Laurie met her husband Jim at a support group for families dealing with PKU (phenylketonurea), a recessive genetic disorder. Laurie and Jim both have one sister who is affected with PKU and no other family history of the disorder. They come to you as a genetic counselor to ask what their risk is of having an affected child. What do you tell them?

#Question id: 10341

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

The accumulation of nitrate that results from diminished nitrate reductase activity, this symptoms is caused by

#Question id: 10343

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

In many plants, nitrate is assimilated in the root as well as in the shoot according to their native place. Some of the given statements about nitrate assimilation;

a) If plants native to temperate region assimilate NO3^- at root

b) If plants native to temperate region assimilate NO3^- at shoot

c) Plants native to tropical or subtropical region assimilate NO3^- at root

d) Plants native to tropical or subtropical region assimilate NO3^- at shoot

Which of the following combination from above statements is correct?

#Question id: 10349

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Elevated plastid levels of glutamine stimulate the activity of glutamate synthase (also known as glutamine:2- oxoglutarate aminotransferase, or GOGAT). Given below some of the statements about GOGAT, which one of the following is incorrect?

#Question id: 10350

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Ammonium can be assimilated via an alternative pathway rather than primary pathway which involves the sequential actions of glutamine synthetase(GS) and glutamate synthase(GOGAT), these alternative pathway catalyzes by enzyme known as,

#Question id: 10351

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

Plants contain two types of GOGAT; one accepts electrons from NADH, and the other accepts electrons from ferredoxin (Fd); which one of the following statements is correct?

#Question id: 10352

#Unit 6. System Physiology – Plant

which of the following amino acid that participates in the malate–aspartate shuttle to transfer reducing equivalents from the mitochondrion and chloroplast into the cytosol?