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61 Cards in this Set
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The majority of energy in the typical American diet comes from |
carbs |
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a ketopentose is a carb containing |
5 carbons and a ketone group |
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when compounds with 2 or more chiral carbon atoms and the same formulae are arranges as mirror images they are said to be |
asymmetrical |
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name the model which depicts cyclized monosaccharides as lying in the horizontal plane with the hydroxyl groups pointing down or up from the plane |
Haworth |
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which is the nutritional significance of stereoisomers? |
certain metabolic enzymes require a particular structure |
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what are the major dietary energy sources that are composed of two simple sugars? |
disaccharides |
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what is the most common digestible homopolysaccharide existing as both amylose and amylopectin? |
starch |
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which of the following hemopolysaccharides made of glucose contributes the most energy to the ordinary diet? |
amylopectin |
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in what form do carbs enter the bloodstream? |
monosaccharides |
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what is the key in digestion of polysaccharides? |
a-amylase |
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which of the following argon bonds is digested by a-amylase? |
a-1,4 |
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what is a likely reason that large quantities of fructose may cause gut discomfort? |
facilitated diffusion is slower than active transport |
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which of the following i the predominant monosaccharide produced by the digestion of all dietary carbs? |
glucose |
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the glucose transporter which is sensitive to insulin is |
GLUT4 |
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which hormonal changes occur in response to a fall in blood glucose concentration? |
decreased insulin, increased glucagon |
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glycemic load considers the ___ in the food |
quantity and quality of carbohydrate |
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due to a lack of the enzyme glucose 6-phosphatase, which tissue capable of glycogenesis cannot contribute to blood glucose levels between meals? |
muscle |
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glycolysis is a process involvin |
reactions that concert glucose to pyruvate |
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the major end products of cellular oxidation of carb include |
water, carbon dioxide, and energy |
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in what part of the cell does glycol's occur |
cytoplasmic matrix |
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in what organelle are the enzymes that catalyze the citric acid cycle located? |
mitochondrion |
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in which cellular site is most of the energy released when carb are oxidized to carbon dioxide and water? |
mitochondrion |
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under anaerobinx conditions within a cell, how many net ATPs are formed from one glucose molecule by substrate level phosphorylation? |
twoo |
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in the complete oxidization of 1 mol of glucose, how many ATPs are formed? |
38 |
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when oxygen is present in a tissue, less glucose is metabolized to pyruvate, why? |
ATP accumulates and inhibits phosphotructokinase |
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alcohol in beverages is degraded mainly in the liver cytoplasm with the production of one NADH for each ethanol molecule. predict what effect consumption of alcohol would have on the activity of the liver malate shuttle |
increased |
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during the end reaction of the ETC, molecular oxygen becomes |
reduced to water |
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electron flow through complexes 1, 111 and IV is accompanied by the translocation of protons |
from the matrix into the inter membrane space |
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electrons carried by one mole NADH + H enter the electron transport chain at complex 1 and generate __ moles ATP as they are sequentially oxidized |
3 |
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the enzyme ATP synthase is believed to catalyze the formation of ATP according to the __ theory |
chemiosmotic |
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the purpose of the hexose monophosphate shunt is to produce |
pentose phosphates and NADPH |
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which tissue has the least activity of the hexose monophosphate shunt? |
skeletal muscle |
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glyconeogenesis is essentially the reversal of which pathway? |
glycolysis |
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all of the following are substrates for gluconeogenesis except |
fatty acids |
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muscle lactate is converted to glucose in the liver and returned to the muscle by means of the |
cori cycle |
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all of the following enzymes are negatively regulated by increasing levels of ATP except |
hexokinase |
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if an individual with no blood sugar abnormalities when eating regularly presented with severe hypoglycaemia after 30 hours of fasting, which enzyme would you suspect might be malfunctioning? |
fructose 1, 6 biphosphatase |
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glucagon stimulated hepatic glyconeogenesis and suppresses glycolysis by reducing the concentration of __, a positive modulator of phosphofructokinase |
fructose 2,6-biphosphate |
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two hormones that stimulate glycogenolysis int he muscle and liver are
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epinephrine and glucagon |
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a homopolysaccharide that is important in human diets is ___ and the end product formed from the complete digestion of this mono polysaccharide is |
starch; glucose |
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T/F the purpose of the hexose monophosphate shunt (HMS) is to generate ribose, for nucleic acid synthesis , and NAD for oxidizing power.
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f. it generates NADH for reducing power |
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T/F phosphorylation of a protein always results in its inactivation, whereas dphosphorylation activates it |
F. phsophorylation can sometimes inactivate a protein/enzyme and sometimes activate a protein/enzyme with dephospho rylation respectively activating and inactivating these enzymes |
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T/F glucose is transported from the lumen into the enterocyte by active transport using SGLT1 protein which also required Na as a co-transporter |
True |
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t/f the process of gluconeogenesis occurs partialy in the mitochondria and partially in the cytosol |
true |
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t/f the muscle is an important tissue in gluceoneogenesis because it can use amino acids from protein breakdown and convert them to glucose, which it then secreted into the circulation for other tisues |
false |
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t/f for lygoneolysis to occur, the signal in liver and muscle is glucagon, which si secreted but he pancreas in response to low blood glucose levels |
false |
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t/f the reason we require the malate-aspartate shuttle is because NADH cannot enter the mitochondria to donate its electrons to the elevetron transport chain |
true |
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t/f the core cycle would be active under anaerobic conditions, such as excessive muscle exertion |
true |
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t/f although many enzymes in a given pathway are bidirectional, often the key enzymes are undirectional |
true |
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t/f because they do not have mitochondria, red blood cels generate a lot of lactate from glycolysis, which they in turn must convert into glucose to meet their energy needs |
f |
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t/f all cells have mitochondria, which act as the main site for ATP production |
false |
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t/f active transport requires energy for the Na-K pump to transport Na out of the cell thereby driving the transport of something else, when the Na re-enters the cell own its concentration gradient |
true |
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matcht the enzymes with the pathway in which they function in carb metabolism:
1 phosphofructokinase 2 pyruvate carboxylase 3 glycogen phosphrylase 4 glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase 5 branching enzyme
a glucogenesis b glycolysis c gluconeogenesis d glycogenolysis e hexose monophosphate shunt |
1 b 2 c 3 d 4 e 5 a |
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a homopolysaccharide that is important in human diets is __ and the end product formed from the complete ingestion of this homopolysaccharide is __ |
starch, glucose |
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when dietary intake of carb is reduced or blood glucose concentration declines, the pathway that is stimulated in the liver by glucagon and corticosteroids is called ___. four non carb precursors that serve as substrates for this pathway are ___ ___ ___ ___ and amino acids |
gluconeogenesis, pyruvate, lactate, glycerol
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two hormones that stimulate glycogenolysis in the muscle and liver are __ and ___ |
epinephrine, glucagon |
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ADP can positively modulate the activity of the rate-limiting allosteric enzyme in glycolysis, __ |
phosphofructokinase |
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pyruvate dehydrogenase is positively modulated by ___ and ___ |
AMP, NAD+ |
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all o the following are counter regulatory hormones except:
glucagon insulin cortisol epinephrine |
insulin |
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clinical hypoglycemia inclues adrenergic symptoms at about 60 mg/dL serum glucose. these symptoms include |
weakness, sweating, rapid heart rate, and tremor |
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which of the following is true regarding hypoglycaemia? |
blood glucose levels and symptoms are not well correlated |