that makes its own food
A. bird
A. autotroph
B. heterotroph B. mammal
C. photosynthesis C. reptile
D. respiration D. amphibian
27. This is the science of classifying. 32. Which 2 classifications do plants use?
A. cryptology A. seeds & non-seeds
B. biology B. flowering & nonflowering
C. economy C. cones & non-cones
D. taxonomy D. plants & non-plants

33. What can fruit be placed in to help them 39. You find an organism called Glycine max.
ripen? What do you know?
A. the sun A. It is an apple
B. a plastic bag B. It is part of the animal kingdom
C. It is part of the glycine genus
C. a brown paper bag
D. It is probably pretty neat.
D. a bowl
40. Preventing of infection is the function of
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34. What classification does celery fit into?
A. Leaf A. Foods
B. Bulb B. Nutrients
C. Stem C. Carbohydrates
D. Fats
D. Tuber
41. What do protists, plants, fungi, and ani-
35. How many cups of vegetables should the mals ALWAYS have in common? They are
average teenager have eat day? all
A. 1-2 cups A. Multicellular
B. 1 1/2-3 cups B. Eukaryotic
C. 2 1/2-4 cups C. Prokaryotic
D. 3 1/2-5 cups D. Consumers
42. According to the Australian Guide to
36. Viruses are found in Healthy Eating, what is a serve?
A. air A. The recommended amount of food that
B. water should be consumed
C. soil B. How you start a tennis match

C. How much food is in a packet
D. all of these
D. Nothing
37. what do we need to stop dehydration?
43. Dolphins belong to which group of verte-
A. vitamins brates?
B. minerals A. Mammals
C. carbohydrates B. Fish
D. water C. Amphibians
D. Reptiles
38. Animals do not make their own what?
44. The inner core of a virus contains
A. water
A. protiens
B. food B. nucleus
C. vitamins C. genetic material
D. energy D. cytoplasm

45. Which method of storage negatively af- 50. Which of the following occurs after a virus
fects the nutritional value of fruits and attaches to a host cell in the viral repro-
vegetables? duction process?

A. fresh A. The host cell dies
B. canned B. The virus dies
C. frozen C. The virus inserts its genetic informa-
tion into the host cell
D. organic
D. copies of the virus are immediately re-
46. Which type of fruit is characterized by leased from the host
having a large seed surrounded by edible
51. An organisms scientific name consists of
flesh?
which to levels of taxonomy?
A. pomes A. Kingdom and Phylum
B. drupes B. Class and Order
C. tropical C. Kingdom and Species
D. berries D. Genus and Species
47. The more classification groups that two or- 52. How could you describe the size of a
ganisms have in common virus?
A. the more alike they are A. Smaller than bacteria
B. shows how vastly different they are B. Larger than a parasite
C. About the size of a dime
C. shows they are unrelated
D. Smaller than a proton
D. shows that they are the exact same or-
ganism 53. Which disease is not caused by bacteria?
A. Strep throat
48. Microscopic prokaryotes that can be be ei-
ther autotrophs or heterotrophs belong to B. Pneumonia
Kingdom C. Food poisoning
A. Archaebacteria D. Influenza (the Flu)
B. Protista 54. Which of the following distillation process
C. Fungi is also called evaporative distillation?
D. Plantae A. Molecular distillation
B. Flash distillation
49. are chemicals found in plants that are
C. Steam distillation
believed to work as antioxidants, reduce
inflammation, fight or prevent many types D. Fractionating distillation
of cancer, and reduce the risk of disease. 55. Endospores form during
A. Phytonutrients A. binary fission
B. nutrients B. conjugation
C. amino acids C. harsh conditions
D. none of above D. respiration

56. What is the classification of nutrients? C. its relationship to other organisms

A. Micronutrients and macronutrients D. which organisms are the strongest
B. Microminerals and macrominerals 62. What can you add to fruits to help prevent
C. Simple carbs and complex carbs enzymatic browning from occurring?
D. Desirable and undesirable fats A. milk
B. sugar
57. To avoid bitterness and unpleasant tex-
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tures when cooking vegetables, cook them C. lemon juice
until they are: D. water
A. mushy and light in color
63. Which category of fruit is characterized by
B. crisp yet tender a thick inedible rind, juicy flesh, and many
C. completely soft seeds in the center?
D. blackened on the deges A. melons
B. pomes
58. In vacuum distillation, feed is boils in
C. drupes
A. Exact boiling temperature
D. citrus fruits
B. Temperature above the boiling point
C. Temperature below its boiling point 64. A snake has an internal skeleton, cannot
breathe under water, and relies on outside
D. none of above sources of heat to keep its body tempera-
59. A computer virus can be described as be- ture constant. A snake is which type of
ing similar to a cough or a cold in humans. animal?
Why might this be? A. bird
A. Viruses make both humans and com- B. fish
puters feel bad C. reptile
B. Viruses damage computers D. amphibian
C. Computer viruses can copy them-
65. What classification does a sweet potato fit
selves and spread
into?
D. none of above
A. Root
60. The three Domains are: B. Bulb
A. Plant, Animal, Bacteria C. Seed
B. Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya D. Tuber
C. Fungi, Animal, Plant
66. Nonflowering plants make their seeds
D. Invertebrates, Vertebrates, Plants through what 2 things?
61. What can a classification system show A. cones & spores
about an organism? B. flowers & plants
A. absolute age of an organism C. plants & cones
B. what an organism is made of D. spores & flowers

67. To maximize the nutritional value of fruits 73. Which is not an example of an inverte-
and vegetables, how should they be brate?
served?

A. sea star
A. Fried B. jellyfish
B. Frozen C. lizard
C. Fresh
D. shrimp
D. sliced
74. Which food group does yogurt and milk be-
68. Which is an example of a seed vegetable? long in?
A. Asparagus A. protein
B. Corn B. vegetables
C. Broccoli C. fruit
D. Spinach D. dairy
69. What is the healthiest way to cook pro- 75. Which gas do many fruits emit that helps
duce? it ripen?
A. frying A. carbon dioxide
B. boiling B. nitrogen
C. steaming
C. methane
D. broiling
D. ethylene
70. What is the most specific level of classifi-
76. What is a good source of proteins
cation?
A. milk
A. Family
B. Domain B. cheese
C. Species C. red meat
D. Carolus Linnaeus D. chocolate
71. How does a virus cause a person to de- 77. What do viruses need to reproduce?
velop the common cold? A. they need genetic material
A. invades the host cell to reproduce B. They need a host cell
B. removes energy from the host cell C. They need bacteria
C. produces toxins in the host cell D. They need insulin
D. protects the host cell from bacteria
78. What important role do bacteria called de-
72. Which group of plants would be considered composers play?
spore producing? A. the return basic chemicals to the envi-
A. Tulip, sunflower, rose ronment
B. Pine tree, oak tree, apple tree B. they slow down food spoilage
C. Moss, fern, tiger fern C. kill harmful bacteria
D. Shrubs, daisies, sweet gum trees D. produce vitamins in your intestine

79. Bacteria that survive in extreme environ- 85. Which vegetable comes from the root por-
ments belong to which kingdom? tion of the plant?
A. Kingdom Fungi A. Tomato
B. Kingdom Protista B. Peas
C. Kingdom Eubacteria C. Celery
D. Kingdom Archaebacteria D. Carrot
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80. Which fruits should be refrigerated 86. Plants make their own ?
promptly? A. water
A. apples, bananas, pears B. sun
B. oranges, lemons, limes C. food
C. plums, nectarines, peaches D. vitamins
D. cherries, grapes, berries
87. Grapes would be classified as a type
81. What can you lose from your vegetables if fruit.
you cook them in water? A. berries
A. fiber B. drupes
B. water-soluble vitamins C. melons
C. fat-soluble vitamins D. pomes
D. protein
88. What are pathogens
82. Which of the following is not cold A. FDA
blooded?
B. MRSA
A. amphibian
C. Ebola
B. mammal
D. Disease causing germs
C. reptile
D. fish 89. What are fruits and vegetables high in that
fight against some cancers and heart dis-
83. A small cell that grows into a new plant ease?
A. spore A. sugars
B. germinate B. carbohydrates
C. nymph C. antioxidants
D. none of above D. none of above
84. Viruses 90. Which of the following is NOT a sometimes

A. have many cells food
B. are misfolded proteins A. Sports Drink (e.g. Powerade)
C. are a protein coat around genetic ma- B. Big Mac

terial C. Cereal
D. endospores D. Ice-cream

91. Which of the following organisms are 97. How should potatoes and onions be
MOST closely related? stored?

A. organisms that share a domain A. at room temperature
B. organisms that share a family
B. In the refrigerator
C. organisms that share a genus
C. in a cool, dry, dark place
D. organisms that share an order
D. in a warm place
92. Based on the food pyramid, restricted
foods is 98. The main groups of vertebrates are
A. Sugar, fats, vitamin
A. mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians
B. Sugar, fats, oil and fish.
C. Sugar, salt, oil B. Mammals, marsupials, monotremes
D. Vitamin, minerals, oil and birds
93. What classification does a carrot fit into? C. mammals, birds, reptiles and amphib-
A. Tuber ians
B. Stem D. mammals, reptiles and amphibians

C. Leaf
99. The organic liquid in steam distillation va-
D. Root porize at
94. White Bread is an example of a A. Lower temperature than its boiling
A. Simple Carbohydrate point
B. Easy Carbohydrate B. Higher temperature than its boiling
C. Complex Carbohydrate point
D. What’sa Carbohydrate C. At its boiling point
95. The Australian Guide to Healthy Eating rec- D. none of above

ommends eating how may serves or fruit
and vegetables each day? 100. The best treatment for a viral infection is
A. 2 fruit 5 vegetable A. a vaccine
B. 1 fruit 1 vegetable B. rest and fluids
C. 5 fruit 2 vegetable
C. antibiotic
D. 5 fruit 5 vegetable
D. an over the counter medicine
96. Bromobenzene is separated from benzene
by which of the following distillation pro- 101. Why do we eat carbohydrates?
cedure
A. healthy growth
A. Steam distillation
B. energy
B. Vacuum distillation
C. Molecular distillation C. fight disease
D. none of above D. why not

102. I have dry and rough skin, lay eggs, 107. Cherries, apricots, peaches and plums are
breathe with lungs, and am ectothermic all fruits in which category?
(cold-blooded). What am I? A. berries
A. Fish B. melons
B. Mammals C. drupes
C. Amphibians D. tropical fruits
D. Reptiles
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108. Milk is high in
103. Which vertebrate groups have skin with A. Carbohydrates
scales?
B. Vitamin D
A. Only fish
C. Potassium
B. Only reptiles D. Calcium
C. Both fish and reptiles
109. The outermost structure of a bacterial cell
D. Fish, reptiles and amphibians is the
104. Which two organisms are least closely re- A. Protein coat
lated? B. Cell wall
A. two organisms from the same KING- C. Cell membrane
DOM
D. Endospore
B. two organisms from the same ORDER
110. Which of the following foods AREN’T
C. two organisms from the same FAMILY
high in Vitamin C
A. Orange
D. two organisms from the same GENUS
B. Broccoli
105. How can calories be reduced when C. Blackcurrants
preparing fruits and vegetables?
D. Fish
A. by choosing cooking methods like bak-
ing and steaming 111. How is a fish different from a jellyfish?
B. by frying with heavy batters A. A fish has a backbone.
C. by mixing with sugar and gelatins B. A fish is in the animal kingdom.
D. by serving with cream dips and sauces C. A fish can reproduce.
D. A fish lives in water.
106. If solution contain thermolabile sub-
stances, then which of the following dis- 112. Trees, wild flowers, and grasses are all
tillation method is preferred? considered to be
A. Vacuum distillation A. vascular plants
B. Fractional distillation B. nonvascular plants
C. Simple distillation C. woody plants
D. Steam distillation D. non-woody plants

113. A disease causing organism B. Vitamin A

A. pathogen C. calcium

B. poison D. none of above
C. vaccine
119. What is an example of a carbohydrate?
D. none of above
A. peas
114. Why do scientists classify plants and an- B. bread
imals?
C. beans
A. To sort them by color
D. water
B. To sort them in groups based on simi-
lar characteristics 120. Gymnosperms produce seeds usually in
C. To show how animals and plants are A. cones
different. B. flowers
D. To show how animals and plants are C. fruit
the same.
D. spores
115. Prokaryotes are unlike all other organ-
isms in that their cells 121. Which type of cell has no nucleus?
A. do not have a nucleus A. Eukaryote
B. have organelles B. Prokaryote

C. have cell walls C. Animal
D. none of above D. Plant
116. A hidden virus 122. Which vertebrate groups are warm

blooded (have a constant body tempera-
A. cannot attach to a host
ture)
B. becomes part of the host cells genetic
A. only mammals and birds
material
B. mammals, birds and reptiles
C. immediately takes over the cell
C. only mammals
D. attaches to the host, but does not en-
ter D. all vertebrates are warm blooded
117. Aniline is separated from aniline-water 123. When shopping for fresh fruits, select
mixture using those that are:
A. Fractional distillation A. lightweight for their size
B. Steam distillation B. tender and yielding when pressed
C. Vacuum distillation C. odorless
D. Molecular distillation D. hard and under-ripe
118. Which mineral helps your digestive sys- 124. Which one of these fruits is NOT consid-
tem? ered a drupe?
A. fiber A. peach

B. pear 130. How many cups of water is recommended

C. apricot for a 9-13 year old each day?
A. 2
D. plum
B. 4
125. Flowering plants make their seeds inside C. 5
of what?
D. 6
A. cones
131. Sugar is an example of a
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B. flowers
A. Protein
C. spores
B. Carbohydrate
D. plants
C. Grain
126. Which of the following is the correct way D. Vegetable
to write the scientific name of the North-
ern cardinal? 132. Which is not an example of a flowering
plant?
A. cardinalis cardinalis
A. roses
B. Cardinalis cardinalis
B. oak trees
C. cardinalis Cardinalis
C. mosses
D. Cardinalis Cardinalis
D. tomato plants
127. What process results in genetically differ- 133. Members of this kingdom live in unusual
ent bacteria? conditions such as deep ocean trenches or
A. binary fission volcanoes
B. mitosis A. Eubacteria
C. meiosis B. Protista
D. conjugation C. Fungi
D. Archaebacteria
128. Ghidza is the Arabic language of nutrition
which means 134. Which is an example of a fruit in the
pomes category?
A. Eat
A. Watermelon
B. Hungry
B. Raspberry
C. Foods
C. Lemon
D. Healthy
D. Apple
129. Some bacteria are and can harm living 135. The food that contain carbohydrate are
organisms.
A. safe A. Beef
B. protozoas B. Rice
C. parasites C. Mango
D. sweet tasting D. Milk

136. Carbohydrates, Proteins, and Fats are in- 142. Needs host cell to reproduce.
cluded in the classification of A. Virus

A. Undesirable fats B. Bacteria
B. Simple carbs C. Fungus
C. Macronutrients D. Protozoan
D. Micronutrients 143. The following are the scope of nutrients,
137. What are the 2 classifications of ani- except
mals? A. Input
A. vertebrates & invertebrates B. Output
B. flowering & nonflowering C. Process
C. fish & mammals D. Absorbed
D. birds & animals 144. When fruit is at its peak eating quality,
it is considered
138. Which of the following ISN’T a fruit
A. underripe
A. Tomato
B. immature
B. Eggplant
C. mature
C. Banana
D. ripe
D. Grapes
145. Cells that have a true nucleus are called
139. How long should you wash your hands
for? A. eukaryotes
A. about 30 seconds B. prokaryotes
B. 2 minutes C. unicellular
C. about 10 seconds D. multicellular
D. none of above 146. What ingredient can you add to help
140. Which symbols best describe para- fruits retain their shape while cooking
sitism? them?
A. salt
A. +, +
B. flour
B. +, -
C. water
C. +, 0
D. sugar
D. -, 0
147. About how many calories should a kid
141. Where should you store underripe fruit? your age have each day?
A. freezer A. 800
B. refridgerator B. 1, 200
C. room temperature C. 2, 000
D. none of above D. 3, 000

148. Multicellular eukaryotes that are non- C. Cheese

mobile heterotrophs belong to Kingdom D. Pasta
A. Eubacteria
154. Most fruits are low in what?
B. Plantae
A. fiber
C. Fungi
B. natural sugar
D. Protista C. vitamins
149. Which symbols best decribe a mutualistic
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D. fat and calories
relationship?
155. Which nutrient gives you energy?
A. +, -
A. calcium
B. +, +
B. fiber
C. 0, +
C. carbohydrates
D. -, 0
D. none of above
150. Reasons that viruses are considered to be 156. Which of the following has a high source
nonliving is because of protein?
A. They are not cellular A. Banana
B. They cannot reproduce on their own B. Red Meat
C. They cannot make proteins C. Orange
D. all of the above D. Lettuce
151. A protein coat surrounding a virus is 157. Which of the following supports the argu-
called a ment that viruses are nonliving?
A. prophage. A. Their DNA does not encode proteins
B. virus. B. They have RNA rather than DNA
C. capsid. C. They are not cellular
D. bacteria. D. They do not evolve
152. What does the term:antibiotic resistant 158. Which one of these fruits is considered a
mean”? pome?
A. bacteria are dead or altered A. cherries
B. bacteria survive in the presence of an B. grapes
antibiotic C. apples
C. bacteria are weakened and destroyed D. pineapples
by antibiotics
159. What is found in fruits that causes them
D. bacteria are resistant to a vaccine to ripen ad eventually spoil?
153. What product falls under the DAIRY cat- A. sugars
egory B. enzymes
A. Steak C. vitamins
B. Eggs D. minerals

2.5 Nucleic Acids 281
160. Which vertebrate groups lay eggs 163. Scientists classify plants by:
A. Birds and fish only A. How they use photosynthesis

B. Birds and amphibians only B. How they reproduce
C. Birds only C. How they transport water
D. Birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish. D. How they transport water and repro-
161. What is a kilojule (kJ)? duce
A. The amount of energy is a consumable 164. A virus can be classified by its type of
product
A. mitochondria
B. The amount of storage on your com-
B. chromosomes
puter
C. nucleic acid
C. A material that you can use in
minecraft D. carbohydrates
D. The serve of a food 165. Tulips and oak tree are both plants that
162. Which is not a classification group of ver- look different. However, they both belong
tebrates? to the classification of plants that make
A. fish A. leaves
B. mammals B. pine cones
C. birds C. flowers
D. spiders D. seeds
2.5 Nucleic Acids

1. Which biomolecule is made of nucleotides 3. Where in a eukaryotic cell does DNA repli-
and contain you DNA? cation occur?
A. Carbohydrate A. Plasma membrane
B. Lipids B. Cytosol
C. Protein C. Nucleus
D. Nucleic Acid D. Lysosome
2. What is replication? 4. What is the minimum number of hydrogen

bonds in a length of DNA containing 900
A. Process by which DNA is copied, oc- base pairs?
curs only in the nucleus and involves only
A. 450
DNA, process involves 2 enzymes
B. 900
B. Process by which DNA is coded into
RNA C. 1800
C. Process where peptide bonds are D. 2700
formed between amino acids 5. Which of the following is considered as a
D. none of above quaternary protein:

A. Transthyretin C. Protein = C, H, O, N, P and Carbohy-

B. Hemoglobin drate = C, H, O
C. Collagen D. none of above
D. All choices are correct 11. are composed out of carbon (C), hy-
drogen (H), oxygen (O), nitrogen (N), and
6. What is replicated by a semi-conservative phosphorus (P)
process?
A. Carbohydrates
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A. Messenger RNA (mRNA) only
B. Lipids
B. Messenger RNA (mRNA) and transfer
RNA (tRNA) only C. Proteins
C. Messenger RNA (mRNA), transfer RNA D. Nucleic Acids

(tRNA) and DNA only 12. Contains the elements Carbon, Hydrogen,
D. DNA only and Nitrogen. Does NOT contain phospho-
rus.
7. nucleic acids are
A. Proteins
A. hydrophilic
B. Nucleic Acids
B. hydrophobic
C. Carbohydrates
C. neither
D. Lipids
D. both
13. Guanine forms phosphodiester bond(s)
8. Nucleotides contain each of the following with cytosine.
except:
A. One
A. phosphate
B. Two
B. nitrogen base
C. Three
C. glycerol
D. None, they form hydrogen bonds
D. none of above
14. Which of the following is not true about
9. Which of the following bonds are broken RNA
during DNA replication?
A. RNA contains Ribose
A. hydrogen bonds between bases
B. RNA is single stranded
B. phosphodiester bonds
C. RNA contains Uracil
C. covalent bonds between bases
D. RNA makes DNA
D. ionic bonds between bases and phos-
phate groups 15. Would proteins ever be used for energy?
10. Compare the elements that are present in A. No, never

a protein to those in a carbohydrate. B. Yes, only when carbohydrates and
A. Protein = C, H, O, N (S) and Carbohy- lipids are not available
drate = C, H, O C. Yes, only when nucleic acids are not
B. Protein = C, H, O, N and Carbohydrate available
= C, H, N D. none of above

16. What are the subunits of DNA and their B. dipole-dipole interactions
function?
C. hydrogen bonds

A. nucleotides that store information
D. ionic bonds
B. monosaccharides that provide quick
energy for the cell 22. In nucleic acids, nucleotides are connected
C. lipids that store energy and provide in- with each other by
sulation A. Phosphate bond
D. proteins that provide the building B. Phoshpo diester bond
blocks for the structural components of or-
ganisms C. Peptide bond
D. Ester bond
17. Which of the following is not part of a DNA
nucleotide? 23. What are the components of each nu-
A. double helix cleotide?
B. five-carbon sugar A. glucose, water, and cellulose
C. nitrogen base B. adenine, thymine, and cytosine
D. phosphate group C. a phosphate group, a sugar molecule,
and a nitrogen
18. The genetic material in cells is called
D. a phosphate group, a five-carbon
A. RNA
sugar, and an amino acid
B. Gene
C. DNA 24. what do amino acids form?
D. Neuclotide A. protein
B. RNA
19. The sugar-phosphate backbone of nucleic
acid molecules is formed using which type C. DNA
of chemical bond? D. ribosomes
A. Covalent
25. Which is a function of nucleic acids?
B. Ionic
C. Dipole-dipole A. defense
D. Hydrogen bonds B. speed up reactions

C. movement
20. tRNA is involved in
D. store genetic information
A. carrying amino acids
B. carrying codons 26. Which of the following is NOT a nitrogen
C. carrying glucose base found in DNA?
D. carrying lipids A. adenine

B. thymine
21. Which of the following holds the comple-
mentary base pairs of DNA together? C. uracil
A. covalent bonds D. guanine

27. Which of the following are the monomers B. This enzyme unwinds the DNA double
of carbohydrates? helix
A. Simple sugars/monosaccharides C. This is a set of 3 nucleotides on tRNAIf
B. Amino acids mRNA reads AUG, this will read UACThis
forms hydrogen bonds with mRNA in the
C. Peptide bonds ribosome
D. Glycerol D. none of above
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28. Which type of force holds the two strands 33. Which best explains how DNA directs pro-
of DNA together? tein synthesis?
A. Hydrogen bonds A. composition of nucleotides
B. Covalent bonding B. double-stranded spiral-helix
C. Ionic bonding C. location of the deoxyribose molecule
D. Hydrophobic interactions D. arrangement of the nitrogenous bases
29. the molecule that carries the anti-codon 34. Is Uracil found in DNA, RNA, or Both?
that has amino acids to be sequenced.
A. DNA
A. tRNA
B. RNA
B. mRNA
C. BOTH
C. DNA
D. none of above
D. rRNA
35. Short fragments that result from the
30. Deoxyribose sugar is present in discontinuous synthesis of the lagging
A. DNA only strand.
B. RNA only A. Semiconservative
C. DNA and RNA B. Okazaki fragments
D. t-RNA C. Chromatid
D. Chromosome
31. What are the 4 nitrogen bases in DNA?
A. adenine, thymine, cytoplasm, and gua- 36. Thymine comprised 36% of the nitro-
nine gen bases present in a sample of double
stranded DNA. What was the percentage
B. adenine, thymine cytosine, and gua- of guanine in the sample?
nine
A. 14%
C. adenine, thymine, cytosine, and gyl-
cerol B. 28%
D. adenine, thymine, cytosine, and glu- C. 36%

cose D. 64%
32. What is anti-codon? 37. How many bonds are between adenine
A. This enzyme creates a polymer of DNA and thymine or uracil?
A. 1

B. 2 43. If 30% of the bases in a DNA molecule are

C. 3 adenine, what percentage of the bases are
guanine?

D. 4
A. 20%
38. RNA is different from DNA in B. 30%
A. RNA is single stranded C. 35%
B. RNA has uracil D. 70%
C. RNA has the sugar ribos 44. Is Cytosine found in DNA, RNA, or Both?
D. All of these A. DNA
39. Which of the following describes the role B. RNA
of DNA polymerase? C. BOTH
A. Attaching complementary nucleotides D. none of above
together during replication
45. What is a biomolecule?
B. Attaching codons to anticodons
A. The dissolved particle in a solution
C. Attaching DNA nucleotides to the
B. One of the by-products of respiration
growing DNA strand during replication
C. Large molecule that is present in living
D. Attaching amino acids to tRNA
organisms
molecules
40. is the genetic material in all living
things. 46. Complementary nitrogen base pairs are
held together by (The type of bonds
A. DNA that hold one side of the DNA molecule to
B. RNA the other.)
C. Protein A. metallic bonds
D. All of these are correct. B. hydrogen bonds
C. ionic bonds
41. If you have 40 adenine in a DNA molecule,
how many thymine can you expect? D. covalent bonds
A. 10 47. RNA’s structure:Nucleotides are joined to-

gether in the shape of a:
B. 20
A. Double helix
C. 40
B. Single helix
D. 80
C. Ladder
42. What is the monomer of nucleic acids? D. Twisted ladder
A. Glycerol
48. Monomers of a protein are connected by
B. Monosaccharides bonds.
C. Amino Acids A. covalent
D. Nucleotides B. ionic

C. peptide 54. Which contains guanine?

D. hydrogen A. DNA
B. RNA
49. How many codons (triplet sequences) are
needed to specify five amino acids? C. Both
A. 5 D. none of above
B. 10 55. Which part of the nucleotide is negative?
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C. 3 A. The sugar
D. 12 B. The base
C. The phosphate
50. What are the 4 nitrogen bases?
D. none of above
A. adenine, thymine, cytoplasm, and gua-
nine 56. What is the function of ATP in living
things?
B. adenine, thymine cytosine, and gua-
nine A. provides energy for cells
C. adenine, thymine, cytosine, and glu- B. stores genetic information
cose C. provides structure in the nucleus
51. What energy molecule is made up of nu- 57. Nucleotide bases pair in DNA through
cleic acids? A. hydrogen bonds between complemen-
A. glucose tary bases
B. ATP B. polar covalent bonds between comple-
mentary bases
C. peptase
C. sugar bonds between complementary
D. none of above bases
52. How many times a day must ATP be recy- D. none of the choices
cled to power a human body?
58. Which type of enzyme ensures that the cor-
A. 1-2 times a day rect base for growing the chain is aligned
B. 500-1000 times a day with the template chain?
A. DNA primase
C. 1000-2000 times a day
B. DNA ligase
D. 2000-3000 times a day
C. DNA polymerase
53. What is the energy molecule for all living D. none of above
cells?
59. Which of the following is true of DNA and
A. ADP
RNA?
B. ATP
A. both are found in chromosomes
C. Protein B. DNA is found in chromosomes, but
D. Sugars RNA is not

C. RNA is found in chromosomes, but 65. These are monomers of DNA:The join re-
DNA is not peatedly to form the DNA molecule.

D. neither is found in chromosomes A. amino acids
60. (question 8) What are the four biological B. nucleotides

molecules? C. fatty acids
A. proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nu- D. none of above
cleic acids
66. The percentage of thymine in the DNA of
B. proteins, enzymes, cells, lipids
an organism is approximately 30%. What
C. water, air, earth, and fire is the percentage of guanine?
D. carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phospho- A. 70%
rous
B. 30%
61. Which two cell structures work together in C. 40%
the process of protein synthesis?
D. 20%
A. nucleus and chloroplast
B. mitochondrion and cell membrane 67. What is the ratio of elements in nucleic
acids?
C. nucleus and ribosome
A. 1:2:few
D. ribosome and vacuole
B. 1:1
62. How many different kinds of polypeptides, C. 1:2:1
each composed of 12 amino acids, could be
synthesized using the 20 common amino D. none
acids? 68. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. 412
A. Adenine will pair with guanine.
B. 1220
B. Guanine will pair with thymine.
C. 20
C. Thymine will pair with cytosine.
D. 2012
D. Adenine will pair with thymine.
63. A bond is a bond between 2 amino
69. Which part of an amino acids gives the
acids.
molecule its function?
A. Peptide
A. R-Group
B. Carboxyl
B. Amino Group
C. Covalent
C. Carboxyl Group
D. Polypeptide
D. Hydrogen
64. Which contains deoxyribose sugar?
70. What is the significance of nucleic acids for
A. DNA cells?
B. RNA A. They generate energy for the cell
C. Both B. They restrict what enters and leaves
D. none of above the cell.

C. They support and maintain the shape 76. Genetic info flows in one direction. Which
of the cell. best represents this flow?
D. They provide all instructions for cellu- A. DNA-protein-RNA
lar activities. B. Protein-RNA-DNA
71. Which strand of DNA would pair with 5’- C. RNA-protein-DNA

GATCT-3’ D. DNA-RNA-protein
A. 5’-CTAGA-3’ 77. Nitrogenous Bases for DNA are
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B. 5’-CUAGA-3’ A. Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Uracil
C. 5’-AGATC-3’
B. Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Phos-
D. 5’-TCTAG-3’
phate
72. What is the function of carbohydrates in C. Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and
plants? Thymine
A. structure and support D. Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Sulfur
B. blubber 78. What are the building blocks of proteins
C. short term energy called?
D. long term energy A. DNA

B. RNA
73. The anticodon is located on C. Ribosomes
A. DNA D. Amino Acids
B. mRNA
79. Which technique was used to determine
C. tRNA the double-helical structure of DNA?
D. rRNA A. electrophoresis
B. chromatography
74. Which shows the correct complementary
base pairing for DNA? C. centrifugation
A. C-A, T-G D. X-ray crystallography
B. A-G, C-T 80. insulin is:

C. C-G, U-A A. Structural protein
D. T-A, G-C B. Hormonal protein

C. Transport protein
75. The end result of amino acids joining to-
D. Defensive protein
gether in translation is a
A. polysaccharide 81. The substance doing the reacting (water in
hydrolysis for example) during a chemical
B. protein reaction
C. DNA A. Reactant
D. RNA B. Substrate

C. Catalyst B. Transcription
D. Products C. Translation

82. Which type of organic molecule stores cel- D. none of above
lular information as a code?
88. What is the functions of lipids?
A. Protein
B. Carbohydrate A. Quick source of energy
C. Lipid B. Builds muscles, skin, enzymes
D. Nucleic Acid C. Stores genetic information
83. When coiled together, DNA looks like a: D. Stores energy, insulation, protection
A. Single Helix
89. What is a function of protein in the body?
B. Double Helix
A. Provides short term energy
C. Triple Helix
B. Speed up chemical reactions
D. Broken Ladder
C. Insulation-keeps bodies warm
84. are proteins that speed up chemical re-
actions in living things. D. All of these are roles of protein in the
body
A. lipids
B. elements 90. Which of the following options, A-D, are
C. enzymes the pyrimidine bases found in DNA?
D. carbohydrates A. uracil and thymine
85. In RNA, thymine is replaced with: B. thymine and cytosine
A. guanine C. adenine and thymine

B. cytosine D. cytosine and uracil
C. adenine
91. Copies and carries genes from DNA to
D. uracil make protein
86. Which RNA bases would pair with TACGAA A. DNA
in transcription?
B. RNA
A. AUGCUU
C. Nucleic Acids
B. ATGCTT
D. Carbohydrates
C. GCATCC
D. GCAUCC 92. Which of these is not a protein:
87. What process is the following describ- A. Insulin
ing:Protein is synthesized from the infor- B. Hemoglobin
mation contained in a molecule of messen-
ger RNA (mRNA). C. Antibody
A. Replication D. Cholesterol

93. Which of the following processes is NOT C. Chase and Crick

needed during the expression of the ge-
D. Watson and Crick
netic information?
A. Translation 99. Is Guanine found in DNA, RNA, or Both?
B. the separation of the strands of DNA A. DNA
C. DNA replication B. RNA
D. Transcription C. BOTH
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94. The biomolecules that store genetic infor- D. none of above
mation and the code for making proteins
are 100. How many base pairs are there in one full
turn of the DNA double helix?
A. proteins
A. 4
B. nucleic acids
B. 10
C. carbohydrates
D. lipids C. 16
D. 64
95. Which of the following researchers took
key photographs of DNA? 101. Which of the following is the convention
A. Watson and Crick used to specify the sequence of bases in
DNA?
B. Chargaff and Avery
A. We start at the 3’ end.
C. Hershey and Chase
D. Franklin and Wilkins B. We start at the end closest to the first
thymine.
96. Which of the following is TRUE for RNA?? C. We start at the end closest to the first
A. Contains ribose sugar adenine.
B. Contains uracil and not thymine D. We start at the 5’ end.
C. Contains phosphate group
102. What nucleotide base does RNA contain
D. All the above that DNA does not?
97. The Watson and Crick model of DNA is A. adenine (A)
a(an) B. cytosine (C)
A. Cube
C. uracil (U)
B. primary structure
D. thymine (T)
C. Double Helix
D. bilayer 103. What is never found in RNA?
A. Adenine
98. Who discovered that VIRUSES have nucleic
acids too? B. Cytosine
A. Franklin C. Thymine
B. Hershey and Chase D. none of above

104. What maintains the secondary structure 110. Of the following functions, the major pur-
of a protein? pose of RNA is to:

A. Peptide bonds A. Transmit genetic information to off-
B. Hydrogen bonds spring
C. Disulfide bonds B. Function in the synthesis of protein
D. Ionic bonds C. Act as a pattern or blueprint to form
DNA
105. Which nucleic acid, could contain the
triplet of bases ACT? D. Form the genes of higher organisms
A. DNA
111. Protein synthesis is main function of
B. mRNA
A. t-RNA
C. tRNA
B. r-RNA
D. rRNA
C. m-RNA
106. Which of the following provide the in-
structions for building proteins? D. All types of RNA
A. Lipids 112. What is the DNA Polymerase?
B. Carbohydrates
A. shortened version of the words de-
C. Proteins oxyribonucleic acid
D. Nucleic Acids B. This enzyme is used in transcription
107. What type of protein is found in red blood C. This enzyme creates a polymer of DNA,
cells and carries oxygen? enzyme used to to add new strands of DNA
A. Keratin to the template strand
B. Hemoglobin D. none of above
C. Fat
113. How would the following DNA sequence,
D. DNA ACGTTGCATGGCA, be transcribed?
108. What part of the nucleotide forms the A. UGCAACGUACCGU
DNA code?
B. TGCAACGTACCGT
A. Sugar
C. ACGTTGCATGGCA
B. Phosphate Group
D. ACGUUGCAUGGCA
C. Nitrogen Base
D. Amino Acid 114. pentose sugar and nitrogen-containing
base react to form a two-subunit entity
109. What is the ratio of hydrogen atoms to
called
oxygen atoms in carbohydrates?
A. nucleotide
A. 2:1
B. 3:2 B. nucleoside
C. 22:10 C. nucleus
D. 4:3 D. nuclear tide

115. If a strand reads:3’ A A A T T T C 5’The 121. Which base is not found in RNA?
matching strand would read A. adenine
A. 5’ T T T A A A G 3’ B. cytosine
B. 3’ T T T A A A G 5’
C. thymine
C. 5’ A A A T T T C 3’
D. uracil
D. 3’ U U U A A A G 5’
122. is to transcription as is to trans-
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116. Which best explains the function of the lation.
sequence of nucleotides?
A. mRNA / Amino Acid Chain
A. It provides energy.
B. Amino Acid Chain / mRNA
B. It carries genetic information
C. Ribosome / Nucleus
C. It allows DNA to be successfully
D. mRNA / tRNA
D. It determines the shape of the DNA
molecule. 123. DNA sequence is ACAGTGC. How would
this be coded on mRNA?
117. Where in a cell is the DNA stored
A. TGTCACG
A. Where in a cell is the DNA stored
B. UGUCACG
B. nucleus
C. GUGACAU
C. vacuole
D. CACUGUA
D. Ribosome
124. When an enzyme unfolds due to ex-
118. The function of RNA is
tremes in environmental conditions.
A. Transmit heredity information
A. Denaturation
B. Stores hereditary information
B. Unaminologic Genesis
C. Lays down primers
C. Unaminologic Catalysis
D. Seals gaps in the sugar-phosphate
backbone D. Naturationism
119. The “central dogma” states that genetic 125. What kind of information does DNA
information flows from carry?
A. Protein→mRNA→DNA A. genetic
B. Protein→DNA→mRNA B. nuclear
C. mRNA→DNA→Protein C. cell structure
D. DNA→mRNA→Protein D. it doesn’t carry any info
120. The monomers of nucleic acids are 126. Which contains cytosine?
A. Nucleotides A. DNA
B. Amino Acids B. RNA
C. Glycerol C. Both
D. Glucose D. none of above

127. The process of separating strands of a B. Oil

DNA double helix is known as: C. Phospholipid

A. separation D. Steriod
B. denaturation
133. Which events take place in DNA replica-
C. annealing tion?I. Formation of messenger RNAII. Un-
D. replication winding of DNA double helixIII. Formation
of complementary strands by DNA poly-
128. The unique sequence of amino acids to merase
form a polypeptide
A. I and II only
B. I and III only
C. II and III only
C. Tertiery Structure
D. I, II and III
134. Which of the following enzymes is NOT
129. Which of the following best describes the
needed during DNA replication
secondary structure of DNA?
A. DNA polymerase
A. It is a double helix with the bases on
the inside. B. Helicase
B. It is a double helix with the bases on C. RNA polymerase
the outside. D. All three enzymes are needed
C. It is a single helix.
135. The ‘backbone’ or ‘ribbon’ of the DNA
D. It is a triple helix. strand is made of:
130. There are different amino acids which A. phosphate and sugar
can provide the many different possible se- B. phosphate only
quences of proteins in our body.
C. phosphate and base
A. 10
D. sugar and base
B. 15
C. 20 136. What is the five carbon sugar found in
RNA?
D. 25
A. Ribose
131. What is the term used to describe the en- B. Deoxyribose
ergy needed to get a reaction started?
C. Glucose
A. adhesion energy
D. Sucrose
C. cohesion energy 137. The two DNA strands are said to be com-
plementary to each other because?
D. chemical energy
A. The bases on one side are not the
132. Which type of lipid makes up cell mem- same.
branes? B. The bases on one side are complimen-
A. Fat tary to the bases on the other side.

C. A pairs with G and T pairs with C. 143. is a copy of DNA’s instructions, so

protein can be assembled at a ribosome.
D. They are running in the same direction.
A. RNA
138. Which Seq could be found in RNA?
B. An amino acid
A. ACCTGT
C. Ribose
B. CGCATT D. Deoxyribose
C. AUGCUU
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144. Which of the following contains the ge-
D. none of above netic code for protein synthesis?
139. Which structure in a nucelotide is differ- A. carbohydrate
ent among the 5 different nucleotides? B. lipid
A. R-Groups C. protein
B. Phosphate Group D. nucleic acid
C. Sugar
145. Which ones are purines?
D. Nitrogenous Base
A. Adenine and Guanine
140. The third level of protein structure caused B. Adenine and Thymine
by hydrophillic/hydrophobic interactions
C. Cytosine and Guanine
of R-groups
D. Cytosine and Thymine
B. Secondary Structure 146. One prominent feature of DNA is its
helix structure.
C. Tertiery Structure
A. single
B. double
141. which is NOT true of DNA C. triple
A. the sugar is deoxyribose D. none
B. it is single stranded
147. What sugar is found in DNA?
C. the base is thymine
A. Glucose
D. its held in the nucleus
B. Ribose
142. The nucleotides with nitrogen bases C. Deoxyribose
made of 2 rings are known as , while D. Fructose
the nucleotides with nitrogen bases made
of 1 ring are known as 148. monosaccharides combine to form
A. purines, pyrimidines A. carbohydrates
B. pyrimidines, purines B. lipids
C. dirings, monorings C. proteins
D. birings, unirings D. nucleic acids

149. This is one job nucleic acids have in the D. They hydrogen bond between two or
body more complementary DNA strands

A. storing genetic information
155. How many different types of amino acids
B. structure are there?
C. speed up chemical reactions A. 10
D. transport things through cell mem- B. 20
brane
C. 100
150. A dipeptide is made of amino acids D. 3
joined by a peptide bond.
A. 2 156. The structure of DNA is because the
2 strands of nucleotides are equidistant
B. 20
from one another and they are oriented in
C. 50 opposite directions.
D. 3 or more A. anti-parallel
151. Which organic molecule is paired with its B. parallel
basic building block? C. conservative
A. carbohydrate:amino acids
D. semiconservative
B. nucleic acid:nucleotides
C. lipid:monosaccharides 157. The sequence of nucleotides in a section
of RNA is:GCCAUACGAUCGWhat is the
D. protein:fatty acid base sequence of the DNA sense strand?
152. The building blocks in RNA are: A. CGGUAUGCUAGC
A. Nucleotides B. GCCATACGATCG
B. Nucleosides C. CGGTATGCTAGC
C. Amino acids D. GCCAUACGAUCG
D. DNA
158. The enzyme that unwinds and unzips the
153. Bread and pasta are food examples of: DNA to prepare for replication
A. Proteins A. helicase
B. Carbohydrates B. replicase
C. Lipids C. polymerase
D. Nucleic acids D. synthase
154. Which statement regarding bases in DNA 159. Which has 4 different types of nitrogen
is false? bases?
A. They absorb UV light
A. DNA
B. Pyrimidines are aromatic; purines are
B. RNA
not.
C. They have vertical stacking interac- C. Both
tions D. none of above

160. Carbohydrates direct cell functions 166. Nitrogen bases for RNA:
A. Lipids A. Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Uracil
B. Carbohydrates
C. Nucleic acids B. Adenine Guanine, Cytosine, and Sulfur
D. Nitrogen
C. Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and
161. The coiling of a polypeptide due to hydro- Thymine
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gen bonding between amino acids D. Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Phos-
A. Primary Structure phate
B. Secondary Structure 167. Adenine pairs with
C. Tertiery Structure A. Thymine only
D. Quaternary Structure B. Uracil only
162. Which of the following is NOT associated C. Thymine and Uracil
with DNA structure? D. Guanine
A. Z-DNA 168. Which of the following are nitrogenous
B. G tetraplexes bases of the pyrimidine type?
C. three hydrogen bonds between A and A. Guanine and adenine
T B. Cytosine and uracil
D. pyrimidines in the anti C. Thymine and guanine
163. A nucleic acid that plays an important role D. Ribose and deoxyribose
in the production of proteins (Ribonucleic
169. Nucleotides are monomers of
acid)
A. Carbohydrates
A. RNA
B. Lipids
B. DNA
C. Proteins
C. protein
D. Nucleic Acids
D. enzyme
170. Which is NOT part of a nucleotide?
164. What are two examples of nucleic acids?
A. Amino Group
A. DNA and RNA
B. Phosphate Group
B. Proteins and amino acids
C. Sugar
C. Nucleotides and DNA
D. Nitrogenous Base
D. none of above
171. What is the subunit/monomer of a pro-
165. Where is DNA found? tein?
A. cell membrane A. Monosaccharides
B. mitochondria B. Nucleotides
C. nucleus C. Fatty Acids
D. none of above D. Amino Acids

172. What is the term used to describe the un- B. 30%

winding of DNA’s double helix into two sin-
C. 60%
gle strands?

D. 50%
A. Melting temperature
B. Denaturation 178. Which type of bond(s) that exists be-
C. Reannealing tween the R group of a protein showing
a tertiary structure:
D. Renaturation
A. Ionic
173. How many different bases are found in
DNA? B. Van der waals
A. 1 C. Disulfide bridges
B. 2 D. All choices are correct
C. 3
179. Where is DNA located?
D. 4
A. Nucleus
174. DNA’s structure:Nucleotides are joined B. Ribosome
together in the shape of a twisted ladder
called a: C. Cell membrane
A. Double helix D. Mitochondria
B. Single helix
180. Which process is used to make mRNA
C. GCAT from the DNA in the nucleus?
D. ATGC A. transcription
175. Which characteristic of a substrate deter- B. translation
mines which enzyme it is able to bind to?
C. replication
A. Shape
D. translocation
B. Temperature
C. Color 181. The protein of milk is
D. pH A. Lactose
176. How many different chemical units make B. Casein

up a nucleotide? C. Maltose
A. 1 D. Lactose and Casein are correct
B. 2
182. Where does the energy from our food
C. 3
originally come from?
D. 4
A. the Sun
177. Analysis of a sample of DNA found that
B. chemical reactions
20% of the bases were adenine. What
percentage of the bases are pyrimidines? C. carbohydrates
A. 20% D. mitochondria

183. In what phase of the cell cycle does DNA 188. If a gene has 30 nucleotides, how many
replication take place? amino acids does it have?
A. G1 (1st Growth) A. 3
B. S (Synthesis) B. 10
C. 60
C. G2 (2nd Growth)
D. 90
D. M (Mitotic)
189. Which element is not found in nucleic
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184. What unique ability does DNA have be- acids
cause it is double-stranded?
A. carbon
A. it serves as genetic material in all B. sulfur
viruses
C. hydrogen
B. it can serve as a template for its own
D. phosphorus
copying
C. it can move around the cells 190. For the process of translation, the ribo-
some is the place where-
D. none of the choices
A. Information from DNA is copied to RNA
185. Which of the following serves as a quick
energy source for the body? B. Amino acid chains are assembled from
information in the mRNA
A. carbohydrates
C. DNA strands are separated and copied
B. lipids
C. protein D. Free floating amino acids are picked
D. nucleic acid up by tRNA
191. Which bonds are created during the for-
186. A nucleotide that can be found in both
mation of the primary structure of a pro-
DNA and RNA would look like
tein?
A. phosphate group, sugar, thymine A. Peptide bonds
B. phosphate group, sugar, uracil B. Hydrogen bonds
C. Phosphate group, sugar, guanine C. Disulfide bonds
D. phosphate group, ribose, guanine D. Phosphodiester bonds
192. What are nitrogen bases?
187. Animals that live in the extreme cold
need layers of blubber to keep them warm. A. adenine, thymine, cytoplasm, and gua-
Which biomolecule should they eat more nine
of? B. adenine, thymine cytosine, and gua-
A. carbohydrates nine
B. lipids C. adenine, thymine, cytosine, and glyc-

erol
C. proteins
D. adenine, thymine, cytosine, and glu-
D. nucleic acids cose

193. What contains information for making 199. (question 4) Which biomolecule is your
the body’s proteins? main source of quick energy?

A. Proteins A. Nucleic Acid
B. Nucleic Acids B. Protein
C. Carbohydrates C. Lipid
D. Lipids D. Carbohydrate
194. Where is deoxyribose found? 200. Which scientist discovered number

thymine equals number adenine and num-
A. DNA
ber cytosine equals number guanine?
B. RNA
A. Avery
C. BOTH
B. Griffith
D. none of above C. Khorana
195. What kind of bond holds the two strands D. Chargoff
of DNA together?
201. Adenine matches with what in RNA?
A. Hydrogen bonds
A. guanine
B. Ionic bonds
B. cytosine
C. Polar bonds
C. thymine
D. Covalent bonds
D. uracil
196. In RNA, the nitrogen base replaces
202. In the structure of DNA which one of the
that was present in DNA.
following binds with cytosine?
A. A, U (adenine, uracil)
A. Deoxyribose
B. C, G (cytosine, guanine) B. Thymine
C. U, T (uracil, thymine) C. Ribose
D. U, A (uracil, adenine) D. Adenine
197. Which cell structure is responsible for as- 203. What are the three components of a nu-
sembling amino acids into proteins? cleotide?
A. mitochondria A. sugar, hydrogen, nitrogen base
B. ribosomes B. sugar, oxygen, nitrogen base
C. nucleus C. sugar, phosphate, nitrogen base
D. nucleolus D. sugar, phosphate, protein
198. This is the only macromolecule that con- 204. How many phosphate groups are found
tains Phosphorus (P) in a molecule of ATP?
A. Proteins A. 1
B. Carbohydrates B. 2
C. Lipids C. 3
D. Nucleic Acids D. 4

205. Which scientist discovered nucleic acids C. C, H, O, N, P

hold genetic information? D. C, H, O
A. Avery
211. In DNA, cytosine bonds with
B. Griffith
A. adenine
C. Khorana
B. cytosine
D. Chargoff C. thymine
206. Which name is given to a triplet of nu-
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D. guanine
cleotides on the mRNA, with can be asso-
ciated with an amino acid? 212. what separates DNA strands in transcrip-
tion?
A. a genetic code
A. RNA polymerase
B. a codon
B. DNA polymerase
C. an anticodon
C. RNA primers
D. a condon
D. phosphate
207. In comparison to a DNA strand, a 213. The two strands in a DNA molecule are
A. mRNA strand is shorter and single A. anti-parallel
stranded
B. parallel
B. mRNA strand is longer and single
C. hexagonal
stranded
D. bimodal
C. mRNA strand is shorter and double
stranded 214. Which organic molecule is passed from
D. mRNA strand is longer and double parents to offspring?
stranded A. carbohydrates
208. Which base found in RNA is not found in B. lipids

DNA? C. proteins
A. adenine D. nucleic acids
B. guanine 215. All of the following are examples of pro-
C. uracil teins except which one?
D. cytosine A. Hemoglobin
B. Wax
209. Which contains ribose sugar?
C. Antibodies
A. DNA
D. Enzymes
B. RNA
216. Which molecule is found in both DNA and
C. Both
RNA?
D. none of above
A. Ribose
210. What elements make up Proteins? B. Uracil
A. C, H, O, N, (S) C. Amino acid
B. C, H, O, N D. Phosphate

217. During which process can we identify a D. A polysaccharide

‘lagging strand’?
223. DNA codes for genes which are used to

A. DNA replication make
B. Translation A. lipids
C. Transcription B. proteins
D. Mitosis C. RNA
218. How many parts does a nucleotide D. carbon
have?
224. Why do living organisms need to digest
A. Two carbohydrates into small units?
B. Eight A. So they are small enough to pass
C. Three through the cell membrane
D. none of above B. So they are small enough to be dis-
solved in the blood stream
219. Which is a nucleic acid?
C. So they are small enough to be used by
A. DNA the liver
B. RNA D. none of above
C. Both
225. The generic name for the monomer that
D. none of above makes up lipids is:
220. Which scientist discovered that the se- A. nitrogenous base
quence of bases determines the protein it B. nuclear base
will make?
C. amino acids
A. Avery
D. nucleotide
B. Griffith
C. Khorana 226. The bond which links two amino acids to-
gether
D. Chargoff
A. Peptide
221. A monomer is B. Disulfide
A. a single atom C. Phosphodiester
B. a building block for polymers D. Glycemic
C. a single element
227. Select the correct functions of nucleic
D. is an inorganic molecule acids:
222. What is the composition of the backbone A. Store and transmit genetic information
of DNA? and contains the instructions to make pro-
A. Alternating sugar and phosphate teins.
molecules B. insulation
B. Complementary base pairs C. Contains the information to make car-
C. Alternating sugar and base molecules bohydrates
D. energy storage

228. Which type of ribonucleic acid forms a ri- C. Butter, oil, lard
bosome? D. Apples, Bananas, Grapes
A. mRNA
234. Which type(s) of RNA is(are) involved in
B. tRNA protein synthesis?
C. sRNA A. transfer RNA only
D. rRNA B. messenger RNA only
229. a three-subunit molecule in which a pen-
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C. ribosomal RNA and transfer RNA only
tose sugar is bonded to both a phosphate D. messenger RNA, ribosomal RNA, and
group and a nitrogen-containing base transfer RNA
A. nucleotide
235. The three elements that make up most of
B. nucleoside
all 4 types of macromolecules
C. nuclear tides
A. Water, Oxygen, & Hydrogen
D. nucleus
B. Carbon, Hydrogen, & Oxygen
230. Which scientist discovered transforma- C. Nitrogen, Hydrogen, & Oxygen
tion?
D. Nitrogen, Phosphorus, & Sulfur
A. Avery
236. A process in which DNA has the unique
B. Griffith
ability to make an exact copy of itself.
C. Khorana
A. Replication
D. Chargoff
B. Translation
231. Which of the following nitrogenous bases C. Transcription
are present ONLY in an RNA molecule?
D. Reduction
A. Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine
237. What is transcription?
B. Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Ribose
A. This process creates proteins
C. Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Uracil
B. This process occurs in the cytoplasm
D. Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Deoxyri-
bose C. This process by which DNA is coded in
RNA, occurs in the nucleus and involves
232. Which scientist is most closely associated both DNA and RNA, this process creates
with showing that DNA is the molecule RNA
that carries hereditary information?
D. none of above
A. E. Chargaff
B. J. Watson and F. Crick 238. In which direction does the RNA poly-
merase move along the template strand of
C. H. Lacks the DNA?
D. R. Franklin A. from 3’ to 5’
233. Which foods are high in lipids? B. from 5’ to 3’
A. Meats, cheeses, milk, eggs C. It can move in both directions
B. Breads, pasta, grains D. It depends on the strands

239. Which is a double stranded molecule? 245. Which is made up of nucleotides?

A. DNA A. DNA

B. RNA B. RNA
C. Both C. Both
240. Which of the following is a distinguishing 246. Which has 4 nitrogen bases?
factor, separating one nucleotide from an- A. DNA
other?
B. RNA
A. The nitrogenous base
C. Both
B. The type of fatty acid
D. none of above
C. The length of the phosphate group
D. The shape of the deoxyribose sugar 247. What are the nucleotides made of?
A. Sugar, Phosphate, nitrogen base
241. Which of the four major biological macro-
molecules can be easily identified by the B. Sugar, Adenine, nitrogen base
nitrogen base and phosphate found in its C. Sugar, Thiomine, nitrogen base
structure? D. none of above
A. carbohydrate
248. Which of the following is where genetic
B. lipid
information is located?
C. protein
A. chromosomes
D. nucleic acid
B. histones
242. A type of protein that speeds up a chem- C. ribosomes
ical reaction in a living thing
D. endoplasmic reticulum
A. enzyme
249. For the DNA strand 5’-TACGATCATAT-3’
B. RNA
the correct mRNA strand is:
C. element
A. 3’-TACGATCATAT-5’
D. lipid
B. 3’-ATGCTAGTATA-5’
243. A triplet of mRNA is called a C. 3’-AUGCUAGUAUA-5’
A. codon D. 3’-GCATATACGCG-5’
B. anticodon
250. Which of the following descriptions best
C. amino acid fits the class of molecules known as nu-
D. peptide bond cleotides?
244. The sides of a DNA molecule are made of A. A nitrogenous base and a phosphate
group
A. Fatty Acid and Glycerol
B. A nitrogenous base and a pentose
B. Sugar and Phosphate sugar
C. Amino Acids and Peptides C. A nitrogenous base, a phosphate
D. Nitrogenous Bases and Enzymes group, and a pentose sugar

D. A pentose sugar and a purine or pyrim- 256. Which of the following is NOT one of the
idine three groups comprising the nucleotide?
A. R group
251. Which base is ONLY found in DNA?
B. phosphate
A. Cytosine
C. nitrogenous base
B. Guanine D. pentose sugar
C. Thymine
257. Which base does Adenine bonds with?
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D. Adenine A. Guanine
252. What are Methionine and Asparagine? B. Thymine
C. Cytosine
A. Amino acids
D. none of above
B. Lipids
258. DNA provides a very significant role in
C. organelles the formation and development of an or-
D. carbohydrates ganism. What is that role?
A. encodes genetic information
253. What is translation?
B. provides protection from disease
A. This process only opens a portion of
C. produces food material
the DNA called a gene
D. releases energy
B. This process creates proteins, occurs
in the cytoplasm, involves ribosomes, 259. If a DNA contains 22% adenine in an or-
where peptide bonds are formed between ganism, what is the percentage of thymine
amino acids, involves tRNA it must contain?
C. This process only involves one enzyme A. 22%
B. 28%
D. none of above C. 44%
D. 56%
254. The substance being reacted in a chemical
reaction 260. If a cell has 20% Adenine in it, what %
of Cytosine must it have?
A. Substrate
A. 10%
B. Catalyst B. 20%
C. Products C. 30%
D. Reactants D. 80%
255. Which contains adenine? 261. The specific location where the sub-
strates bind to the enzyme is called the
A. DNA
A. specific site
B. RNA B. appropriate site
C. Both C. active site
D. none of above D. ignition site

262. What is a silent mutation? 267. The enzyme that unzips the DNA to pre-
A. This begins every polypeptide chain pare for replication

A. helicase
B. This does not code for an amino acid
B. replicase
C. This is a type of substitution mutation
which does not change the amino acid se- C. polymerase
quence, This type of substitution mutation D. none of above
is not shown on the genetic level
268. Which enzyme is responsible for adding
D. none of above nucleotides to the free three prime end
263. Name the location where strands begin A. Helicase
to separate. B. Topoisomerase
A. replication spoon C. DNA Polymersase 3
B. replication fork D. DNA Polymersase 1
C. synthase 269. The monomer of a nucleic acid is called
D. prokaryote
A. an amino acid
264. What is the difference between DNA and
RNA in terms of bases? B. a fatty acid
A. RNA contains uracil in place of thymine C. a monosaccharide
D. a nucleotide
B. RNA contains uracil in place of adenine 270. What is DNA’s base-pair rule?
A. A-T, G-C
C. RNA contains uracil in place of guanine
B. A-U, G-C
C. G-T, C-A
D. RNA contains uracil in place of cyto-
sine D. A-G, C-G
265. Which nucleic acid carries messages to ri- 271. How many atoms can a Carbon atom po-
bosomes? tentially bind to?
A. mRNA A. 1
B. 2
B. DNA
C. 3
C. tRNA
D. 4
D. rRNA
272. The organic compounds that living things
266. Which of the following is identical for ev- need include carbohydrates, lipids, ,
ery cell regardless of its function? and nucleic acids.
A. Amount of ATP A. enzymes
B. Function of cell B. proteins
C. Size of cell C. cells
D. DNA D. chocolate chip cookies

273. If cells are grown in a medium containing 279. What are Nucleic Acids made up of?
radioactive 15N, which of these molecules
A. Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Nitro-
will be labeled?
gen
A. both proteins and nucleic acids
B. Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen,
B. proteins only and sometimes sulfur
C. amylase only C. Carbon Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen,
D. nucleic acids only and Phosphate
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274. A triplet of mRNA is called a D. Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen
A. codon 280. Analysis of a molecule of DNA found it
B. anticodon to contain 200 adenine bases, 20% of the
C. amino acid total number of bases in the strand. How
many phosphate groups did it contain?
D. peptide bond
A. 200
275. Where is RNA found?
B. 400
A. Inside the nucleus
C. 800
B. outside the nucleus
D. 1000
C. Both inside and outside the nucleus
D. none of above 281. What do Nucleic Acids control the produc-
tion of?
276. Which of these is not part of a nu-
cleotide? A. Nucleotides
A. sugar B. Lipids
B. phosphate C. Proteins
C. nitrogen base D. Carbohydrates
D. phospholipid
282. What type of bond links two nitrogenous
277. Which bond is present in the sugar and bases?
phosphate group in a nucleotide? A. Peptide bond
A. Phosphodiester bond
B. Hydrogen Bond
B. Peptide Bond
C. Covalent Bond
C. Ester Bond
D. Glycosidic Bond
D. Glycosidic Bond
283. Where in the cell are amino acids joined
278. Where would you be most likely to find
together?
a phospholipid?
A. a cell membrane A. Ribosomes
B. inside the nucleus B. Mitochondria

C. storing energy in plant seeds C. Nucleus
D. providing structure to a fungus D. Nucleolus

284. Which process is used to copy DNA? 290. Adenine, Thymine, Guanine and Cytosine
A. replication are what?

B. transcription A. Phosphates
C. translation B. Sugars
D. conjugation C. Nucleotides
D. Bases
285. Is Adenine found in DNA, RNA, or Both?
A. DNA 291. “Sugar” is a synonym
B. RNA A. Carbohydrate
C. BOTH B. Lipid
D. none of above C. Protein

D. Nucleic Acid
286. and 5’ refer to
A. How effectively the helicase works 292. Which of the following is not a compo-
nent of a nucleotide?
B. What direction the nucleotides are
pointing A. sugar
C. Where the RNA primer attaches B. phosphate
D. Okazaki’s famous experiment C. nitrogen base

D. lipid
287. This macromolecule is used for long term
energy storage. 293. Translation occurs in the
A. protein A. Ribosomes
B. carbohydrate B. Nucleus
C. nucleic acid C. Mitchondria
D. lipid D. Golgi bodies
288. The shape of DNA found in bacteria, mi- 294. What is helicase?
tochondria, and chloroplasts is best de- A. this enzyme unzips the DNA double he-
scribed as a lix
A. short chain B. This molecule is double-stranded
B. long chain C. This molecule is single-stranded
C. triple helix D. none of above
D. ring
295. Which enzyme is responsible for making
289. Building blocks of nucleic acid are RNA?
A. Nitrogen bases A. DNA polymerase
B. Nucleoside B. RNA enzymase
C. Nucleotide C. RNA polymerase
D. Amino acid D. RNA proliferase

296. What is the distinction between short 301. What are proteins that control reactions
tandem repeats (STRs) and genes? in your body called?
A. STRs have greater amounts of guanine A. Nucleic Acids
B. Amino Acids
B. STRs have greater amounts of cyto- C. Enzymes
sine
D. Carbohydrates
C. STRs are not replicated
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302. Which type of interaction stabilizes the
D. STRs are not transcribed alpha (α ) helix and the beta (β ) pleated
sheet structures of proteins?
297. Which of the following are found in both
DNA and RNA? A. Hydrophobic interactions
B. Nonpolar covalent bonds
A. ribose, phosphate groups, and ade-
nine C. Hydrogen bonds
B. deoxyribose, phosphate groups, and D. Peptide bonds
guanine
303. A single stranded nucleic acid is present
C. phosphate groups, guanine, and cyto- as a linear molecule in the nucleus and at-
sine tached to ribosomes, and has the bases
D. phosphate groups, guanine, and adenine, uracil, thymine and guanine. It
thymine is:
A. DNA
298. Genes are located in what molecules? B. mRNA
A. DNA C. tRNA
B. Proteins D. rRNA
C. Lipids 304. Which of the following atoms are NOT a
D. Histones part of a nucleic acid?
A. Carbon
299. What happens when the end phosphate
is broken off a molecule of ATP? B. Oxygen
A. Energy is stored C. Helium

D. Hydrogen
B. Energy is released
C. Neutrons are stored 305. What happens during translation?
D. Neutrons are released A. Copying of DNA to produce DNA

B. Copying of DNA to produce mRNA
300. DNA and RNA are examples of
C. Copying of DNA to produce tRNA
A. Carbohydrates D. Polypeptide synthesis
B. Lipids
306. What is correct function for a carbohy-
C. Proteins drate?
D. Nucleic Acids A. build and repair body tissues

B. body’s main source of energy B. Transfer of genes between species

C. helps keep immune system functioning C. Formation of clones

D. Infection by bacteria
D. cushions organs
313. How many carbons form the sugar in the
307. An example of a nucleic acid is
backbone?
A. amino acid
A. 3
B. DNA
B. 4
C. sugar
C. 5
D. wax
D. 6
308. Which monomer makes up nucleic acids?
A. Amino acid 314. Assembles RNA during transcription
B. Nucleotide A. RNA Polymerase
C. Fatty acid B. Mutations
D. Monosaccharide C. Gene Expression
309. Enzymes are a type of D. Point Mutation
A. nucleic acid
315. are molecules that contain the instruc-
B. lipid tions that cells need to carry out all the
C. carbohydrate functions of life.
D. protein A. nucleic acids
310. How many nucleotides make up a B. lipids
codon? C. compounds
A. 1
D. proteins
B. 2
C. 3 316. Codons contain nitrogen bases
D. 4 A. 1
311. If a DNA molecule did not replicate accu- B. 3

rately, what would be the initial result? C. 6
A. Infertility of the organism D. 9
B. Incorrect protein synthesis
317. Which of the following is not part of the
C. Increase in reproduction rate
backbone of DNA?
D. Immediate death of the organism
A. the bases
312. What does the universal nature of the ge-
B. the phosphates
netic code allow?
C. the sugars
A. Change of genetic code in the same
species D. none, they are all part of the backbone

318. What principle is necessary to preserve 324. Enzymes lower the activation energy of
the sequence of DNA during replication? chemical reactions which in turn speeds
A. Base pairing is complementary. them up. They also are not consumed dur-
ing the reaction. This makes them a
B. One gene codes for one polypeptide.
A. Catalyst
C. Substrates are specific to enzymes.
B. Reactant
D. The genetic code is universal.
C. Substrate
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319. What is the function of helicase?
D. Products
A. It forms bonds between DNA nu-
cleotides. 325. Who discovered the structure of DNA and
B. It adds new nucleotides to the DNA he- won a Nobel Prize?
lix.
A. Franklin
C. It forms the DNA helix.
B. Hershey and Chase
D. It separates DNA strands.
C. Chase and Crick
320. In eukaryotic cells where is DNA lo- D. Watson and Crick
cated?
A. in the cytoplasm 326. A polypeptide is made of amino
B. in the endoplasmic reticulum acids.
C. in the lipid bilayer A. 2

D. in the nucleus B. 3 or more
321. In DNA, adenine bonds with C. 50
A. thymine D. 22
B. adenine 327. A certain gene in a bacterium codes for a
C. cytosine polypeptide that is 120 amino acids long.
D. guanine How many nucleotides are needed in the
mRNA to code for this polypeptide?
322. Which of the following is found in RNA A. 30
but not in DNA?
B. 40
A. Ribose sugar
C. 360
B. Heleical structure
C. Phosphate group D. 480
D. Adenine 328. How many different kinds of nucleic acid

are there?
323. What are nucleotides?
A. monomers of proteins A. 0
B. polymers of DNA B. 1
C. monomers of DNA C. 2
D. none of above D. 3

329. The bonding of two amino acid molecules 335. Which of the following are identical in
to form a larger molecule requires DNA and RNA?

A. The release of a water molecule A. the helical structure
B. The release of a carbon dioxide B. the identity of the bases
molecule
C. the identity of the sugar
C. The addition of a nitrogen atom
D. The addition of a water molecule D. the sugar to phosphate linkages
330. is the activation of a gene that results 336. In the DNA double helix, the two back-
in transcription. bones run in opposite 5→ 3 directions
A. Gene expression from each other, an arrangement referred
to as
B. Gene technology
C. Eukaryotic expression A. Anti-sequence
D. Prokaryotic expression B. Anti-parallel
331. What base does Guanine bond with? C. Sequence
A. Adenine D. Parallel
B. Guanine
337. DNA is unique in that it codes each strand
C. Cytosine to one another. This ensures that both
D. none of above strands have the exact same information.
332. What does DNA stand for? A. unique

A. Deoxyribonucleic acid B. anti-parallel
B. Denitrogenous acid C. retro-parallel
C. Deribonucleic acid D. none of above
D. Diribonucleic acid
338. How many different types of reactions
333. Which biomolecules are found in all organ- can an eznyme facilitate? (Types, not total
isms? number)
A. glucose, maltose, fructose, sucrose
A. 1
B. adenine, cytosine, thymine, guanine
B. Infinite
C. chlorophyll, chitin, pepsin, glycogen
C. 17
D. cholesterol, phospholipid, cellulose,
gibberellin D. Depends on the enzyme
334. Identify some foods that are high in pro- 339. Nucleotides combine to form
tein.
A. lipids
A. Strawberries
B. Steak B. carbohydrates
C. Pasta C. proteins
D. Water D. nucleic acids

340. Which of these is not found in DNA? 346. (question 12) What is the monomer of nu-
A. adenine cleic acids?
B. thymine A. Glycerol
C. phosphate B. Monosaccharides
D. ribose C. Amino Acids
D. Nucleotides
341. Antibodies are composed primarily of
amino acids. In which class of biomolecules
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347. Which group helps control chemical reac-
would antibodies belong? tions and serves as structural materials
A. Nucleic acids for hair, skin and nails?
B. Carbohydrates A. Nucleic Acids
C. Proteins B. Proteins
D. Lipids C. Lipids
342. Transcription takes place in the D. Carbohydrates

A. cytoplasm 348. The two types of nucleic acids are
B. ribosome A. RNA and ADP
C. mitochondrion B. DNA and RNA
D. nucleus C. DNA and ADP
343. Sides or backbones of DNA molecules are D. nucleotides and ATP
made up of
349. Which biomolecule helps form muscles?
A. Alternating sugars-phosphates
A. Nucleic Acid
B. Nitrogen and Phosphate
B. Carbohydrate
C. Alternating sugar-sulfur
C. Protein
D. Carbon and Hydrogen
D. Lipids
344. Which of the following are examples of
carbohydrates? 350. Which of the following is the monomer of
a nucleic acid?
A. starches and sugars
A. Amino Acid
B. saturated and unsaturated fat
B. Monosaccharide
C. traits
C. Nucleotide
D. meat and muscle
D. Nitrogenous Base
345. Randy is in a weightlifting class. Which
food would provide the proteins he needs 351. The location on an enzyme where the sub-
for building muscle mass? strate and enzyme bind to each other.
A. Strawberry A. Active Site
B. Crackers B. Enzymatic Process
C. Beans C. Enzymatic Abscess
D. Hershey Bar D. Active Area

352. If one series of bases reads:TTGACTAGG, 357. Which 2 molecules form the sides (back-
then the complementary set of bases bone) of the DNA ladder?
would read: A. deoxyribose sugar and adenine

A. TTGACTAGG B. deoxyribose sugar and a hydrogen
B. AACTGATCC bond
C. AATCGAACTT C. deoxyribose sugar and the nucleus

D. deoxyribose sugar and phosphate
D. AAGTCATCC
358. Which of the following is an example of
353. Proteins are complex biomolecules that a nucleic acid?
contain
A. Glucose
A. sugars B. Phospholipid
B. nucleic acids C. Enzymes
C. lipids D. DNA
D. amino acids 359. How many bonds are between guanine
and cytosine?
354. Amino acids are linked into polypeptides
through a process called a in which A. 1
water is removed and a covalent bond is B. 2
formed. C. 3
A. Dehydration Reaction D. 4
B. Hydrolysis 360. Which macromolecule stores energy, in-
C. Dehydrolytic Regulation sulates us, and makes up the cell mem-
brane?
D. Hydrolytication Reaction
A. lipids
355. The process of transcription is organized B. proteins
in different steps; put them in the right or-
C. carbohydrates
der.
D. nucleic acids
A. Termination, elongation, initiation
361. DNA contains the sugar:
B. Binding, initiation, termination
A. Deoxyribose
C. Initiation, binding, elongation
B. Ribose
D. Initiation, elongation, termination
C. Glucose
356. Which of the following describes a DNA D. Sucrose
strand that would be most stable at high
362. Where does DNA store genetic informa-
temperatures?
tion of a cell?
A. 25% A/T and 75% C/G A. Brain
B. 50% A/T and 50% C/G B. Nucleus
C. 75% A/T and 25% C/G C. Mitochondria
D. 100% A/T and 0% C/G D. none of above

363. DNA consists how many polynucleotide 369. Which would best distinguish a nucleic
chains? acid from a carbohydrate?
A. 1 A. presence of carbon
B. 2 B. presences of adenine
C. 3 C. presence of fatty acids
D. 4 D. presence of amino acids
370. What other name can be given to a nu-
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364. What can lipids be used for?
cleotide?
A. Energy Storage A. glycosylated nucleoside
B. Immediate energy B. purinated pentose
C. Information storage C. deoxyribonucleotide
D. speed up reactions D. nucleoside phosphate
365. List the function of a nucleic acid 371. Humans have stranded DNA and
stranded RNA
A. short term energy
A. Single / Single
B. long term energy
B. Double / Single
C. pass on genetic information
C. Double / Double
D. none of above
D. Humans do not have RNA
366. In a lipid, the ratio of hydrogen to oxygen 372. Which of the following best describes the
is flow of information in eukaryotic cells?
A. Greater than 2:1 A. DNA → RNA → proteins
B. 2:1 B. DNA → proteins → RNA
C. 4:6 C. RNA → DNA → proteins
D. 1:1 D. proteins → DNA → RNA
367. What elements make up Proteins?C = car- 373. If a DNA molecule is 22% adenine in any
bonH = HydrogenO = OxygenN = Nitro- organism, which percentage of thymine
genS = SulfurP = Phosphorous will that DNA molecule contain?
A. C, H, O, N, (S), P A. 22%
B. C, H, O, N B. 28%
C. C, H, O, N, P C. 44%
D. 56%
D. C, H, O
374. (question 2) Which biomolecule is made
368. In RNA, thymine is replaced by: of amino acids?
A. Adenine A. Nucleic Acid
B. Guanine B. Carbohydrate
C. Thymine C. Protein
D. Uracil D. Lipid

375. Which of the following is an example of 381. The various enzymes in our bodies are
a DNA nucleotide? A. lipids

A. adenylic acid B. carbohydrates
B. deoxy adenylic acid C. nucleotides
C. adenosine D. proteins
D. deoxythymidine 382. The “molecule of heredity” is
376. Which enzyme is considered the “builder” A. carbohydrates
and helps add new nitrogenous bases to B. lipids
DNA during replication?
C. proteins
A. Helicase
D. nucleic acids
B. Ligase
383. A process in which DNA has the unique
C. DNA polymerase ability to make an exact copy of itself is
D. RNA polymerase called?
A. Replication
377. Multiple polypeptides at a tertiary level
of structure working together in a large B. Translation
complex C. Transcription
A. Primary Structure D. none of above
B. Secondary Structure 384. The difference between the amino acid
C. Tertiery Structure glycine and the amino acid proline is found
D. Quaternary Structure in the:
A. Amino group
378. Uracil is
B. Carboxyl group
A. Pyrimidine
C. R group
B. Present only in RNA D. Peptide bonds
C. Pairs with Adenine
385. is made during transcription and
D. All of the above is made during translation.
379. Translation occurs in the A. mRNA / a protein
A. nucleus B. a protein / mRNA
B. mitochondria C. Ribosome / Nucleus
C. cytoplasm D. dna strmRNA / tRNA
D. golgi apparatus 386. Which two biomolecules would be nec-
essary in order to build lean muscle and
380. Which nucleotide is only found in RNA strengthen tendons and ligaments?
A. Thyamine (T) A. Lipids and nucleic acids
B. Uracil (U) B. Proteins and carbohydrates
C. Guanine (G) C. Nucleic acids and carbohydrates
D. Adenine (A) D. Lipids and nucleic acids

387. Which of the following is created in the B. speed of the reaction

nucleus and carries the genetic code to the
C. temperature of the reaction
cytoplasm?
D. pH of the reaction
A. DNA
B. tRNA 393. If one side of the DNA reads:TTGACTAGG,
C. mRNA then the complementary set of bases on
the other side would read:
D. rRNA
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A. TTGACTAGG
388. Why is mRNA necessary to act as a mes-
B. AACTGATCC
senger?
C. AATCGAACTT
A. mRNA is small enough to fit through
nuclear pores. D. AAGTCATCC
B. DNA is too big to fit through nuclear
394. are examples of purine bases
pores
C. There’s too much information in an en- A. Adenine and Guanine
tire DNA molecule. B. Thymine and Cytosine
D. All of these are correct. C. Adenine only
389. The monomers (building blocks) of DNA D. Guanine only
and RNA are
395. Pigments are types of
A. nucleotides
A. Carbohydrates
B. amino acids
B. Lipids
C. polypeptides
D. glucose C. Proteins
D. Nucleic acids
390. What does the word organic mean?
A. has nitrogen 396. Waxes, oils and fats are examples of
B. has sulfur A. Carbohydrates
C. has carbon B. Lipids
D. has oxygen C. Proteins
391. Which biomolecule is a main source of D. Nucleic Acids
long term energy?
397. If there is an error in transcription of a
A. Nucleic Acid DNA molecule, which of the following is a
B. Protein direct result?
C. Lipid A. The nuclear membrane is ruptured
D. Carbohydrate B. Transportation of mRNA does not oc-
cur
392. Enzymes affect the reactions in living
cells by changing the C. A codon sequence is incorrect
A. products of the reactions D. Amino acids do not bond to tRNA

398. The two strands making up the DNA dou- C. adenine-cytosine

ble helix molecule D. cytosine-uracil

A. contain ribose and deoxyribose in op-
404. Which of the following is the sugar found
posite strands.
in RNA?
B. are held together by hydrogen bonds.
A. Ribose
C. are attached through a phosphate to
B. Maltose
hold the strands together.
C. Deoxyribose
D. contain uracil but not thymine.
D. Amylose
399. Stores genes to make RNA
405. Enzymes are an example of which macro-
A. DNA molecule?
B. RNA A. Carbohydrates
C. Nucleic Acids B. Lipids
D. Proteins C. Proteins
400. Can lipids dissolve in water? Why or D. Nucleic Acids
why not? 406. Which enzyme proofreads and removes
A. No, because they are non-polar RNA Primase
B. Yes, because they are polar A. Ligase
C. No, because they are polar B. Polymerase 1
D. Yes, because they are non-polar C. Polymerase 3
D. Helicase
401. What give proteins their unique func-
tions? 407. Injected mice with bacteria.
A. The way they’re folded A. Griffith
B. The way they’re made B. Watson & Crick
C. The way the C connects to the O C. Hershey & Chase
D. The way they’re loved D. Franklin
402. Smaller molecules that make up protein 408. Which of the following is correctly
molecules:(the building blocks of proteins) matches:ATT GTA CGA
A. amino acids A. TAA CAT GCT
B. carbs B. ATT GTA CGA
C. enzymes C. TAA GTA TCG
D. DNA D. GCC ACG TAC

409. Nucleic Acids are made of
403. Which one of the following nucleotide
pair bonds would be found in a DNA A. CHO
molecule? B. CHON
A. adenine-guanine C. CHONP
B. guanine-cytosine D. CHONS

410. The molecule on which an enzyme acts is C. C, H, O, N, P

called a(n) D. C, H, O, Ca, S
A. active site
416. DNA Replication occurs
B. inactive site
A. during Anaphase I
C. polar molecule
B. during Prophase I
D. substrate
C. during S phase of Interphase
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411. Which macromolecule stores genetic in- D. during Metaphase
formation that is be passed from parents
to children? 417. Which of the following scientists is most
closely associated with analyzing the base
A. Carbohydrates
content of DNA?
B. Lipids
A. J. Watson
C. Nucleic Acids B. E. Chargaff
D. Proteins C. R. Franklin
412. Nucleotides are held together by D. H. Lacks
bonds.
418. Which method is NOT associated with
A. metallic bonds DNA sequencing?
B. James Bond A. Sanger sequencing
C. ionic bonds B. electrophoresis
D. covalent bonds C. alignment
413. The process of making mRNA from DNA D. Maxam and Watson sequencing
is called?
419. What does mRNA do?
A. Replication A. carries information from genes to ribo-
B. Transcription somes
C. Translation B. carries amino acids to ribosomes
D. Protein synthesis C. helps with RNA splicing
D. make up ribosomes
414. Proteins
A. Make up muscles, skin, hair, nails, hor- 420. antiparallel stands of nucleotides run in:
mones, enzymes, and antibodies A. opposite directions
B. Provide long-term energy B. the same direction
C. Make up genetic information C. base pairs
D. none of above D. chromosomes
415. Which of the following elements make up 421. Which of the following is NOT a function
nucleic acids? of a lipid?
A. C, H, O A. Regulating cell function
B. C, H, O, N B. Insulation

C. Long term energy storage 427. Which organic molecule contains nitrogen
D. Making cell membranes and sulfur?

A. carbohydrates
422. ATP is a which provides to cells
B. lipids
A. Nucleic Acid / Energy
C. proteins
B. Protein / Energy
D. nucleic acids
C. Nucleic Acid / Support
D. Protein / Support 428. (question 13) All polymers are made up
of
423. Which biomolecule is responsible for insu- A. monosaccharides
lation and energy storage?
B. monomers
A. Protein
C. proteins
B. Nucleic Acid
D. None of these
C. Lipid
429. What is the subunit of a nucleic acid?
D. Carbohydrate
A. Nucleotide
424. What does replicate mean?
B. Fatty Acid
A. copy
C. Amino Acid
B. produce
D. Monosaccharides
C. reply
430. Lipids are made of
D. none of above
A. monosaccharides
425. What is mRNA?
B. amino acids
A. This type of RNA carries amino acids
C. glycerol and 3 fatty acids
to the ribosome
D. nucleotides
B. This type of RNA is used as a messen-
ger, in the shape of a straight strand, con- 431. Which is of the following is NOT one of
tains codons, matches up with anticodons the elements found in all nucleic acids?
A. C
C. This type of RNA is found in the ribo-
somes B. P
D. none of above C. S
D. N
426. Which of the following best describes
how DNA and RNA are similar? 432. For the DNA strand 5’-TACGATCATAT-3’
A. they both contain A and T the correct complementary DNA strand is:
B. They both have a double helix A. 3’-TACGATCATAT-5’
C. They are both composed of 5 different B. 3’-ATGCTAGTATA-5’

nucleotides C. 3’-AUGCUAGUAUA-5’
D. they both have C and G D. 3’-GCATATACGCG-5’

433. What cell organelle is associated with B. 3

DNA? C. 2
A. endoplasmic reticulum D. 1
B. vacuole
439. What is the name of the simple sugar
C. nucleus needed for cell respiration to create ATP?
D. none of above A. Glucose
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434. The bonds that hold the two strands of B. Fructose
DNA together come from C. Maltose
A. the attraction of phosphate groups D. DNA
B. strong bonds between bases and sug-
440. After DNA is “unzipped”, which enzyme
ars
is responsible for adding nucleotides to the
C. carbon to carbon bonds in the sugar exposed nitrogen bases?
D. weak hydrogen bonds between the A. topoisomerase
bases
B. DNA polymerase
435. Which equation best summarizes an en- C. ligase
zymatic reaction
D. primase
A. ES → E + P
441. If a researcher investigating a RNA
B. E + S → ES → E + S
strand discovers it contains 36% uracil,
C. E + S → ES → E + P which of the following identifies the
D. E + P → EP → E + S amount of cytosine?
A. 14%
436. The central dogma of biology states that
information flows in one direction from B. 28%
A. nuclei to RNA to cytoplasm C. 64%
B. ribosomes to proteins to DNA D. cannot be determined
C. genes to nuclei to ribosomes 442. A segment of DNA that codes for a par-
D. DNA to RNA to proteins ticular protein which in turn codes for
a trait is called a
437. Which enzyme is responsible for form- A. mutation
ing phosphodiester bonds between the
Okazaki fragments? B. nitrogen base
A. Ligase C. phosphate group
B. Helicase D. gene
C. DNA Polymerase 1 443. What are the monomers of lipids?
D. DNA Polymerase 3 A. 1 Glycerol and 3 fatty acids
438. How many different types of nucleotides B. Monosaccharides

exist? C. Amino acids
A. 4 D. Nucleotides

444. All organisms contain DNA and RNA. 450. If in any organism a DNA molecule is
What are the subunits of DNA and RNA? 24% cytosine, how much adenine will that
DNA molecule contain?

A. simple sugars
B. amino acids A. 24%
C. carbohydrates B. 26%
D. nucleotides C. 48%
D. 52%
445. Genes are sequences.
A. DNA 451. The order of nitrogenous bases in DNA
B. mRNA determines the order of in proteins
C. amino acid A. Amino acids
D. DNA and mRNA B. Electrons
446. What is the purpose of your DNA and C. lipids

RNA? D. carbohydrates
A. code for proteins
452. What elements make up Nucleic Acids?C
B. provide support to the nucleus = carbonH = HydrogenO = OxygenN = Ni-
C. serves as a catalyst in chemical reac- trogenS = SulfurP = Phosphorous
tions A. C, H, O, N, (S)
D. provide energy for your ribosomes B. C, H, O, N, P, (S)
447. What are 2 types of nucleic acids? C. C, H, O, N, P
A. Fatty Acids and Glycerol D. C, N, O
B. DNA and RNA
453. The animalia, plantae, fungi, protista,
C. Amino Acids and Enzymes bacteria, and archaea taxonomic groups
D. Monosaccharides and Polysaccha- have what in common?
rides A. Oxygen is essential for metabolism
448. Energy is released from ATP when B. Nutrition is by absorption or ingestion
A. a phosphate group is added C. All organisms have the same genetic
B. adenine bonds to ribose code
C. ATP is exposed to sunlight D. DNA is present in cells
D. a phosphate group is removed
454. DNA has a strand; RNA has a
449. In eukaryotes, DNA is mainly present in strand.
A. Nucleus A. double/double
B. Cytoplasm B. double/triple
C. Ribosome C. double/single
D. Golgi Complex D. single/single

455. If a nucleic acid has six carbon, how many C. Thymine

oxygen’s does it have?
D. Guanine
A. 6
B. 9 461. Nitrogen base + sugar + phosphate
forms
C. 12
A. Nucleotide
D. cannot be determined
B. Nucleoside
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456. What’s the monomer of a nucleic acid?
C. Nitrogen base pairs
A. DNA
D. Double helix
B. monosaccharides
C. nucleotide 462. The DNA sequence ATCAGCGCTGGC is
D. amino acid part of a gene. How many amino acids
are coded for by this message?
457. Nucleic Acids are made of which ele- A. 4
ments?
B. 8
A. CHO
C. 12
B. CHON
C. CHONP D. 20
D. CHONS 463. The loss of a protein’s native structure:

458. In eukaryotic cells, DNA is held within A. Denaturation
the
B. Renaturation
A. nucleus
C. Activation
B. cytoplasm
D. Dehydration
C. ribosome
D. Smooth ER 464. For RNA, What is thymine replaced
with?
459. What are the components of a nucleo-
side? A. Uracil
A. nitrogen base, phosphate group, and B. Cytosine

pentose sugar C. Adenine
B. pentose sugar, nitrogen base D. none of above
C. nitrogen base and a phosphate group
465. What other macromolecule makes nucleic
D. DNA, phosphate group, monosaccha-
acids?
ride
A. lipids
460. In the double helix structure of nucleic
acids, cytosine hydrogen bonds to: B. carbohydrates
A. Deoxyribose C. proteins
B. Adenine D. none of above

466. One difference between DNA and RNA is B. protein

that C. ATO

A. Only RNA has the base Uracil D. carbohydrate
B. only RNA contains the base Thymine
472. Fatty acids and glycerol form the polymer
C. only RNA contains the base Cytocine
D. only RNA contained the base Guanine
A. carbohydrates
467. What are the components/parts of a nu- B. lipids
cleotide?
C. proteins
A. nitrogen base, phosphate group, and
D. nucleic acids
pentose sugar
B. pentose sugar, purine, and pyrimidine 473. Which of the following store and trans-
mit hereditary information?
C. nitrogen base and a phosphate group A. Carbohydrates
D. DNA, phosphate group, monosaccha- B. Lipids
ride C. Proteins
468. A piece of DNA was analysed and 15% D. Nucleic acids
of its nucleotides were adenine. What per-
centage would be uracil? 474. Waterproofs, insulates, and stores en-
ergy long-term
A. 0
A. Carbohydrates
B. 15%
B. Lipids
C. 30%
C. Proteins
D. 35%
D. Nucleic Acids
469. The element nitrogen is present in all of
the following except: 475. Which is the correct pairing?
A. Monosaccharides A. A-C
B. Proteins B. A-T
C. DNA C. A-G
D. Amino acids D. none of above
470. Which has phosphate groups? 476. The antisense strand on the DNA
A. DNA molecule coding for three codons of a gene
isTATCGCACGWhat are the anticodons of
B. RNA the three tRNA molecules that correspond
C. Both to this sequence?
D. none of above A. UAU, CGC and ACG
471. Which of the following is the blueprint for B. ATA, GCG and TGC
the production of RNA within a cell? C. AUA, GCG and UGC
A. DNA D. TAT, CGC and ACG

477. Which of the following molecules are 482. Which nucleic acid forms ribosomes?
most closely related to nucleic acids? A. mRNA
A. amino acids B. DNA
B. fats C. tRNA
C. nucleotides D. rRNA
D. sugars 483. What is a start codon?
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478. DNA replication results in two DNA A. This always reads:AUG, This begins ev-
molecules, ery polypeptide chain, This codes for me-
thionine, If a missense mutation occurs in
A. each one with two original strands this codon, the protein will never be trans-
B. each one with two new strands lated
C. each one with one new strand and one B. This is a set of 3 nucleotides on mRNA
original strand
C. This is a set of 3 nucleotides on tRNA
D. one with two new strands and the
other with two original strands D. none of above
479. Which protein interacts with DNA to form 484. What is the function of mRNA?
chromosomes? A. providing the energy for the duplica-
A. Transmembrane protein tion of cells
B. preventing mutations in the genetic
B. Histone
code
C. Uracil C. storing food material for keeping cells
D. Genome alive
D. carrying the genetic message from
480. During the tRNA uses information DNA in the nucleus to the ribosomes
from mRNA to produce proteins.
A. Translation 485. Without enzymes, the chemical reactions
in the body would
B. Photosynthesis
A. happen to fast
C. Replication B. occur at the same rate as they do with
D. Electron transport chain enzymes
C. require a different pH
481. One side of a DNA molecule has the se-
quence TCGCAGTAA. What is the sequence D. occur to slowly to support life pro-
of the complementary strand of DNA? cesses
.
486. Which food is high in protein?
A. ACGCAGTTT A. Strawberries
B. AGCGUCAUU B. Steak
C. ATTACGGAA C. Pasta
D. TACGATCCG D. Butter

487. Forms the outside structure of the double 493. There are phosphate groups on ATP
helix and on ADP.

A. Sugar Phosphate Backbone A. 3 / 2
B. Nitrogenous Base B. 3 / 3
C. Phosphodiester Backbone
C. 2 / 3
D. Polypeptide Backbone
D. 2 / 2
488. Which of the following is true of prokary-
otic DNA?None, some or all may be cor- 494. Transcription corresponds to which of the
rect. following?
A. It is linear A. the separation of the two strands of
B. It is contained in a single chromosome DNA to enable the formation of two iden-
tical DNA molecules
C. It is found in the nucleus B. the transfer of genetic information
D. It is associated with histone proteins from DNA to RNA
489. The two DNA strands are joining together C. the transfer of genetic information
by: from RNA to DNA
A. Phosphodiester bonds D. none of above

B. Hydrogen bonds
495. Most accepted model of DNA was pro-
C. Pebtide bonds posed by
D. DNA bonds A. Watson and Crick
490. Which organic molecule is an enzyme? B. Jacob and Monad
A. Carbohydrate C. Korenberg
B. Lipid
D. Frederick Mischer
C. Protein
D. Nucleic Acid 496. Which contains thymine?
491. Nucleotides come together to form what A. DNA

kind of DNA structure? B. RNA
A. stem and leaf helix C. Both
B. compound helix
D. none of above
C. double helix
D. twisted helix 497. Which of the following is NOT a
biomolecule?
492. In RNA, Adenine bonds with
A. Water
A. Guanine
B. Thymine B. Nucleic Acid
C. Uracil C. Protein
D. Adenine D. Lipid

498. What is the ribosome? 504. Which elements are mostly found in pro-
A. This is a protein that can be found float- teins?
ing free in the cytoplasm or attached to A. C, H, O
the rough ER, SITE OF PROTEIN SYNTHE- B. C, H, O, N
SIS, translation begins when mRNA and
tRNA attach to this C. C, H, O, N, P
B. This begins every polypeptide chain D. C, H, O, N, S, Ca
C. This ends translation 505. Which organic compounds necessary for
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D. none of above life are formed by a sugar bonded to a
phosphate group and a nitrogenous base?
499. The anticodon is located on the A. lipids
A. DNA B. proteins
B. mRNA C. nucleic acids
C. tRNA D. carbohydrates
D. rRNA
506. The monomer that makes up a nucleic acid
500. Meat, dairy, nuts, eggs, and beans are is called a:
all: A. Chloroplast
A. Proteins B. Chromosome
B. Carbohydrates C. Nucleotide
C. Lipids D. none of above
D. Nucleic acids
507. Other than the nucleus, DNA can be found
501. What molecules do both DNA and RNA in what two organelles?
contain? A. mitochondria and ribosomes
A. uracil B. mitochondria and lysosomes
B. nucleotides C. mitochondria and chloroplasts
C. thymine D. chloroplasts & ribosomes
D. deoxyribose
508. Amino acids are joined together in order
502. What elements make up Nucleic Acids? to form
A. C, N, O, H, (S) A. DNA
B. C, N, O, H, P, (S) B. ribosomes
C. C, N, O, H, P C. polypeptides
D. C, N, O D. RNA
503. DNA Spiral Structure is known as a: 509. RNA contains the sugar
A. Double Helix A. Deoxyribose
B. Double Rope B. Glucose
C. Double Strand C. Ribose
D. none of above D. Lipids

510. Watson and Crick were the first to sug- 515. Which of the following is required for
gest that DNA is DNA replication to occur?

A. a short molecule A. DNA helicase
B. the shape of a double helix B. DNA ligase
C. a protein molecule C. DNA polymerase

D. all of these
D. the genetic material
516. Which of the following are
511. Which of the following statements is biomolecules?
true?
A. RNA, DNA, proteins, lipids
A. DNA is single-stranded
B. Proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, poly-
B. RNA is single-stranded mers
C. DNA contains uracil C. Nucleic acid, lipids, carbohydrates,
monomers
D. RNA contains deoxyribose
D. Proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, nu-
512. Built models of DNA. cleic acids
A. Avery 517. Who took the first picture of DNA?
B. Watson & Crick A. Franklin
C. Hershey & Chase B. Hershey and Chase
D. Franklin C. Chase and Crick
D. Watson and Crick
513. Tertiary structure of protein is referred
to: 518. Which of the following units are repeat-
A. The sequence of amino acids in edly joined together to form a strand of
polypeptide chain DNA?
A. amino acids
B. The alpha helices and beta-pleated
sheet B. nucleotides
C. Three dimensional shape of protein C. fatty acids
D. The number and arrangement of multi- D. polysaccharides

ple folded protein subunits 519. This enzyme has proofreading abilities.
514. What is semiconservative? A. ligase
A. One new strand pairs with one old B. helicase

strand, A portion of this word means “par- C. primase
tially”, This is a term used to describe DNA D. DNA polymerase
replication
520. An entire chromosome being added to a
B. A change in the DNA sequence
chromosome set would be an example of
C. This begins every polypeptide chain a-
D. none of above A. Nucleotide substitution

B. Chromosomal mutation 526. The α helix and the β pleated sheet are
both common polypeptide forms found in
C. Nucleotide deletion
which level of protein structure?
D. Nucleotide insertion
A. Primary
521. All of the following are functions of pro- B. Secondary
teins except which one?
C. Tertiary
A. Transport oxygen
D. Quaternary
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B. Speed up chemical reactions
C. Provide immunity 527. Where does transcription take place?
D. Short term energy A. nucleus

B. ribosome
522. What is the most important biomolecules
that serves as the blueprint of life? C. cytoplasm
A. carbohydrates D. smooth ER
B. lipids 528. (question 6) Which biomolecule contain
C. nucleic acids your genetics?
D. proteins A. Carbohydrate
B. Lipid
523. Which of the following molecule is NOT a
nucleic acid: C. Nucleic Acid
A. ATP D. Protein
B. mRNA
529. The difference between the sugar in DNA
C. Polypeptide and the sugar in RNA is that the sugar in
D. DNA DNA:
A. Is a six-carbon sugar and the sugar in
524. How many bases are needed to code for RNA is a five-carbon sugar
two amino acids?
B. Can form a double-stranded molecule
A. 2
C. Can attach to a phosphate
B. 3
D. Contains one less oxygen atom
C. 6
D. 12 530. Nitrogen Bases for DNA:
A. Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Uracil
525. Which nucleic acid only exists in the nu-
cleus?
B. Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Phos-
A. mRNA phate
B. DNA C. Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and
C. tRNA Thymine
D. rRNA D. Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Sulfur

531. In RNA, which nucleotide pairing is cor- B. protein synthesis, translation, tran-
rect? scription

A. AT, CG C. transcription, translation, protein syn-
B. AT, AND thesis
C. AU, TG D. translation, transcription, protein syn-

thesis
D. AU, CG
537. What is used by cells for energy?
532. The backbone of DNA is made up of
& units. A. DNA
A. sugar & base B. ATP
B. sugar & phosphate C. RNA
C. base & phosphate D. ADP
D. phosphate & phosphate 538. Which of the following is NOT a function
of PROTEINS?
533. The sugar that is in the backbone of DNA
is called A. structural building block
A. fructose B. enzymatic role
B. ribose C. cell transport
C. glucose D. stores genetic information
D. deoxyribose 539. Which of the following is NOT part of a
534. Which 2 people used their model to pre- nucleotide?
dict how DNA’s chemical structure enables A. Nitrogenous Base
it to function?
B. Phosphate Group
A. Mendeleev & Moseley
C. Pentose Sugar
B. Watson & Crick
D. Fatty Acid
C. Thomson & Boyle
540. Which best describes the difference be-
D. none of above
tween DNA and RNA?
535. The term used to describe the structure A. DNA is an amino acid and RNA is a nu-
of DNA in humans. cleic acid.
A. Single Helix B. DNA contains phosphate and RNA con-
B. Double Helix tains potassium.
C. Single Spiral C. DNA has a nitrogenous base and RNA
has a carbon base.
D. Double Spiral
D. DNA contains deoxyribose sugar and
536. Which of the following sequences of RNA contains ribose sugar.
processes correctly reflects the central
dogma? 541. Which form of RNA contains the instruc-
A. protein synthesis, transcription, trans- tions for building a protein?
lation A. amino RNA

B. ribosomal RNA 548. Which of the following is true of the base

C. messenger RNA content of DNA?
D. transfer RNA A. moles of Adenine = moles of Cytosine
542. Where is Ribose found? B. moles of Cytosine = moles of Guanine

A. DNA
B. RNA C. moles of Cytosine = moles of Thymine
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C. BOTH
D. none of above D. none of the above
543. Translation happens at a 549. How many different trinucleotides can be

made using the DNA nucleotides?
A. Nucleus
A. 4
B. Ribosome
B. 20
C. Chloroplast
C. 16
D. Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum
D. 64
544. The word saccharide means:
550. what organelle makes proteins?
A. sugar
A. nucleus
B. glucose
B. rough er
C. sweetener
C. ribosomes
D. carbohydrate D. golgi apperatus
545. Monomers which make up nucleic acids 551. Which nucleic acid carries amino acids to
A. nucleotides ribosomes?
B. amino acids A. mRNA
C. monosaccharides B. DNA
D. lipids C. tRNA
546. A linear code of 3 bases on one side of a D. rRNA
RNA molecule that is used to make amino 552. Which of the following elements are NOT
acids is a- a part of a nucleic acid?
A. base pair A. Carbon
B. codon B. Oxygen
C. amino acid C. Helium
D. gene D. Hydrogen
547. Which is a single stranded molecule? 553. The four nucleotide bases in RNA are
A. DNA A. adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine
B. RNA B. cytosine, thymine, adenine, uracil
C. Both C. uracil, thymine, guanine, cytosine
D. none of above D. adenine, uracil, guanine, cytosine

554. Which of the following correctly de- D. Multitude of oils, butter and condi-
scribes a nucleotide? ments

A. amino acid, fatty acid, base
560. If mRNA has a codon CAU, what is
B. monosaccharide, phosphate, base the corresponding anticodon on the tRNA
C. sugar, phosphate, base molecule?
D. none of above A. CAT
555. Which molecule contains your genetic in- B. GUA

formation stored in your cells? C. CAU
A. ATP D. GTA
B. ADP
561. Which sequence of DNA would be comple-
C. NADPH
mentary to this sequence?ATG TGA CAG
D. DNA
A. ATG TGA CAG
556. mRNA does which of the following? B. TAC ACT GTC
A. bring genetic information from the cy-
C. GTA AGT GAC
toplasm to the nucleus
D. CAT TCA CTG
B. bring genetic information from the nu-
cleus to the cytoplasm
562. Which of these is true about DNA?
C. transport amino acids to the ribosome
A. Has a double helix
D. none of above B. Has a single helix

C. Contains uracil
557. Nucleic Acids are
D. none of above
A. DNA and RNA
B. Polynucleotides 563. Which contains uracil?
C. Polymers A. DNA
D. All of these B. RNA
558. Which base is only found in RNA? C. Both
A. Uracil D. none of above
B. Thymine
564. During transcription if the coding strand
C. Adenine contains the following sequence:5’-
D. Guanine ATGCCCTACGCACTG-3’What should be the
sequence on the mRNA?
559. (question 14) What are foods that are
high in carbs? A. 5’-TACGGGATGCGTGAC-3’
A. Eggs, fish, poultry B. 3’-AUGCCCUACGCACUG-5’

B. Cheese, meats, vegetables C. 5’-UACGGGUACGCACUG-3’
C. Bread, potatoes, and pasta D. 5’-AUGCCCUACGCACUG-3’

565. Nucleotide of adenine bis called 571. The following are types of RNA EXCEPT
A. Adenine A. messenger RNA
B. Adenosine B. ribosomal RNA
C. Adenylic acid C. transfer RNA
D. Adenine sugar D. deoxidised DNA
566. Name of the covalent bond which holds 572. The monosaccharides sugar that found in
the nucleic acids:
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nucleotides together.
A. Phosphodiester Bond A. Ribose
B. Amino Bond B. Glucose
C. Nucleic Bond C. Fructose
D. Peptide Bond D. Adenine
573. Which of the following is a nucleotide

567. What is the function of carbohydrates in
found in DNA?
animals?
A. ribose + phosphate group + thymine
A. structure and support
B. blubber
B. ribose + phosphate group + uracil
C. short term energy C. deoxyribose + phosphate group +
D. long term energy uracil
568. The repeating units in both DNA and RNA D. deoxyribose + phosphate group + cy-
are called tosine
A. hydrogen bonds 574. The more bonds a molecule has, the more
B. nucleic acids
A. water is stored
C. nucleotides
B. force is stored
D. amino acids
C. energy is stored
569. (question 10) What is the monomer for a D. oxygen is stored
protein?
A. Monosaccharide 575. The nucleoside structure is referred to:
B. Triglyceride A. Nitrogenous base, sugar and phos-

phate
C. Amino Acid
B. Nitrogenous base and phosphate only
D. Nucleotide
C. Nitrogenous base and sugar only
570. Is Thymine found in DNA, RNA, or Both? D. Sugar and phosphate only
A. DNA
576. How many polynucleotide strands are
B. RNA found in a tRNA molecule?
C. BOTH A. 1

2.6 Structure of Nucleic Acids 333
C. 3 B. Hydrogen bond
D. 4 C. Phosphodiester bond

577. RNA is usually D. Glycosidic bond
A. Single stranded
579. The following are part of the information-
B. Double stranded
storage molecule of a cell except:
C. Triple stranded
A. Uracil
D. All of these
B. DNA
578. The joining of two adjacent nucleotide in
DNA strand is by: C. RNA
A. Peptide bond D. none of above
2.6 Structure of Nucleic Acids

1. DNA & RNA are examples of- C. CG to CU
A. Proteins D. none of above
B. Nucleic Acids
5. VNTR’s are
C. Carbohydrates
A. repetitive non-coding sequences of
D. Lipids
DNA
2. Molecule X contains a long chain of AMINO B. not transcribed into mRNA
ACIDS. What is molecule X?
C. used in DNA profiling
A. Carbohydrate
D. all of these
B. Lipid
C. Protein 6. The macromolecule that is diverse and
D. Nucleic Acid functions as structure, support, transport,
movement, defense, and regulation is-
3. What happens during transcription?
A. Carbohydrates
A. the sense strand of DNA is used as a
template to make mRNA B. Lipids
B. the antisense strand of DNA is used as C. Proteins

a template to make mRNA D. Nucleic Acids
C. the code in mRNA is read to make a
polypeptide 7. How many carbon atoms are there in a ri-
bose and a deoxyribose sugar molecule?
D. several ribosomes attach to DNA to
make mRNA and then polypeptides A. Six
4. What bonds changes and what into B. Five

A. AT to AU C. Three
B. AU to AT D. Eight

8. DNA and RNA are similar because they 13. A mRNA strand has the following set of
both contain nucleotides ACGUUCAGCAUC. A teacher
A. deoxyribose. asked the students to organize the strand
to represent sets of codons. What is the
B. double helices. correct answer to that the students gave?
C. thymine. A. ACGU UCAG CAUC
D. nucleotides. B. ACG UUC AGC AUC
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9. The purpose of DNA ligase C. AC GU UC AG CA UC
A. to replace RNA primers with DNA dur- D. AC GUU CA GCA UC
ing replication 14. how do bases in DNA attach to each other
B. to join Okizaki fragments during repli- A. phosphodiester bonds
cation
B. condestion reactions
C. to add RNA nucleotides during tran-
scription C. hydrogen bonds
D. to add the poly-A tail to pre-mRNA D. nitrogen bonds
15. What type of bond holds the nitrogenous

10. If one strand of DNA has the sequence G-
bases together?
C-C-A-T-A, the sequence of bases on the
complementary DNA strand will be A. peptide bond
A. A-T-T-G-C-G B. phosphate bond
B. C-G-G-U-A-U C. ionic bond
C. G-C-C-A-T-A D. hydrogen bond
D. C-G-G-T-A-T 16. New messenger RNA is made through the
process of-
11. During DNA replication, the two strands
of a double helix separate and new nu- A. transcripton
cleotides attach themselves to the original B. translation
bases. What would the complementary C. transposition
strand be for the sequence ATTGCGAGCTG
D. replication
A. CGGATACATCG
B. ATTGCGAGCTA 17. How many amino acids would be linked to-
gether to form a protein based on the DNA
C. GTCGAGCGTTA sequence-ATGGCTCGATCA?
D. TAACGCTCGAC A. 1
12. The amount of adenine is always equal to B. 2
the amount of C. 3
A. amino acid D. 4
B. thymine
18. If a cell DNA contains 20% Adenine, what
C. cytosine percent of the cells DNA will be Thymine?
D. guanine A. 10%

B. 20% 24. the bond between two mononucleotides is

C. 30% called?
A. carbon carbon double bond

D. 40%
B. hydrogen bond
19. Which of these is NOT a way that pre-
mRNA is processed in eukaryotic cells? C. phosphodiester bond
A. introns are removed D. disulfide bond
B. exons are spliced together 25. DNA is a what molecule

C. a poly-A tail is attached A. big
D. a promotor region is unblocked B. stable
C. unstable
20. Why is it crucial that living things are able
to replicate their DNA? D. none of above
A. Each cell must have its own DNA 26. What do we call DNA replication since
B. Less copies of DNA are needed when new DNA has 1 parent strand and 1 new
a new cell is created strand?
C. A cell needs multiple copies of DNA A. Conservative
D. Only muscle cells need DNA B. Semiconservative
C. Dispersive
21. What part of the virus enters inside the
bacteria? D. none of above
A. Carbohydrates 27. what is directly responsible for tRNA
B. Lipids molecules having the correct amino acids
attached to them?
C. Proteins
A. the codon
D. DNA
B. the anticodon
22. What is the purpose of DNA replication? C. the amino acid attachment sequence
A. Cut the DNA at end of tRNA
B. Make more cells D. tRNA activating enzymes
C. Apoptosis 28. Nucleosomes are involved in
D. Duplicate the DNA A. supercoiling of chromosomes
23. What is the significance of Taq poly- B. regulation of transcription
merase? C. both of these
A. it catalyzes the production tRNA D. neither of these
molecules
29. The monomer for Nucleic acids are called
B. it can withstand the heating needed
what?
for PCR
A. monosaccharide
C. it can catalyze the production of both
DNA and mRNA B. amino acid
D. it does the proofreading during C. fatty acid
prokaryotic replication D. nucleotides

30. DNA molecules are composed of long 36. What is one the function of RNA
chains of
A. to transfer genetic information from
A. amino acids dna to the ribosomes
B. nucleotides B. genetic info storage
C. fatty acids
C. growth and repair
D. monosaccharides
D. insulation
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31. The tertiary structure of a protein
A. the sequence of amino acids 37. This macromolecule functions to store
heredity information and carry out protein
B. interactions between polypeptides synthesis-
C. only hydrogen bonds between R
A. Carbohydrates
groups
D. disulfide bridges, ionic bonds, or other B. Lipids
interactions between R-groups C. Proteins
32. Hemoglobin, which transports oxygen in D. Nucleic Acids
the blood, is an example of-
A. Carbohydrate 38. Which describes the components of a nu-
cleotide of DNA?
B. Lipid
C. Protein A. Ribose, phosphate group, uracil
D. Nucleic Acid B. Ribose, phosphate group, cytosine
33. WHAT ARE DNA AND RNA MADE OF C. Deoxyribose, phosphate group, uracil
A. bases D. Deoxyribose, phosphate group, ade-

nine
B. nucleotides
C. phosphate 39. What is the type of virus that infects bac-
D. none of above teria?
34. Nucleosomes are made of A. Invader virus

A. DNA only B. Virobacteria
B. RNA only C. Bacteriovirus
C. DNA and histones D. Bacteriophage
D. DNA, RNA and histones
40. Which of the following does NOT describe
35. Complementary base pairing link RNA?
together-
A. single stranded
A. sugars
B. nitrogenous bases B. may contain uracil
C. phosphate groups C. may contain thymine

D. amino acids D. contains ribose sugar

41. Which of the following molecules is respon- C. A pairs with T, and C pairs with G
sible for storing genetic information in a D. A pairs with C, and G pairs with T
cell?

A. nucleic acid 47. What does it mean that the strands of DNA
are “antiparallel?”
B. protein
C. carbohydrate A. that A always matches with T and C al-
ways matches with G
D. lipid
B. that the two sides are held together by
42. Which scientists were credited with dis- weak Hydrogen bonds
covering the structure of DNA?
C. that they run in opposite directions
A. Avery and Chargaff
D. that they can only be replicated in one
B. Watson and Crick direction
C. Hershey and Chase
48. DNA and RNA are examples of what
D. Mendel and Griffith
A. Nucleotides
43. The secondary structure of a protein
B. bases
A. the sequence of amino acids
C. nucleic acids
B. interactions between polypeptides
D. none of above
C. only hydrogen bonds between R
groups 49. The primary structure of a protein
D. disulfide bridges, ionic bonds, or other A. the sequence of amino acids
interactions between R-groups
B. interactions between polypeptides
44. Which of these chemical “tags”, if at- C. only hydrogen bonds between R
tached to a nucleosome, would inhibit gene groups
expression?
D. disulfide bridges, ionic bonds, or other
A. methyl group
interactions between R-groups
B. acetyl group
50. what do all organic bases contain
C. both of these
D. neither of these A. oxygen
B. hydrogen
45. What does the function of DNA depend on
C. carbon
A. phosphodiester bonds
D. nitrogen
B. base pairings
C. hydrogen bonds 51. Why is DNA important?
D. condensation reactions A. it is very small and very complicated
46. Which of the following is the correct base B. it serves as the blueprint for traits of
paring rule for RNA? all living things
A. A pairs with U, and C pairs with G C. it’s in everything
B. A pairs with G, and T pairs with C D. because we eat it every day for energy

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52. What is a characteristic of uracil? 56. Which of the following is NOT a component
A. the ability to bond with adenine of a DNA nucleotide?
A. phosphate
B. the ability to bond with thymine
B. nitrogen base
C. the ability to bond with cyotsine
C. deoxyribose sugar
D. the ability to bond with guanine
D. ribose sugar
53. Which of the following sequences repre-
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sent the complementary DNA sequence to 57. DNA is found in ?
the DNA strand-AGATCCGTA A. cell membrane
A. TGATGGCAT B. vacuole
B. CTCGAATAT C. chloroplast
C. TCTAGGCAT D. nucleus
D. CTCGAATAT 58. Which of the following would be the mRNA
sequence made during transcription from
54. Each triplet of nucleotides in mRNA that
the DNA sequence ATGGCTCGATCA
specifies a particular amino acid is called-
A. UACCGAGCUAGU
A. a codon
B. TACGCATUTCUTC
B. an anitcodon
C. UACCGCUCACCA
C. an intron
D. TACGCATACAGCA
D. an exon
59. Who is responsible for discovering DNA
55. what is the pentose sugar in DNA called base pairing rules?
A. ribose A. J. Watson & F. Crick
B. ribosome suagr B. O. Avery
C. deoxyribose C. R. Franklin
D. DNA sugar D. Chargaff
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1. When your boss or professor praises you, A. Auxin
you experience the release of this hor- B. Gibberellin
mone
C. Cytokinins
A. Serotonin
D. Ethene
B. Oxytocin
3. The gland that stimulates secondary sex
C. Dopamine characteristics in females.
D. Cortisol A. Thyroid
2. Breaks seed dormancy and promotes B. testes
growth (can make fruit bigger) C. ovary

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D. adrenal 9. Which hormone regulates sleep and wake

cycles?
4. The Adrenal Gland is located on top of the

A. Adrenaline
A. Liver B. Calcitonin
B. Pancreas C. Estrogen
C. Kidneys D. Melatonin
D. Testes 10. Which term means the growth of the seed
in the ground?
5. What is the antagonistic hormone to
parathyroid hormone? A. seed development
A. Adrenocorticotrophic hormone B. dormancy
B. Calcitonin C. pollination
D. germination
C. Thymosin
D. T4 11. Which one of the following is a precursor
of plant growth hormone Ethylene?
6. What is the function of the hormone thy- A. Tryptophan
roxine?
B. IAA
A. Controls metabolic rate and brings C. Pyrophosphate
about balanced growth
D. Methionine
B. controls glucose level of the blood
12. Which of the following can activate a pro-
C. prepares body for emergency
tein by transferring a phosphate group to
D. controls growth and development of it?
male reproductive system A. cAMP
7. targets the brain and make people sleepy B. G Protein
when its dark C. protein kinase
A. melanin D. protein phosphatase
B. melanoma 13. Endocrine glands secrete
C. melatonin A. Hormones
D. melons B. Neurotransmitters
C. A wide range of chemical substances
8. This hormone is released from the thyroid
to stimulate the removal of calcium from D. none of above
the bone; balances the calcium levels in
14. This tissue produces new cells it increase
blood when it is too high.
plant length
A. Calcitonin A. ground tissues
B. PTH B. meristematic tissues
C. Melatonin C. vascular tissues
D. Cortisol D. none of above

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15. which one is conserved amino acid in gas- 21. The hormone auxin has what effect on
trin and CCK? plant cells in the shoot tips of plants?
A. Pentagastrin A. Makes them grow longer
B. Octagastrin B. Prevents them from growing
C. Heptagastrin C. Makes them move to the dark side
D. trigastrin D. Negative phototropism
22. Insulin causes
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16. Which hormone below is not associated
with breastfeeding? A. a decrease in the concentration of
A. Follicle stimulating hormone blood glucose
B. Oxytocin B. a decrease in the permeability of cell
membranes to glucose
C. Progesterone
C. an increase in the production of glu-
D. Prolactin cose from glycogen
17. Sun Flowers are called Sun trackers Why? D. none of these is correct
A. Gravitropism 23. What hormones do Ovaries make?
B. Phototropism A. Testosterone
C. Thigmotropism B. Oestrogen and Progesterone
D. Heliotropism C. Thyroxine
18. What are feed additives used for D. Adrenalin
A. contamination 24. The pigments involved in the flowering

process (and other developmental events
B. Improve & Stimulate animal perfor-
in plants) are
mance
A. Chlorophyll
C. Whole course meal
B. Phytochromes
D. Prevent bloating
C. Anthocyanin
19. Any change in an organism’s environment D. Photoperiodism
thatcauses a response is called
A. Photosynthesis 25. A hormone antagonist is one that has the
opposite function. The hormone antago-
B. cellular respiration nist of insulin is
C. Stimuli A. glucagon
D. Tropism B. gastrin
20. The root of a plant growing down. C. secretin
A. Positive Gravitropism D. calcitonin
B. Negative Gravitropism 26. Which hormone helps in stem growth?
C. Thigmotropism A. Abscisic acid
D. Hydrotropism B. Cytokinin

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C. Jibber Lynn 32. A plant’s response to changes in the length

of day and night is called
D. Estrogen

A. thigmotropism.
27. Which plant hormone is heavily involved in B. phototropism.
cell division and metabolism?
C. gravitropism.
A. auxin
D. photoperiodism.
B. cytokinin
33. To increase the production of this hormone,
C. gibberellin you need to be more among those people
D. ethylene whom you love and respect, hug
A. Serotonin
28. What hormones increase the rate of cell di-
vision and cell elongation? B. Oxytocin
A. ethylene C. Dopamine
D. Cortisol
B. gibberellins
C. cytokinins 34. Where are cytokinins produced?
D. none of the above A. leaves

B. stems
29. The main elements of the endocrine system
C. root tips
are
D. flowers
A. The glands, hormones, and cell recep-
tors 35. The adrenal glands release adrenaline to
B. The glands, nerves, and blood vessels help the body regulate
A. diseases
C. The blood, tissue, and brain B. body temperature.
D. The hormones, blood, and brain C. stress.
D. hormones.
30. The body regards this as foreign:
36. The normal human body temperature is
A. antibody
A. 35 ◦ C
B. antigen
B. 37 ◦ C
C. T-Cells
C. 34 ◦ C
D. Cytotoxic T-Cells
D. 40 ◦ C
31. When the plant responds to gravtiy 37. Auxins are responsible for of a plant
A. Phototropism A. Colour change
B. Thigmotropism B. Watering
C. Gravitropism C. Phototropism
D. Hydrotropism D. Growth

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38. Too low insulin can cause? C. Controls blood volume

A. Type 1 diabetes D. Controls red blood cell production
B. Type 2 diabetes 44. An endocrine gland that controls many
C. Type 3 diabetes body activities.
D. none of above A. hormone
B. pituitary gland
39. A disease in which the body’s ability to
C. hypothalamus
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produce or respond to the hormone insulin
is impaired, causing an increase in blood D. homeostasis
sugar 45. Breaks seed dormancy and promotes
A. diabetes growth
B. ulcers A. abscisic acid
C. asthma B. giberellins
D. bronchitis C. cytokinins
D. all of the above
40. The response to stress is called
46. High body temperature in humans is regu-
A. Stay or Stray Response
lated by all these except
B. Fight or Stay Response
A. sweating
C. Flee or Stray Response
B. falling of skin hairs
D. Fight or Flight Response C. vasodilation
41. Plant that doesn’t require a specific pho- D. vasoconstriction
toperiod and can begin the flowering pro-
47. Helps fruit ripen
cess over a range of night lengths (ex.
African violet). A. Auxin
A. short day plant B. Gibberellin
B. day neutral plant C. Cytokinins

D. Ethene
C. long day plant
D. stomata 48. Which one inhibit the acid secretion
A. Gastrin
42. A hormone is a chemical substance pro-
duced by B. Histamine
C. Acetylcholine
A. A gland
D. Somatostatin
B. The liver
C. A target organ 49. What happens if needle is removed too
fast during implants
D. The blood
A. Hormone pellets may be crushed
43. What does insulin do? B. Animal can die
A. Control blood sugar levels C. Animal can have a seizure
B. Controls blood pressure D. All of above

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50. When the plant responds to water C. Estrogen

A. Phototropism D. Oxytocin

B. Gravitropism 56. which plant hormone produces opposite ef-
C. Hydrotropism fects?
D. Thigmotropism A. dormancy and cotyledons
B. dormancy and germination
51. A plants directional response to touch is
called which of the following? C. auxin and cytokins
A. Phototropism D. auxins and ethylene
B. Thigmotropism 57. Take a guess! In what period did flowering
C. Gravitropism plants first appear?
D. None of these A. Cretaceous period
B. Jurassic period
52. Negative gravitropism is exhibited in ,
because there is more auxin on side of C. Triassic period
a shoot. D. Permian period
A. shoots, shaded 58. Which hormone stimulates stem growth,
B. shoots, light cell elongation and cell division.
C. roots, shaded A. Gibberellin
D. roots, light B. Abscisic Acid
C. Auxin
53. The two types of feedback systems that
help organisms maintain homeostasis are: D. Ethylene
A. positive and negative 59. Hormones that influence stem elongation
B. receptor and effector A. Cytokinins
C. static and dynamic B. Ethylene
D. minor and major C. Gibberellins
D. none of above
54. What term refers to a plant growing or
moving away from a stimulus? 60. Feed additives and hormone implants are
A. Touch regulated by
B. Tropism A. FDA
C. Dormancy B. USDA
D. Development C. EPA
D. FTC
55. Released from the pituitary, this hor-
mone stimulates uterine contractions dur- 61. Which plant hormone encourages side
ing birth. branch formation
A. Prolactin A. Auxin
B. Steroids B. Cytokinin

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C. Gibberellin 67. A growth movement away from a stimulus

is called
D. Ethylene
A. positive tropism
62. If you wanted to genetically engineer a B. positive phototropism
plant to be more resistant to drought, in-
creasing amounts of which of the following C. negative tropism
hormones might be a good first attempt? D. none of above
A. abscisic acid
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68. Which disorder is caused by bacteria?
B. brassinosteroids A. Common cold
C. gibberellins B. AIDS
D. cytokinins C. Strep throat
D. Heart disease
63. A small injected dose of a pathogen that
stimulates the production of antibodies is: 69. Where is the thyroid located?
A. histamine A. in the neck
B. interferon B. in the throat
C. pathogen C. in the chest
D. vaccine D. in the brain
64. Which gland secretes aldosterone? 70. targets osteoclasts (bone destroying cells)
so that they release calcium from bones
A. Adrenal cortex when calcium levels are low
B. Adrenal medulla A. calcitonin
C. Anterior pituitary B. parathyroid hormone
D. Posterior pituitary C. osteoclast hormone
D. ADH
65. Roots growing away from sunlight is an
example of 71. What is a coccidiostat?
A. negative phototropism A. Tapeworm
B. positive phototropism B. An injection
C. positive geotropism C. Controls coccidios in poultry
D. negative thigmotropism D. A parasite
72. Which plant growth hormone promotes

66. The “master gland” is known as the cell division?
A. thyroid gland. A. Auxin
B. adrenal gland. B. Cytokinin
C. pancreas. C. ABA
D. pituitary gland. D. Ethylene

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73. Ringworm is an example of which type of 79. Increases heart rate and breathing
infectious agent? rate;increases blood pressure

A. Bacteria A. adrenals
B. Virus B. thyroid
C. Fungi C. parathyroid
D. Protozoa D. pancreas
74. What plant hormone helps fruit ripen? 80. What is the half life of glucagon
A. ethylene A. 1 hr
B. 2 hr
B. gibberellins
C. 30 min
C. cytokinins
D. 6 min
81. Which hormone is responsible for the let-
75. A plant growing in response to the sun- down reflex in breastfeeding women?
light.
A. Oxytocin
A. Gravitropism
B. Progesterone
B. Phototropism
C. Prolactin
C. Thigmotropism
D. Thymosin
D. Hydrotropism
82. Which of the following seedlings will prob-
76. Which plant hormone help in Stomata Clos- ably bend toward the light?
ing? A. one whose tip is covered with a black
A. Auxin plastic cap
B. Ethylene B. one whose tip is separated from its
base by aluminum foil
C. Cytokinin
C. one whose tip is separated from its
D. ABA base by a gelatin block
77. where are hormone produced? D. one whose tip is cut off
A. liver 83. Chemical product of an Endocrine Gland.
B. brain A. Homeostasis
C. glands B. Hormone
D. neurons C. mitosis
78. This plant hormones is responsible for D. meiosis

maintaining seed dormancy. 84. While implanting be careful to avoid
A. Abscisic Acid (ABA) A. Veins
B. Gibberellins B. Muscles
C. Auxin C. Skin
D. Cytoninins D. Animal

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85. Which one of these hormones does NOT C. B-995

stimulate plant growth? D. AMO-1618
A. Ethylene
91. which is the cause of diabetes type 2?
B. Gibberellins
A. no production of insulin
C. Auxins
B. autoimmune disease
D. Cytokinins
C. cells are not responsive to insulin
86. Which hormone is released due to a hor-
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D. too much adrenaline
monal stimulus?
A. Insulin 92. Which is not a requirement for germination
of a seed?
B. Glucagon
A. Favorable Temperature
C. Thymosin
B. light
D. Thyroid hormone
C. fertilizer
87. Deciduous trees, such as those that lose D. sufficient moisture
their leaves in autumn, are a result due to
the subjection of which type of plant hor- 93. Gravitropism and are the same thing.
mone? A. Geotropism
A. Ethylene B. Phototropism
B. Ethylene gas C. Thigmotropism
C. Auxins D. Triangular Prism
D. Gibberellins
94. This refers to the type of immunity devel-
88. A type of plant will grow tendrils and wind oped from exposure to a pathogen:
round a support. Name this type of reac- A. active acquired immunity
tion.
B. passive acquired immunity
A. Gravitropism.
C. innate immunity
B. Thigmotropism.
D. attenuated immunity
C. Reflex action.
D. Phototropism. 95. This substance plays a role in regulating
circadian rhythms (sleep patterns), and is
89. Stored food reserves in a seed produced by the pineal body.
A. endosperm A. Benadryl
B. embryo B. Melatonin
C. radicle C. Melanin
D. seed coat D. Ambien
90. Which one of the following is an Anti- 96. Which one of the following is a Precursor
auxin? of Auxin?
A. TIBA A. Tryptophan
B. Phosphon-D B. Kaurene

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C. Zeatin 102. Causes fruits to ripen

D. Methionine A. Ethylene

B. Auxin
97. If we bred a plant that had an increase
C. Gibberellin
amount of gibberellins, what would we ex-
pect to see? D. Cytokinin
A. A bigger plant with more fruits 103. is a technique to produce seedless
fruits.
B. A plant whose fruits go ripe quickly
A. Tissue culture
C. A plant whose stomatas stay closed
B. Parthenorcarpy
D. A short plant without fruits
C. Cloning
98. Infer:Hydrotropism is D. Genetic engineering
A. The plant response to water 104. Which gland secretes estrogen?
B. The plant response to light A. Anterior pituitary
C. The plant response to gravity B. Adrenal medulla
C. Ovaries
D. The plant response to soil
D. Pineal
99. Which of the following is not a character-
105. Which plant hormone is present in
istics of hormone?
gaseous state?
A. It can works on more than one target A. auxin
organ.
B. gibberellin
B. It is protein in nature.
C. ethylene
C. It is transported via the blood stream D. cytokinin
D. It has only a long term effect on the
106. This hormone promotes plant cell divi-
biological system.
sion
100. Which gland secretes insulin? A. auxins
A. Anterior pituitary B. cytokines
C. ethylene
B. Posterior pituitary
D. Abscisic acid
C. Pancreas
107. Which is route taken by a nerve im-
D. Thyroid
pulse?
101. Which hormone is released when A. receptor > synapse > sensory nerve
blood/calcium levels rise? > CNS etc
A. Calcitonin B. synapse > receptor > CNS > motor
nerve etc
B. Follicle stimulating
C. receptor > motor nerve > relay nerve
C. Parathyroid hormone > sensory nerve > effector
D. Prolactin D. PNS > CNS > PNS > CNS

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108. You have low levels of this hormone if 114. Which type of gland secretes its hor-
you often doubt yourself mones directly into the blood stream?
A. Serotonin A. Exocrine
B. Oxytocin B. Endocrine
C. Dopamine C. Epicrine
D. Cortisol D. Expocrine
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109. Where is auxin formed 115. Which statement about Testosterone is
false?
A. Tip of stem and root
A. It can make people aggressive
B. Leaves
B. It is only produced in the testes
C. Embryo
C. It causes primary & secondary sexual
D. All characteristics in males
110. Ethylene D. It causes female hyenas to be domi-

nant over males
A. ripening of fruit
116. What are functions of gibberellin
B. Closing of stomata
A. Internode elongation
C. delaying the aging in leaves
B. Cell division
D. Opening of stomata
C. Seed germination
111. Photoreceptors that regulate many of a D. All
plant’s responses to light throughout its
life are 117. If a plant gets light from only one direc-
tion the shoots will
A. Chlorophyll
A. grow straight up
B. Phytochromes
B. grow down
C. Ethylene
C. grow toward the light source
D. Florigen
D. grow faster
112. Gastrin stimulates the secretion of
118. This hormone is actively produced in the
A. Acid body at the moment when a person expe-
B. carboxypeptidase riences love, trust, tenderness, gratitude
C. trypsin A. Serotonin
D. chymotrypsin B. Oxytocin
C. Dopamine
113. Thigmotropism is a plant’s response to
D. Cortisol
A. light.
119. The growth hormone that is used to
B. hormone.
speed up the ripening of fruits for export
C. touch. is
D. gravity. A. giberellin.

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B. ethylene. 125. Ductless gland that secretes one or more

C. cytokinin. hormones into the bloodstream.

D. auxin. A. endocrine system
120. Sunflowers seem to follow the path of B. exocrine system

the sun as it travels across the sky during C. adrenal glands
the day. Plants bending toward or follow-
ing light is a response called D. endocrine gland
A. hydrotropism
126. The movement of Euglena sp and Volvox
B. photosynthesis sp. towards moderate light itensity is a
C. phototropism type of reaction to an external stimulus.
What is the reaction?
D. thigmotropism
A. Photonasty.
121. Parathyroid hormone is secreted due to a
stimulus? B. Phototaxis.
A. Hormonal C. Thermonasty.
B. Humoral D. Phototropism.
C. Neural
D. none of above 127. Identify the hormone that controls
growth near the tips of shoots and roots
122. Dormancy refers to
A. Gibberellin
A. The growth of dwarf plants
B. Auxin
B. Buds developing in winter which
causes seed to grow longer C. Ethene
C. Buds that stop developing in winter D. Thyroxine
which causes seeds not to grow
D. The reduced growth of dwarf plants 128. A is the movement of plant in re-
sponse to an environmental stimulus
123. What type of tropism is involved when a
plant responds to touch? A. tropism
A. phototropism B. reaction
B. gravitropism C. response
C. thigmotropism D. none of above
129. Up to 90 percent of this hormone is pro-
124. Which of these will cause a fruit to ripen duced in the intestine
quickly?
A. Serotonin
A. Auxin gas
B. Ethylene gas B. Oxytocin
C. Abscisic gas C. Dopamine

D. Gibberellin gas D. Cortisol

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130. which of these occurs to the action of 135. Most plants produce flowers when
auxin? A. the nights are the right length
A. flow of hydrogen ions out of the cell B. the days are the right length
wall into the cytoplasm.
C. a certain number of days have passed
B. movement of water through the stom- since they last flowered
ata
D. the soil reaches a certain temperature
C. flow of hydrogen ions from the cyto-
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plasm into the cell wall. 136. What hormone speeds up the rate at
which a plant’s cells grow?
D. division of cell du to the internal pres-
sure of water A. hormone
B. auxin
131. Which of the following is an example of
thigmotropism? C. darknessium
D. visuals
A. vines wrapping around a tree
B. trees growing near a lake 137. If you cut the top off a shoot the plant
will
C. roots growing into the earth
A. Die
D. sunflowers following the sun
B. Not grow
132. What is the greatest return of diseases C. Grow straight up
common in
D. Grow towards the light
A. birds
138. Response to light in which plant stems
B. poultry bend toward a light source
C. cattle A. gravitropism
D. Young pigs B. phototropism
133. How many polypeptide chains are there C. negative gravitropism
in functional insulin D. negative phototropism
A. 1 139. Poison Ivy growing on a tree by touch.
B. 2 A. Gravitropism
C. 3 B. Phototropism
D. 4 C. Thigmotropism
134. Giberellins are produced by germinating D. Hydrotropism

seeds and young stems. As such they have 140. Which type of plant hormone causes fruit
an important role in to ripen?
A. The plants dying A. gibberelins
B. Flowering B. ethylene
C. Making sure seeds do not germinate C. cytokinins
D. Breaking seed dormancy D. auxins

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141. Phototropism is phenomenon when 147. Which hormone is known as the fight or
flight hormone?
A. The plant response to water

A. Adrenaline
B. The plant response to light
B. Glucagon
C. The plant response to gravity
C. Insulin
D. The plant response to soil
D. Glycogen
142. This gas causes fruits to ripen
148. An organism that enters a life form and
A. carbon dioxide causes disease or sickness is a/an:
B. oxygen A. macrophage
C. ethylene B. pathogen
D. nitrogen C. vaccine
D. flu
143. The shoot of a plant growing up.
A. Positive Gravitropism 149. Which one here is a hormone?
B. Negative Gravitropism A. Glycogen
C. Thigmotropism B. Glycerol
C. Glucagon
D. Hydrotropism
D. Glucose
144. Closing of stomata-opening of stomata
150. Oxytocin is sometimes administered to
A. Abscisic acid-cytokinins women to
B. Cytokinins-abscisic acid A. stimulate milk production
C. Cytokinins-gibberellins B. stimulate uterine contractions
D. Gibberellins-Auxins C. stimulate uterine relaxation
145. How big is big gastrin (hint:Big-big, big, D. stimulate ACTH production
gastrin, gastrin-IV) 151. What hormone is responsible for the
A. 95 “fight or flight” response?
B. 34 A. Testosterone
C. 17 B. Cortisol
D. 14 C. Adrenaline
D. Parathyroid Hormone
146. What hormone is produced in the pan-
creas that lowers blood sugar? 152. What is the function of the endocrine sys-
tem?
A. Insulin
A. to filter and eliminate the waste from
B. Glucagon
the blood
C. Ketones
B. to secrete hormones into the blood-
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C. to provide structure and support for 158. One of the main functions of the is to
the body maintain homeostasis & release hormones
to the exterior pituitary
D. to defend the body against pathogens
A. Nervous system
153. what do receptors detect? B. Pituitary gland
A. impulses C. Hypothalamus
B. stimuli D. none of above
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C. synapses
159. Does the following apply to steroid hor-
D. neurons mones only, peptide hormones only, both
or none?”Enter the cell”.
154. What is a small opening in leaves that al-
A. steroid hormones
lows gases to pass in and out of a plant?
B. peptide hormones
A. cell plate
C. both
B. petiole
D. none
C. stomata
160. ABA, or Abscisic acid, would likely cause
D. trichome
which of the follow to occur?
155. If you break the tip of the stem off of a A. Closing of stomata
plant, what will not happen? B. Cell elongation
A. thigmotropism C. Tropisms
B. phototropism D. Fruit ripening
C. geotropism
161. antibodies
D. plant growth A. start a series of chemical reactions to
kill pathogens
156. what is the name of the regulation of our
internal conditions in response to the envi- B. produce antigens
ronment? C. alert phagocytes
A. homeostasis D. produce lymphocytes
B. homostasis 162. Apical dominance which suppresses lat-
C. Reflex action eral bud development is caused by what
hormone?
D. Reaction time
A. auxin
157. What determines whether a cell is a tar- B. gibberellin
get cell for a particular signal molecule?
C. ethylene
A. phosphorylation cascade
D. imbibition
B. cAMP
163. Under certain conditions, seeds need to
C. signal receptors
prevent growth of a new plant, for exam-
D. phosphatase ple, when there is a drought and a new

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plant would not survive. Which hormone C. Pancreas

is involved in making seeds dormant? D. none of above

A. Gibberellin
169. Flowers when exposed to less than 10-
B. Auxin 12 hours of darkness
C. Cytokinin A. Long day plants
D. ABA B. Short day plants
164. The plants growing high in the tree C. Day neutral plants
canopy send out roots. The roots are
D. Gibberellins
searching for water vapor in the humid
air of the forest. This response that helps 170. The process by which an organism’s inter-
aerial plants find water is called nal environment is kept stable in spite of
A. germination changes in the external environment.
B. hydrotropism A. Positive Feedback
C. phototropism B. Negative Feedback
D. thigmotropism C. Homeostasis
D. Targeted Cells
165. Which gland secretes testosterone?
A. Adrenal medulla 171. Substances that act as chemical messen-
gers within plants controlling functions
B. Anterior pituitary
A. Chemicals
C. Pineal
B. Plant Hormones
D. Testicles
C. Adrenaline
166. Animal should be to prevent head
D. Photosynthesis
movement
A. Hitted 172. Hormones are messengers
B. Head locked A. chemical
C. Put to sleep B. mechanical
D. Restrained C. kinetic
D. potential
167. Which of the following is a role of LH?
A. Stimulates ovulation 173. What produce antibodies?
B. Stimulates repair and maintenance of A. Helper T cells
endometrial lining B. Killer T-cells
C. Stimulates follicle development C. B Cells
D. Inhibits FSH D. Phagocytes
168. Where is insulin produced? 174. The endocrine system
A. Adrenal glands A. brings about changes in target regions
B. Thyroid gland

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B. sends chemical messengers in the 180. The master gland of the body, secret-
blood ing a large number of hormones that af-
C. relies on glands fect other glands, growth and develop-
ment. Housed within a bony cradle deep
D. all of the above within the skull.
175. Which hormone speeds up the rate at A. Thymus
which a plant grows? B. Pineal
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A. photo C. Thyroid
B. auxin D. Pituitary
C. darkness 181. What type of tropism is involved when
D. sunlight stems grow away from gravity?
A. phototropism
176. Which of the following is a plant hor-
mone? B. gravitropism
A. Insulin C. thigmotropism
B. Thyroxine
C. Estrogen 182. There are main hormone-producing
glands in the body.
D. Cytokinin
A. 7
177. What hormone is known as the ripening B. 16
hormone?
C. 10
A. auxin
D. 8
B. ethylene
183. Diabetes is a disease triggered by hor-
C. cytokinins
mone imbalance, occurring when
D. gibberellins
A. Adrenaline levels are imbalanced
178. A is something that evokes a re- B. The liver secretes too much insulin
sponse. C. There is too much insulin in the blood
A. stimulus D. The pancreas secretes too little insulin
B. response
184. Which of these neurons carries the im-
C. tropism pulse from the CNS to the effector?
D. none of above A. Motor Neuron
B. Sensory Neuron
179. is a plant’s response to the number
of hours of darkness in its environment. C. Effector Neuron
A. plant hormones D. Relay neuron
B. tropism 185. Where in a plant is auxin produced?
C. night A. In flowers
D. photoperiodism B. In dormant seeds

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C. In root tips 191. A sensory neurone

D. In all cells A. sends messages from the CNS

B. senses stimuli
186. Which of the following is not a human
hormone? C. sends messages to the CNS
D. carries nerve impulses all over the
A. Serotonin
body
B. Adrenalin
192. Feed Additives are not usually consid-
C. LH ered
D. Pituitary A. Healthy snack
B. Medication
187. A period of a plant when is does NOT
grow C. Nutrients
A. spore D. Antibiotics
B. stamen 193. The disease fighting protein produced by

the body in response to a specific antigen:
C. nutrient
A. antigen
D. dormancy
B. neutrophil
188. Which hormone is responsible for the C. antibody
maturation of the immune system? D. monocyte
A. Aldosterone
194. Hormones are eventually removed from
B. Calcitonin the blood and destroyed by which organ?
C. Thyroid stimulating hormone A. Kidneys
D. Thymosin B. Liver
C. Brain
189. What is the function of the hormone in-
sulin? D. White blood cells
A. Controls metabolic rate and brings 195. pg. 121 (key concept) The amount
about balanced growth of darkness a plant receives determiners
what in many plants?
B. controls glucose level of the blood
A. time of flowering
C. prepares body for emergency
B. time of reproducing
D. controls growth and development of
C. time of eating
male reproductive system
D. time of wilting
190. What does thyroxin do?
196. What is function of abscisic acid
A. Controls appetite A. Stops cell division
B. Controls rate of metabolic processes B. Closes stomata
C. Controls heart and blood pressure C. Increases senescence
D. Controls sleep patterns D. All

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197. Which gland secretes thymosin? 202. In what animal species is Terramycin med-
ication used in
A. Anterior pituitary
A. Pigs
B. Adrenal cortex
B. Goats
C. Thymus
C. Cow
D. Thyroid
D. Poultry
198. Which of the following is a long-day
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203. Plant hormones act by affecting the activ-
plant? ities of
A. lettuce A. Enzymes
B. chrysanthemum B. Genes
C. corn C. Membranes
D. tomato D. Enzymes, genes, and membranes
199. In the story ‘Jack and the beanstalk’, 204. Which gland produces growth hormone?
Jack grew a beanstalk that grew way into A. Thyroid gland
the clouds. If I wanted to try and grow one B. Adrenal glands
myself, which plant hormone would I give
my beanstalk? C. Pituitary gland
A. Cytokinesis D. none of above
B. Ethylene 205. Effectors may be:

C. Auxins A. Glands
D. Gibberellins B. Muscles
C. Glands & muscles
200. When a plant responds to gravity it is D. Glands, muscles & many other types of
called: tissue
A. Phototropism
206. A cytokinin like substance isolated from
B. Thigmotropism milky endosperm of Zea mays is known as
C. Geotropism (Gravitropism) A. Auxin
D. Hydrotropism B. Nucellus
C. Zeatin
201. If a long-day plant has a critical night
length of 9 hours, which 24-hour cycle D. ABA
would prevent flowering?
207. Which hormones is secreted from the pan-
A. 16 hours light/8 hours dark creas?
B. 14 hours light/10 hours dark A. glucagon, progesterone
C. 15.5 hours light/8.5 hours dark B. oestrogen, progesterone
D. 4 hours light/8 hours dark/4 hours C. oestrogen, insulin

light/8 hours dark D. insulin, glucagon

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208. Which row shows the effects of increased C. Thigmotropism

adrenaline release? breathing rate » pulse D. Hydrotropism
rate » pupil

A. decreases »increases »widens 214. Does the following apply to steroid hor-
mones only, peptide hormones only, both
B. increases » decreases » widens
or none?”Hormone-receptor complex trig-
C. increases » increases» narrows gers secondary messengers”.
D. increases » increases» widens A. steroid hormones
209. When the root of a plant growing down, B. peptide hormones
it is a C. both
A. Positive geotropism D. none
B. Negative geotropism
215. Examples of dwarf plants where gib-
C. Thigmotropism berellins cause rapid growth are
D. Hydrotropism
A. Grapes, Cabbage, Corn
210. Which among the following is not a B. Deciduous trees
growth promoting hormone?
C. Bananas, Avocado
A. Auxin
D. Watermelon, Rockmelon, Honeydew
B. Gibberellin melon
C. Ethylene
216. What is Poloxalene (poloxiodine) used
D. Cytokinin for
211. A hormone that makes you work to- A. Prevent internal parasites
wards achieving your goals and increases B. Prevent bloating in beef cattle
the pleasure of the result
C. Prevent soreness in throat
A. Serotonin
D. Prevent parasites
B. Oxytocin
C. Dopamine 217. These are chemicals that carry a nerve im-
pulse across the gap at the synapse of a
D. Cortisol
neuron to another neuron
212. Which of the following glands does NOT A. enzymes
belong to the endocrine system?
B. stimuli
A. Pituitary
C. hormones
B. Thyroid
D. neurotransmitters
C. Testes
D. Salivary 218. Venus Flytrap flower reacts to a bug.
A. Nastic Movement
213. Roots of a tree growing towards the wa-
ter line of a house. B. Negative Gravitropism
A. Gravitropism C. Thigmotropism
B. Phototropism D. Hydrotropism

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219. When the plant responds to touch 224. Ethylene gas is used on supermarket pro-
duce. This is because the hormone:
A. Phototropism
A. Does not affect ripening of fruit
B. Thigmotropism
B. Has no effect on plants
C. Gravitropism
C. Promotes root growth
D. Hydrotropism D. Promotes ripening of fruit
220. Do the levels of FSH and progesterone 225. Which hormone promotes seed germina-
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increase or remain low during the first 5 tion?
days of the menstrual cycle? A. abscisic acid
A. Progesterone remains low but FSH in- B. ethylene
creases C. gibberellin
B. Progesterone and FSH both remain D. auxin
low
226. What is the male gland that secretes
C. Progesterone increases but FSH re- testosterone?
mains low
A. Ovaries
D. Progesterone and FSH both increase
B. Pituitary
221. What is the definition of a NERVE C. Testes
A. a single specialised cell that carries D. Adrenal glands
electrical impulses to the brain 227. Which gland secretes oxytocin?
B. a cell that detects a stimulus A. Adrenal cortex
C. a cell that carries chemical impulses B. Anterior pituitary
D. A bundle of specialised cells that carry C. Pineal
electrical impulses D. Posterior pituitary
222. Which of the following is not a stimulus 228. How does gibberellin increase the size of
that plants respond to? fruit?
A. Allows them to take in more water
A. touch
B. The plant synthesises sucrose more
B. light
C. The distance between each fruit is in-
C. wind creases
D. earth/gravity D. Increases phloem concentration to
transport more sugars to fruit.
223. The control of the internal environment in
the body is called: 229. Which term refers to the body’s use of
energy for energy and growth?
A. positive feedback loops
A. Excretion
B. Internal balance system B. Metabolism
C. homeostasis C. Digestion
D. hemeostatic D. Respiration

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230. How does a hormone imbalance lead to C. phagocytes

disease of dysfunction?
D. none of above

A. When a gland produces too much or
too little of an endocrine hormone . 236. Which of these is not a stimulus?
B. When a gland moves out of place A. getting stung by a bee
C. When a gland is unbalanced B. hearing someone’s voice
D. none of above
C. fainting on a hot day
231. A rapid, automatic response to a stimulus D. tasting an apple
is called a:
A. a reflect arc 237. Selective weedkillers cause which types
B. a reflex action of plant to grow too quickly?
C. a reflex response A. flowers

D. a motor nerve B. cereals
232. Leptin is secreted by C. broad-leafed plants
A. cells in the adipose tissue D. grasses

B. cells in the hypothalamus
238. Insulin and glucagon are produced by
C. cells in the pancreas
A. the liver
D. cells in the thyroid
B. the pancreas
233. Estrogen from the ovaries is secreted due
C. the kidneys
to a stimulus.
A. Hormonal D. none of above
B. Humoral 239. How do hormones travel from the glands

C. Neural where they are made to their target or-
D. none of above gans?
A. Bloodstream
234. Vasoconstriction is:
B. Nerves
A. the shortening of arterioles supplying
skin surface capillaries C. Bones
B. the widening of arterioles supplying D. none of above
skin surface capillaries
C. the narrowing of arterioles supplying 240. When creating seedless fruit, what type
skin surface capillaries of flowers are sprayed with ethylene
gas?
D. All of the above
A. pollinated
235. What triggers the production ofantibod-
ies B. unpollinated
A. an antigen C. older
B. an antibody D. small

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241. Delaying the aging of leaves-promoting 246. What is the function of the immune sys-
the aging of the leaves tem?
A. Cytokinins-Abscisic acid A. to produce hormones that regulate the
body’s activities
B. Abscisic acid-Cytokinins
B. to defend our body by attacking
C. Gibberellins-Auxins
pathogens
D. Auxins-Cytokinins
C. to help support and provide structure
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242. Gastrin is secreted at to the body
A. Buccal cavity D. to filter waste in the bloodstream
B. Esophagus 247. Growth movement of a plant towards

C. Intestine touch is called
D. Stomach A. thigmotropism
B. geotropism
243. For the endocrine system, The relatively
constant internal environment of the body C. phototropism
is maintained by D. none of above
A. negative feedback mechanism
248. which of the following is NOT regulated
B. positive feedback mechanism by homeostasis?
C. metabolism A. water
D. peripheral nervous system B. temperature
244. If the environment gets cold, we will of- C. sugar

ten shiver in order to: D. fat
A. keep body temperature the same as
249. Which hormone regulates water balance
the external temperature
by reducing the amount of water leaving
B. decrease body temperature the body
C. increase body temperature A. aldosterone
D. regulate blood pressure B. antidiuretic hormone
245. A hormone is C. growth hormone
A. a chemical substance produced by a D. thyroxine

gland and carried by the lymph.
250. Changes in an organisms environment
B. an enzyme produced by a gland and that cause a response
carried by the blood.
A. Tropism
C. a chemical substance produced by an
B. Hormone
organ and carried by the blood.
C. Stimuli
D. a chemical substance produced by a
gland and carried by the blood. D. Response

2.7 Hormones 361
251. stores calcium in bones when calcium lev- 257. A type of cell that “digests” pathogens
els are high is known as a/an:

A. parathyroid hormone A. helper T cell
B. calcitonin B. macrophage
C. calciumonus C. suppressor T cell
D. T3 and T4 D. plasma cell
252. Where are the adrenal glands located? 258. Which one of the following is a “Fruit
Ripening Hormone”?
A. One on each side of the larynx
A. Auxin
B. On top of the kidneys
B. ABA
C. Behind the orbital bone
C. Ethylene
D. The inner ear D. Polyamines
253. What cells in the body monitor blood glu- 259. Response to a stimulus in plants is called
cose?
A. Pancreatic Cells A. touch
B. Liver Cells B. gravity
C. Kidney Cells C. light
D. Bladder Cells D. tropism
254. Athlete’s foot is an example of this 260. What is the function of auxin
pathogen A. Cell division
A. Bacteria B. Apical dominance
B. Virus C. Root formation
C. Fungus D. All
D. Protozoan 261. A root tip grows in the direction of grav-
255. Which gland secretes prolactin? ity. This is referred to as
A. Negative gravitropism
A. Anterior pituitary
B. Positive gravitropism
B. Posterior pituitary
C. Negative phototropism
C. Thyroid
D. Positive phototropism
D. Pineal
262. Enzyme responsible for formation of acid
256. What does rooting hormone powder do? by combining water and carbon di oxide
A. encourages growth of flowers A. Amylase
B. encourages growth of stems B. galactosidase
C. inhibits growth of roots C. carbonic anhydrase
D. encourages growth of roots D. peptidyl transferase

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263. In order for a plant to initiate chemical 268. When the plant responds to light
responses to herbivory, A. Phototropism
A. the plant must be directly attacked by B. Gravitropism
an herbivore.
C. Thigmotropism
B. volatile “signal” compounds must be
D. Hydrotropism
perceived.
C. gene-for-gene recognition must occur 269. Released from the pituitary; this hor-
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mone helps to regulate the body’s water
balance
D. phytoalexins must be released.
A. TSH
264. Which hormone is associated with jet B. Oxytocin
lag?
C. Aldosterone
A. insulin
D. ADH
B. thyroxin
270. How does ethylene work?
C. melatonin
A. causes changes in fruit texture
D. leptin
B. causes changes in fruit colour
265. Why is auxin used as a rooting powder? C. causes enzymatic breakdown of cell
A. Increase fruit development walls
B. Provide greater intake of mineral ions D. all of the above
271. Which plant hormone is a gas?

C. Stimulate root growth from stem cut- A. auxin
tings
B. gibberellin
D. none of above
C. ethylene
266. The hormone released by the anterior pi- D. cytokinin
tuitary that stimulates the development of
sperm and egg 272. Geotropism is
A. luteinizing hormone A. The plant response to light
B. follicle stimulating hormone B. The plant response to water

C. The plant response to soil
C. thyroid hormone
D. The plant response to gravity
D. thymopoietin
273. Which hormone causes internodes to
267. How do hormones travel to target cells? lengthen?
A. Blood Stream A. Gibberelins
B. Ducts B. Etiolation
C. Secretory Vessicles C. Tropism
D. Goblet Cells D. Cytokins

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274. Which hormone allows plants to perform C. Gibberellins

phototropism?
D. none of above

A. cytokinins
B. ethylene 280. Which of the following does abscisic acid
NOT cause?
C. gibberellins
A. Closure of stomatas
D. auxins
B. Deeper root growth
275. “Chemical messengers of the body” best
C. Increased fruit size
describes
D. Seeds stay dormant
A. All organic chemicals
B. Cytokinins 281. In which of the following is the secretion
C. Glucose of insulin increased?
D. Hormones A. After having a meal

B. after taking a cold shower
276. What is released if glucose levels are too
low? C. during physical exercise
A. Insulin D. when a person is under stress
B. Glucagon
282. This hormone is necessary for a person
C. Amylase for mood, digestion, sleep, brain function
D. Pepsin A. Serotonin
277. In shoots auxin will cause which of the B. Oxytocin
following? C. Dopamine
A. Growth inhibition
D. Cortisol
B. Germination
C. Cell elongation 283. Which hormone helps the fruit to ripen?
D. Flowering A. Auxin
B. Gibberellin
278. Hormone related to the growth of the
plant in response to tropisms C. Cytokinins
A. Auxin D. Ethylene
B. Cytokinins
284. Does the following apply to steroid hor-
C. Ethene mones only, peptide hormones only, both
D. Absisic acid or none?”Forms a hormone-receptor com-
plex”.
279. Which of the following hormone pro- A. steroid hormones
motes the growth of lateral bud meris-
tem? B. peptide hormones
A. Auxins C. both
B. Cytokinins D. none

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285. Which hormone is involved in biological 291. A plants response to hours of darkness in
clock and seasonal activities? its environment
A. insulin A. Gravitropism
B. melatonin B. Thigmotropism
C. leptin C. Hydrotropism
D. thyroxin D. Photoperiodism
286. A plant hormone which promotes leaf de- 292. Hormones are used in signaling.
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tachment A. endocrine
A. Abscisic Acid B. juxtacrine
B. Cytokinesis C. autocrine
C. Auxin D. paracrine
D. none of above
293. The growth hormone affect all cells. The
287. Ketone bodies are formed by breakdown body part stimulates it’s release.
of
A. Parathyroid
A. Amino acid
B. Hypothalamus (Pituitary)
B. Fatty acid
C. Pancreas
C. Glucose
D. Thyroid
D. They are taken in food
294. Which plant hormone drives production
288. Gibberellin can be used for which of the of more proton pumps in the plasma mem-
following?? brane?
A. As a hormone in rooting powder A. ethylene
B. To induce flowering B. auxin
C. To stimulate ripening of fruit C. gibberellin
D. As a selective weedkiller D. cytokinin
289. Which hormone is responsible for target- 295. Structure of the Endocrine System which
ing the kidney tubules to absorb water? produces and releases hormones.
A. Adrenlaine A. Endocrine Glands
B. Aldosterone B. hormones
C. Antidiuretic hormone C. Homeostasis
D. Adrenocorticotrophic hormone D. Negative Feedback
290. What are the stimulus for gastrin secre- 296. Which list shows only receptor cells?
tion?
A. skin cells, brain cells, nerve cells
A. peptide and amino acid
B. hearing cells, seeing cells, tasting
B. distension cells
C. both of the above C. sound receptor cells, pressure recep-
D. none of the above tor cells

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D. mechano receptors, thermo receptors, C. Prolactin

paino receptors, gluteo receptors D. Thyroid hormone

297. What is a response that results in plant
303. What polysaccharide is the primary com-
growth toward or away from a stimulus?
ponent of plant cell walls?
A. hormones
A. Expansin
B. photoperiodism
B. Cellulose
C. tropism
C. Glycogen
D. stimuli
D. Endosperm
298. Promotes cell division and prevents
senescence (cell breakdown) 304. Auxin can be used artificially for which of
the following?
A. Gibberellin
A. As a selective weedkiller
B. Auxin
B. To induce flowering
C. Cytokinins
C. To stimulate dormancy
D. Ethylene
D. For growing larger fruit
299. how do hormones travel through the
body? 305. Where is an excess in blood glucose lev-
els detected?
A. neurons
A. pancreas
B. circulatory system
B. brain
C. electrical impulses
D. digestive system C. hypothalamus
D. pineal gland
300. Which gland secretes Calcitonin?
A. Adrenal cortex 306. What happens when you place an over
ripe banana in a fruit bowl with other
B. Adrenal medulla fruit?
C. Thyroid A. Nothing will happen
D. Parathyroid
B. The other fruit will grow in size
301. Which gland helps respond to stress and C. Ethylene gas will cause the fruit to
danger? grow mold
A. Thyroid D. Ethylene gas will cause the other fruit
B. Adrenal to ripen
C. Pancreas 307. Flowers when exposed to 12 or more
D. Parathyroid hours of darkness
A. Short day plants
302. Which hormone is antagonistic to in-
sulin? B. Long day plants
A. Calcitonin C. Day neutral
B. Glucagon D. Auxins

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308. Insufficient secretion of insulin causes 314. Which is an example of a nastic re-
sponse?
A. Diabetes millitus
A. Ivy twisting around another plant
B. Glycosauria
B. A stem bending towards a light source
C. Diabetes glucose
D. Lipemia C. A root growing downwards in the soil
D. A venus flytrap closing
309. Phototropism is
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A. The plant response to water 315. Shoots, stems, and leaves growing up
away from the earth is an example of
B. The plant response to light
A. negative geotropism
C. The plant response to gravity B. positive geotropism
D. The plant response to soil C. positive thigmotropism
310. Which one of these are a feed additive D. negative geotropism
A. Ibuprofen 316. The growth of shoots and roots is con-

trolled by a group of hormones called
B. Advil
A. auxins
C. Broad-spectrum antibiotics
B. ethylene
D. Nitro C. stimulus
311. The growth of a plant in response to light D. tropism
is called 317. Which is not a part of a signal transduc-
A. Phototropism tion pathway?
B. Hydrotropism A. response
C. Gravitropism B. transcription
C. transduction
D. Photosynthesis
D. receptor
312. Which gland secretes melatonin?
318. a disease by which people cannot control
A. Posterior Pitutiary sugar levels in the blood
B. Pineal A. hypertension
C. Thyroid B. sleep apnea
D. Adrenal medulla C. diabetes

D. hyperthyroidism
313. What is the plant’s growth toward or
away from light? 319. What hormone is important in making
roots and shoots?
A. hormones
A. cytokinins
B. phototropism B. auxins
C. tropism C. abscisic acid
D. stimuli D. ethylene

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320. Where are hormones produced (made) C. Dopamine

A. Glands D. Cortisol

B. Bloodstream
326. Specialized epithelial tissue that secretes
C. Target organs a product directly into a hollow organ or
D. none of above duct.
A. exocrine gland
321. Which hormone is responsible final body
size? B. thyroid gland
A. Adrenocorticotrophic hormone C. endocrine gland
B. Human growth hormone D. pineal gland
C. Thyroid hormone
327. The root of a plant growing down is be-
D. T3 cause of which tropism?
322. What is Homeostasis? A. Positive Gravitropism
A. is the maintenance of a constant inter- B. Negative Gravitropism
nal environment
C. Thigmotropism
B. is the maintenance of a constant exter-
nal environment D. Hydrotropism
C. is the maintenance of a constant living 328. Which hormone is not secreted due to a
environment humoral stimulus?
D. none of above A. Adrenocorticotrophic hormone
323. Which hormones are involved with regu- B. Aldosterone
lating the amount of sugar in the blood? C. Calcitonin
A. glucose & insulin
D. Parathyroid hormone
B. FSH & LH
C. pancreas & insulin 329. Where does thyroxin come from?
D. insulin & glucagon A. Thyroid gland

B. Ovary
324. What gland deals with regulating the
wake and sleep cycle? C. Brain
A. Thyroid D. Adrenal gland
B. Pineal Body
330. what is a synapse?
C. Adrenals
A. a section of the spinal cord
D. Pituitary
B. the gap between two neurons
325. This hormone is produced in stressful sit- C. the space where an electrical impulse
uation travels
A. Serotonin D. the gap between the brain and the
B. Oxytocin spinal cord

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331. What is the half life of insulin 337. Feed additives are used to improve
A. 1 hr A. attitude resistance
B. 2 hr B. muscle
C. 30 min C. Performance
D. 6 min D. growth
332. Plant cells respond to auxins with in- 338. If there is too much of this hormone in
the body, then a person may experience
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creased
insomnia, loss of muscle mass, or, con-
A. decay
versely, obesity
B. color
A. Serotonin
C. growth
B. Oxytocin
D. none of the above C. Dopamine
333. Which hormone directly affects the secre- D. Cortisol
tion of aldosterone?
339. Where are hormone destroyed after
A. Adrenaline use?
B. Adrenocorticotrophic hormone A. Kidney
C. Glucagon B. Liver
D. T3 C. Stomach
334. Piperizine and dichlorvos are what kind D. Pancreas
of control additives
340. Where is insulin made?
A. Worms
A. Pancreas
B. parasites B. Hypothalamus
C. blow fly C. Pineal gland
D. mites D. Thyroid gland
335. It is when a cell engulfs a solid particle to 341. Which of the following is called stress
form an internal compartment hormone?
A. Cytokine release A. Auxins
B. Inflammatory reaction B. Cytokinins
C. Phagocytosis C. Gibberellins
D. Apoptosis D. Abscisic Acid
336. The release of this hormone into the 342. what type of impulse travels through a
blood helps us wake up in the morning synapse?
A. Serotonin A. electrical
B. Oxytocin B. chemical
C. Dopamine C. hormonal
D. Cortisol D. chemical and electrical

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343. Hydrotropism is 349. Which of the following plant hormone

A. The plant response to water promotes apical dominance in plants?

B. The plant response to light A. Auxins
C. The plant response to gravity B. Cytokinins
D. The plant response to soil C. Gibberellins
344. Which one is NOT the effect of the re- D. Abcisic acid
lease of adrenaline on the heart rate, glu-
cose concentration and pupil 350. ripening of fruit
A. heart rate increased A. Ethylene-Ethylene
B. glucose concentration increased B. Abscisic acid
C. glucose concentration decreased C. Cytokinins-cytokinins
D. pupil dilates
D. Auxins
345. The response of an organism to seasonal
changes in day length is 351. This coordinates movements and balance
A. Short day plants A. cerebrum
B. Photosynthesis B. cerebellum
C. Photoperiodism C. thalamus
D. Evaporation D. hypothalamus
346. In which form is glucose stored in animal
cells? 352. Insulin is secreted by
A. glucagon A. alpha cells

B. glucose B. beta cells
C. starch C. delta cells
D. glycogen D. all of the above
347. What is abscisic acid?
353. Hormones are
A. a hormone that signals dehydration
A. tissues
B. a hormone that makes leaves close
their stomata to prevent water loss B. chemical messengers
C. a hormone made in chloroplasts C. cells that carry oxygen
D. all of the above D. molecules in the air
348. Which hormones are secreted from the 354. What is/are the phase of GI control?
pancreas?
A. Cephalic
A. glucagon & leptin
B. glucagon & melatonin B. Gastric
C. thyroxin & insulin C. Intestinal
D. insulin & glucagon D. All of the above

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355. which organ is NOT involved in the home- B. Auxin

ostasis (regulation) of Water content in
C. Cytokinin
our bodies?
D. Zeatin
A. kidney
B. skin 361. Which body system is more important?
C. heart A. The endocrine system
D. lungs B. The nervous system
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356. seed dormancy-breaking the dormancy in C. They are both vital
seeds and buds
D. They are both useful but not vital
A. Abscisic acid-Gibberellins
B. Gibberellins-Abscisic acid 362. targets bone and muscle to promote
growth and development
C. Cytokinins-Abscisic acid
D. Cytokinins-Auxins A. growth hormone
B. prolactin
357. The Pr form of the phytochrome pigment
has maximum absorption in the part of C. oxytocin
the spectrum. D. ADH (antidiuretic hormone)
A. Red
363. Which gland secretes adrenaline?
B. Blue and red
C. Far red A. Adrenal cortex
D. Blue B. Adrenal medulla

C. Anterior pituitary
358. The main function of the plant hormone
called abscisic acid is to D. Posterior pituitary
A. Promote growth of stem and roots
364. What are any changes in an organism’s
B. Increase the length of cells environment that cause a response?
C. Promote cell division A. hormones
D. Inhibit growth
B. photoperiodism
359. Vaccines are produced from killed or C. tropism
weakened
D. stimuli
A. phagocytes
B. pathogens 365. the nervous system allows humans to re-
act to their surroundings. Which word de-
C. helper T cells
scribes a change in the environment?
D. B cells
A. an effector
360. Which one of the following plant hor-
B. a neurone
mone produce extraordinary elongation of
stem? C. a stimulus
A. Gibberellins D. a sensor

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366. What hormone is secreted from the 372. Which hormone causes female related
ovaries? symptoms?

A. oestrogen A. Growth hormone
B. testosterone B. Estrogen
C. eggstrone C. Testosterone
D. ADH D. Insulin
367. The movement of a plant in response to 373. A factor that would not affect reaction
an environmental stimulus is called a time is:
A. hormone. A. Tiredness
B. receptor. B. Gender
C. tropism C. Age
D. cytokinin. D. Drug use
368. What is stimulus 374. Which one of the following is a Gaseous

plant Hormone?
A. External action
A. Auxin
B. External reaction
B. Ethylene
C. Internal action
C. Cytokinin
D. Internal reaction
D. ABA
369. What antibiotics is used to control
worms 375. How should the implant instrument be
put into the animal skin
A. Dichlorvos
A. Into the back of the animal leg
B. Penicillin
B. A little below the neck
C. Antihelmtics
C. Into the stomach
D. Poloxidine
D. Toward the head and parallel to the
370. Where are the body’s blood cells pro- ear
duced?
376. Hormones cause specific effects by
A. thymus
A. Flooding the entire body
B. Bone Marrow
B. Targeting specific parts of the brain
C. spleen
C. Targeting specific groups of cells in the
D. GALT body
371. is a response that results in plant D. Spreading through the nervous system
growth toward or away from a stimulus.
377. What is the function of the hormone
A. Weather adrenaline?
B. Stimuli A. Controls metabolic rate and brings
C. Gravity about balanced growth
D. Tropism B. controls glucose level of the blood

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C. prepares body for emergency 383. A plant’s response to touch-like stimuli.

D. controls growth and development of A. Gravitropism
male reproductive system B. Thigmotropism
378. The hormone responsible for the fight-or- C. Photoperiodism
flight response is produced by which or- D. none of above
gan?
384. Reverses the effects of the stimulus
A. Kidneys
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A. Hypothalmus
B. Adrenal Glands
B. Postive feedback loop
C. Testes
C. Pituitary Gland
D. Ovaries
D. Negative feedback loop
379. Which one here reduces the amount of
glucose in the blood? 385. What are types of receptors available in
GIT
A. Glucagon
A. Mechanoreceptor
B. Insulin
B. Osmoreceptor
C. Glycogen
C. Chemoreceptor
D. ADH
D. All of the above
380. Insulin has effect on metabolism of 386. Which hormone controls blood sugar lev-
A. Carbohydrate els?
B. Protein A. Thyroxine
C. Fat B. Estrogen
D. All of the above C. Insulin
D. Cytokinin
381. What do CNS & PNS stand for?
A. Central Nervous System & Permanent 387. Pollen tubes forming in the Style of the
Nervous System Carpel during fertilization. The pollen
grows towards glucose.
B. Cat’s Nervous System & Pig’s Nervous
System A. Gravitropism
C. Co-ordinating Nervous System & Per- B. Phototropism

manent Nervous System C. Thigmotropism
D. Central Nervous System & Peripheral D. Chemotropism
Nervous System
388. How are steroid hormones and peptide
382. Adrenaline is produced by the hormones similar?I. they travel in the
bloodII. they act on target cellsIII. their ef-
A. Brain
fects last for a shorter time than that of
B. Liver neurotransmitters
C. Kidney A. I and II only
D. Adrenal Gland B. I and III only

2.7 Hormones 373
C. II and III only 394. The hormones of the play a role in

regulating metabolism.
D. I, II and III
A. thymus gland

389. A person with an abnormally low B. parathyroid gland
metabolic rate, who is overweight and is
C. thyroid gland
lacking in energy
D. pineal gland
A. hypothyroidism
395. Which of the following is the skin?
B. hyperthyroidism
A. A Tissue
C. hypoparathyroidism
B. A Cell
D. hyperparathyroidism C. An Organ
D. An Organ system
390. What are the two arms of the immune
system? 396. What participate in gluconeogenesis
A. Active and Passive A. Glucose
B. Innate and Adaptive B. Amino acid
C. Anatomic and Physical C. Fatty acid

D. Vitamin A
D. Complement and Phagocytes
397. Which pathogen can be prevented with
391. The roots of a plant growing away from vaccines
touch is called A. Virus
A. positive hydrotropism B. Bacteria
B. positive geotropism C. Fungi
C. negative thigmotropism D. All of them
D. negative phototropism 398. What antibiotics should be used when a

disease is unknown
392. Which one is not a symptom of Type 1 A. Broad-spectrum
diabetes.
B. Piperizine
A. tired C. Aureomycin
B. feeling very thirsty D. Melengestrol
C. frequent urination 399. Which of the following is/are true of
D. weight gain peptide hormones?I. they require ATPII.
they trigger secondary messengers such
393. Which one is not part of the skin: as cAMPIII. they attach to receptors in the
cytoplasm
A. hair erector muscles
A. I only
B. receptors B. II only
C. cilia C. I and II only
D. blood vessels D. II and III only

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400. A shoot tip grows in the direction of the B. short-day plants

light. This is referred to as C. day-neutral plants
A. Positive gravitropism D. none of the above
B. Negative gravitropism
406. An endocrine gland that controls many
C. Positive phototropism
body activities and secretes growth hor-
D. Negative phototropism mone
A. hormone
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401. The endocrine system relies on the of
the circulatory system to deliver its’ mes- B. pituitary gland
sage to target cells in the body
C. hypothalamus
A. insulin
D. thyroid
B. axon
407. The hormone that causes calcium to be de-
C. blood
posited in bone is
D. terminal branches
A. calcitonin
402. The hormone released by the anterior pi- B. parathyroid hormone
tuitary that promotes lactation
C. thyroxine
A. prolactin
D. insulin
B. oxytocin
C. luteinizing hormone 408. Does the following apply to steroid hor-
D. follicle-stimulating hormone or none?”Attaches to a receptor in the cy-
403. The ripening of fruit and the dropping of toplasm”.
leaves and fruit are principally controlled A. steroid hormones
by B. peptide hormones
A. auxins. C. both
B. cytokinins. D. none
C. indole acetic acid
409. Which hormone is released due to a neu-
D. ethylene.
ral stimulus?
404. What gland secretes the hormones corti- A. Antidiuretic hormone
costeroids and adrenaline?
B. Epinephrine
A. Adrenals
C. Follicle stimulating hormone
B. Parathyroids
D. Melatonin
C. Pineal Body
410. What hormone helps fruit to ripen?
D. Thyroid
A. Auxin
405. Plants that flower when exposed to less
than 10 to 12 hours of darkness are called B. Gibberellin
C. Cytokinins
A. long-day plants D. Ethylene

2.7 Hormones 375
411. what does endocrine mean? C. Produced by pancreas; act at ileum

A. Secretes outside the body D. Produced by pancreas; act at liver

B. Hormones
417. The hormone responsible for the ripe
C. Secretes inside and outside the body fruits and flowers falling of the plant is
D. Secretes inside the body A. Auxin
412. What is senescence B. Cytokinin
A. Ageing C. Abscisic acid
B. Getting old D. ethylene
C. Both
418. Phototropism is a tendency of a plant to
D. None
413. Part of the brain that links the nervous A. Grow towards light
system and the endocrine system.
B. Grow towards water
A. Pancreas
C. Grow towards nutrients
B. Hypothalamus
D. none of above
C. renal glands
D. Enbryo 419. Can a seed grow if it were in space?
A. Yes
414. Fall of mature leaves and fruits from the
plant is triggered by B. No-there is no geotropic affect
A. Auxin C. Yes-it will grow towards the sun (pho-
B. Gibberellin totropism)
C. Abscisic acid D. No-there is no thigmatropic affect
D. Cytokinin 420. The time when a seed sprouts when its
need for water, air, and warmth is met
415. What will happen after a meal with high
starch content? A. pollination
A. More insulin will be secreted into B. germinate
blood stream
C. dormancy
B. more insulin will be released into small
D. pistil
intestine
C. more glucagon will be released into 421. What is the function of the hormone
bloodstream testosterone?
D. more glucagon will be released into A. Controls metabolic rate and brings
small intestine about balanced growth
416. Where is the hormone insulin produced B. controls glucose level of the blood
and where does it act? C. prepares body for emergency
A. Produced by gall bladder; act at ileum D. controls growth and development of
B. Produced by gall bladder; act at liver male reproductive system

2.7 Hormones 376
422. My tomato seed wont grow. Which hor- C. Absisic Acid

mones can I use to make it start grow- D. Cytokinins
ing?Auxins
428. which line of defense:RED BLOOD CELLS
A. Cytokinins
A. 1st
B. Ethylene
B. 2nd
C. Abscisic acid
C. 3rd
D. Gibberellins
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D. Not a line of defense
423. A seed can move by wind, water, and 429. This plant hormone is water soluble.
A. Abscisic Acid (ABA)
A. clouds
B. Gibberellins
B. singing
C. Auxin
C. cars
D. Cytokinins
D. animals
430. Chemical messengers that are produced
424. The root of a plant grows towards the in the plant and control growth.
earth, because of which tropism? A. Hormones
A. Positive Geotropism B. Tropisms
B. Negative Geotropism C. Compounds
C. Thigmotropism D. Sugars
D. Hydrotropism 431. The gaseous hormone which helps in
ripening of fruits is
425. During water deficiency and drought the
concentration of increases. A. Auxin
A. Auxins B. Gibberellin
B. Cytokinins C. Ethylene
D. none of these
C. Gibberellins
D. Abscisic acid 432. A biological cycle with a period of about
24 hours is called
426. A plant hormone that prevents seeds A. Circadian rhythm
from sprouting too soon
B. Abscission
A. Cytokinin
C. Photoperiod
B. Abscisic Acid
D. Thigmotropism
C. Long-day plants
433. What are stomata?
D. Day-Neutral Plants
A. Ripened fruit cells
427. Hormone that can keep cut flowers fresh B. Openings at the bottom of leafs
for longer
C. The tips of the roots
A. Auxin D. The part of the flower that becomes
B. Ethylene the fruit

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434. What is glucagon’s major role in the B. Gibberellins

body?
C. Cytokinins

A. to raise blood glucose concentration
D. Auxins
B. to lower blood glucose concentration
C. to receive signals from the pituitary 440. When the plant responds to gravity, it is
called ?
D. none of above
A. Phototropism
435. Gravitropism is the
B. Thigmotropism
A. growth of a plant in response to light
C. Gravitropism
B. growth of a plant in response to touch
D. Hydrotropism
C. growth of a plant in response to water 441. Which of the following is a response to

light?
D. growth of a plant in response to grav- A. Hydrotropism
ity
B. Gravitropism
436. Where are auxins made?
C. Phototropism
A. roots
D. Germination
B. stem tips
C. leaves 442. Which of the following plant hormones in-
hibit(s) growth?
D. flowers
A. Gibberellin
437. what cell in your body detects changes in
B. Auxin
the environment?
C. Abscisic acid
A. effector
B. motor neuron D. Cytokinin
C. receptor 443. What is the main rule in mixing feed

D. pancreas A. serve in small amounts
438. Does the following apply to steroid hor- B. serve in large amounts
C. Read & Follows labels
or none?”Made by conversion of choles-
terol”. D. mix nutrients
A. steroid hormones 444. Which of these is an example of a nastic
B. peptide hormones response?
C. both A. Ivy twisting around another plant
D. none B. A stem bending towards a light source
439. This plant hormone is responsible for de-
laying leaf old age. C. A root growing downwards in the soil
A. Abscisic Acid(ABA) D. A venus flytrap closing

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445. which line of defense:SKIN 451. What is the hormone responsible for
A. 1st male-related symptoms?
A. Testosterone
B. 2nd
B. Insulin
C. 3rd
C. Adrenaline
D. Not a line of defense
D. Estrogen
446. Leaf dropping is also called
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452. Which of the following hormones is/are
A. Leaf abscission
involved in the germination of seeds?
B. Photosynthesis A. Cytokinin
C. Flowering B. Ethene
D. Dormancy C. Gibberellin
447. Which of the following is a short-day D. All of these
plant?
453. When a seed is planted, what causes the
A. poinsettia roots to grow into the earth?
B. cucumber A. hydrotropism
C. tomato B. thigmotropism
D. iris C. phototropism
448. What are the effectors after getting stim- D. geotropism
ulates by hormones?
454. Roots growing down into the earth is an
A. Muscle in the GIt walls example of
B. secretion of the exocrine glands A. phototropism
C. Both of the above B. geotropism
D. None of the above C. thigmotropism
D. none of above
449. Which plant hormone helps elongate the
stem between nodes? 455. Where is the pancreas located?
A. cytokinins A. Below the stomach
B. ethylene B. Under the diagram
C. gibberellins C. In the pelvis
D. abscisic acid D. In the brain
450. Triggers the adrenals during stress 456. Geotropism is a phenomenon when
A. TSH A. The plant response to light
B. ACTH B. The plant response to water
C. FSH C. The plant response to soil
D. LH D. The plant response to gravity

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457. What gland sects the hormone parathy- C. Adrenaline

roid?
D. Glucagon

A. Adrenals
B. Parathyoids 463. What causes your blood glucose levels to
increase?
C. Pineal Body
A. Exercise
D. Thyroid
B. Drinking water
458. In what form is carbohydrate stored in
the liver? C. Eating food
A. Glucose D. none of above

B. Starch 464. which target organs are affected by
C. Glycogen adrenaline?
D. Glucagon A. brain
459. Which of the following are true of B. heart
steroid hormones?I. they diffuse across C. stomach
the plasma membraneII. they activate en-
zymesIII. their hormone-receptor complex D. kidney
travels to the nucleus
465. Which substance is essential for thyrox-
A. I and II only ine synthesis?
B. I and III only A. Nitrogen
C. II and III only
B. Calcium
D. I, II and III
C. iron
460. Which hormones Inhibit cell division? D. Iodine
A. abscisic acid
B. auxin 466. Why do coleoptiles grow toward light?
C. cytokinins A. Auxin is destroyed by light.

D. gibberellin B. Gibberellins are destroyed by light.
C. Auxin synthesis is stimulated in the
461. To avoid contamination the feed mixer
dark.
should always be
A. examined D. Auxin moves away from the light to the
shady side.
B. checked every 2 hrs
C. changed 467. what hormone lowers blood glucose lev-
els?
D. Cleaned
A. Insulin
462. which of these hormones will signal cells
to uptake glucose from the blood? B. Aldosterone
A. FSH C. Protein
B. Insulin D. none of above

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468. Final stage in cell division 474. This stores memories

A. Cytokinins A. Limbic system
B. Auxin B. Occipital Lobe
C. Abscisic Acid C. Temporal Lobe
D. none of above D. Thalamus
469. stimulates secondary sex characteristics 475. The organism that is infected by a
in males and stimulates sperm production. pathogen/antigen is known as the:
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A. Hypothyroidism A. survivor
B. Hyperthyroidism B. infectee
C. Testosterone C. source
D. Estrogen D. host
470. pg 120 What do we call a chemical that 476. This chemical is called the hug hormon
effects how plants grow and develop? A. Serotonin
A. hormone B. Oxytocin
B. auxin C. Dopamine
C. photoperiodism D. Cortisol
D. cnl 477. This hormone helps the body work in ac-
cordance with the change of day and night
471. Which two female hormones control sec-
ondary sex characteristics? A. Serotonin
A. Estrogen and Oxytocin B. Oxytocin
B. Progesterone and Oxytocin C. Dopamine
C. Estrogen and Progesterone D. Cortisol
D. Progesterone and Melatonin 478. Which of the following are true of sec-
ondary messengers?I. they trigger a cas-
472. What is the maximum concentration of cade of chemical reactions within the cellII.
glycogen in muscle they usually inhibit or activate enzymesIII.
A. 10 % an example is cyclic AMP (cAMP)
B. 20 % A. I and II only
C. 2 % B. I and III only
D. 1 % C. II and III only
D. I, II and III
473. The female menstrual cycle is controlled
by: 479. How do the hormones get around the
A. Oestrogen, Progesterone, LH, oxytocin body?
& FSH A. Through the circulatory system
B. Oestrogen, LH & FSH B. Through the skeletal system
C. Oestrogen & Progesterone C. Through the digestive system
D. Oestrogen, Progesterone, LH & FSH D. Through the respiratory system

2.7 Hormones 381
480. Which of the following is a function of D. This hormone affects seed growth.
ethene?
482. The body’s nonspecific defenses against

A. It can be used to alter dormancy invading pathogens include
B. It stimulates seed germination A. antibiotics.
C. It induces flowering B. mucus, sweat and tears.
D. It stimulates the enzyme that causes C. antibodies.
fruit to ripen
D. Killer T cells.
481. Which of the following best describes the
cytokinin hormone? 483. What gland secrete hormones directly
into the bloodstream?
A. This hormone induces growth.
A. pineal gland
B. This hormone can help produce seed-
less fruits. B. Exocrine gland
C. This hormone is responsible for the C. Endocrine gland

ripening of fruits. D. Pituitary gland

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