Quiz AA

Question 1

Where does glutamate dehydrogenase activity occur?

Answer 1

Mitochondrial matrix of the liver

Question 2

What is an important amino acid for the maintenance of blood glucose is:

a. leucine
b. alanine
c. methionine
d. valine

Answer 2

Alanine

Question 3

Which amino acid is alway the first in a polypeptide chain?

Answer 3

Methionine

Question 4

Which of these is not a type of RNA (ribonucleic acid)

a. Ribosomal
b. Messenger
c. Deoxyribose
d. Transfer

Answer 4

Deoxyribose

Question 5

Glutamine is synthesised with which enzymes

Answer 5

Glutamine synthetase and glutamate dehydrogenase

Question 6

Why is glutamine important?

Answer 6

It is a nitrogen scavenger

Is a gluconeogenic precursor

Question 7

What forms alanine during prolonged exercise or starvation?

Answer 7

Amino acids for the carbons and nitrogen

Question 8

Glutamate dehydrogenase:

a. Is freely reversible
b. Is present in the mitochondrial matrix
c. Is present in the liver
d. a and b

Answer 8

Is freely reversible

Is present in the mitochondrial matrix

Question 9

Where can BCAA be oxidized?

Answer 9

The kidney and muscle

Question 10

Why does the ATP generated from different amino acid carbon skeletons vary?

Answer 10

Due to where they enter the TCA cycle