Biochemistry Flashcards
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| 6903170313 | Sweet taste | Glycine, alanine, valine, tryptophan, histidine, proline | 0 | |
| 6903170314 | Tasteless | Leucine | 1 | |
| 6903170315 | Bitter | Isoleucine, arginine | 2 | |
| 6903170316 | Flavoring agent | Sodium glutamate | 3 | |
| 6903170317 | Artificial sweetener | Aspartame (aspartic acid+ phenylalanine) | 4 | |
| 6903170318 | ninhydrin reaction is adopted for | 1-qualitative estimation of AA 2-quantitative estimation of AA 3-used for detection of AA in chromatography | 5 | |
| 6903170319 | Transamination | Important reaction in the body for synthesis of non-essential amino acids | 6 | |
| 6903170320 | Formation of carb amino compound | Serves as a mechanism for transport of CO2 from tissues to the lungs by hemoglobin | 7 | |
| 6903170321 | Serine and threonine | Involved in formation of phosphoproteins | 8 | |
| 6903170322 | Glutathione (GSH) | •an important antioxidant •tripeptide formed of glutamic acid+ cysteine+ glycine •it is a gamma glutamyl-cysteinyl-glycine •GSH is a reduced glutathione. GSSH oxidized glutathione | 9 | |
| 6903170323 | Bradykinin | It is a short polypeptide having a hypotensive effect | 10 | |
| 6903170324 | ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone) | It is a polypeptide hormone containing 39 amino acids | 11 | |
| 6905538356 | Nucleosome | Consists of about 140 bp of DNA wrapped around a histone core | 12 | |
| 6905538357 | cell cycle | The sequence of events through which a cell duplicates its genome, grows and divides into two daughter cells | 13 | |
| 6905538358 | RPA | Replication protein A which binds to the single strand DNA to prevent reannealing. It also protects the single stranded regions from hydrolysis by nucleases. | 14 | |
| 6905538359 | RNA polymerase I | Transcribes most but not all ribosomal RNA genes | 15 | |
| 6905538360 | RNA polymerase II | Transcribes mRNA (protein encoding genes) | 16 | |
| 6905538361 | RNA polymerase III | Transcribes tRNA genes | 17 | |
| 6905538362 | 40 S | 18 S rRNA & 33 different proteins | 18 | |
| 6905538363 | 60 S | 28 S, 5.8 S and 5 S rRNA & 49 different proteins | 19 | |
| 6905538364 | Sedimentation coefficient (S) | Svedberg unit: related to both molecular weight and shape of particle | 20 | |
| 6905538365 | Post transcriptional modifications of eukaryotic hnRNA | -capping the 5' end -polyadenylation of the 3' end -splicing the exons | 21 | |
| 6905538366 | Introns | Lengthy portions of intervening sequences that do not code for protein | 22 | |
| 6905538367 | Exon | Any part of the primary transcript that is retained in the mature mRNA molecule | 23 | |
| 6910413107 | LDH-1 | Heart muscle and RBCs | 24 | |
| 6910413108 | LDH-2 | Concentrated in heart muscle and RBCs | 25 | |
| 6910413109 | LDH-3 | Highest concentration in brain and kidney | 26 | |
| 6910413110 | LDH-4 | Highest concentration in kidney placenta and pancreas | 27 | |
| 6910413111 | LDH-5 | Highest in liver and skeletal muscle | 28 | |
| 6910469213 | Pro enzymes or zymogens | Enzymes synthesized in catalytically inactive form | 29 | |
| 6920930491 | Amide group of glutamine | Serves as a source of nitrogen for nucleic acid synthesis | 30 |