Card 61
Question
What metabolic pathway converts glucose to ethanol in yeast?
Answer
Alcoholic fermentation (via glycolysis and pyruvate decarboxylation).
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Card 62
Question
What is catalase?
Answer
An enzyme that converts hydrogen peroxide to water + oxygen
Card 63
Question
The unit of measure for enzymes are IU's or International Units; what is the definition of an IU?
Answer
An international unit of enzyme activity is the amount of enzyme causing transformation of 1.0 micromol of substrate per minute at standard conditions.
Card 64
Question
A transgenic organism can be defined as?
Answer
An organism containing/modified with foreign DNA.
Card 65
Question
Metabolism is often sub-divided into two specific processes, anabolism and catabolism. What is the principle difference between these processes?
Answer
Anabolism involves synthetic reactions, and catabolism involves destructive reactions to release energy.
Card 66
Question
Golden rice was genetically modified to produce beta-carotene whereas purple tomato was genetically modified to produce what compound?
Answer
Anthocyanin
Card 67
Question
A gene with reversed orientation with respect to its regulatory sequence is called what?
Answer
Antisense gene.
Card 68
Question
What two amino acids have the highest pKa?
Answer
Arginine and lysine
Card 69
Question
What 2 amino acids are aspartame derived from?
Answer
Aspartic acid and phenylalanine
Card 70
Question
Name the chemical compound that stores energy.
Answer
ATP
Card 71
Question
In relaxed muscle, what form is ATP in?
Answer
ATP/mg complex, indicating it is bound to magnesium ions in the muscle.
Card 72
Question
What does BT stand for in BT corn?
Answer
Bacillus Thuringiensis
Card 73
Question
The expenditure of energy required to maintain basic life processes is called BMR. What does BMR stand for?
Answer
Basal Metabolic Rate
Card 74
Question
Golden rice was genetically modified to produce what compound?
Answer
Beta carotene
Card 75
Question
Name the first human milk protein gene to be expressed in crops.
Answer
Beta casein (CSN2)
Card 76
Question
What is the term used to describe the process of using biological processes to solve environmental problems?
Answer
Bioremediation
Card 77
Question
What vitamin is required to activate pyruvate carboxylase?
Answer
Biotin (B7)
Card 78
Question
What growth factor cannot be used in cows in England?
Answer
Bovine somatotropin
Card 79
Question
How does ATP become ADP?
Answer
By transferring its terminal phosphate group to an acceptor molecule.
Card 80
Question
What are the final products of aerobic oxidation of sucrose and starch (or carbohydrates) in plant cells?
Answer
Carbon dioxide, water, ATP.
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