Biochemistry Answers

Explain the stereochemistry of peptide bond.What do the φ and ψ angles signify in peptides?

What is the difference between a fat and a fatty acid?What is the significance of iodine number for a fatty acid? Explain with help of an example.

Discuss briefly the experiment of Griffith and Avery.

How is the enzyme pyruvate dehydrogenase complex different from other enzymes? Explain how it functions in the conversion of pyruvate to acetyl-CoA.

If you were studying an enzyme that catalyzed the reaction of ATP and fructose 1-
phosphate to form fructose 1,6-bisphosphate and ADP and discovered that a plot of the
initial velocity of formation of fructose 1,6-bisphosphate versus ATP concentration was
not hyperbolic, but rather sigmoid, what would you suspect?

4. If you were studying an enzyme that catalyzed the reaction of ATP and fructose 1-
phosphate to form fructose 1,6-bisphosphate and ADP and discovered that a plot of the
initial velocity of formation of fructose 1,6-bisphosphate versus ATP concentration was
not hyperbolic, but rather sigmoid, what would you suspect?

If you were studying an enzyme that catalyzed the rxn of ATP and fructose 1-phosphate to form fructose 1,6-bisphosphate and ADP and discovered that a plot of the initial velocity of formation of fructose, 1,6-bisphosphate versus ATP conc. was not hyperbolic, but rather sigmoid, what would you suspect?

What is meant by water potential in simple terms?

explain the difference between a one celled organism and single cells of a multicelluar organism
please include structure and function

The function of a catalyst in a chemical reaction is to increase the...