What is hydrolysis of macromolecules?
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Condensation is a chemical process by which 2 molecules are joined together to make a larger, more complex, molecule, with the loss of water. It is the basis for the synthesis of all the important biological macromolecules (carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, nucleic acids) from their simpler sub-units.
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Which of the following is likely to have the most toxic side effects to humans?
A. Inhibitors of protein synthesis B. Inhibitors of cell wall synthesis C. Disrupters of cell membrane structure D. Inhibitors of DNA synthesis
Which of the following is NOT produced in the
synthesis (light-independent) reactions? a. NADPH b. phosphoglyceric acid (PGA) c. phosphoglyceraldehyde (PGAL) d. glucose e. ribulose bisphosphate
Gene therapy can best be described as the ____
a. repair of a defect (mutation) in a gene b. insertion of normal genes to act in place of mutant genes c. insertion of human genes into other organisms d. cloning of genes to produce and purify therapeutically useful proteins e. mapping of all human genetic information
What is the argument that, although human mitochondria all descend from a single ancestral population, this may not be true for nuclear genomes?
What will be an ideal response?