Biochemistry Answers

What is the overall chemical changes that occur during one complete turn of the krebs cycle?

What is the net ATP count if 1 mol of glucose is completely oxidized? Show computation and all the reducing equivalents.

If pH>pl what’s the charge of

amino acid

2. What is the relationship between amino acids and the nitrogenous bases of purines and pyrimidines?

3. What is cloning? Cite its advantages and disadvantages.

1. Why a degenerate genetic code helps protect an organism from the effects of mutations?

Chemical tests on components of nucleic acids

A pH of 4 indicates that 

Draw the line/structural formulae for the following modified fatty acids:

a. 10-(Propoxy) decanoate, a synthetic fatty acid with antiparasitic activity used 

to treat African sleeping sickness, a disease caused by the protozoan T. brucei 

(the propoxy group is –O-CH2CH2CH3)

b. Phytanic acid (3,7,11,15-tetramethylhexadecanoate), found in dairy 

products

c. Lactobacillic acid (cis-11,12-methyleneoctadecanoate), found in various 

microorganisms

Name the simplest carbohydrate. Use this carbohydrate to illustrate the 

meaning of enantiomers by giving examples.

1. Role of ATP in biological oxidation
2. Functions and beta oxidation in the pentose phosphate pathway