Biochemistry Answers

2. What is the relationship between amino acids and the nitrogenous bases of purines and pyrimidines?

3. What is cloning? Cite its advantages and disadvantages.

1. Why a degenerate genetic code helps protect an organism from the effects of mutations?

Chemical tests on components of nucleic acids

A pH of 4 indicates that 

Draw the line/structural formulae for the following modified fatty acids:

a. 10-(Propoxy) decanoate, a synthetic fatty acid with antiparasitic activity used 

to treat African sleeping sickness, a disease caused by the protozoan T. brucei 

(the propoxy group is –O-CH2CH2CH3)

b. Phytanic acid (3,7,11,15-tetramethylhexadecanoate), found in dairy 

products

c. Lactobacillic acid (cis-11,12-methyleneoctadecanoate), found in various 

microorganisms

Name the simplest carbohydrate. Use this carbohydrate to illustrate the 

meaning of enantiomers by giving examples.

1. Role of ATP in biological oxidation
2. Functions and beta oxidation in the pentose phosphate pathway

Briefly describe the clinical biochemistry test(s) that would be used to monitor the patient during treatment.    

Assume that mitochondria contain 0.23 Molar KCL and 0.010 Molar NaCl. Calculate the grams per liter, of a carbohydrate similar to glucose with a molecular weight 240 amu, that will have the same osmolarity as the mitochondria.. Calculate answer to four decimal places, do not specify units in the answer.

What will happene to your DNA if hydrogen bonding disappears.