This post includes important one-liner questions from the chapter METABOLISM OF CARBOHYDRATES in Biochemistry. This post describes the chapter in short. important for pharmacy, nursing, science, and medical students.
Biochemistry Important One Liners Questions On Metabolism of Carbohydrates
1
Name the five vitamins required by pyruvate dehydrogenase or -ketoglutarate dehydrogenase complex
Thiamine, riboflavin, lipoic acid, niacin, pantothenic acid,
2
Muscle glycogen does not directly contribute to blood glucose due to absence of the enyme
Absence of glucose 6-phosphatase
3
Ascorbic acid is not synthesized in man due to lack of the enzyme
L-Gulonolactone oxidase
4
The compound implicated in the development of cataract in diabetic patients is
Sorbitol
5
Galactosemia is mostly due to the deficiency of the enzyme
Galactose 1-phosphate uridyltransferase
6
The two amino acids that are never glucogenic are
Leucine and lysine
7
Substrate level phosphorylation in citric acid cycle is catalysed by the enzyme
Succinate thiokinase
8
The metabolic pathway concerned with the conversion of L-xylulose to D-xylulose is
Uronic acid pathway
9
The name of the protein that has been identified to serve as a primer for glycogen synthesis is
Glycogenin
10
The metabolite among the citric acid cycle intermediates performing a catalytic role
Oxaloacetate
11
Which enzymes in glycolysis catalyses an irreversible reaction
Pyruvate kinase , Phosphofructokinase, Hexokinase
12
Synthesis of 2, 3-bisphosphoglycerate occurs in the tissue namely.
Erythrocytes
13
The hormone that lowers cAMP concentration in liver cells is
Insulin
14
The number of ATP produced when a molecule of acetyl CoA is oxidized through citric acid cycle
12
15
The connecting link between HMP shunt and lipid synthesis is
NADPH
