Bio 116 Exam 2

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Which of the following statements is correct regarding competitive and noncompetitive enzyme inhibitors?

Competitive inhibitors bind to the active site of an enzyme while noncompetitive inhibitors bind to an enzyme away from the active site.

What do we do with NAD+ and FAD post-cellular respiration?

They can be reused in glycolysis, prep step, and the citric acid cycle

Which of the following is a characteristic feature of anabolic pathways?

They consume energy to build up polymers from monomers.

Which of the following statements best explains the ability of CAM plants to synthesize sugars in the daytime while keeping their stomata closed to reduce water loss?

They fix CO2 into organic acids during the night.

Which of the following statements best explains the ability of C4 plants to perform photosynthesis with no apparent photorespiration?

They use PEP carboxylase to initially fix CO2

Some enzymes can couple the hydrolysis of ATP to ion transport by having

changes during ATP hydrolysis alter the enzyme's shape, forcing ionic transport to occur.

A photosystem consists of which of the following structures?

chlorophyl molecules, reaction center complex, primary electron acceptor, light harvesting complexes

A ribosome has three binding sites for tRNA, the P site

holds the tRNA that carries the growing polypeptide chain

The A site

holds the tRNA that carries the next amino acid to be added to the chain

Fermentation is essentially glycolysis plus an extra step in which pyruvate is reduced to form lactate or alcohol and carbon dioxide. This last step __________.

enables the cell to recycle the reduced NADH to oxidized NAD+

Is energy released or gained when electrons move down the electron transport chain?

energy is RELEASED

You expect to see decoupled transcription and translation in ______.

eukaryotes

Is the breakdown of organic molecules endergonic or exergonic?

exergonic

The function of cellular respiration is to

extract usable energy from glucose

The function of cellular respiration is to __________.

extract usable energy from glucose

In the overall process of glycolysis and cellular respiration, _____ is oxidized and _____ reduced

glucose is OXIDIZED, oxygen is REDUCED

During the energy investment phase of glycolysis, __________.

glucose is phosphorylated before it is split into two three-carbon molecules

Which of the following metabolic processes normally occurs in most cells regardless of oxygen (O2) availability?

glycolysis

Which of the following metabolic processes take place in the cytosol of a eukaryotic cell?

glycolysis and fermentation

In which reactions of cellular respiration does substrate-level phosphorylation occur?

in both glycolysis and the citric acid cycle

How do we derive this number?

2 ATP from glycolysis, 2 ATP from prep step and the citric acid cycle, 26/28 ATP from electron transport and chemiosmosis

Glycolysis results in the net production of which of the following sets of molecules per glucose molecule?

2 NADH, 2 pyruvate, and 2 ATP

A sample of double-stranded DNA contains 28% thymine. Approximately what percent of the nucleotides in this sample will be guanine?

22%

How many ATP are produced (from one glucose molecule: including glycolysis and aerobic respiration)?

30 or 32 ATP

Approximately how many molecules of ATP are produced from the complete oxidation of one molecule of glucose (C6H12O6) in aerobic cellular respiration?

30-32

For each mole of glucose (C6H12O6) oxidized by cellular respiration, how many moles of CO2 are released in the citric acid cycle

4

Suppose a 150-base-pair, double-stranded DNA molecule consists of 15% thymine bases. How many total hydrogen bonds are holding the two strands together?

405

Glucose is the primary fuel for cellular respiration. Which of the following molecules can also be used by cellular respiration to generate ATP?

Amino acids, glycerol, and fatty acids can all be used in cellular respiration.

Which of the following correctly states the relationship between anabolic and catabolic pathways?

Anabolic pathways synthesize more complex organic molecules using the energy derived from catabolic pathways.

During aerobic respiration, molecular oxygen is used for which of the following purposes?

At the end of the electron transport chain to accept electrons and form H2O

The process of stabilizing the structure of an enzyme in its active form by the binding of a molecule is an example of __________.

allosteric regulation

ATP synthase at the inner mitochondrial membrane makes ATP and water from ADP and phosphate by coupling this to which other process?

allowing H+ to move down its electrochemical gradient

The E site

is the exit site, where discharged tRNAs leave the ribosome

transcription

is the synthesis of RNA using information in DNA

translation

is the synthesis of a polypeptide, using information in the mRNA

The 3′ end gets a

poly-A tail

Chemiosmosis

process in which energy stored in the form of a hydrogen gradient across a membrane is used to drive cellular work such as the synthesis of ATP

oxidative phosphorylation

production of ATP using energy derived from the redox reactions of an electron transport chain; the 3rd stage of respiration

When electrons are passed from one atom to a more electronegative atom, the more electronegative atom is ________.

reduced, and energy is released

Most of the electrons removed from glucose by cellular respiration are used for which of the following processes?

reducing NAD+ to NADH in glycolysis and the citric acid cycle and producing a proton gradient for ATP synthesis in the mitochondria

the genetic code is ____ but not _____

redundant but not ambiguous

Muscle tissues make lactate from pyruvate to do which of the following?

regenerate NAD+

An exergonic (spontaneous) reaction is a chemical reaction that __________.

releases energy when proceeding in the forward direction

In general, the hydrolysis of ATP drives cellular work by __________.

releasing free energy that can be coupled to other reactions

What is the function of the enzyme topoisomerase in DNA replication?

relieving strain in the DNA ahead of the replication fork caused by the untwisting of the double helix

RNA splicing

removes introns and joins exons, creating an mRNA molecule with a continuous coding sequence

mismatch repair

repair enzymes correct errors in base pairing

Binding of a repressor to the operator

shuts off transcription

The removal of introns is accomplished by

spliceosomes, a complex consisting of a variety of proteins and several small RNAs that recognize the splice sites

Carbon dioxide and oxygen enter and exit a leaf by diffusion. Which structure(s) on a leaf allow(s) this process to happen?

stomata

How does carbon dioxide enter the leaf?

stomata

Where does the Calvin cycle occur?

stroma of the chloroplast

The enzyme ______ compensates for replication-associated shortening of linear chromosomes.

telomerase

Which of the following reactions produces the majority of the CO2 released by the complete oxidation of glucose?

the citric acid cycle

When a cell is deprived of oxygen, which of the following processes will be inhibited first?

the electron transport chain

An operon is

the entire stretch of DNA that includes the operator, the promoter, and the genes that they control -The operon can be switched off by a protein repressor

Which of the following events takes place in the electron transport chain?

the harnessing of energy from redox reactions to generate a proton gradient

The light reactions of photosynthesis use _____ and produce _____.

water ... NADPH

exons

what the other regions are called because they are eventually expressed, usually translated into amino acid sequences

Output 19 of Pathway B is best identified as ______.

G3P

Which of the following processes occurs during the second phase, the reduction phase, of the Calvin cycle?

G3P Production

Which of the following reactions would be endergonic?

Glucose + fructose → sucrose

Is glucose being oxidized or reduced? What about oxygen?

Glucose = oxidized to carbon dioxide Oxygen= reduced to water

Which metabolic pathway is common to both fermentation and cellular respiration of a glucose molecule?

Glycolysis

Most of the ATP in cellular respiration is produced by the process of chemiosmosis. How does this process produce ATP?

H+ flows across the inner mitochondrial membrane through the enzyme ATP synthase

What represents the flow of electrons during photosynthesis?

H20 > NADPH > Calvin Cycle

In the light reactions, light energy is used to oxidize ____ to _____

H2O to O2

What are the 2 linked sets of reactions in photosynthesis?

Light dependent reactions & light independent reactions (Calvin Cycle)

the three stages of translation are

1. Initiation 2. Elongation 3. Termination

Accurate translation requires two steps

1. a correct match between a tRNA and an amino acid, done by the enzyme aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase 2. a correct match between the tRNA anticodon and an mRNA codon

An enzyme-catalyzed reaction has a ΔG of -20 kcal/mol under standard conditions. What will be the ΔG for the reaction if the amount of enzyme is doubled?

-20 kcal/mol

telomeres

-Eukaryotic chromosomal DNA molecules that have special nucleotide sequences. -Telomeres do not prevent the shortening of DNA molecules, but they do postpone the erosion of genes near the ends of DNA molecules -It has been proposed that the shortening of telomeres is connected to aging

transcription in eukaryote

-In a eukaryotic cell, the nuclear envelope separates transcription from translation -Eukaryotic RNA transcripts are modified through RNA processing to yield the finished mRNA -nucleus

Both PS I and PS II

-Light absorption -Reduction of primary electron acceptor

Photosynthesis II only

-Oxidation of water -Reduction of electron transport chain between the two photosystems

Photosynthesis I only

-Reduction of NADP+ -Oxidation of electron transport chain between the two photosystems

Chargaff's Rule

-The base composition of DNA varies between species -In any species the number of A and T bases is equal and the number of G and C bases is equal

Alteration of mRNA ends functions

-They seem to facilitate the export of mRNA to the cytoplasm -They help ribosomes attach to the 5′ end -They protect mRNA from hydrolytic enzymes

translation in prokaryotes

-occurs simultaneously as transcription inside the cytoplasm -translation of mRNA can begin before transcription has started

The two ribosomal subunits (large and small) are made of

-proteins -ribosomal RNA (rRNA)

A tRNA molecule consists of

-single RNA strand and looks like a cloverleaf -Anticodon & the 3' amino acid attachment end -Flexible pairing at the third base of a codon is called wobbleand allows some tRNAs to bind to more than one codon

What is the major goal of these processes?

1) Convert light energy to chemical energy 2) Fix inorganic carbon in organic molecules

If glucose is the sole energy source for cellular respiration in an animal, what proportion of the carbon dioxide exhaled is derived from oxidation of pyruvate to acetyl CoA?

1/3

If a cell produces on average 30 ATP molecules for each molecule of glucose that is completely oxidized to carbon dioxide and water, how many ATP molecules on average can the cell synthesize for each molecule of pyruvate oxidized to carbon dioxide and water?

12.5

The 5′ end receives a modified nucleotide

5′ cap

The nontemplate strand of a portion of a gene reads 5′-TTCACTGGTTCA-3'. What is the sequence of the resulting transcript for this portion?

5′-UUCACUGGUUCA-3'

What are the inputs of photosynthesis? The outputs?

6 CO2 + 12 H2O + light energy → C6H12O6 + 6 H2O + 6 O2

Which of these equations best summarizes photosynthesis?

6 CO2 + 6 H2O → C6H12O6 + 6 O2

How many codons specify amino acids and the start codons?

61 specify amino acids and the start codons , 3 are stop codons

Once a translation cycle starts, where would you expect to find a tRNA attached to a single amino acid?

A site

Output of calvin cycle

ADP, NADP+, G3P

As ATP begins to build up in a cell, metabolism slows down. How does this happen?

ATP acts as an allosteric inhibitor to many of the enzymes involved in metabolism, thus slowing their function.

Cells use ATP constantly, but ATP is considered a renewable resource. What process makes this possible?

ATP can be regenerated by the addition of a phosphate group to ADP.

Which of the following statements best summarizes the metabolic results of photorespiration?

ATP is hydrolyzed, carbon dioxide is produced, and oxygen is consumed

Which of the following statements best describes the central role that ATP plays in cellular metabolism?

ATP provides energy coupling between exergonic and endergonic reactions.

Drugs known as uncouplers facilitate diffusion of protons across the membrane. With an uncoupler, what will happen to ATP synthesis and oxygen consumption if the rates of glycolysis and the citric acid cycle stay the same?

ATP synthesis will decrease; oxygen consumption will stay roughly the same.

G3P is used in which of the following processes?

All of the listed processes can use G3P.

How does ATP drive mechanical work inside a cell?

By binding to motor proteins

How does ATP drive transport work inside a cell?

By phosphorylating a transport protein

Which of the summary statements below best describes the results of the following reaction?C6H12O6 + 6O2 →→ 6CO2 + 6H2O + Energy

C6H12O6 is oxidized and O2 is reduced.

The electrons derived from this oxidation reaction in the Calvin cycle are used to reduce _____ to _____

CO2 to G3P

Input of calvin cycle

CO2, ATP, NADPH

Because ______ plants have Bundle-sheath cells, they are able to ________ separate their Calvin Cycle from high concentrations of _______.

C4; spatially; O2

In bacteria, which of the following proteins is responsible for removing nucleotides from the RNA primer that is used for initiation DNA synthesis?

DNA pol I

What catalyzes the formation of phosphodiester bonds between a DNA strand and a new nucleotide being added during DNA replication?

DNA polymerase

What provides electrons to the electron transport chain?

Electron carriers (NADH and FADH2)

If the entropy of a living organism is decreasing, which of the following is most likely to be occurring simultaneously?

Energy input into the organism must be occurring to drive the decrease in entropy.

Which of the following statements about enzyme function is correct?

Enzymes can lower the activation energy of reactions, but they cannot change the equilibrium point because they cannot change the net energy output.

Which of the following statements best describes enzyme function?

Enzymes increase the rate of chemical reactions by lowering activation energy barriers.

Which of the following statements about enzymes is true?

Enzymes speed up the rate of the reaction without changing the ΔG for the reaction.

What would happen to cytoplasmic enzyme activity inside a cell with a normal cytoplasmic pH of 7.2 if you injected a chemical that would change the pH to 4.0?

Enzymes would probably denature.

Cells must regulate their metabolic pathways so that they do not waste resources. What is the most common mechanism that regulates cellular respiration in most cells?

Feedback inhibition of glycolysis

Fermentation by itself produces no ATP but keeps glycolysis going, which produces a small amount of ATP. How does fermentation do this?

Fermentation oxidizes NADH to NAD+ which facilitates the production of ATP in glycolysis

What is the correct sequence of compounds an electron would encounter if you begin from the very start of Photosystem II and use non-cyclic electron flow? I Ferredoxin II Water III NADPH IV G3P V Pheophytin

II-V-I-III-IV

termination in bacteria

In bacteria, the polymerase stops transcription at the end of the terminator and the mRNA can be translated without further modification

termination in eukaryotes

In eukaryotes, RNA polymerase II transcribes the polyadenylation signal sequence; the RNA transcript is released 10-35 nucleotides past this polyadenylation sequence

Which of the following statements best describes the electron transport chain?

It consists of a series of redox reactions.

What is the role of oxygen in the electron transport chain?

It is reduced to form water

What is the role of DNA ligase in the elongation of the lagging strand during DNA replication?

It joins Okazaki fragments together.

Which statement about the citric acid cycle is true?

It makes ATP through substrate-level phosphorylation.

Which of the following statements best describes the primary role played by oxygen in cellular respiration?

It serves as the final acceptor for electrons from the electron transport chain.

The standard free energy for the complete oxidation of glucose to CO2 and water is -686 kcal/mol, and the standard free energy for the reduction of NAD+ to NADH is +53 kcal/mol. Which of the following statements best explains why only two molecules of NADH are formed in glycolysis when up to 12 molecules could theoretically be produced?

Most of the free energy available from the oxidation of glucose remains in pyruvate, one of the products of glycolysis.

polyribosome, polysome

Multiple ribosomes can translate a single mRNA simultaneously

Which of the following statements best describes what happens to a molecule of NAD+ (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) when it gains a hydrogen atom?

NAD+ becomes reduced.

Which of the following statements best describes a characteristic of NAD+?

NAD+ is reduced to NADH in glycolysis, pyruvate oxidation, and the citric acid cycle

After completion of the citric acid cycle, most of the usable energy from the original glucose molecule is in the form of _____.

NADH

Upon completion of the citric acid cycle, most of the energy originally stored in each glucose molecule catabolized by cellular respiration is stored in which of the following molecules?

NADH

During the energy payoff phase of glycolysis, __________.

NADH and ATP are produced

Which of the following products result from the oxidation of pyruvate to acetyl-CoA?

NADH and CO2

In what molecules is the majority of the chemical energy from pyruvate transferred during the citric acid cycle?

NADH and FADH2

The electrons derived from this oxidation reaction in the light reactions are used to reduce _______ to _________

NADP+ to NADPH

The calvin cycle oxidizes the light-reactions product ______ to _______

NADPH to NADP+

In E. coli, a mutation in a gene called dnaB prevents the helicase from binding at the origin of replication. Which of the following events would you expect to occur as a result of this mutation?

No replication fork will be formed.

Outputs of light reactions

O2, ATP, NADPH

Which of the following is a correct description of the events of cellular respiration and the sequence of events in cellular respiration?

Oxidation of glucose to pyruvate; oxidation of pyruvate; oxidation of acetyl-coA; oxidative phosphorylation

Which of the following processes produces the most ATP?

Oxidative phosphorylation

signal peptide

Polypeptides destined for the ER or for secretion are marked by a

Which of the following statements accurately describes differences between DNA replication in prokaryotes and DNA replication in eukaryotes?

Prokaryotic chromosomes have a single origin of replication, whereas eukaryotic chromosomes have many.

What is another name for the H+ (proton) gradient?

Proton-motive force

In preparing pyruvate to enter the citric acid cycle, which of the following steps occurs?

Pyruvate is oxidized and decarboxylated and the removed electrons are used to reduce an NAD+ to an NADH

During the Calvin cycle, what happens during the carbon fixation phase?

The Calvin cycle incorporates each CO2 molecule, one at a time, by attaching it to a five-carbon sugar named ribulose bisphosphate.

The reactions of the Calvin cycle are not directly dependent on light, but they usually do not occur at night. Why?

The Calvin cycle requires products only produced when the photosystems are illuminated.

promoter

The DNA sequence where RNA polymerase attaches

Which of these statements about enzyme inhibitors is true?

The action of inhibitors may be reversible or irreversible.

Which of the following statements best describes how addition of a catalyst will affect a chemical reaction?

The catalyzed reaction will have the same ΔG as the uncatalyzed reaction.

Most of the NADH that delivers electrons to the electron transport chain comes from which of the following processes?

The citric acid cycle

Which part of the catabolism of glucose by cellular respiration requires molecular oxygen (O2) and produces CO2?

The combination of the citric acid cycle and electron transport

transcription initiation complex

The completed assembly of transcription factorsand RNA polymerase II bound to a promoter is called

Which of the following metabolic pathways produce(s) the most ATP, per glucose molecule metabolized, during cellular respiration?

The electron transport chain and oxidative phosphorylation

Which of the following statements is correct regarding ATP?

The energy in an ATP molecule is released through hydrolysis of one of the phosphate groups.

Substrate-level phosphorylation

The enzyme-catalyzed formation of ATP by direct transfer of a phosphate group to ADP from an intermediate substrate in catabolism

The ATP synthase in a human cell obtains energy for synthesizing ATP directly from which of the following processes?

The flow of H+ across the inner mitochondrial membrane through the ATP synthase enzyme

What best characterizes the role of ATP in cellular metabolism?

The free energy released by ATP hydrolysis that may be coupled to an endergonic process via the formation of a phosphorylated intermediate.

Which of the following statements correctly describes the difference between the leading and the lagging strands of DNA in DNA replication?

The leading strand is synthesized in the same direction as the movement of the replication fork, and the lagging strand is synthesized in the opposite direction.

How do the leading and the lagging strands differ?

The leading strand is synthesized in the same direction as the movement of the replication fork, whereas the lagging strand is synthesized in the opposite direction.

During which process is molecular oxygen produced in photosynthesis?

The light reactions by linear electron flow

The energy from the electrons in NADH and FADH2 fuel what process in the electron transport chain?

The pumping of H+ across the cristae of the mitochondrion

A reaction has a ∆G of +1 kcal/mol. Which of the following would most likely be true?

The reaction is nonspontaneous.

Which of the following statements best describes an exergonic reaction?

The reaction proceeds with a net release of free energy.

introns

These noncoding regions are called intervening sequences

Which of the following statements best describes catabolic pathways?

They are exergonic and provide energy that can be used to produce ATP from ADP and Pi.

A small amount of ATP is made in glycolysis by which of the following processes?

Transfer of a phosphate group from a fragment of glucose to ADP by substrate-level phosphorylation

What is the total production of ATP, NADH, and FADH2 in the citric acid cycle from one molecule of glucose?

Two ATP, six NADH, and two FADH2

What do cells require to sustain high rates of glycolysis under anaerobic conditions?

Under anaerobic conditions, cells depend on the low-efficient fermentation pathway to generate ATP.

Metabolic pathways are typically redox processes. In photosynthesis, what molecule is oxidized and what molecule is reduced?

Water is oxidized and carbon dioxide is reduced.

A corepressor is

a molecule that cooperates with a repressor protein to switch an operon off

nucleotide excision repair

a nuclease cuts out and replaces damaged stretches of DNA

Imagine a bacterial replication fork. Synthesis of which new strand(s) would be affected by mutations in the enzyme primase?

both leading and lagging strands

Gene

can be defined as a region of DNA that can be expressed to produce a final functional product that is either a polypeptide or an RNA molecule

A decrease in entropy is associated with which of the following types of reaction?

dehydration

Inputs of light reactions

light, water, ADP, NADP+

Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase is an enzyme whose function is to _____.

link a tRNA to its corresponding amino acid

Bound ribosomes

make proteins of the endomembrane system and proteins that are secreted from the cell

Transcription factors

mediate the binding of RNA polymerase and the initiation of transcription

Energy released from the electron transport chain is used to pump H+ ions into which location in eukaryotic cells?

mitochondrial intermembrane space

Free ribosomes

mostly synthesize proteins that function in the cytosol

Which of the following statements describes a primary function of both alcohol fermentation and lactic acid fermentation?

oxidation of NADH to NAD+

Chlorophyll molecules are in which part of the chloroplast?

thylakoid membranes

What is the purpose of fermentation reactions?

to regenerate NAD+ so glycolysis can continue

Which of the following components does not form part of the transcription initiation complex at a eukaryotic promoter?

transfer RNA


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