Lec 2 - Cholesterol

Question 1

body can synthesize all the blank it needs like in the case of vegans

Answer 1

cholesterol

Question 2

three important thigns that cholesterol does

Answer 2

membrane, precursor for bile acids and steroid hormones

Question 3

excess cholesterol can precipitate to form blank, and can lead to blank which increases heart attacks and strokes

Answer 3

gallstones, arterial plaques

Question 4

cholesterol causes a membrane to become blank

Answer 4

stiffer

Question 5

cholesterol is the animal equivalent to the blank of a plant

Answer 5

cell wall

Question 6

as tissues cool, cholesterol keeps our membranes fluid by blank fluidity

Answer 6

increasing

Question 7

most cholesterol is made in the blank and blank

Answer 7

liver, intestinal mucosa

Question 8

cholesterol has blank carbons and is derived from acetyl coA via blank

Answer 8

27, isoprenes

Question 9

rate limiting enzyme of synthesis of cholesterol

Answer 9

hmg coA reductase

Question 10

bio synthesis of cholesterol slide is important

Answer 10

ok

Question 11

this promotes expression of the hmg coA reductase gene and is a transcription factor involved in regulating cholesterol biosynthesis

Answer 11

SREBP

Question 12

waxy lipid compound obtained from diet or by biosynthesis from acetyl coA

Answer 12

cholesterol

Question 13

other isoprenoids important in biochem that we cant make

Answer 13

vitamin a,e,k