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#Question id: 8852


The upper forelimbs of humans and bats have fairly similar skeletal structures, whereas the corresponding bones in whales have very different shapes and proportions. However, genetic data suggest that all three kinds of organisms diverged from a common ancestor at about the same time. Which of the following is the most likely explanation for these data?

#Unit 9. Diversity of Life Forms
  1. Humans and bats evolved by natural selection, and whales evolved by Lamarckian mechanisms.
  2. Forelimb evolution was adaptive in people and bats, but not in whales.
  3. Natural selection in an aquatic environment resulted in significant changes to whale forelimb anatomy.
  4. Genes mutate faster in whales than in humans or bats.
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#Question id: 997

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

Complete oxidation of 1 mole of which fatty acid would yield the most ATP?

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#Question id: 996

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

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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#Question id: 995

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

Saturated fatty acids are degraded by the stepwise  reactions of B oxidation, producing acetyl-CoA. Under aerobic conditions, how many ATP molecules would be produced as a consequence of removal of each acetyl-CoA?

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#Question id: 994

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

If the 16-carbon saturated fatty acid palmitate is oxidized completely to carbon dioxide and water (via the B-oxidation pathway and the citric acid cycle), and all of the energy-conserving products are used to drive ATP synthesis in the mitochondrion, the net yield of ATP per molecule of palmitate is:

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#Question id: 993

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

What is the correct order of function of the following enzymes of beta oxidation?

1. B-Hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase

2. Thiolase

3. Enoyl-CoA hydratase

4. Acyl-CoA dehydrogenase

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#Question id: 812

#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

Which of the following is not known to be involved in the process of assisted folding of proteins?