Carbohydrate Metabolism
50 Questions
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Questions and Answers
- 1.What is the main function of glycolysis?
- 2.Glycolysis is a pathway that is Independent of oxygen?
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.How many molecules of net ATP are generated?
- 4.Where does glycolysis take place?
- 5.How can cancer cells be depleted of ATP?
- 6.How many ATP equivalents are used in gluconeogenesis?
- 7.Where does gluconeogenesis mainly occur?
- 8.Why is gluconeogenesis important?
- 9.Gluconeogenesis is an anabolic pathway that makes glucose from pyruvate.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.Gluconeogenesis occurs during periods of fasting.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 11.A human brain will shut down without glucose.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 12.What is the importance of making glycogen?
- 13.What is the basic building block of glycogen?
- 14.What activates the storage of glucose?
- 15.Where is glycogen most abundant?
- 16.The key enzyme in glycogen synthesis is?
- 17.What is the condition that is caused by low concentrations of glucose within the blood?
- 18.What is Glycogenolysis regulated by?
- 19.How is Glucagon administered in the case of a diabetic emergency?
- 20.What is Glycogen broken down into?
- 21.Where in the body does Glycogenolysis occur?
- 22.What is produced during the oxidative phase of the Pentose Phosphate Pathway (PPP)?
- 23.What is produced during the non-oxidative phase of the PPP?
- 24.What is the ribose-5-phosphate used for?
- 25.What is the importance of glutathione production in the PPP?
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