Pregunta 1
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A rapidly dividing cell will have a greater abundance of which nucleotide?
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Guanine and Adenine because purine synthesis is more important for a developing cell
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Cytosine and Thiamine because pyrimidine synthesis is less taxing and therefore proceed more quickly
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The concentration of pyrimidines and purines will be equal regardless of the conditions
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Purines are critical for DNA replication, so purine concentration will be higher
Pregunta 2
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Which of the following is a nucleotide?
Pregunta 3
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For the previous question why was the correct answer the only nucleotide?
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It was the only answer that consisted of a nucleoside bound to a phosphate group
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All of the other answers were sugars
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All of the other answers were bases
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None of the other answers were biologically important molecules
Pregunta 4
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Which of the following is not a biological function of Nucleotides?
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They are precursors to glycogen and other phosphoglycerides
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Nucleotides exclusively compromise the universal energy currency
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They serve as metabolic regulators and mediate the action of many hormones
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Nucleotides entirely make up three major co-enzymes: NADH, FAD, and CoA
Pregunta 5
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cAMP is a nucleotide that mediates hormones
Pregunta 6
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Purine biosynthesis involves which of the following precursors?
Pregunta 7
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PRPP (Phosphoribosylpyrophosphate) is the source of the ribose sugar in...
Pregunta 8
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Which describes the committed step for purine de novo synthesis?
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Glutamine-PRPP amido-transferase is the active enzyme
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PRPP feeds into the committed step
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Glutamine feeds into the step and becomes glutamate
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All of the above
Pregunta 9
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THF is an enzyme that performs which of the following actions?
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Eliminates an amide group
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Transfers one carbon from N10-Formyl THF to the growing purine precursor
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Allosterically activates HGRPT
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Facilitates a Glutamine dependent nitrogen tranfer
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Facilitates ring closure of the growing purine
Pregunta 10
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The base hypoxanthine is described by which of the following statements?
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Inosinic Acid (IMP) is the nucleoside form of hypoxanthine
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Hypoxanthine is critical only to the conversion of IMP to GMP not IMP to AMP
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Hypoxanthine is reduced to xanthine during the purine synthesis pathway
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The oxidation of hypoxanthine to xanthine is blocked by allpurinol
Pregunta 11
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PRPP impacts which of the following?
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De novo synthesis of purines
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Direct production of IMP through PRPP's reaction with Hypoxanthine
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Direct production of GMP through PRPP's reaction with Guanine
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All of the above are catalyzed by HGPRT and all are true in healthy cells
Pregunta 12
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Which of the following is deficient in Gout?
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HGPRT
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ADA (adenosine deaminase)
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PNP (purine nucleoside phosphorylase)
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You have to be more specific, gout could be the result of numerous enzyme deficiencies
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XO (xanthine oxidase)
Pregunta 13
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Lesch Nyhan Syndrome is caused by a deficiency in which of the following?
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PRPP
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XO (xanthine oxidase)
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ADA (adenosine deaminase)
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HGPRT
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You have to provide more information, Lesch Nyhan Syndrome could be caused by the deficiency of a number of different enzymes
Pregunta 14
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Which is the committed step of Pyrimidine synthesis?
Pregunta 15
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Familial Orotic Aciduria can be treated using which of the following methods?
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There is no curative treatment, simply a management of symptoms
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Delivery of large doses of orally administered uridine to simply bypass the early steps of pyrimidine synthesis
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Delivery of large doses of the missing/deficient orotate phosphoribosyltransferase (OPRT)
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Delivery of fully synthesized pyrimidines for uptake into the cell
Pregunta 16
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Which of the following are made by a two enzyme complex (Thymidylate Synthetase and Dihydrofolate reductase) after ribonucleotide reductase acts on freshly minted purines and pyrimidines?
Pregunta 17
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dATP is the master negative regulator of Ribonucleotide Reductase.
Pregunta 18
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Which of the following enzymes should I know really well?
Pregunta 19
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Why do we use "De Novo" instead of saying from scratch?
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Because Carl Sagan's famous Apple Pie from scratch comment makes it too awesome to use in any setting other than musing about the universe
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Because De Novo is more descriptive
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To confuse those who are sadly lacking in medical jargon
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Because fancy language is awesome