Which of the following is (are) true of the oxidation of 1 mol of palmitate (a 16-carbon saturated fatty acid; 16:0) by the B-oxidation pathway, beginning with the free fatty acid in the cytoplasm?

1. Activation of the free fatty acid requires the equivalent of two ATPs.

2. Inorganic pyrophosphate (PPi) is produced.

3. Carnitine functions as an electron acceptor.

4. 8 mol of FADH2 are formed.

5. 8 mol of acetyl-CoA are formed.

6. There is no direct involvement of NAD+.

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#Unit 10. Ecological Principles

In robert h. Whittaker's approach to relating terrestrial biomes and climatic variables, the principal biomes fall in a triangular area that does not include climates with __________.

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#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal

In a normal healthy person, which of the following blood components has the shortest life span?

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#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

A process in which a suspension of microbes is quickly frozen at temperatures ranging from - 54°C to -72°C, and the water is removed by a high vacuum (sublimation) 

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#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

All plants releases green-leaf volatiles in response to mechanical damage, this volatile is a mixture of

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#Unit 12. Applied Biology

How the degradation of alkanes and aromatic hydrocarbons generally occurs.

1. Oxygenase enzyme

2. β-oxidation to yield acetyl CoA

3. Hydrogenation reaction

4. Carboxylation

Which of the following are correct?