Owls eat rats, mice, shrews, and small birds. Assume that, over a period of time, an owl consumes 5,000 J of animal material. The owl loses 2,300 J in feces and owl pellets and uses 2,500 J for cellular respiration. What is the production efficiency of this owl?

#Question id: 10276

#XL - Q Biochemistry

In glycolysis, the enzyme glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase catalyzes;

#Question id: 10278

#XL - Q Biochemistry

The type of ATP synthesis, traditionally referred to as substrate-level phosphorylation involves the direct transfer of a phosphate group, which reactions perform substrate-level phosphorylation?

a) Conversion of Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate to 1,3-Bisphosphoglycerate

b) Conversion of Phosphoenol pyruvate to pyruvate

c) Conversion of Fructose 6-phosphate to Fructose 1,6-bisphosphate

d) Conversion of 1,3-Bisphosphoglycerate to 3-Phosphoglycerate

Find the correct one.

#Question id: 10279

#XL - Q Biochemistry

Phosphohexose isomerase is one of the enzyme of glycolysis which catalyzes Glucose 6-phosphate to Fructose 6-phosphate, enzyme bind with the hexose in their active site by opening the structure. The ring opening and closing reactions are catalyzed by an active-site present amino acid such as

#Question id: 10280

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The enzyme of glycolytic pathway that forms fructose 1,6-bisphosphate is called phosphofructokinase-1 (PFK-1), which statements can’t distinguish it from a second enzyme (PFK-2) Phosphofructokinase-2.

#Question id: 10281

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Gluconeogenesis is particularly important in plants such as the castor oil plant Ricinus communis and sunflower that store carbon in which form .

#Question id: 10282

#XL - Q Biochemistry

In the glycolytic reaction one of the step is catalyzed by ATP-dependent phosphofructokinase is essentially irreversible, at the same step which one of the following enzyme used in gluconeogenesis, both of the enzymes are ATP dependent.