Practice Quiz

Topics in BOLD are additional for graduate students.
  1. Be prepared to draw or recognize the stick formulae of D-glucose, and D or L pentose, sucrose, mannose, maltose, cellobiose.
  2. List the structural differences between starch and cellulose.
  3. Explain boat and chair structures of sugars; be able to number the ring(s) of a given sugar.
  4. You do not have to learn the names of the amino acids, but when given two of them you may be asked to show how they form a peptide link.
  5. Explain the levels of structure for proteins.
  6. Name a given tripeptide.
  7. Show the structure of a fat that has three fatty acids the same and they are 16 carbon atoms in length.
  8. Draw oleic acid. (also learn the others in the book).
  9. What does ATP do?
  10. State the lock-and-key theory of enzymes.
  11. Explain feedback inhibition.
  12. Explain non-competitive inhibition.
  13. Sketch and name the various arrangements of bacteria, e.g., cocci.
  14. What is binary fission?
  15. Define autotroph and heterotroph.
  16. Why do more compounds accumulate during anaerobic metabolism?
  17. Explain the growth phases of microorganisms.
  18. What is diauxic growth?
  19. What are inducible and constitutive enzymes?
  20. Define habitat and niche.
  21. What is meant by a food chain?