Researchers found a strain of E. coli bacteria that had mutation rates one hundred times higher than normal. Which of the following statements correctly describes the most likely cause of these results?

#Question id: 10294

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Which of the following route are available for the oxidation of sugars in plant cells?

#Question id: 10295

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Reactions of the pentose phosphate pathway regeneration run six turns of this cycle, what will be predict after that?

#Question id: 10296

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Which of the following statements about the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway is incorrect?

#Question id: 10297

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

The following statements are related to pentose phosphate pathway.

a) The first and third steps are oxidations with large, negative standard free-energy changes and are essentially irreversible in the cell

b) NADPH rises and inhibits the first enzyme in the pentose phosphate pathway. As a result, more glucose 6-phosphate is available for glycolysis

c) All the enzymes of the reversible reaction of the pentose phosphate pathway are located in the cytosol

d) The NADPH is used for biosynthetic reactions such as lipid synthesis and nitrogen assimilation in the cytosol

which one of the following combination  of above statements is incorrect?

#Question id: 10298

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is more common among people with alcoholism than in the general population, The syndrome can be exacerbated by a mutation in the gene for;

#Question id: 10299

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

The stages of respiration take place within an organelle enclosed by a double membrane, the mitochondrion. Which of the following processes occur only inside the mitochondria?