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#Question id: 11962


 In the digestive system, peristalsis is ________.

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal
  1. a process of fat emulsification in the small intestine
  2. voluntary control of the rectal sphincters regulating defecation
  3. the transport of nutrients to the liver through the hepatic portal vessel
  4. smooth muscle contractions that move food along the oesophagus
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#Question id: 2153

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Membrane phospholipids include

a. cholesterol.            

b. plasmologens.        

c. sphingolipids.         

d. triglycerides.                      

e. bile acids.

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#Question id: 2154

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Membrane lipids are distributed appropriately between the two leaflets of a given membrane by

a. dockases.    

b. trumpases.              

c. fatty acid desaturases.        

d. flippases.    

e. transmembrane tunnelases.

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#Question id: 2155

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Cholesterol is

a. unrelated to any plant lipids.                     

b. not found in chloroplast membranes.

c. encoded by an intron-containing gene on chromosome 23.

d. relatively abundant in the plasma membrane and endocytic membranes.

e. synthesized in the ER.

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#Question id: 2156

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Proteins known to be involved in Golgi apparatus independent transport of lipids include

a. StAR protein.                                 

b. Neimann-Pick C1 (NPC1) protein.

c. HMG CoA reductase.                    

d. acyl:cholesterol acyl transferase (ACAT).

e. cholesterol 7α-hydroxylase.  

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#Question id: 2157

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Which of the following is not a metabolic derivative of cholesterol?

a. dolichol                  

b. vitamin D               

c. bile acids    

d. v-SNARE molecules                     

e. NSF

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#Question id: 2158

#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Which of the following factors increase(s) the rate of simple (passive) diffusion of a solute across a phospholipid bilayer?