A tsunami tidal wave hits the east coast of South America and the people living there are forced to drink unclean water. Within the next several days, a large number of people develop severe diarrhea and about half of these people expire. Samples of drinking water are positive for Vibrio cholerae. Which of the following types of ion channels is most likely to be irreversibly opened in the epithelial cells of the crypts of Lieberkühn in these people with severe diarrhea?

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#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

Cyclic monosaccharides or glycosides that are epimers, differing from each other in the configuration of C-1 if they are aldoses or in the configuration at C-2 if they are ketoses are known as

#Question id: 27487

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

#Question id: 27486

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

#Question id: 27485

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

Two sugars that differ in configuration at only one chiral center are described as

#Question id: 27484

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

Which of the following is truly stating about the stereochemistry of D-Erythrose, L-Erythrose  and D-Threose and L-Threose

1. D-Erythrose, L-Erythrose are enantiomers to each other

2. D-Erythrose, L-Erythrose are diastereomers to each other

3. D-Erythrose and D-Threose are diastereomers to each other 

4. D-Erythrose, L-Erythrose are enantiomers to each other 

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#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

Compounds which have the same molecular formula and sequence of bonded elements, but which are nonsuperimposable, non-mirror images