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Do You Know About Side Effects Of Cholesterol? Trivia Quiz

Explore the complexities of metabolic disorders and biochemical genetics in this trivia quiz. Test your knowledge on diseases like Gaucher's, mechanisms of cholesterol transport, and genetic enzyme markers. Essential for medical...

Questions: 14 | Attempts: 206 | Last updated: Mar 1, 2025

Sample Question 1
A 5-year-old girl is presented with hepatosplenomegaly, abnormal bleeding, defects in long bone development, and neurological dysfunction. A liver biopsy reveals an accumulation of glucocerebroside. These symptoms indicate the child is suffering from:

Fabry's disease

Niemann-Pick disease

Krabbe's disease

Gaucher's disease

Hurler syndrome

Sample Question 2
3-hydroxy, 3-methylglutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA) is not only the substrate for the rate-limiting enzyme of cholesterol synthesis, but also an intermediate in the synthesis of:

Heme

Purines

Pyrimidines

Ketone bodies

Glutathione

Sample Question 3
The alleles in the ABO blood group system code for:

Integral membrane proteins

Glycosyl transferases

Peripheral membrane proteins

Cytoskeletal proteins

Phosphoglyceride-synthesizing enzymes