BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING

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______ 1. Which of the following is not a characteristic of fungi?
A. Cell walls
B. Chlorophyll
C. Cell walls

D. Nutrition by absorption

______ 2. This type of microorganism derives nourishment from a living host.

A. Bacteria
B. Viruses
C. Fungi

D. Protozoa

______ 3. These microorganisms grow in an air atmosphere and also grow anaerobically.
A. Anaerobes
B. Aerobes
C. Obligate Anaerobes
D. Facultative
______ 4. Fungi is considered
A. Photoheterotrophs

B. Photoautotrophs

C. Chemoautotrophs

D.Chemoheterotrophs

______ 5. The following statements describe a prokaryotic cell except

A. They have internal organelles
C. Their nucleus is not enclosed by a membrane
B. They have rigid cell walls
D. Scattered through the membrane
______ 6. It is the powerhouse of the eukaryotic cell
A. Mitochondrion
B. Golgi Apparatus C. Microtubules

D. Lysosome

______ 7. It is where protein are stored temporarily in eukaryotic cells.

A. Mitochondrion
B. Golgi Apparatus C. Chloroplast

D. Lysosome

______ 8. The hydrophilic heads of a bacterial cell wall

A. Face inward
C. Are loosely attached to the membrane surface
B. Face outward
D. Scattered through the membrane
______ 9. These are substances responsible for the synthesis of protein in both eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells.
A. Ribosomes
B. Nucleic Acid
C. Amino Acids
D. Lipids
______ 10. In the transmission of genetic information, which of the following statement is not correct?
A. DNA strand is copied into a complimentary RNA molecule
B. An RNA sequence dictates a protein sequence
C. There is one-to-one relationship between the sequence of the nucleotides in a DNA molecule and the
sequence of amino acids in the protein
D. Production of proteins does not proceed directly from DNA
______ 11. Small molecules pass through the cell membrane by
A. Osmosis
B. Insertion
C. Diffusion
______ 12. DNA can do the following except
A. Direct replication B. Procedure protein C. Direct transcription

D. Absorption
D. Store genetic information

______ 13. What a cell is like and what it can de depend largely on the _________ it contains
A. Protein
B. DNA
C. RNA
D. Carbohydrates
______ 14. The presence of a catalyst in a reaction
A. Changes the position of equilibrium
B. Lowers energy barrier
C. Do not have effect on the attainment of the transition state
D. Distorts substrate

______ 15. The specificity of enzyme catalysis is attributed to the _________ structure of the protein.
A. Primary
B. Secondary
C. Complex Tertiary
D. Quaternary
______ 16. In the induced-fit model of enzyme-substrate interaction
A. The substrate fits exactly into the enzyme
B. The substrate is distorted to fit into the enzyme
C. The enzyme is distorted to facilitate the binding of the substrate
D. Both enzyme and substrate are distorted to reach the transition state
______ 17. When all active sites of the enzyme are occupied by the substrate, the enzyme is said to be
A. Stable
B. Saturated
C. In Equilibrium
D. In transition
______ 18. The turn-over number of enzyme is a rough measure of the
A. Amount of enzyme in a sample
C. Catalytic efficiency of the enzyme
B. Stability of the enzyme
D. Specificity of the enzyme
______ 19. In competitive inhibition
A. The reaction velocity is decreased but not Vmax.
B. The reaction velocity is increased but not Vmax.
C. The reaction velocity and Vmax is decreased
D. Vmax decreased and Km is unchanged
______ 20. In the presence of non-competitive inhibitor
A. Vmax is unchanged and Km is increased
B. Vmax is decreased and Km is unchanged

C. Vmax is increased and Km is unchanged

D. Vmax is increased and Km is decreased

______ 21. Immobilized enzyme technology is desirable for the following reasons, except
A. Enzymes can retain their activity longer
B. Can increase the catalytic efficiency for multi step conversion
C. It can reused continuously
D. The enzymes can leave the reactor with the product and they could recovered easily
______ 22. The coupling of energy-requiring and energy releasing reaction in a microorganism is made
possible by
A. ADP
B. ATP
C. NAD
D. FAD
______ 23. Exorgenic reactions, which use water in the breaking of chemical bonds, are called
A. CatabolismB. Anabolism
C. Metabolism
D. Fermentation
______ 24. In biosynthesis, the energy of ATP molecule is needed to
A. Establish covalent bonds for building blocks
C. Link together complex substances
B. Synthesize complex substances
D. Connect covalent bonds
______ 25. ATP is called a high energy molecule because it releases an amount of energy when it
A. Acquires a phosphate group and is attached to the phosphate chain
B. Losses its terminal phosphate group
C. Losses its middle phosphate group
D. Maintains all its phosphate group
______ 26. Respiration is composed of three processes. These are
A. Glycolysis, pentose phosphate pathway, and electron transport chain
B. Glycolysis, Kreb cycle, and electron transport chain

C. Glycolysis, carbon fixation, and gluconeogenesis

D. Glycolysis, Calvin cycle, and electron transport chain