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Biochemistry

Subject : Biochemistry
Biochemistry and the Organization of Cells
1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)

Water The Solvent for Biochemical Reactions


1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)

Amino Acids and Peptides


1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
The Three Dimensional Structure of Proteins
1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)

Protein Purification and Characterization Techniques


1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)

The Behavior of Proteins Enzymes


1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)

The Behavior of Proteins Enzymes Mechanisms and Control


1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)

Lipids and Proteins Are Associated in Biological Membranes


1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)

Nucleic Acids How Structure Conveys Information


1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)

Biosynthesis of Nucleic Acids Replication


1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)

Transcription of the Genetic Code The Biosynthesis of RNA


1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)

Protein Synthesis Translation of the Genetic Message


1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)

Nucleic Acid Biotechnology


1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)

Viruses Cancer and Immunology


1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)

The Importance of Energy Changes and Electron Transfer in


Metabolism
1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)

Carbohydrates
1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)

Glycolysis
1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)

Storage Mechanisms and Control in Carbohydrate Metabolism


1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)

The Citric Acid Cycle


1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)

Electron Transport and Oxidative Phosphorylation


1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
(click here)
254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
(click here)
256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)

Lipid Metabolism
1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
(click here)
254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
(click here)
256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)
259. Catabolism of Lipids - Answer (click here)
260. The Energy Yield from the Oxidationof Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
261. Catabolism of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Odd-Carbon Fatty Acids -
Answer (click here)
262. Ketone Bodies - Answer (click here)
263. Fatty-Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
264. Ketone Bodies and Effective Weight Loss - Answer (click here)
265. Synthesis of Acylglycerols and Compound Lipids - Answer (click here)
266. A Gene for Obesity - Answer (click here)
267. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase-A New Target in the Fight against Obesity? -
Answer (click here)
268. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
269. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)

Photosynthesis
1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
(click here)
254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
(click here)
256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)
259. Catabolism of Lipids - Answer (click here)
260. The Energy Yield from the Oxidationof Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
261. Catabolism of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Odd-Carbon Fatty Acids -
Answer (click here)
262. Ketone Bodies - Answer (click here)
263. Fatty-Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
264. Ketone Bodies and Effective Weight Loss - Answer (click here)
265. Synthesis of Acylglycerols and Compound Lipids - Answer (click here)
266. A Gene for Obesity - Answer (click here)
267. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase-A New Target in the Fight against Obesity? -
Answer (click here)
268. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
269. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
270. Chloroplasts Are the Site of Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
271. The Relationship between Wavelength and Energy of Light - Answer
(click here)
272. Photosystems I and II and the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis - Answer
(click here)
273. Cyclic Electron Transport in Photosystem I - Answer (click here)
274. Photosynthesis and ATP Production - Answer (click here)
275. Killing Weeds by Inhibiting Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
276. Evolutionary Implications of Photosynthesis with and without Oxygen -
Answer (click here)
277. Dark Reactions of Photosynthesis Fix CO2 - Answer (click here)
278. Chloroplast Genes - Answer (click here)
279. CO2 Fixation in Tropical Plants - Answer (click here)

The Metabolism of Nitrogen


1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
(click here)
254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
(click here)
256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)
259. Catabolism of Lipids - Answer (click here)
260. The Energy Yield from the Oxidationof Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
261. Catabolism of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Odd-Carbon Fatty Acids -
Answer (click here)
262. Ketone Bodies - Answer (click here)
263. Fatty-Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
264. Ketone Bodies and Effective Weight Loss - Answer (click here)
265. Synthesis of Acylglycerols and Compound Lipids - Answer (click here)
266. A Gene for Obesity - Answer (click here)
267. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase-A New Target in the Fight against Obesity? -
Answer (click here)
268. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
269. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
270. Chloroplasts Are the Site of Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
271. The Relationship between Wavelength and Energy of Light - Answer
(click here)
272. Photosystems I and II and the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis - Answer
(click here)
273. Cyclic Electron Transport in Photosystem I - Answer (click here)
274. Photosynthesis and ATP Production - Answer (click here)
275. Killing Weeds by Inhibiting Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
276. Evolutionary Implications of Photosynthesis with and without Oxygen -
Answer (click here)
277. Dark Reactions of Photosynthesis Fix CO2 - Answer (click here)
278. Chloroplast Genes - Answer (click here)
279. CO2 Fixation in Tropical Plants - Answer (click here)
280. Nitrogen Metabolism: An Overview - Answer (click here)
281. Nitrogen Fixation - Answer (click here)
282. Why Is the Nitrogen Content of Fertilizers So Important? - Answer (click
here)
283. Feedback Inhibition in Nitrogen Metabolism - Answer (click here)
284. Amino Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
285. Essential Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
286. Amino Acid Catabolism - Answer (click here)
287. Water and the Disposal of Nitrogen Wastes - Answer (click here)
288. Chemotherapy and Antibiotics - Taking Advantage of the Need for Folic
Acid - Answer (click here)
289. Purine Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
290. Purine Catabolism - Answer (click here)
291. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome - Answer (click here)
292. Pyrimidine Biosynthesis and Catabolism - Answer (click here)
293. Conversion of Ribonucleotides to Deoxyribonucleotides - Answer (click
here)
294. Conversion of dUTP to dTTP - Answer (click here)

Integration of Metabolism Cellular Signaling


1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
(click here)
254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
(click here)
256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)
259. Catabolism of Lipids - Answer (click here)
260. The Energy Yield from the Oxidationof Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
261. Catabolism of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Odd-Carbon Fatty Acids -
Answer (click here)
262. Ketone Bodies - Answer (click here)
263. Fatty-Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
264. Ketone Bodies and Effective Weight Loss - Answer (click here)
265. Synthesis of Acylglycerols and Compound Lipids - Answer (click here)
266. A Gene for Obesity - Answer (click here)
267. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase-A New Target in the Fight against Obesity? -
Answer (click here)
268. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
269. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
270. Chloroplasts Are the Site of Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
271. The Relationship between Wavelength and Energy of Light - Answer
(click here)
272. Photosystems I and II and the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis - Answer
(click here)
273. Cyclic Electron Transport in Photosystem I - Answer (click here)
274. Photosynthesis and ATP Production - Answer (click here)
275. Killing Weeds by Inhibiting Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
276. Evolutionary Implications of Photosynthesis with and without Oxygen -
Answer (click here)
277. Dark Reactions of Photosynthesis Fix CO2 - Answer (click here)
278. Chloroplast Genes - Answer (click here)
279. CO2 Fixation in Tropical Plants - Answer (click here)
280. Nitrogen Metabolism: An Overview - Answer (click here)
281. Nitrogen Fixation - Answer (click here)
282. Why Is the Nitrogen Content of Fertilizers So Important? - Answer (click
here)
283. Feedback Inhibition in Nitrogen Metabolism - Answer (click here)
284. Amino Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
285. Essential Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
286. Amino Acid Catabolism - Answer (click here)
287. Water and the Disposal of Nitrogen Wastes - Answer (click here)
288. Chemotherapy and Antibiotics - Taking Advantage of the Need for Folic
Acid - Answer (click here)
289. Purine Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
290. Purine Catabolism - Answer (click here)
291. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome - Answer (click here)
292. Pyrimidine Biosynthesis and Catabolism - Answer (click here)
293. Conversion of Ribonucleotides to Deoxyribonucleotides - Answer (click
here)
294. Conversion of dUTP to dTTP - Answer (click here)
295. Connections between Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
296. Biochemistry and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
297. What are required nutrients? - Answer (click here)
298. Why do we need vitamins? - Answer (click here)
299. What are minerals? - Answer (click here)
300. The Food Pyramid - Answer (click here)
301. What is obesity? - Answer (click here)
302. Alcohol Consumption and Addiction - Answer (click here)
303. Iron: An Example of a Mineral Requirement - Answer (click here)
304. Hormones and Second Messengers - Answer (click here)
305. What are hormones? - Answer (click here)
306. How do second messengers work? Cyclic AMP and G Proteins - Answer
(click here)
307. Calcium Ion as a Second Messenger - Answer (click here)
308. Receptor Tyrosine Kinases - Answer (click here)
309. Hormones and the Control of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
310. Insulin and Its Effects - Answer (click here)
311. Insulin and Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
312. A Workout a Day Keeps Diabetes Away? - Answer (click here)
313. The Search for Longevity - Answer (click here)
Living Cell
1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
(click here)
254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
(click here)
256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)
259. Catabolism of Lipids - Answer (click here)
260. The Energy Yield from the Oxidationof Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
261. Catabolism of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Odd-Carbon Fatty Acids -
Answer (click here)
262. Ketone Bodies - Answer (click here)
263. Fatty-Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
264. Ketone Bodies and Effective Weight Loss - Answer (click here)
265. Synthesis of Acylglycerols and Compound Lipids - Answer (click here)
266. A Gene for Obesity - Answer (click here)
267. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase-A New Target in the Fight against Obesity? -
Answer (click here)
268. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
269. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
270. Chloroplasts Are the Site of Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
271. The Relationship between Wavelength and Energy of Light - Answer
(click here)
272. Photosystems I and II and the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis - Answer
(click here)
273. Cyclic Electron Transport in Photosystem I - Answer (click here)
274. Photosynthesis and ATP Production - Answer (click here)
275. Killing Weeds by Inhibiting Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
276. Evolutionary Implications of Photosynthesis with and without Oxygen -
Answer (click here)
277. Dark Reactions of Photosynthesis Fix CO2 - Answer (click here)
278. Chloroplast Genes - Answer (click here)
279. CO2 Fixation in Tropical Plants - Answer (click here)
280. Nitrogen Metabolism: An Overview - Answer (click here)
281. Nitrogen Fixation - Answer (click here)
282. Why Is the Nitrogen Content of Fertilizers So Important? - Answer (click
here)
283. Feedback Inhibition in Nitrogen Metabolism - Answer (click here)
284. Amino Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
285. Essential Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
286. Amino Acid Catabolism - Answer (click here)
287. Water and the Disposal of Nitrogen Wastes - Answer (click here)
288. Chemotherapy and Antibiotics - Taking Advantage of the Need for Folic
Acid - Answer (click here)
289. Purine Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
290. Purine Catabolism - Answer (click here)
291. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome - Answer (click here)
292. Pyrimidine Biosynthesis and Catabolism - Answer (click here)
293. Conversion of Ribonucleotides to Deoxyribonucleotides - Answer (click
here)
294. Conversion of dUTP to dTTP - Answer (click here)
295. Connections between Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
296. Biochemistry and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
297. What are required nutrients? - Answer (click here)
298. Why do we need vitamins? - Answer (click here)
299. What are minerals? - Answer (click here)
300. The Food Pyramid - Answer (click here)
301. What is obesity? - Answer (click here)
302. Alcohol Consumption and Addiction - Answer (click here)
303. Iron: An Example of a Mineral Requirement - Answer (click here)
304. Hormones and Second Messengers - Answer (click here)
305. What are hormones? - Answer (click here)
306. How do second messengers work? Cyclic AMP and G Proteins - Answer
(click here)
307. Calcium Ion as a Second Messenger - Answer (click here)
308. Receptor Tyrosine Kinases - Answer (click here)
309. Hormones and the Control of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
310. Insulin and Its Effects - Answer (click here)
311. Insulin and Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
312. A Workout a Day Keeps Diabetes Away? - Answer (click here)
313. The Search for Longevity - Answer (click here)
314. Living Cell - Answer (click here)
315. Types of Living cells - Answer (click here)
316. Sub cellular Organelles - Answer (click here)
317. Cell Membrane and its Functions - Answer (click here)
318. Cell Wall and its Functions - Answer (click here)
319. Nucleus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
320. Mitochondria and its Functions - Answer (click here)
321. Endoplasmic reticulum and its Functions - Answer (click here)
322. Golgi apparatus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
323. Ribosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
324. Lysosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
325. Peroxisomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
326. Cytoplasm and its Functions - Answer (click here)
327. Chloroplasts and its Functions - Answer (click here)
328. Cell Vacuoles - Answer (click here)
329. Blood: Composition and Functions - Answer (click here)
330. Formation of blood - Answer (click here)
331. Body Fluids - Answer (click here)
332. Buffers - Answer (click here)
333. Uses of buffer - Answer (click here)
334. Buffers of blood - Answer (click here)
335. Acids and bases - Answer (click here)

Biomolecules
1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
(click here)
254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
(click here)
256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)
259. Catabolism of Lipids - Answer (click here)
260. The Energy Yield from the Oxidationof Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
261. Catabolism of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Odd-Carbon Fatty Acids -
Answer (click here)
262. Ketone Bodies - Answer (click here)
263. Fatty-Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
264. Ketone Bodies and Effective Weight Loss - Answer (click here)
265. Synthesis of Acylglycerols and Compound Lipids - Answer (click here)
266. A Gene for Obesity - Answer (click here)
267. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase-A New Target in the Fight against Obesity? -
Answer (click here)
268. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
269. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
270. Chloroplasts Are the Site of Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
271. The Relationship between Wavelength and Energy of Light - Answer
(click here)
272. Photosystems I and II and the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis - Answer
(click here)
273. Cyclic Electron Transport in Photosystem I - Answer (click here)
274. Photosynthesis and ATP Production - Answer (click here)
275. Killing Weeds by Inhibiting Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
276. Evolutionary Implications of Photosynthesis with and without Oxygen -
Answer (click here)
277. Dark Reactions of Photosynthesis Fix CO2 - Answer (click here)
278. Chloroplast Genes - Answer (click here)
279. CO2 Fixation in Tropical Plants - Answer (click here)
280. Nitrogen Metabolism: An Overview - Answer (click here)
281. Nitrogen Fixation - Answer (click here)
282. Why Is the Nitrogen Content of Fertilizers So Important? - Answer (click
here)
283. Feedback Inhibition in Nitrogen Metabolism - Answer (click here)
284. Amino Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
285. Essential Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
286. Amino Acid Catabolism - Answer (click here)
287. Water and the Disposal of Nitrogen Wastes - Answer (click here)
288. Chemotherapy and Antibiotics - Taking Advantage of the Need for Folic
Acid - Answer (click here)
289. Purine Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
290. Purine Catabolism - Answer (click here)
291. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome - Answer (click here)
292. Pyrimidine Biosynthesis and Catabolism - Answer (click here)
293. Conversion of Ribonucleotides to Deoxyribonucleotides - Answer (click
here)
294. Conversion of dUTP to dTTP - Answer (click here)
295. Connections between Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
296. Biochemistry and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
297. What are required nutrients? - Answer (click here)
298. Why do we need vitamins? - Answer (click here)
299. What are minerals? - Answer (click here)
300. The Food Pyramid - Answer (click here)
301. What is obesity? - Answer (click here)
302. Alcohol Consumption and Addiction - Answer (click here)
303. Iron: An Example of a Mineral Requirement - Answer (click here)
304. Hormones and Second Messengers - Answer (click here)
305. What are hormones? - Answer (click here)
306. How do second messengers work? Cyclic AMP and G Proteins - Answer
(click here)
307. Calcium Ion as a Second Messenger - Answer (click here)
308. Receptor Tyrosine Kinases - Answer (click here)
309. Hormones and the Control of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
310. Insulin and Its Effects - Answer (click here)
311. Insulin and Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
312. A Workout a Day Keeps Diabetes Away? - Answer (click here)
313. The Search for Longevity - Answer (click here)
314. Living Cell - Answer (click here)
315. Types of Living cells - Answer (click here)
316. Sub cellular Organelles - Answer (click here)
317. Cell Membrane and its Functions - Answer (click here)
318. Cell Wall and its Functions - Answer (click here)
319. Nucleus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
320. Mitochondria and its Functions - Answer (click here)
321. Endoplasmic reticulum and its Functions - Answer (click here)
322. Golgi apparatus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
323. Ribosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
324. Lysosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
325. Peroxisomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
326. Cytoplasm and its Functions - Answer (click here)
327. Chloroplasts and its Functions - Answer (click here)
328. Cell Vacuoles - Answer (click here)
329. Blood: Composition and Functions - Answer (click here)
330. Formation of blood - Answer (click here)
331. Body Fluids - Answer (click here)
332. Buffers - Answer (click here)
333. Uses of buffer - Answer (click here)
334. Buffers of blood - Answer (click here)
335. Acids and bases - Answer (click here)
336. Biomolecule: Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
337. Classification and Functions of Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
338. Proteins: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
339. Lipids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
340. Nucleic acids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)

Enzymes
1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
(click here)
254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
(click here)
256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)
259. Catabolism of Lipids - Answer (click here)
260. The Energy Yield from the Oxidationof Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
261. Catabolism of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Odd-Carbon Fatty Acids -
Answer (click here)
262. Ketone Bodies - Answer (click here)
263. Fatty-Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
264. Ketone Bodies and Effective Weight Loss - Answer (click here)
265. Synthesis of Acylglycerols and Compound Lipids - Answer (click here)
266. A Gene for Obesity - Answer (click here)
267. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase-A New Target in the Fight against Obesity? -
Answer (click here)
268. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
269. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
270. Chloroplasts Are the Site of Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
271. The Relationship between Wavelength and Energy of Light - Answer
(click here)
272. Photosystems I and II and the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis - Answer
(click here)
273. Cyclic Electron Transport in Photosystem I - Answer (click here)
274. Photosynthesis and ATP Production - Answer (click here)
275. Killing Weeds by Inhibiting Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
276. Evolutionary Implications of Photosynthesis with and without Oxygen -
Answer (click here)
277. Dark Reactions of Photosynthesis Fix CO2 - Answer (click here)
278. Chloroplast Genes - Answer (click here)
279. CO2 Fixation in Tropical Plants - Answer (click here)
280. Nitrogen Metabolism: An Overview - Answer (click here)
281. Nitrogen Fixation - Answer (click here)
282. Why Is the Nitrogen Content of Fertilizers So Important? - Answer (click
here)
283. Feedback Inhibition in Nitrogen Metabolism - Answer (click here)
284. Amino Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
285. Essential Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
286. Amino Acid Catabolism - Answer (click here)
287. Water and the Disposal of Nitrogen Wastes - Answer (click here)
288. Chemotherapy and Antibiotics - Taking Advantage of the Need for Folic
Acid - Answer (click here)
289. Purine Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
290. Purine Catabolism - Answer (click here)
291. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome - Answer (click here)
292. Pyrimidine Biosynthesis and Catabolism - Answer (click here)
293. Conversion of Ribonucleotides to Deoxyribonucleotides - Answer (click
here)
294. Conversion of dUTP to dTTP - Answer (click here)
295. Connections between Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
296. Biochemistry and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
297. What are required nutrients? - Answer (click here)
298. Why do we need vitamins? - Answer (click here)
299. What are minerals? - Answer (click here)
300. The Food Pyramid - Answer (click here)
301. What is obesity? - Answer (click here)
302. Alcohol Consumption and Addiction - Answer (click here)
303. Iron: An Example of a Mineral Requirement - Answer (click here)
304. Hormones and Second Messengers - Answer (click here)
305. What are hormones? - Answer (click here)
306. How do second messengers work? Cyclic AMP and G Proteins - Answer
(click here)
307. Calcium Ion as a Second Messenger - Answer (click here)
308. Receptor Tyrosine Kinases - Answer (click here)
309. Hormones and the Control of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
310. Insulin and Its Effects - Answer (click here)
311. Insulin and Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
312. A Workout a Day Keeps Diabetes Away? - Answer (click here)
313. The Search for Longevity - Answer (click here)
314. Living Cell - Answer (click here)
315. Types of Living cells - Answer (click here)
316. Sub cellular Organelles - Answer (click here)
317. Cell Membrane and its Functions - Answer (click here)
318. Cell Wall and its Functions - Answer (click here)
319. Nucleus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
320. Mitochondria and its Functions - Answer (click here)
321. Endoplasmic reticulum and its Functions - Answer (click here)
322. Golgi apparatus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
323. Ribosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
324. Lysosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
325. Peroxisomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
326. Cytoplasm and its Functions - Answer (click here)
327. Chloroplasts and its Functions - Answer (click here)
328. Cell Vacuoles - Answer (click here)
329. Blood: Composition and Functions - Answer (click here)
330. Formation of blood - Answer (click here)
331. Body Fluids - Answer (click here)
332. Buffers - Answer (click here)
333. Uses of buffer - Answer (click here)
334. Buffers of blood - Answer (click here)
335. Acids and bases - Answer (click here)
336. Biomolecule: Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
337. Classification and Functions of Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
338. Proteins: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
339. Lipids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
340. Nucleic acids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
341. Enzymes - Answer (click here)
342. Chemical nature of enzymes - Answer (click here)
343. Naming of enzymes - Answer (click here)
344. Classification of enzymes - Answer (click here)
345. Factors influencing enzyme activity - Answer (click here)
346. Types of enzyme inhibition - Answer (click here)
347. Iso enzymes - Answer (click here)
348. Importance of enzymes - Answer (click here)

Carbohydrates
1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
(click here)
254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
(click here)
256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)
259. Catabolism of Lipids - Answer (click here)
260. The Energy Yield from the Oxidationof Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
261. Catabolism of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Odd-Carbon Fatty Acids -
Answer (click here)
262. Ketone Bodies - Answer (click here)
263. Fatty-Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
264. Ketone Bodies and Effective Weight Loss - Answer (click here)
265. Synthesis of Acylglycerols and Compound Lipids - Answer (click here)
266. A Gene for Obesity - Answer (click here)
267. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase-A New Target in the Fight against Obesity? -
Answer (click here)
268. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
269. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
270. Chloroplasts Are the Site of Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
271. The Relationship between Wavelength and Energy of Light - Answer
(click here)
272. Photosystems I and II and the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis - Answer
(click here)
273. Cyclic Electron Transport in Photosystem I - Answer (click here)
274. Photosynthesis and ATP Production - Answer (click here)
275. Killing Weeds by Inhibiting Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
276. Evolutionary Implications of Photosynthesis with and without Oxygen -
Answer (click here)
277. Dark Reactions of Photosynthesis Fix CO2 - Answer (click here)
278. Chloroplast Genes - Answer (click here)
279. CO2 Fixation in Tropical Plants - Answer (click here)
280. Nitrogen Metabolism: An Overview - Answer (click here)
281. Nitrogen Fixation - Answer (click here)
282. Why Is the Nitrogen Content of Fertilizers So Important? - Answer (click
here)
283. Feedback Inhibition in Nitrogen Metabolism - Answer (click here)
284. Amino Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
285. Essential Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
286. Amino Acid Catabolism - Answer (click here)
287. Water and the Disposal of Nitrogen Wastes - Answer (click here)
288. Chemotherapy and Antibiotics - Taking Advantage of the Need for Folic
Acid - Answer (click here)
289. Purine Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
290. Purine Catabolism - Answer (click here)
291. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome - Answer (click here)
292. Pyrimidine Biosynthesis and Catabolism - Answer (click here)
293. Conversion of Ribonucleotides to Deoxyribonucleotides - Answer (click
here)
294. Conversion of dUTP to dTTP - Answer (click here)
295. Connections between Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
296. Biochemistry and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
297. What are required nutrients? - Answer (click here)
298. Why do we need vitamins? - Answer (click here)
299. What are minerals? - Answer (click here)
300. The Food Pyramid - Answer (click here)
301. What is obesity? - Answer (click here)
302. Alcohol Consumption and Addiction - Answer (click here)
303. Iron: An Example of a Mineral Requirement - Answer (click here)
304. Hormones and Second Messengers - Answer (click here)
305. What are hormones? - Answer (click here)
306. How do second messengers work? Cyclic AMP and G Proteins - Answer
(click here)
307. Calcium Ion as a Second Messenger - Answer (click here)
308. Receptor Tyrosine Kinases - Answer (click here)
309. Hormones and the Control of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
310. Insulin and Its Effects - Answer (click here)
311. Insulin and Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
312. A Workout a Day Keeps Diabetes Away? - Answer (click here)
313. The Search for Longevity - Answer (click here)
314. Living Cell - Answer (click here)
315. Types of Living cells - Answer (click here)
316. Sub cellular Organelles - Answer (click here)
317. Cell Membrane and its Functions - Answer (click here)
318. Cell Wall and its Functions - Answer (click here)
319. Nucleus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
320. Mitochondria and its Functions - Answer (click here)
321. Endoplasmic reticulum and its Functions - Answer (click here)
322. Golgi apparatus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
323. Ribosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
324. Lysosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
325. Peroxisomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
326. Cytoplasm and its Functions - Answer (click here)
327. Chloroplasts and its Functions - Answer (click here)
328. Cell Vacuoles - Answer (click here)
329. Blood: Composition and Functions - Answer (click here)
330. Formation of blood - Answer (click here)
331. Body Fluids - Answer (click here)
332. Buffers - Answer (click here)
333. Uses of buffer - Answer (click here)
334. Buffers of blood - Answer (click here)
335. Acids and bases - Answer (click here)
336. Biomolecule: Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
337. Classification and Functions of Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
338. Proteins: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
339. Lipids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
340. Nucleic acids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
341. Enzymes - Answer (click here)
342. Chemical nature of enzymes - Answer (click here)
343. Naming of enzymes - Answer (click here)
344. Classification of enzymes - Answer (click here)
345. Factors influencing enzyme activity - Answer (click here)
346. Types of enzyme inhibition - Answer (click here)
347. Iso enzymes - Answer (click here)
348. Importance of enzymes - Answer (click here)
349. Functions of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
350. Classification of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
351. Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
352. Physical properties of monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
353. Chemical properties of glucose - Answer (click here)
354. Haworth projection formula of glucose and fructose - Answer (click here)
355. Disaccharides - Answer (click here)
356. Poly saccharides - Answer (click here)

Proteins
1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
(click here)
254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
(click here)
256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)
259. Catabolism of Lipids - Answer (click here)
260. The Energy Yield from the Oxidationof Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
261. Catabolism of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Odd-Carbon Fatty Acids -
Answer (click here)
262. Ketone Bodies - Answer (click here)
263. Fatty-Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
264. Ketone Bodies and Effective Weight Loss - Answer (click here)
265. Synthesis of Acylglycerols and Compound Lipids - Answer (click here)
266. A Gene for Obesity - Answer (click here)
267. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase-A New Target in the Fight against Obesity? -
Answer (click here)
268. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
269. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
270. Chloroplasts Are the Site of Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
271. The Relationship between Wavelength and Energy of Light - Answer
(click here)
272. Photosystems I and II and the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis - Answer
(click here)
273. Cyclic Electron Transport in Photosystem I - Answer (click here)
274. Photosynthesis and ATP Production - Answer (click here)
275. Killing Weeds by Inhibiting Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
276. Evolutionary Implications of Photosynthesis with and without Oxygen -
Answer (click here)
277. Dark Reactions of Photosynthesis Fix CO2 - Answer (click here)
278. Chloroplast Genes - Answer (click here)
279. CO2 Fixation in Tropical Plants - Answer (click here)
280. Nitrogen Metabolism: An Overview - Answer (click here)
281. Nitrogen Fixation - Answer (click here)
282. Why Is the Nitrogen Content of Fertilizers So Important? - Answer (click
here)
283. Feedback Inhibition in Nitrogen Metabolism - Answer (click here)
284. Amino Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
285. Essential Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
286. Amino Acid Catabolism - Answer (click here)
287. Water and the Disposal of Nitrogen Wastes - Answer (click here)
288. Chemotherapy and Antibiotics - Taking Advantage of the Need for Folic
Acid - Answer (click here)
289. Purine Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
290. Purine Catabolism - Answer (click here)
291. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome - Answer (click here)
292. Pyrimidine Biosynthesis and Catabolism - Answer (click here)
293. Conversion of Ribonucleotides to Deoxyribonucleotides - Answer (click
here)
294. Conversion of dUTP to dTTP - Answer (click here)
295. Connections between Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
296. Biochemistry and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
297. What are required nutrients? - Answer (click here)
298. Why do we need vitamins? - Answer (click here)
299. What are minerals? - Answer (click here)
300. The Food Pyramid - Answer (click here)
301. What is obesity? - Answer (click here)
302. Alcohol Consumption and Addiction - Answer (click here)
303. Iron: An Example of a Mineral Requirement - Answer (click here)
304. Hormones and Second Messengers - Answer (click here)
305. What are hormones? - Answer (click here)
306. How do second messengers work? Cyclic AMP and G Proteins - Answer
(click here)
307. Calcium Ion as a Second Messenger - Answer (click here)
308. Receptor Tyrosine Kinases - Answer (click here)
309. Hormones and the Control of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
310. Insulin and Its Effects - Answer (click here)
311. Insulin and Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
312. A Workout a Day Keeps Diabetes Away? - Answer (click here)
313. The Search for Longevity - Answer (click here)
314. Living Cell - Answer (click here)
315. Types of Living cells - Answer (click here)
316. Sub cellular Organelles - Answer (click here)
317. Cell Membrane and its Functions - Answer (click here)
318. Cell Wall and its Functions - Answer (click here)
319. Nucleus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
320. Mitochondria and its Functions - Answer (click here)
321. Endoplasmic reticulum and its Functions - Answer (click here)
322. Golgi apparatus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
323. Ribosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
324. Lysosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
325. Peroxisomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
326. Cytoplasm and its Functions - Answer (click here)
327. Chloroplasts and its Functions - Answer (click here)
328. Cell Vacuoles - Answer (click here)
329. Blood: Composition and Functions - Answer (click here)
330. Formation of blood - Answer (click here)
331. Body Fluids - Answer (click here)
332. Buffers - Answer (click here)
333. Uses of buffer - Answer (click here)
334. Buffers of blood - Answer (click here)
335. Acids and bases - Answer (click here)
336. Biomolecule: Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
337. Classification and Functions of Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
338. Proteins: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
339. Lipids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
340. Nucleic acids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
341. Enzymes - Answer (click here)
342. Chemical nature of enzymes - Answer (click here)
343. Naming of enzymes - Answer (click here)
344. Classification of enzymes - Answer (click here)
345. Factors influencing enzyme activity - Answer (click here)
346. Types of enzyme inhibition - Answer (click here)
347. Iso enzymes - Answer (click here)
348. Importance of enzymes - Answer (click here)
349. Functions of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
350. Classification of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
351. Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
352. Physical properties of monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
353. Chemical properties of glucose - Answer (click here)
354. Haworth projection formula of glucose and fructose - Answer (click here)
355. Disaccharides - Answer (click here)
356. Poly saccharides - Answer (click here)
357. Proteins and Sources of protein - Answer (click here)
358. Amino acids - Answer (click here)
359. Properties of amino acids - Answer (click here)
360. Classification of amino acids - Answer (click here)
361. Physical and Chemical Properties of proteins - Answer (click here)
362. Protein structure - Answer (click here)
363. Biologically important proteins - Answer (click here)

Lipids
1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
(click here)
254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
(click here)
256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)
259. Catabolism of Lipids - Answer (click here)
260. The Energy Yield from the Oxidationof Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
261. Catabolism of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Odd-Carbon Fatty Acids -
Answer (click here)
262. Ketone Bodies - Answer (click here)
263. Fatty-Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
264. Ketone Bodies and Effective Weight Loss - Answer (click here)
265. Synthesis of Acylglycerols and Compound Lipids - Answer (click here)
266. A Gene for Obesity - Answer (click here)
267. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase-A New Target in the Fight against Obesity? -
Answer (click here)
268. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
269. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
270. Chloroplasts Are the Site of Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
271. The Relationship between Wavelength and Energy of Light - Answer
(click here)
272. Photosystems I and II and the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis - Answer
(click here)
273. Cyclic Electron Transport in Photosystem I - Answer (click here)
274. Photosynthesis and ATP Production - Answer (click here)
275. Killing Weeds by Inhibiting Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
276. Evolutionary Implications of Photosynthesis with and without Oxygen -
Answer (click here)
277. Dark Reactions of Photosynthesis Fix CO2 - Answer (click here)
278. Chloroplast Genes - Answer (click here)
279. CO2 Fixation in Tropical Plants - Answer (click here)
280. Nitrogen Metabolism: An Overview - Answer (click here)
281. Nitrogen Fixation - Answer (click here)
282. Why Is the Nitrogen Content of Fertilizers So Important? - Answer (click
here)
283. Feedback Inhibition in Nitrogen Metabolism - Answer (click here)
284. Amino Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
285. Essential Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
286. Amino Acid Catabolism - Answer (click here)
287. Water and the Disposal of Nitrogen Wastes - Answer (click here)
288. Chemotherapy and Antibiotics - Taking Advantage of the Need for Folic
Acid - Answer (click here)
289. Purine Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
290. Purine Catabolism - Answer (click here)
291. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome - Answer (click here)
292. Pyrimidine Biosynthesis and Catabolism - Answer (click here)
293. Conversion of Ribonucleotides to Deoxyribonucleotides - Answer (click
here)
294. Conversion of dUTP to dTTP - Answer (click here)
295. Connections between Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
296. Biochemistry and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
297. What are required nutrients? - Answer (click here)
298. Why do we need vitamins? - Answer (click here)
299. What are minerals? - Answer (click here)
300. The Food Pyramid - Answer (click here)
301. What is obesity? - Answer (click here)
302. Alcohol Consumption and Addiction - Answer (click here)
303. Iron: An Example of a Mineral Requirement - Answer (click here)
304. Hormones and Second Messengers - Answer (click here)
305. What are hormones? - Answer (click here)
306. How do second messengers work? Cyclic AMP and G Proteins - Answer
(click here)
307. Calcium Ion as a Second Messenger - Answer (click here)
308. Receptor Tyrosine Kinases - Answer (click here)
309. Hormones and the Control of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
310. Insulin and Its Effects - Answer (click here)
311. Insulin and Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
312. A Workout a Day Keeps Diabetes Away? - Answer (click here)
313. The Search for Longevity - Answer (click here)
314. Living Cell - Answer (click here)
315. Types of Living cells - Answer (click here)
316. Sub cellular Organelles - Answer (click here)
317. Cell Membrane and its Functions - Answer (click here)
318. Cell Wall and its Functions - Answer (click here)
319. Nucleus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
320. Mitochondria and its Functions - Answer (click here)
321. Endoplasmic reticulum and its Functions - Answer (click here)
322. Golgi apparatus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
323. Ribosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
324. Lysosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
325. Peroxisomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
326. Cytoplasm and its Functions - Answer (click here)
327. Chloroplasts and its Functions - Answer (click here)
328. Cell Vacuoles - Answer (click here)
329. Blood: Composition and Functions - Answer (click here)
330. Formation of blood - Answer (click here)
331. Body Fluids - Answer (click here)
332. Buffers - Answer (click here)
333. Uses of buffer - Answer (click here)
334. Buffers of blood - Answer (click here)
335. Acids and bases - Answer (click here)
336. Biomolecule: Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
337. Classification and Functions of Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
338. Proteins: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
339. Lipids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
340. Nucleic acids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
341. Enzymes - Answer (click here)
342. Chemical nature of enzymes - Answer (click here)
343. Naming of enzymes - Answer (click here)
344. Classification of enzymes - Answer (click here)
345. Factors influencing enzyme activity - Answer (click here)
346. Types of enzyme inhibition - Answer (click here)
347. Iso enzymes - Answer (click here)
348. Importance of enzymes - Answer (click here)
349. Functions of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
350. Classification of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
351. Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
352. Physical properties of monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
353. Chemical properties of glucose - Answer (click here)
354. Haworth projection formula of glucose and fructose - Answer (click here)
355. Disaccharides - Answer (click here)
356. Poly saccharides - Answer (click here)
357. Proteins and Sources of protein - Answer (click here)
358. Amino acids - Answer (click here)
359. Properties of amino acids - Answer (click here)
360. Classification of amino acids - Answer (click here)
361. Physical and Chemical Properties of proteins - Answer (click here)
362. Protein structure - Answer (click here)
363. Biologically important proteins - Answer (click here)
364. Lipids - Answer (click here)
365. Classification of Fatty acids - Answer (click here)
366. Essential fatty acid (EFA): Structure, Functions - Answer (click here)
367. Structure of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
368. Physical and Chemical Properties of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
369. Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
370. Classification of Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
371. Properties of glycero phospholipids and sphingo phospholipids - Answer
(click here)
372. Importance of phospholipids - Answer (click here)
373. Sterols - Answer (click here)
374. Cholesterol: Structure, Properties - Answer (click here)

Nucleic Acids
1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
(click here)
254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
(click here)
256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)
259. Catabolism of Lipids - Answer (click here)
260. The Energy Yield from the Oxidationof Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
261. Catabolism of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Odd-Carbon Fatty Acids -
Answer (click here)
262. Ketone Bodies - Answer (click here)
263. Fatty-Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
264. Ketone Bodies and Effective Weight Loss - Answer (click here)
265. Synthesis of Acylglycerols and Compound Lipids - Answer (click here)
266. A Gene for Obesity - Answer (click here)
267. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase-A New Target in the Fight against Obesity? -
Answer (click here)
268. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
269. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
270. Chloroplasts Are the Site of Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
271. The Relationship between Wavelength and Energy of Light - Answer
(click here)
272. Photosystems I and II and the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis - Answer
(click here)
273. Cyclic Electron Transport in Photosystem I - Answer (click here)
274. Photosynthesis and ATP Production - Answer (click here)
275. Killing Weeds by Inhibiting Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
276. Evolutionary Implications of Photosynthesis with and without Oxygen -
Answer (click here)
277. Dark Reactions of Photosynthesis Fix CO2 - Answer (click here)
278. Chloroplast Genes - Answer (click here)
279. CO2 Fixation in Tropical Plants - Answer (click here)
280. Nitrogen Metabolism: An Overview - Answer (click here)
281. Nitrogen Fixation - Answer (click here)
282. Why Is the Nitrogen Content of Fertilizers So Important? - Answer (click
here)
283. Feedback Inhibition in Nitrogen Metabolism - Answer (click here)
284. Amino Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
285. Essential Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
286. Amino Acid Catabolism - Answer (click here)
287. Water and the Disposal of Nitrogen Wastes - Answer (click here)
288. Chemotherapy and Antibiotics - Taking Advantage of the Need for Folic
Acid - Answer (click here)
289. Purine Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
290. Purine Catabolism - Answer (click here)
291. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome - Answer (click here)
292. Pyrimidine Biosynthesis and Catabolism - Answer (click here)
293. Conversion of Ribonucleotides to Deoxyribonucleotides - Answer (click
here)
294. Conversion of dUTP to dTTP - Answer (click here)
295. Connections between Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
296. Biochemistry and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
297. What are required nutrients? - Answer (click here)
298. Why do we need vitamins? - Answer (click here)
299. What are minerals? - Answer (click here)
300. The Food Pyramid - Answer (click here)
301. What is obesity? - Answer (click here)
302. Alcohol Consumption and Addiction - Answer (click here)
303. Iron: An Example of a Mineral Requirement - Answer (click here)
304. Hormones and Second Messengers - Answer (click here)
305. What are hormones? - Answer (click here)
306. How do second messengers work? Cyclic AMP and G Proteins - Answer
(click here)
307. Calcium Ion as a Second Messenger - Answer (click here)
308. Receptor Tyrosine Kinases - Answer (click here)
309. Hormones and the Control of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
310. Insulin and Its Effects - Answer (click here)
311. Insulin and Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
312. A Workout a Day Keeps Diabetes Away? - Answer (click here)
313. The Search for Longevity - Answer (click here)
314. Living Cell - Answer (click here)
315. Types of Living cells - Answer (click here)
316. Sub cellular Organelles - Answer (click here)
317. Cell Membrane and its Functions - Answer (click here)
318. Cell Wall and its Functions - Answer (click here)
319. Nucleus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
320. Mitochondria and its Functions - Answer (click here)
321. Endoplasmic reticulum and its Functions - Answer (click here)
322. Golgi apparatus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
323. Ribosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
324. Lysosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
325. Peroxisomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
326. Cytoplasm and its Functions - Answer (click here)
327. Chloroplasts and its Functions - Answer (click here)
328. Cell Vacuoles - Answer (click here)
329. Blood: Composition and Functions - Answer (click here)
330. Formation of blood - Answer (click here)
331. Body Fluids - Answer (click here)
332. Buffers - Answer (click here)
333. Uses of buffer - Answer (click here)
334. Buffers of blood - Answer (click here)
335. Acids and bases - Answer (click here)
336. Biomolecule: Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
337. Classification and Functions of Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
338. Proteins: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
339. Lipids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
340. Nucleic acids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
341. Enzymes - Answer (click here)
342. Chemical nature of enzymes - Answer (click here)
343. Naming of enzymes - Answer (click here)
344. Classification of enzymes - Answer (click here)
345. Factors influencing enzyme activity - Answer (click here)
346. Types of enzyme inhibition - Answer (click here)
347. Iso enzymes - Answer (click here)
348. Importance of enzymes - Answer (click here)
349. Functions of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
350. Classification of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
351. Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
352. Physical properties of monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
353. Chemical properties of glucose - Answer (click here)
354. Haworth projection formula of glucose and fructose - Answer (click here)
355. Disaccharides - Answer (click here)
356. Poly saccharides - Answer (click here)
357. Proteins and Sources of protein - Answer (click here)
358. Amino acids - Answer (click here)
359. Properties of amino acids - Answer (click here)
360. Classification of amino acids - Answer (click here)
361. Physical and Chemical Properties of proteins - Answer (click here)
362. Protein structure - Answer (click here)
363. Biologically important proteins - Answer (click here)
364. Lipids - Answer (click here)
365. Classification of Fatty acids - Answer (click here)
366. Essential fatty acid (EFA): Structure, Functions - Answer (click here)
367. Structure of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
368. Physical and Chemical Properties of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
369. Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
370. Classification of Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
371. Properties of glycero phospholipids and sphingo phospholipids - Answer
(click here)
372. Importance of phospholipids - Answer (click here)
373. Sterols - Answer (click here)
374. Cholesterol: Structure, Properties - Answer (click here)
375. Structure and Properties of pyrimidine bases - Answer (click here)
376. Purine bases: Structure and Properties - Answer (click here)
377. Nucleic acids - Answer (click here)
378. Nucleic acids: Nucleosides and Nucleotides - Answer (click here)
379. Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
380. Functions of DNA - Answer (click here)
381. Structure and types of RNA - Answer (click here)

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1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
(click here)
254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
(click here)
256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)
259. Catabolism of Lipids - Answer (click here)
260. The Energy Yield from the Oxidationof Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
261. Catabolism of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Odd-Carbon Fatty Acids -
Answer (click here)
262. Ketone Bodies - Answer (click here)
263. Fatty-Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
264. Ketone Bodies and Effective Weight Loss - Answer (click here)
265. Synthesis of Acylglycerols and Compound Lipids - Answer (click here)
266. A Gene for Obesity - Answer (click here)
267. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase-A New Target in the Fight against Obesity? -
Answer (click here)
268. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
269. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
270. Chloroplasts Are the Site of Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
271. The Relationship between Wavelength and Energy of Light - Answer
(click here)
272. Photosystems I and II and the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis - Answer
(click here)
273. Cyclic Electron Transport in Photosystem I - Answer (click here)
274. Photosynthesis and ATP Production - Answer (click here)
275. Killing Weeds by Inhibiting Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
276. Evolutionary Implications of Photosynthesis with and without Oxygen -
Answer (click here)
277. Dark Reactions of Photosynthesis Fix CO2 - Answer (click here)
278. Chloroplast Genes - Answer (click here)
279. CO2 Fixation in Tropical Plants - Answer (click here)
280. Nitrogen Metabolism: An Overview - Answer (click here)
281. Nitrogen Fixation - Answer (click here)
282. Why Is the Nitrogen Content of Fertilizers So Important? - Answer (click
here)
283. Feedback Inhibition in Nitrogen Metabolism - Answer (click here)
284. Amino Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
285. Essential Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
286. Amino Acid Catabolism - Answer (click here)
287. Water and the Disposal of Nitrogen Wastes - Answer (click here)
288. Chemotherapy and Antibiotics - Taking Advantage of the Need for Folic
Acid - Answer (click here)
289. Purine Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
290. Purine Catabolism - Answer (click here)
291. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome - Answer (click here)
292. Pyrimidine Biosynthesis and Catabolism - Answer (click here)
293. Conversion of Ribonucleotides to Deoxyribonucleotides - Answer (click
here)
294. Conversion of dUTP to dTTP - Answer (click here)
295. Connections between Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
296. Biochemistry and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
297. What are required nutrients? - Answer (click here)
298. Why do we need vitamins? - Answer (click here)
299. What are minerals? - Answer (click here)
300. The Food Pyramid - Answer (click here)
301. What is obesity? - Answer (click here)
302. Alcohol Consumption and Addiction - Answer (click here)
303. Iron: An Example of a Mineral Requirement - Answer (click here)
304. Hormones and Second Messengers - Answer (click here)
305. What are hormones? - Answer (click here)
306. How do second messengers work? Cyclic AMP and G Proteins - Answer
(click here)
307. Calcium Ion as a Second Messenger - Answer (click here)
308. Receptor Tyrosine Kinases - Answer (click here)
309. Hormones and the Control of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
310. Insulin and Its Effects - Answer (click here)
311. Insulin and Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
312. A Workout a Day Keeps Diabetes Away? - Answer (click here)
313. The Search for Longevity - Answer (click here)
314. Living Cell - Answer (click here)
315. Types of Living cells - Answer (click here)
316. Sub cellular Organelles - Answer (click here)
317. Cell Membrane and its Functions - Answer (click here)
318. Cell Wall and its Functions - Answer (click here)
319. Nucleus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
320. Mitochondria and its Functions - Answer (click here)
321. Endoplasmic reticulum and its Functions - Answer (click here)
322. Golgi apparatus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
323. Ribosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
324. Lysosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
325. Peroxisomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
326. Cytoplasm and its Functions - Answer (click here)
327. Chloroplasts and its Functions - Answer (click here)
328. Cell Vacuoles - Answer (click here)
329. Blood: Composition and Functions - Answer (click here)
330. Formation of blood - Answer (click here)
331. Body Fluids - Answer (click here)
332. Buffers - Answer (click here)
333. Uses of buffer - Answer (click here)
334. Buffers of blood - Answer (click here)
335. Acids and bases - Answer (click here)
336. Biomolecule: Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
337. Classification and Functions of Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
338. Proteins: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
339. Lipids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
340. Nucleic acids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
341. Enzymes - Answer (click here)
342. Chemical nature of enzymes - Answer (click here)
343. Naming of enzymes - Answer (click here)
344. Classification of enzymes - Answer (click here)
345. Factors influencing enzyme activity - Answer (click here)
346. Types of enzyme inhibition - Answer (click here)
347. Iso enzymes - Answer (click here)
348. Importance of enzymes - Answer (click here)
349. Functions of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
350. Classification of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
351. Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
352. Physical properties of monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
353. Chemical properties of glucose - Answer (click here)
354. Haworth projection formula of glucose and fructose - Answer (click here)
355. Disaccharides - Answer (click here)
356. Poly saccharides - Answer (click here)
357. Proteins and Sources of protein - Answer (click here)
358. Amino acids - Answer (click here)
359. Properties of amino acids - Answer (click here)
360. Classification of amino acids - Answer (click here)
361. Physical and Chemical Properties of proteins - Answer (click here)
362. Protein structure - Answer (click here)
363. Biologically important proteins - Answer (click here)
364. Lipids - Answer (click here)
365. Classification of Fatty acids - Answer (click here)
366. Essential fatty acid (EFA): Structure, Functions - Answer (click here)
367. Structure of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
368. Physical and Chemical Properties of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
369. Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
370. Classification of Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
371. Properties of glycero phospholipids and sphingo phospholipids - Answer
(click here)
372. Importance of phospholipids - Answer (click here)
373. Sterols - Answer (click here)
374. Cholesterol: Structure, Properties - Answer (click here)
375. Structure and Properties of pyrimidine bases - Answer (click here)
376. Purine bases: Structure and Properties - Answer (click here)
377. Nucleic acids - Answer (click here)
378. Nucleic acids: Nucleosides and Nucleotides - Answer (click here)
379. Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
380. Functions of DNA - Answer (click here)
381. Structure and types of RNA - Answer (click here)
382. Vitamins - Answer (click here)
383. Fat soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
384. Water soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
385. Vitamin - A - Answer (click here)
386. Vitamin D - Answer (click here)
387. Vitamin E - Answer (click here)
388. Vitamin K - Answer (click here)
389. Thiamine (B1) - Answer (click here)
390. Riboflavin (B2) - Answer (click here)
391. Niacin (B3) - Answer (click here)
392. Pyridoxine (B6) - Answer (click here)
393. Folic acid - Answer (click here)
394. Vitamin B12 - Answer (click here)
395. Pantothenic acid (B5) - Answer (click here)
396. Biotin - Answer (click here)
397. Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) - Answer (click here)

Minerals
1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
(click here)
254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
(click here)
256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)
259. Catabolism of Lipids - Answer (click here)
260. The Energy Yield from the Oxidationof Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
261. Catabolism of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Odd-Carbon Fatty Acids -
Answer (click here)
262. Ketone Bodies - Answer (click here)
263. Fatty-Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
264. Ketone Bodies and Effective Weight Loss - Answer (click here)
265. Synthesis of Acylglycerols and Compound Lipids - Answer (click here)
266. A Gene for Obesity - Answer (click here)
267. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase-A New Target in the Fight against Obesity? -
Answer (click here)
268. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
269. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
270. Chloroplasts Are the Site of Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
271. The Relationship between Wavelength and Energy of Light - Answer
(click here)
272. Photosystems I and II and the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis - Answer
(click here)
273. Cyclic Electron Transport in Photosystem I - Answer (click here)
274. Photosynthesis and ATP Production - Answer (click here)
275. Killing Weeds by Inhibiting Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
276. Evolutionary Implications of Photosynthesis with and without Oxygen -
Answer (click here)
277. Dark Reactions of Photosynthesis Fix CO2 - Answer (click here)
278. Chloroplast Genes - Answer (click here)
279. CO2 Fixation in Tropical Plants - Answer (click here)
280. Nitrogen Metabolism: An Overview - Answer (click here)
281. Nitrogen Fixation - Answer (click here)
282. Why Is the Nitrogen Content of Fertilizers So Important? - Answer (click
here)
283. Feedback Inhibition in Nitrogen Metabolism - Answer (click here)
284. Amino Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
285. Essential Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
286. Amino Acid Catabolism - Answer (click here)
287. Water and the Disposal of Nitrogen Wastes - Answer (click here)
288. Chemotherapy and Antibiotics - Taking Advantage of the Need for Folic
Acid - Answer (click here)
289. Purine Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
290. Purine Catabolism - Answer (click here)
291. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome - Answer (click here)
292. Pyrimidine Biosynthesis and Catabolism - Answer (click here)
293. Conversion of Ribonucleotides to Deoxyribonucleotides - Answer (click
here)
294. Conversion of dUTP to dTTP - Answer (click here)
295. Connections between Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
296. Biochemistry and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
297. What are required nutrients? - Answer (click here)
298. Why do we need vitamins? - Answer (click here)
299. What are minerals? - Answer (click here)
300. The Food Pyramid - Answer (click here)
301. What is obesity? - Answer (click here)
302. Alcohol Consumption and Addiction - Answer (click here)
303. Iron: An Example of a Mineral Requirement - Answer (click here)
304. Hormones and Second Messengers - Answer (click here)
305. What are hormones? - Answer (click here)
306. How do second messengers work? Cyclic AMP and G Proteins - Answer
(click here)
307. Calcium Ion as a Second Messenger - Answer (click here)
308. Receptor Tyrosine Kinases - Answer (click here)
309. Hormones and the Control of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
310. Insulin and Its Effects - Answer (click here)
311. Insulin and Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
312. A Workout a Day Keeps Diabetes Away? - Answer (click here)
313. The Search for Longevity - Answer (click here)
314. Living Cell - Answer (click here)
315. Types of Living cells - Answer (click here)
316. Sub cellular Organelles - Answer (click here)
317. Cell Membrane and its Functions - Answer (click here)
318. Cell Wall and its Functions - Answer (click here)
319. Nucleus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
320. Mitochondria and its Functions - Answer (click here)
321. Endoplasmic reticulum and its Functions - Answer (click here)
322. Golgi apparatus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
323. Ribosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
324. Lysosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
325. Peroxisomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
326. Cytoplasm and its Functions - Answer (click here)
327. Chloroplasts and its Functions - Answer (click here)
328. Cell Vacuoles - Answer (click here)
329. Blood: Composition and Functions - Answer (click here)
330. Formation of blood - Answer (click here)
331. Body Fluids - Answer (click here)
332. Buffers - Answer (click here)
333. Uses of buffer - Answer (click here)
334. Buffers of blood - Answer (click here)
335. Acids and bases - Answer (click here)
336. Biomolecule: Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
337. Classification and Functions of Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
338. Proteins: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
339. Lipids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
340. Nucleic acids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
341. Enzymes - Answer (click here)
342. Chemical nature of enzymes - Answer (click here)
343. Naming of enzymes - Answer (click here)
344. Classification of enzymes - Answer (click here)
345. Factors influencing enzyme activity - Answer (click here)
346. Types of enzyme inhibition - Answer (click here)
347. Iso enzymes - Answer (click here)
348. Importance of enzymes - Answer (click here)
349. Functions of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
350. Classification of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
351. Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
352. Physical properties of monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
353. Chemical properties of glucose - Answer (click here)
354. Haworth projection formula of glucose and fructose - Answer (click here)
355. Disaccharides - Answer (click here)
356. Poly saccharides - Answer (click here)
357. Proteins and Sources of protein - Answer (click here)
358. Amino acids - Answer (click here)
359. Properties of amino acids - Answer (click here)
360. Classification of amino acids - Answer (click here)
361. Physical and Chemical Properties of proteins - Answer (click here)
362. Protein structure - Answer (click here)
363. Biologically important proteins - Answer (click here)
364. Lipids - Answer (click here)
365. Classification of Fatty acids - Answer (click here)
366. Essential fatty acid (EFA): Structure, Functions - Answer (click here)
367. Structure of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
368. Physical and Chemical Properties of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
369. Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
370. Classification of Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
371. Properties of glycero phospholipids and sphingo phospholipids - Answer
(click here)
372. Importance of phospholipids - Answer (click here)
373. Sterols - Answer (click here)
374. Cholesterol: Structure, Properties - Answer (click here)
375. Structure and Properties of pyrimidine bases - Answer (click here)
376. Purine bases: Structure and Properties - Answer (click here)
377. Nucleic acids - Answer (click here)
378. Nucleic acids: Nucleosides and Nucleotides - Answer (click here)
379. Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
380. Functions of DNA - Answer (click here)
381. Structure and types of RNA - Answer (click here)
382. Vitamins - Answer (click here)
383. Fat soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
384. Water soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
385. Vitamin - A - Answer (click here)
386. Vitamin D - Answer (click here)
387. Vitamin E - Answer (click here)
388. Vitamin K - Answer (click here)
389. Thiamine (B1) - Answer (click here)
390. Riboflavin (B2) - Answer (click here)
391. Niacin (B3) - Answer (click here)
392. Pyridoxine (B6) - Answer (click here)
393. Folic acid - Answer (click here)
394. Vitamin B12 - Answer (click here)
395. Pantothenic acid (B5) - Answer (click here)
396. Biotin - Answer (click here)
397. Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) - Answer (click here)
398. Minerals Introduction - Answer (click here)
399. Calcium - Answer (click here)
400. Phosphorus - Answer (click here)
401. Sodium - Answer (click here)
402. Potassium - Answer (click here)
403. Chlorine - Answer (click here)
404. Magnesium - Answer (click here)
405. Sulphur - Answer (click here)
406. Iron - Answer (click here)
407. Copper - Answer (click here)
408. Iodine - Answer (click here)
409. Fluorine - Answer (click here)
410. Zinc - Answer (click here)
411. Cobalt - Answer (click here)
412. Manganese - Answer (click here)
413. Chromium - Answer (click here)
414. Molybdenum - Answer (click here)
415. Selenium - Answer (click here)

Biochemical Techniques
1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
(click here)
254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
(click here)
256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)
259. Catabolism of Lipids - Answer (click here)
260. The Energy Yield from the Oxidationof Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
261. Catabolism of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Odd-Carbon Fatty Acids -
Answer (click here)
262. Ketone Bodies - Answer (click here)
263. Fatty-Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
264. Ketone Bodies and Effective Weight Loss - Answer (click here)
265. Synthesis of Acylglycerols and Compound Lipids - Answer (click here)
266. A Gene for Obesity - Answer (click here)
267. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase-A New Target in the Fight against Obesity? -
Answer (click here)
268. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
269. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
270. Chloroplasts Are the Site of Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
271. The Relationship between Wavelength and Energy of Light - Answer
(click here)
272. Photosystems I and II and the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis - Answer
(click here)
273. Cyclic Electron Transport in Photosystem I - Answer (click here)
274. Photosynthesis and ATP Production - Answer (click here)
275. Killing Weeds by Inhibiting Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
276. Evolutionary Implications of Photosynthesis with and without Oxygen -
Answer (click here)
277. Dark Reactions of Photosynthesis Fix CO2 - Answer (click here)
278. Chloroplast Genes - Answer (click here)
279. CO2 Fixation in Tropical Plants - Answer (click here)
280. Nitrogen Metabolism: An Overview - Answer (click here)
281. Nitrogen Fixation - Answer (click here)
282. Why Is the Nitrogen Content of Fertilizers So Important? - Answer (click
here)
283. Feedback Inhibition in Nitrogen Metabolism - Answer (click here)
284. Amino Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
285. Essential Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
286. Amino Acid Catabolism - Answer (click here)
287. Water and the Disposal of Nitrogen Wastes - Answer (click here)
288. Chemotherapy and Antibiotics - Taking Advantage of the Need for Folic
Acid - Answer (click here)
289. Purine Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
290. Purine Catabolism - Answer (click here)
291. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome - Answer (click here)
292. Pyrimidine Biosynthesis and Catabolism - Answer (click here)
293. Conversion of Ribonucleotides to Deoxyribonucleotides - Answer (click
here)
294. Conversion of dUTP to dTTP - Answer (click here)
295. Connections between Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
296. Biochemistry and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
297. What are required nutrients? - Answer (click here)
298. Why do we need vitamins? - Answer (click here)
299. What are minerals? - Answer (click here)
300. The Food Pyramid - Answer (click here)
301. What is obesity? - Answer (click here)
302. Alcohol Consumption and Addiction - Answer (click here)
303. Iron: An Example of a Mineral Requirement - Answer (click here)
304. Hormones and Second Messengers - Answer (click here)
305. What are hormones? - Answer (click here)
306. How do second messengers work? Cyclic AMP and G Proteins - Answer
(click here)
307. Calcium Ion as a Second Messenger - Answer (click here)
308. Receptor Tyrosine Kinases - Answer (click here)
309. Hormones and the Control of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
310. Insulin and Its Effects - Answer (click here)
311. Insulin and Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
312. A Workout a Day Keeps Diabetes Away? - Answer (click here)
313. The Search for Longevity - Answer (click here)
314. Living Cell - Answer (click here)
315. Types of Living cells - Answer (click here)
316. Sub cellular Organelles - Answer (click here)
317. Cell Membrane and its Functions - Answer (click here)
318. Cell Wall and its Functions - Answer (click here)
319. Nucleus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
320. Mitochondria and its Functions - Answer (click here)
321. Endoplasmic reticulum and its Functions - Answer (click here)
322. Golgi apparatus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
323. Ribosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
324. Lysosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
325. Peroxisomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
326. Cytoplasm and its Functions - Answer (click here)
327. Chloroplasts and its Functions - Answer (click here)
328. Cell Vacuoles - Answer (click here)
329. Blood: Composition and Functions - Answer (click here)
330. Formation of blood - Answer (click here)
331. Body Fluids - Answer (click here)
332. Buffers - Answer (click here)
333. Uses of buffer - Answer (click here)
334. Buffers of blood - Answer (click here)
335. Acids and bases - Answer (click here)
336. Biomolecule: Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
337. Classification and Functions of Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
338. Proteins: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
339. Lipids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
340. Nucleic acids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
341. Enzymes - Answer (click here)
342. Chemical nature of enzymes - Answer (click here)
343. Naming of enzymes - Answer (click here)
344. Classification of enzymes - Answer (click here)
345. Factors influencing enzyme activity - Answer (click here)
346. Types of enzyme inhibition - Answer (click here)
347. Iso enzymes - Answer (click here)
348. Importance of enzymes - Answer (click here)
349. Functions of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
350. Classification of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
351. Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
352. Physical properties of monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
353. Chemical properties of glucose - Answer (click here)
354. Haworth projection formula of glucose and fructose - Answer (click here)
355. Disaccharides - Answer (click here)
356. Poly saccharides - Answer (click here)
357. Proteins and Sources of protein - Answer (click here)
358. Amino acids - Answer (click here)
359. Properties of amino acids - Answer (click here)
360. Classification of amino acids - Answer (click here)
361. Physical and Chemical Properties of proteins - Answer (click here)
362. Protein structure - Answer (click here)
363. Biologically important proteins - Answer (click here)
364. Lipids - Answer (click here)
365. Classification of Fatty acids - Answer (click here)
366. Essential fatty acid (EFA): Structure, Functions - Answer (click here)
367. Structure of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
368. Physical and Chemical Properties of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
369. Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
370. Classification of Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
371. Properties of glycero phospholipids and sphingo phospholipids - Answer
(click here)
372. Importance of phospholipids - Answer (click here)
373. Sterols - Answer (click here)
374. Cholesterol: Structure, Properties - Answer (click here)
375. Structure and Properties of pyrimidine bases - Answer (click here)
376. Purine bases: Structure and Properties - Answer (click here)
377. Nucleic acids - Answer (click here)
378. Nucleic acids: Nucleosides and Nucleotides - Answer (click here)
379. Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
380. Functions of DNA - Answer (click here)
381. Structure and types of RNA - Answer (click here)
382. Vitamins - Answer (click here)
383. Fat soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
384. Water soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
385. Vitamin - A - Answer (click here)
386. Vitamin D - Answer (click here)
387. Vitamin E - Answer (click here)
388. Vitamin K - Answer (click here)
389. Thiamine (B1) - Answer (click here)
390. Riboflavin (B2) - Answer (click here)
391. Niacin (B3) - Answer (click here)
392. Pyridoxine (B6) - Answer (click here)
393. Folic acid - Answer (click here)
394. Vitamin B12 - Answer (click here)
395. Pantothenic acid (B5) - Answer (click here)
396. Biotin - Answer (click here)
397. Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) - Answer (click here)
398. Minerals Introduction - Answer (click here)
399. Calcium - Answer (click here)
400. Phosphorus - Answer (click here)
401. Sodium - Answer (click here)
402. Potassium - Answer (click here)
403. Chlorine - Answer (click here)
404. Magnesium - Answer (click here)
405. Sulphur - Answer (click here)
406. Iron - Answer (click here)
407. Copper - Answer (click here)
408. Iodine - Answer (click here)
409. Fluorine - Answer (click here)
410. Zinc - Answer (click here)
411. Cobalt - Answer (click here)
412. Manganese - Answer (click here)
413. Chromium - Answer (click here)
414. Molybdenum - Answer (click here)
415. Selenium - Answer (click here)
416. Chromatography - Answer (click here)
417. Types of chromatography - Answer (click here)
418. Column chromatography: Types, Principle - Answer (click here)
419. Thin Layer chromatography - Answer (click here)
420. Paper chromatography - Answer (click here)
421. Applications of chromatography - Answer (click here)
422. Electrophoresis: principle, Types - Answer (click here)
423. Centrifugation techniques: Principle, Types, Uses - Answer (click here)
424. Differential centrifugation technique - Answer (click here)
425. Spectrophotometry - Answer (click here)
426. The photoelectric colorimeter - Answer (click here)
427. Applications of spectrophotometry - Answer (click here)
Cell Membrane
1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
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100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
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145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
(click here)
254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
(click here)
256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)
259. Catabolism of Lipids - Answer (click here)
260. The Energy Yield from the Oxidationof Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
261. Catabolism of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Odd-Carbon Fatty Acids -
Answer (click here)
262. Ketone Bodies - Answer (click here)
263. Fatty-Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
264. Ketone Bodies and Effective Weight Loss - Answer (click here)
265. Synthesis of Acylglycerols and Compound Lipids - Answer (click here)
266. A Gene for Obesity - Answer (click here)
267. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase-A New Target in the Fight against Obesity? -
Answer (click here)
268. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
269. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
270. Chloroplasts Are the Site of Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
271. The Relationship between Wavelength and Energy of Light - Answer
(click here)
272. Photosystems I and II and the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis - Answer
(click here)
273. Cyclic Electron Transport in Photosystem I - Answer (click here)
274. Photosynthesis and ATP Production - Answer (click here)
275. Killing Weeds by Inhibiting Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
276. Evolutionary Implications of Photosynthesis with and without Oxygen -
Answer (click here)
277. Dark Reactions of Photosynthesis Fix CO2 - Answer (click here)
278. Chloroplast Genes - Answer (click here)
279. CO2 Fixation in Tropical Plants - Answer (click here)
280. Nitrogen Metabolism: An Overview - Answer (click here)
281. Nitrogen Fixation - Answer (click here)
282. Why Is the Nitrogen Content of Fertilizers So Important? - Answer (click
here)
283. Feedback Inhibition in Nitrogen Metabolism - Answer (click here)
284. Amino Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
285. Essential Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
286. Amino Acid Catabolism - Answer (click here)
287. Water and the Disposal of Nitrogen Wastes - Answer (click here)
288. Chemotherapy and Antibiotics - Taking Advantage of the Need for Folic
Acid - Answer (click here)
289. Purine Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
290. Purine Catabolism - Answer (click here)
291. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome - Answer (click here)
292. Pyrimidine Biosynthesis and Catabolism - Answer (click here)
293. Conversion of Ribonucleotides to Deoxyribonucleotides - Answer (click
here)
294. Conversion of dUTP to dTTP - Answer (click here)
295. Connections between Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
296. Biochemistry and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
297. What are required nutrients? - Answer (click here)
298. Why do we need vitamins? - Answer (click here)
299. What are minerals? - Answer (click here)
300. The Food Pyramid - Answer (click here)
301. What is obesity? - Answer (click here)
302. Alcohol Consumption and Addiction - Answer (click here)
303. Iron: An Example of a Mineral Requirement - Answer (click here)
304. Hormones and Second Messengers - Answer (click here)
305. What are hormones? - Answer (click here)
306. How do second messengers work? Cyclic AMP and G Proteins - Answer
(click here)
307. Calcium Ion as a Second Messenger - Answer (click here)
308. Receptor Tyrosine Kinases - Answer (click here)
309. Hormones and the Control of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
310. Insulin and Its Effects - Answer (click here)
311. Insulin and Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
312. A Workout a Day Keeps Diabetes Away? - Answer (click here)
313. The Search for Longevity - Answer (click here)
314. Living Cell - Answer (click here)
315. Types of Living cells - Answer (click here)
316. Sub cellular Organelles - Answer (click here)
317. Cell Membrane and its Functions - Answer (click here)
318. Cell Wall and its Functions - Answer (click here)
319. Nucleus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
320. Mitochondria and its Functions - Answer (click here)
321. Endoplasmic reticulum and its Functions - Answer (click here)
322. Golgi apparatus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
323. Ribosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
324. Lysosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
325. Peroxisomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
326. Cytoplasm and its Functions - Answer (click here)
327. Chloroplasts and its Functions - Answer (click here)
328. Cell Vacuoles - Answer (click here)
329. Blood: Composition and Functions - Answer (click here)
330. Formation of blood - Answer (click here)
331. Body Fluids - Answer (click here)
332. Buffers - Answer (click here)
333. Uses of buffer - Answer (click here)
334. Buffers of blood - Answer (click here)
335. Acids and bases - Answer (click here)
336. Biomolecule: Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
337. Classification and Functions of Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
338. Proteins: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
339. Lipids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
340. Nucleic acids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
341. Enzymes - Answer (click here)
342. Chemical nature of enzymes - Answer (click here)
343. Naming of enzymes - Answer (click here)
344. Classification of enzymes - Answer (click here)
345. Factors influencing enzyme activity - Answer (click here)
346. Types of enzyme inhibition - Answer (click here)
347. Iso enzymes - Answer (click here)
348. Importance of enzymes - Answer (click here)
349. Functions of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
350. Classification of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
351. Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
352. Physical properties of monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
353. Chemical properties of glucose - Answer (click here)
354. Haworth projection formula of glucose and fructose - Answer (click here)
355. Disaccharides - Answer (click here)
356. Poly saccharides - Answer (click here)
357. Proteins and Sources of protein - Answer (click here)
358. Amino acids - Answer (click here)
359. Properties of amino acids - Answer (click here)
360. Classification of amino acids - Answer (click here)
361. Physical and Chemical Properties of proteins - Answer (click here)
362. Protein structure - Answer (click here)
363. Biologically important proteins - Answer (click here)
364. Lipids - Answer (click here)
365. Classification of Fatty acids - Answer (click here)
366. Essential fatty acid (EFA): Structure, Functions - Answer (click here)
367. Structure of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
368. Physical and Chemical Properties of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
369. Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
370. Classification of Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
371. Properties of glycero phospholipids and sphingo phospholipids - Answer
(click here)
372. Importance of phospholipids - Answer (click here)
373. Sterols - Answer (click here)
374. Cholesterol: Structure, Properties - Answer (click here)
375. Structure and Properties of pyrimidine bases - Answer (click here)
376. Purine bases: Structure and Properties - Answer (click here)
377. Nucleic acids - Answer (click here)
378. Nucleic acids: Nucleosides and Nucleotides - Answer (click here)
379. Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
380. Functions of DNA - Answer (click here)
381. Structure and types of RNA - Answer (click here)
382. Vitamins - Answer (click here)
383. Fat soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
384. Water soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
385. Vitamin - A - Answer (click here)
386. Vitamin D - Answer (click here)
387. Vitamin E - Answer (click here)
388. Vitamin K - Answer (click here)
389. Thiamine (B1) - Answer (click here)
390. Riboflavin (B2) - Answer (click here)
391. Niacin (B3) - Answer (click here)
392. Pyridoxine (B6) - Answer (click here)
393. Folic acid - Answer (click here)
394. Vitamin B12 - Answer (click here)
395. Pantothenic acid (B5) - Answer (click here)
396. Biotin - Answer (click here)
397. Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) - Answer (click here)
398. Minerals Introduction - Answer (click here)
399. Calcium - Answer (click here)
400. Phosphorus - Answer (click here)
401. Sodium - Answer (click here)
402. Potassium - Answer (click here)
403. Chlorine - Answer (click here)
404. Magnesium - Answer (click here)
405. Sulphur - Answer (click here)
406. Iron - Answer (click here)
407. Copper - Answer (click here)
408. Iodine - Answer (click here)
409. Fluorine - Answer (click here)
410. Zinc - Answer (click here)
411. Cobalt - Answer (click here)
412. Manganese - Answer (click here)
413. Chromium - Answer (click here)
414. Molybdenum - Answer (click here)
415. Selenium - Answer (click here)
416. Chromatography - Answer (click here)
417. Types of chromatography - Answer (click here)
418. Column chromatography: Types, Principle - Answer (click here)
419. Thin Layer chromatography - Answer (click here)
420. Paper chromatography - Answer (click here)
421. Applications of chromatography - Answer (click here)
422. Electrophoresis: principle, Types - Answer (click here)
423. Centrifugation techniques: Principle, Types, Uses - Answer (click here)
424. Differential centrifugation technique - Answer (click here)
425. Spectrophotometry - Answer (click here)
426. The photoelectric colorimeter - Answer (click here)
427. Applications of spectrophotometry - Answer (click here)
428. Cell Membrane: Introduction - Answer (click here)
429. Cell Membrane: Chemical Composition - Answer (click here)
430. Models proposed for the plasma membrane - Answer (click here)
431. Membrane Transport - Answer (click here)
432. Cell Membrane: Viscosity - Answer (click here)
433. Surface tension - Answer (click here)
434. Osmosis and Biological Significance - Answer (click here)
435. Buffers - Answer (click here)

Digestion
1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
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100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
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117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
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145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
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167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
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254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
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256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)
259. Catabolism of Lipids - Answer (click here)
260. The Energy Yield from the Oxidationof Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
261. Catabolism of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Odd-Carbon Fatty Acids -
Answer (click here)
262. Ketone Bodies - Answer (click here)
263. Fatty-Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
264. Ketone Bodies and Effective Weight Loss - Answer (click here)
265. Synthesis of Acylglycerols and Compound Lipids - Answer (click here)
266. A Gene for Obesity - Answer (click here)
267. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase-A New Target in the Fight against Obesity? -
Answer (click here)
268. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
269. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
270. Chloroplasts Are the Site of Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
271. The Relationship between Wavelength and Energy of Light - Answer
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272. Photosystems I and II and the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis - Answer
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273. Cyclic Electron Transport in Photosystem I - Answer (click here)
274. Photosynthesis and ATP Production - Answer (click here)
275. Killing Weeds by Inhibiting Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
276. Evolutionary Implications of Photosynthesis with and without Oxygen -
Answer (click here)
277. Dark Reactions of Photosynthesis Fix CO2 - Answer (click here)
278. Chloroplast Genes - Answer (click here)
279. CO2 Fixation in Tropical Plants - Answer (click here)
280. Nitrogen Metabolism: An Overview - Answer (click here)
281. Nitrogen Fixation - Answer (click here)
282. Why Is the Nitrogen Content of Fertilizers So Important? - Answer (click
here)
283. Feedback Inhibition in Nitrogen Metabolism - Answer (click here)
284. Amino Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
285. Essential Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
286. Amino Acid Catabolism - Answer (click here)
287. Water and the Disposal of Nitrogen Wastes - Answer (click here)
288. Chemotherapy and Antibiotics - Taking Advantage of the Need for Folic
Acid - Answer (click here)
289. Purine Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
290. Purine Catabolism - Answer (click here)
291. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome - Answer (click here)
292. Pyrimidine Biosynthesis and Catabolism - Answer (click here)
293. Conversion of Ribonucleotides to Deoxyribonucleotides - Answer (click
here)
294. Conversion of dUTP to dTTP - Answer (click here)
295. Connections between Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
296. Biochemistry and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
297. What are required nutrients? - Answer (click here)
298. Why do we need vitamins? - Answer (click here)
299. What are minerals? - Answer (click here)
300. The Food Pyramid - Answer (click here)
301. What is obesity? - Answer (click here)
302. Alcohol Consumption and Addiction - Answer (click here)
303. Iron: An Example of a Mineral Requirement - Answer (click here)
304. Hormones and Second Messengers - Answer (click here)
305. What are hormones? - Answer (click here)
306. How do second messengers work? Cyclic AMP and G Proteins - Answer
(click here)
307. Calcium Ion as a Second Messenger - Answer (click here)
308. Receptor Tyrosine Kinases - Answer (click here)
309. Hormones and the Control of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
310. Insulin and Its Effects - Answer (click here)
311. Insulin and Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
312. A Workout a Day Keeps Diabetes Away? - Answer (click here)
313. The Search for Longevity - Answer (click here)
314. Living Cell - Answer (click here)
315. Types of Living cells - Answer (click here)
316. Sub cellular Organelles - Answer (click here)
317. Cell Membrane and its Functions - Answer (click here)
318. Cell Wall and its Functions - Answer (click here)
319. Nucleus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
320. Mitochondria and its Functions - Answer (click here)
321. Endoplasmic reticulum and its Functions - Answer (click here)
322. Golgi apparatus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
323. Ribosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
324. Lysosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
325. Peroxisomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
326. Cytoplasm and its Functions - Answer (click here)
327. Chloroplasts and its Functions - Answer (click here)
328. Cell Vacuoles - Answer (click here)
329. Blood: Composition and Functions - Answer (click here)
330. Formation of blood - Answer (click here)
331. Body Fluids - Answer (click here)
332. Buffers - Answer (click here)
333. Uses of buffer - Answer (click here)
334. Buffers of blood - Answer (click here)
335. Acids and bases - Answer (click here)
336. Biomolecule: Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
337. Classification and Functions of Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
338. Proteins: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
339. Lipids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
340. Nucleic acids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
341. Enzymes - Answer (click here)
342. Chemical nature of enzymes - Answer (click here)
343. Naming of enzymes - Answer (click here)
344. Classification of enzymes - Answer (click here)
345. Factors influencing enzyme activity - Answer (click here)
346. Types of enzyme inhibition - Answer (click here)
347. Iso enzymes - Answer (click here)
348. Importance of enzymes - Answer (click here)
349. Functions of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
350. Classification of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
351. Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
352. Physical properties of monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
353. Chemical properties of glucose - Answer (click here)
354. Haworth projection formula of glucose and fructose - Answer (click here)
355. Disaccharides - Answer (click here)
356. Poly saccharides - Answer (click here)
357. Proteins and Sources of protein - Answer (click here)
358. Amino acids - Answer (click here)
359. Properties of amino acids - Answer (click here)
360. Classification of amino acids - Answer (click here)
361. Physical and Chemical Properties of proteins - Answer (click here)
362. Protein structure - Answer (click here)
363. Biologically important proteins - Answer (click here)
364. Lipids - Answer (click here)
365. Classification of Fatty acids - Answer (click here)
366. Essential fatty acid (EFA): Structure, Functions - Answer (click here)
367. Structure of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
368. Physical and Chemical Properties of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
369. Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
370. Classification of Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
371. Properties of glycero phospholipids and sphingo phospholipids - Answer
(click here)
372. Importance of phospholipids - Answer (click here)
373. Sterols - Answer (click here)
374. Cholesterol: Structure, Properties - Answer (click here)
375. Structure and Properties of pyrimidine bases - Answer (click here)
376. Purine bases: Structure and Properties - Answer (click here)
377. Nucleic acids - Answer (click here)
378. Nucleic acids: Nucleosides and Nucleotides - Answer (click here)
379. Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
380. Functions of DNA - Answer (click here)
381. Structure and types of RNA - Answer (click here)
382. Vitamins - Answer (click here)
383. Fat soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
384. Water soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
385. Vitamin - A - Answer (click here)
386. Vitamin D - Answer (click here)
387. Vitamin E - Answer (click here)
388. Vitamin K - Answer (click here)
389. Thiamine (B1) - Answer (click here)
390. Riboflavin (B2) - Answer (click here)
391. Niacin (B3) - Answer (click here)
392. Pyridoxine (B6) - Answer (click here)
393. Folic acid - Answer (click here)
394. Vitamin B12 - Answer (click here)
395. Pantothenic acid (B5) - Answer (click here)
396. Biotin - Answer (click here)
397. Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) - Answer (click here)
398. Minerals Introduction - Answer (click here)
399. Calcium - Answer (click here)
400. Phosphorus - Answer (click here)
401. Sodium - Answer (click here)
402. Potassium - Answer (click here)
403. Chlorine - Answer (click here)
404. Magnesium - Answer (click here)
405. Sulphur - Answer (click here)
406. Iron - Answer (click here)
407. Copper - Answer (click here)
408. Iodine - Answer (click here)
409. Fluorine - Answer (click here)
410. Zinc - Answer (click here)
411. Cobalt - Answer (click here)
412. Manganese - Answer (click here)
413. Chromium - Answer (click here)
414. Molybdenum - Answer (click here)
415. Selenium - Answer (click here)
416. Chromatography - Answer (click here)
417. Types of chromatography - Answer (click here)
418. Column chromatography: Types, Principle - Answer (click here)
419. Thin Layer chromatography - Answer (click here)
420. Paper chromatography - Answer (click here)
421. Applications of chromatography - Answer (click here)
422. Electrophoresis: principle, Types - Answer (click here)
423. Centrifugation techniques: Principle, Types, Uses - Answer (click here)
424. Differential centrifugation technique - Answer (click here)
425. Spectrophotometry - Answer (click here)
426. The photoelectric colorimeter - Answer (click here)
427. Applications of spectrophotometry - Answer (click here)
428. Cell Membrane: Introduction - Answer (click here)
429. Cell Membrane: Chemical Composition - Answer (click here)
430. Models proposed for the plasma membrane - Answer (click here)
431. Membrane Transport - Answer (click here)
432. Cell Membrane: Viscosity - Answer (click here)
433. Surface tension - Answer (click here)
434. Osmosis and Biological Significance - Answer (click here)
435. Buffers - Answer (click here)
436. Biochemistry: Digestion - Answer (click here)
437. Carbohydrates in Digestion - Answer (click here)
438. Digestion of Proteins - Answer (click here)
439. Digestion of Lipids - Answer (click here)
440. Digestion of Nucleic acids - Answer (click here)

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1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
(click here)
254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
(click here)
256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)
259. Catabolism of Lipids - Answer (click here)
260. The Energy Yield from the Oxidationof Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
261. Catabolism of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Odd-Carbon Fatty Acids -
Answer (click here)
262. Ketone Bodies - Answer (click here)
263. Fatty-Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
264. Ketone Bodies and Effective Weight Loss - Answer (click here)
265. Synthesis of Acylglycerols and Compound Lipids - Answer (click here)
266. A Gene for Obesity - Answer (click here)
267. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase-A New Target in the Fight against Obesity? -
Answer (click here)
268. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
269. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
270. Chloroplasts Are the Site of Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
271. The Relationship between Wavelength and Energy of Light - Answer
(click here)
272. Photosystems I and II and the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis - Answer
(click here)
273. Cyclic Electron Transport in Photosystem I - Answer (click here)
274. Photosynthesis and ATP Production - Answer (click here)
275. Killing Weeds by Inhibiting Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
276. Evolutionary Implications of Photosynthesis with and without Oxygen -
Answer (click here)
277. Dark Reactions of Photosynthesis Fix CO2 - Answer (click here)
278. Chloroplast Genes - Answer (click here)
279. CO2 Fixation in Tropical Plants - Answer (click here)
280. Nitrogen Metabolism: An Overview - Answer (click here)
281. Nitrogen Fixation - Answer (click here)
282. Why Is the Nitrogen Content of Fertilizers So Important? - Answer (click
here)
283. Feedback Inhibition in Nitrogen Metabolism - Answer (click here)
284. Amino Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
285. Essential Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
286. Amino Acid Catabolism - Answer (click here)
287. Water and the Disposal of Nitrogen Wastes - Answer (click here)
288. Chemotherapy and Antibiotics - Taking Advantage of the Need for Folic
Acid - Answer (click here)
289. Purine Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
290. Purine Catabolism - Answer (click here)
291. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome - Answer (click here)
292. Pyrimidine Biosynthesis and Catabolism - Answer (click here)
293. Conversion of Ribonucleotides to Deoxyribonucleotides - Answer (click
here)
294. Conversion of dUTP to dTTP - Answer (click here)
295. Connections between Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
296. Biochemistry and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
297. What are required nutrients? - Answer (click here)
298. Why do we need vitamins? - Answer (click here)
299. What are minerals? - Answer (click here)
300. The Food Pyramid - Answer (click here)
301. What is obesity? - Answer (click here)
302. Alcohol Consumption and Addiction - Answer (click here)
303. Iron: An Example of a Mineral Requirement - Answer (click here)
304. Hormones and Second Messengers - Answer (click here)
305. What are hormones? - Answer (click here)
306. How do second messengers work? Cyclic AMP and G Proteins - Answer
(click here)
307. Calcium Ion as a Second Messenger - Answer (click here)
308. Receptor Tyrosine Kinases - Answer (click here)
309. Hormones and the Control of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
310. Insulin and Its Effects - Answer (click here)
311. Insulin and Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
312. A Workout a Day Keeps Diabetes Away? - Answer (click here)
313. The Search for Longevity - Answer (click here)
314. Living Cell - Answer (click here)
315. Types of Living cells - Answer (click here)
316. Sub cellular Organelles - Answer (click here)
317. Cell Membrane and its Functions - Answer (click here)
318. Cell Wall and its Functions - Answer (click here)
319. Nucleus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
320. Mitochondria and its Functions - Answer (click here)
321. Endoplasmic reticulum and its Functions - Answer (click here)
322. Golgi apparatus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
323. Ribosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
324. Lysosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
325. Peroxisomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
326. Cytoplasm and its Functions - Answer (click here)
327. Chloroplasts and its Functions - Answer (click here)
328. Cell Vacuoles - Answer (click here)
329. Blood: Composition and Functions - Answer (click here)
330. Formation of blood - Answer (click here)
331. Body Fluids - Answer (click here)
332. Buffers - Answer (click here)
333. Uses of buffer - Answer (click here)
334. Buffers of blood - Answer (click here)
335. Acids and bases - Answer (click here)
336. Biomolecule: Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
337. Classification and Functions of Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
338. Proteins: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
339. Lipids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
340. Nucleic acids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
341. Enzymes - Answer (click here)
342. Chemical nature of enzymes - Answer (click here)
343. Naming of enzymes - Answer (click here)
344. Classification of enzymes - Answer (click here)
345. Factors influencing enzyme activity - Answer (click here)
346. Types of enzyme inhibition - Answer (click here)
347. Iso enzymes - Answer (click here)
348. Importance of enzymes - Answer (click here)
349. Functions of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
350. Classification of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
351. Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
352. Physical properties of monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
353. Chemical properties of glucose - Answer (click here)
354. Haworth projection formula of glucose and fructose - Answer (click here)
355. Disaccharides - Answer (click here)
356. Poly saccharides - Answer (click here)
357. Proteins and Sources of protein - Answer (click here)
358. Amino acids - Answer (click here)
359. Properties of amino acids - Answer (click here)
360. Classification of amino acids - Answer (click here)
361. Physical and Chemical Properties of proteins - Answer (click here)
362. Protein structure - Answer (click here)
363. Biologically important proteins - Answer (click here)
364. Lipids - Answer (click here)
365. Classification of Fatty acids - Answer (click here)
366. Essential fatty acid (EFA): Structure, Functions - Answer (click here)
367. Structure of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
368. Physical and Chemical Properties of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
369. Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
370. Classification of Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
371. Properties of glycero phospholipids and sphingo phospholipids - Answer
(click here)
372. Importance of phospholipids - Answer (click here)
373. Sterols - Answer (click here)
374. Cholesterol: Structure, Properties - Answer (click here)
375. Structure and Properties of pyrimidine bases - Answer (click here)
376. Purine bases: Structure and Properties - Answer (click here)
377. Nucleic acids - Answer (click here)
378. Nucleic acids: Nucleosides and Nucleotides - Answer (click here)
379. Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
380. Functions of DNA - Answer (click here)
381. Structure and types of RNA - Answer (click here)
382. Vitamins - Answer (click here)
383. Fat soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
384. Water soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
385. Vitamin - A - Answer (click here)
386. Vitamin D - Answer (click here)
387. Vitamin E - Answer (click here)
388. Vitamin K - Answer (click here)
389. Thiamine (B1) - Answer (click here)
390. Riboflavin (B2) - Answer (click here)
391. Niacin (B3) - Answer (click here)
392. Pyridoxine (B6) - Answer (click here)
393. Folic acid - Answer (click here)
394. Vitamin B12 - Answer (click here)
395. Pantothenic acid (B5) - Answer (click here)
396. Biotin - Answer (click here)
397. Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) - Answer (click here)
398. Minerals Introduction - Answer (click here)
399. Calcium - Answer (click here)
400. Phosphorus - Answer (click here)
401. Sodium - Answer (click here)
402. Potassium - Answer (click here)
403. Chlorine - Answer (click here)
404. Magnesium - Answer (click here)
405. Sulphur - Answer (click here)
406. Iron - Answer (click here)
407. Copper - Answer (click here)
408. Iodine - Answer (click here)
409. Fluorine - Answer (click here)
410. Zinc - Answer (click here)
411. Cobalt - Answer (click here)
412. Manganese - Answer (click here)
413. Chromium - Answer (click here)
414. Molybdenum - Answer (click here)
415. Selenium - Answer (click here)
416. Chromatography - Answer (click here)
417. Types of chromatography - Answer (click here)
418. Column chromatography: Types, Principle - Answer (click here)
419. Thin Layer chromatography - Answer (click here)
420. Paper chromatography - Answer (click here)
421. Applications of chromatography - Answer (click here)
422. Electrophoresis: principle, Types - Answer (click here)
423. Centrifugation techniques: Principle, Types, Uses - Answer (click here)
424. Differential centrifugation technique - Answer (click here)
425. Spectrophotometry - Answer (click here)
426. The photoelectric colorimeter - Answer (click here)
427. Applications of spectrophotometry - Answer (click here)
428. Cell Membrane: Introduction - Answer (click here)
429. Cell Membrane: Chemical Composition - Answer (click here)
430. Models proposed for the plasma membrane - Answer (click here)
431. Membrane Transport - Answer (click here)
432. Cell Membrane: Viscosity - Answer (click here)
433. Surface tension - Answer (click here)
434. Osmosis and Biological Significance - Answer (click here)
435. Buffers - Answer (click here)
436. Biochemistry: Digestion - Answer (click here)
437. Carbohydrates in Digestion - Answer (click here)
438. Digestion of Proteins - Answer (click here)
439. Digestion of Lipids - Answer (click here)
440. Digestion of Nucleic acids - Answer (click here)
441. Biochemistry: Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
442. Carbohydrate as a source of energy - Answer (click here)
443. Tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA cycle) - Answer (click here)
444. HMP shunt pathway - Answer (click here)
445. Glycogen - Answer (click here)
446. Glycogen biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
447. Degradation of glycogen (Glycogenolysis) - Answer (click here)
448. Gluconeogenesis - Answer (click here)
449. Diabetes Mellitus - Answer (click here)

Protein Metabolism
1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
(click here)
254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
(click here)
256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)
259. Catabolism of Lipids - Answer (click here)
260. The Energy Yield from the Oxidationof Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
261. Catabolism of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Odd-Carbon Fatty Acids -
Answer (click here)
262. Ketone Bodies - Answer (click here)
263. Fatty-Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
264. Ketone Bodies and Effective Weight Loss - Answer (click here)
265. Synthesis of Acylglycerols and Compound Lipids - Answer (click here)
266. A Gene for Obesity - Answer (click here)
267. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase-A New Target in the Fight against Obesity? -
Answer (click here)
268. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
269. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
270. Chloroplasts Are the Site of Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
271. The Relationship between Wavelength and Energy of Light - Answer
(click here)
272. Photosystems I and II and the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis - Answer
(click here)
273. Cyclic Electron Transport in Photosystem I - Answer (click here)
274. Photosynthesis and ATP Production - Answer (click here)
275. Killing Weeds by Inhibiting Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
276. Evolutionary Implications of Photosynthesis with and without Oxygen -
Answer (click here)
277. Dark Reactions of Photosynthesis Fix CO2 - Answer (click here)
278. Chloroplast Genes - Answer (click here)
279. CO2 Fixation in Tropical Plants - Answer (click here)
280. Nitrogen Metabolism: An Overview - Answer (click here)
281. Nitrogen Fixation - Answer (click here)
282. Why Is the Nitrogen Content of Fertilizers So Important? - Answer (click
here)
283. Feedback Inhibition in Nitrogen Metabolism - Answer (click here)
284. Amino Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
285. Essential Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
286. Amino Acid Catabolism - Answer (click here)
287. Water and the Disposal of Nitrogen Wastes - Answer (click here)
288. Chemotherapy and Antibiotics - Taking Advantage of the Need for Folic
Acid - Answer (click here)
289. Purine Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
290. Purine Catabolism - Answer (click here)
291. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome - Answer (click here)
292. Pyrimidine Biosynthesis and Catabolism - Answer (click here)
293. Conversion of Ribonucleotides to Deoxyribonucleotides - Answer (click
here)
294. Conversion of dUTP to dTTP - Answer (click here)
295. Connections between Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
296. Biochemistry and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
297. What are required nutrients? - Answer (click here)
298. Why do we need vitamins? - Answer (click here)
299. What are minerals? - Answer (click here)
300. The Food Pyramid - Answer (click here)
301. What is obesity? - Answer (click here)
302. Alcohol Consumption and Addiction - Answer (click here)
303. Iron: An Example of a Mineral Requirement - Answer (click here)
304. Hormones and Second Messengers - Answer (click here)
305. What are hormones? - Answer (click here)
306. How do second messengers work? Cyclic AMP and G Proteins - Answer
(click here)
307. Calcium Ion as a Second Messenger - Answer (click here)
308. Receptor Tyrosine Kinases - Answer (click here)
309. Hormones and the Control of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
310. Insulin and Its Effects - Answer (click here)
311. Insulin and Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
312. A Workout a Day Keeps Diabetes Away? - Answer (click here)
313. The Search for Longevity - Answer (click here)
314. Living Cell - Answer (click here)
315. Types of Living cells - Answer (click here)
316. Sub cellular Organelles - Answer (click here)
317. Cell Membrane and its Functions - Answer (click here)
318. Cell Wall and its Functions - Answer (click here)
319. Nucleus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
320. Mitochondria and its Functions - Answer (click here)
321. Endoplasmic reticulum and its Functions - Answer (click here)
322. Golgi apparatus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
323. Ribosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
324. Lysosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
325. Peroxisomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
326. Cytoplasm and its Functions - Answer (click here)
327. Chloroplasts and its Functions - Answer (click here)
328. Cell Vacuoles - Answer (click here)
329. Blood: Composition and Functions - Answer (click here)
330. Formation of blood - Answer (click here)
331. Body Fluids - Answer (click here)
332. Buffers - Answer (click here)
333. Uses of buffer - Answer (click here)
334. Buffers of blood - Answer (click here)
335. Acids and bases - Answer (click here)
336. Biomolecule: Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
337. Classification and Functions of Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
338. Proteins: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
339. Lipids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
340. Nucleic acids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
341. Enzymes - Answer (click here)
342. Chemical nature of enzymes - Answer (click here)
343. Naming of enzymes - Answer (click here)
344. Classification of enzymes - Answer (click here)
345. Factors influencing enzyme activity - Answer (click here)
346. Types of enzyme inhibition - Answer (click here)
347. Iso enzymes - Answer (click here)
348. Importance of enzymes - Answer (click here)
349. Functions of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
350. Classification of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
351. Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
352. Physical properties of monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
353. Chemical properties of glucose - Answer (click here)
354. Haworth projection formula of glucose and fructose - Answer (click here)
355. Disaccharides - Answer (click here)
356. Poly saccharides - Answer (click here)
357. Proteins and Sources of protein - Answer (click here)
358. Amino acids - Answer (click here)
359. Properties of amino acids - Answer (click here)
360. Classification of amino acids - Answer (click here)
361. Physical and Chemical Properties of proteins - Answer (click here)
362. Protein structure - Answer (click here)
363. Biologically important proteins - Answer (click here)
364. Lipids - Answer (click here)
365. Classification of Fatty acids - Answer (click here)
366. Essential fatty acid (EFA): Structure, Functions - Answer (click here)
367. Structure of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
368. Physical and Chemical Properties of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
369. Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
370. Classification of Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
371. Properties of glycero phospholipids and sphingo phospholipids - Answer
(click here)
372. Importance of phospholipids - Answer (click here)
373. Sterols - Answer (click here)
374. Cholesterol: Structure, Properties - Answer (click here)
375. Structure and Properties of pyrimidine bases - Answer (click here)
376. Purine bases: Structure and Properties - Answer (click here)
377. Nucleic acids - Answer (click here)
378. Nucleic acids: Nucleosides and Nucleotides - Answer (click here)
379. Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
380. Functions of DNA - Answer (click here)
381. Structure and types of RNA - Answer (click here)
382. Vitamins - Answer (click here)
383. Fat soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
384. Water soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
385. Vitamin - A - Answer (click here)
386. Vitamin D - Answer (click here)
387. Vitamin E - Answer (click here)
388. Vitamin K - Answer (click here)
389. Thiamine (B1) - Answer (click here)
390. Riboflavin (B2) - Answer (click here)
391. Niacin (B3) - Answer (click here)
392. Pyridoxine (B6) - Answer (click here)
393. Folic acid - Answer (click here)
394. Vitamin B12 - Answer (click here)
395. Pantothenic acid (B5) - Answer (click here)
396. Biotin - Answer (click here)
397. Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) - Answer (click here)
398. Minerals Introduction - Answer (click here)
399. Calcium - Answer (click here)
400. Phosphorus - Answer (click here)
401. Sodium - Answer (click here)
402. Potassium - Answer (click here)
403. Chlorine - Answer (click here)
404. Magnesium - Answer (click here)
405. Sulphur - Answer (click here)
406. Iron - Answer (click here)
407. Copper - Answer (click here)
408. Iodine - Answer (click here)
409. Fluorine - Answer (click here)
410. Zinc - Answer (click here)
411. Cobalt - Answer (click here)
412. Manganese - Answer (click here)
413. Chromium - Answer (click here)
414. Molybdenum - Answer (click here)
415. Selenium - Answer (click here)
416. Chromatography - Answer (click here)
417. Types of chromatography - Answer (click here)
418. Column chromatography: Types, Principle - Answer (click here)
419. Thin Layer chromatography - Answer (click here)
420. Paper chromatography - Answer (click here)
421. Applications of chromatography - Answer (click here)
422. Electrophoresis: principle, Types - Answer (click here)
423. Centrifugation techniques: Principle, Types, Uses - Answer (click here)
424. Differential centrifugation technique - Answer (click here)
425. Spectrophotometry - Answer (click here)
426. The photoelectric colorimeter - Answer (click here)
427. Applications of spectrophotometry - Answer (click here)
428. Cell Membrane: Introduction - Answer (click here)
429. Cell Membrane: Chemical Composition - Answer (click here)
430. Models proposed for the plasma membrane - Answer (click here)
431. Membrane Transport - Answer (click here)
432. Cell Membrane: Viscosity - Answer (click here)
433. Surface tension - Answer (click here)
434. Osmosis and Biological Significance - Answer (click here)
435. Buffers - Answer (click here)
436. Biochemistry: Digestion - Answer (click here)
437. Carbohydrates in Digestion - Answer (click here)
438. Digestion of Proteins - Answer (click here)
439. Digestion of Lipids - Answer (click here)
440. Digestion of Nucleic acids - Answer (click here)
441. Biochemistry: Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
442. Carbohydrate as a source of energy - Answer (click here)
443. Tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA cycle) - Answer (click here)
444. HMP shunt pathway - Answer (click here)
445. Glycogen - Answer (click here)
446. Glycogen biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
447. Degradation of glycogen (Glycogenolysis) - Answer (click here)
448. Gluconeogenesis - Answer (click here)
449. Diabetes Mellitus - Answer (click here)
450. Protein Metabolism - Answer (click here)
451. Protein biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
452. Protein Metabolism Translation - Answer (click here)
453. Metabolism of Proteins - Answer (click here)
454. Urea Cycle - Answer (click here)
455. Formation of Niacin - Answer (click here)
456. Formation of Melanin - Answer (click here)
457. Formation of thyroid hormone - Answer (click here)
458. Formation of catecholamines - Answer (click here)

Lipid Metabolism
1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
(click here)
254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
(click here)
256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)
259. Catabolism of Lipids - Answer (click here)
260. The Energy Yield from the Oxidationof Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
261. Catabolism of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Odd-Carbon Fatty Acids -
Answer (click here)
262. Ketone Bodies - Answer (click here)
263. Fatty-Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
264. Ketone Bodies and Effective Weight Loss - Answer (click here)
265. Synthesis of Acylglycerols and Compound Lipids - Answer (click here)
266. A Gene for Obesity - Answer (click here)
267. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase-A New Target in the Fight against Obesity? -
Answer (click here)
268. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
269. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
270. Chloroplasts Are the Site of Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
271. The Relationship between Wavelength and Energy of Light - Answer
(click here)
272. Photosystems I and II and the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis - Answer
(click here)
273. Cyclic Electron Transport in Photosystem I - Answer (click here)
274. Photosynthesis and ATP Production - Answer (click here)
275. Killing Weeds by Inhibiting Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
276. Evolutionary Implications of Photosynthesis with and without Oxygen -
Answer (click here)
277. Dark Reactions of Photosynthesis Fix CO2 - Answer (click here)
278. Chloroplast Genes - Answer (click here)
279. CO2 Fixation in Tropical Plants - Answer (click here)
280. Nitrogen Metabolism: An Overview - Answer (click here)
281. Nitrogen Fixation - Answer (click here)
282. Why Is the Nitrogen Content of Fertilizers So Important? - Answer (click
here)
283. Feedback Inhibition in Nitrogen Metabolism - Answer (click here)
284. Amino Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
285. Essential Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
286. Amino Acid Catabolism - Answer (click here)
287. Water and the Disposal of Nitrogen Wastes - Answer (click here)
288. Chemotherapy and Antibiotics - Taking Advantage of the Need for Folic
Acid - Answer (click here)
289. Purine Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
290. Purine Catabolism - Answer (click here)
291. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome - Answer (click here)
292. Pyrimidine Biosynthesis and Catabolism - Answer (click here)
293. Conversion of Ribonucleotides to Deoxyribonucleotides - Answer (click
here)
294. Conversion of dUTP to dTTP - Answer (click here)
295. Connections between Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
296. Biochemistry and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
297. What are required nutrients? - Answer (click here)
298. Why do we need vitamins? - Answer (click here)
299. What are minerals? - Answer (click here)
300. The Food Pyramid - Answer (click here)
301. What is obesity? - Answer (click here)
302. Alcohol Consumption and Addiction - Answer (click here)
303. Iron: An Example of a Mineral Requirement - Answer (click here)
304. Hormones and Second Messengers - Answer (click here)
305. What are hormones? - Answer (click here)
306. How do second messengers work? Cyclic AMP and G Proteins - Answer
(click here)
307. Calcium Ion as a Second Messenger - Answer (click here)
308. Receptor Tyrosine Kinases - Answer (click here)
309. Hormones and the Control of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
310. Insulin and Its Effects - Answer (click here)
311. Insulin and Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
312. A Workout a Day Keeps Diabetes Away? - Answer (click here)
313. The Search for Longevity - Answer (click here)
314. Living Cell - Answer (click here)
315. Types of Living cells - Answer (click here)
316. Sub cellular Organelles - Answer (click here)
317. Cell Membrane and its Functions - Answer (click here)
318. Cell Wall and its Functions - Answer (click here)
319. Nucleus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
320. Mitochondria and its Functions - Answer (click here)
321. Endoplasmic reticulum and its Functions - Answer (click here)
322. Golgi apparatus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
323. Ribosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
324. Lysosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
325. Peroxisomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
326. Cytoplasm and its Functions - Answer (click here)
327. Chloroplasts and its Functions - Answer (click here)
328. Cell Vacuoles - Answer (click here)
329. Blood: Composition and Functions - Answer (click here)
330. Formation of blood - Answer (click here)
331. Body Fluids - Answer (click here)
332. Buffers - Answer (click here)
333. Uses of buffer - Answer (click here)
334. Buffers of blood - Answer (click here)
335. Acids and bases - Answer (click here)
336. Biomolecule: Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
337. Classification and Functions of Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
338. Proteins: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
339. Lipids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
340. Nucleic acids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
341. Enzymes - Answer (click here)
342. Chemical nature of enzymes - Answer (click here)
343. Naming of enzymes - Answer (click here)
344. Classification of enzymes - Answer (click here)
345. Factors influencing enzyme activity - Answer (click here)
346. Types of enzyme inhibition - Answer (click here)
347. Iso enzymes - Answer (click here)
348. Importance of enzymes - Answer (click here)
349. Functions of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
350. Classification of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
351. Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
352. Physical properties of monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
353. Chemical properties of glucose - Answer (click here)
354. Haworth projection formula of glucose and fructose - Answer (click here)
355. Disaccharides - Answer (click here)
356. Poly saccharides - Answer (click here)
357. Proteins and Sources of protein - Answer (click here)
358. Amino acids - Answer (click here)
359. Properties of amino acids - Answer (click here)
360. Classification of amino acids - Answer (click here)
361. Physical and Chemical Properties of proteins - Answer (click here)
362. Protein structure - Answer (click here)
363. Biologically important proteins - Answer (click here)
364. Lipids - Answer (click here)
365. Classification of Fatty acids - Answer (click here)
366. Essential fatty acid (EFA): Structure, Functions - Answer (click here)
367. Structure of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
368. Physical and Chemical Properties of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
369. Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
370. Classification of Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
371. Properties of glycero phospholipids and sphingo phospholipids - Answer
(click here)
372. Importance of phospholipids - Answer (click here)
373. Sterols - Answer (click here)
374. Cholesterol: Structure, Properties - Answer (click here)
375. Structure and Properties of pyrimidine bases - Answer (click here)
376. Purine bases: Structure and Properties - Answer (click here)
377. Nucleic acids - Answer (click here)
378. Nucleic acids: Nucleosides and Nucleotides - Answer (click here)
379. Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
380. Functions of DNA - Answer (click here)
381. Structure and types of RNA - Answer (click here)
382. Vitamins - Answer (click here)
383. Fat soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
384. Water soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
385. Vitamin - A - Answer (click here)
386. Vitamin D - Answer (click here)
387. Vitamin E - Answer (click here)
388. Vitamin K - Answer (click here)
389. Thiamine (B1) - Answer (click here)
390. Riboflavin (B2) - Answer (click here)
391. Niacin (B3) - Answer (click here)
392. Pyridoxine (B6) - Answer (click here)
393. Folic acid - Answer (click here)
394. Vitamin B12 - Answer (click here)
395. Pantothenic acid (B5) - Answer (click here)
396. Biotin - Answer (click here)
397. Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) - Answer (click here)
398. Minerals Introduction - Answer (click here)
399. Calcium - Answer (click here)
400. Phosphorus - Answer (click here)
401. Sodium - Answer (click here)
402. Potassium - Answer (click here)
403. Chlorine - Answer (click here)
404. Magnesium - Answer (click here)
405. Sulphur - Answer (click here)
406. Iron - Answer (click here)
407. Copper - Answer (click here)
408. Iodine - Answer (click here)
409. Fluorine - Answer (click here)
410. Zinc - Answer (click here)
411. Cobalt - Answer (click here)
412. Manganese - Answer (click here)
413. Chromium - Answer (click here)
414. Molybdenum - Answer (click here)
415. Selenium - Answer (click here)
416. Chromatography - Answer (click here)
417. Types of chromatography - Answer (click here)
418. Column chromatography: Types, Principle - Answer (click here)
419. Thin Layer chromatography - Answer (click here)
420. Paper chromatography - Answer (click here)
421. Applications of chromatography - Answer (click here)
422. Electrophoresis: principle, Types - Answer (click here)
423. Centrifugation techniques: Principle, Types, Uses - Answer (click here)
424. Differential centrifugation technique - Answer (click here)
425. Spectrophotometry - Answer (click here)
426. The photoelectric colorimeter - Answer (click here)
427. Applications of spectrophotometry - Answer (click here)
428. Cell Membrane: Introduction - Answer (click here)
429. Cell Membrane: Chemical Composition - Answer (click here)
430. Models proposed for the plasma membrane - Answer (click here)
431. Membrane Transport - Answer (click here)
432. Cell Membrane: Viscosity - Answer (click here)
433. Surface tension - Answer (click here)
434. Osmosis and Biological Significance - Answer (click here)
435. Buffers - Answer (click here)
436. Biochemistry: Digestion - Answer (click here)
437. Carbohydrates in Digestion - Answer (click here)
438. Digestion of Proteins - Answer (click here)
439. Digestion of Lipids - Answer (click here)
440. Digestion of Nucleic acids - Answer (click here)
441. Biochemistry: Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
442. Carbohydrate as a source of energy - Answer (click here)
443. Tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA cycle) - Answer (click here)
444. HMP shunt pathway - Answer (click here)
445. Glycogen - Answer (click here)
446. Glycogen biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
447. Degradation of glycogen (Glycogenolysis) - Answer (click here)
448. Gluconeogenesis - Answer (click here)
449. Diabetes Mellitus - Answer (click here)
450. Protein Metabolism - Answer (click here)
451. Protein biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
452. Protein Metabolism Translation - Answer (click here)
453. Metabolism of Proteins - Answer (click here)
454. Urea Cycle - Answer (click here)
455. Formation of Niacin - Answer (click here)
456. Formation of Melanin - Answer (click here)
457. Formation of thyroid hormone - Answer (click here)
458. Formation of catecholamines - Answer (click here)
459. Lipid Metabolism - Answer (click here)
460. Biological functions of Lipids - Answer (click here)
461. Fatty acids - Answer (click here)
462. Biosynthesis of fatty acids - Answer (click here)
463. Oxidation of Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
464. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
465. Biosynthesis of cholesterol - Answer (click here)
466. Important products derived from cholesterol - Answer (click here)
467. Biosynthesis of phospholipids - Answer (click here)
468. Cephalin - Answer (click here)
469. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)

Nucleic Acid Metabolism


1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
(click here)
254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
(click here)
256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)
259. Catabolism of Lipids - Answer (click here)
260. The Energy Yield from the Oxidationof Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
261. Catabolism of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Odd-Carbon Fatty Acids -
Answer (click here)
262. Ketone Bodies - Answer (click here)
263. Fatty-Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
264. Ketone Bodies and Effective Weight Loss - Answer (click here)
265. Synthesis of Acylglycerols and Compound Lipids - Answer (click here)
266. A Gene for Obesity - Answer (click here)
267. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase-A New Target in the Fight against Obesity? -
Answer (click here)
268. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
269. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
270. Chloroplasts Are the Site of Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
271. The Relationship between Wavelength and Energy of Light - Answer
(click here)
272. Photosystems I and II and the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis - Answer
(click here)
273. Cyclic Electron Transport in Photosystem I - Answer (click here)
274. Photosynthesis and ATP Production - Answer (click here)
275. Killing Weeds by Inhibiting Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
276. Evolutionary Implications of Photosynthesis with and without Oxygen -
Answer (click here)
277. Dark Reactions of Photosynthesis Fix CO2 - Answer (click here)
278. Chloroplast Genes - Answer (click here)
279. CO2 Fixation in Tropical Plants - Answer (click here)
280. Nitrogen Metabolism: An Overview - Answer (click here)
281. Nitrogen Fixation - Answer (click here)
282. Why Is the Nitrogen Content of Fertilizers So Important? - Answer (click
here)
283. Feedback Inhibition in Nitrogen Metabolism - Answer (click here)
284. Amino Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
285. Essential Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
286. Amino Acid Catabolism - Answer (click here)
287. Water and the Disposal of Nitrogen Wastes - Answer (click here)
288. Chemotherapy and Antibiotics - Taking Advantage of the Need for Folic
Acid - Answer (click here)
289. Purine Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
290. Purine Catabolism - Answer (click here)
291. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome - Answer (click here)
292. Pyrimidine Biosynthesis and Catabolism - Answer (click here)
293. Conversion of Ribonucleotides to Deoxyribonucleotides - Answer (click
here)
294. Conversion of dUTP to dTTP - Answer (click here)
295. Connections between Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
296. Biochemistry and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
297. What are required nutrients? - Answer (click here)
298. Why do we need vitamins? - Answer (click here)
299. What are minerals? - Answer (click here)
300. The Food Pyramid - Answer (click here)
301. What is obesity? - Answer (click here)
302. Alcohol Consumption and Addiction - Answer (click here)
303. Iron: An Example of a Mineral Requirement - Answer (click here)
304. Hormones and Second Messengers - Answer (click here)
305. What are hormones? - Answer (click here)
306. How do second messengers work? Cyclic AMP and G Proteins - Answer
(click here)
307. Calcium Ion as a Second Messenger - Answer (click here)
308. Receptor Tyrosine Kinases - Answer (click here)
309. Hormones and the Control of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
310. Insulin and Its Effects - Answer (click here)
311. Insulin and Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
312. A Workout a Day Keeps Diabetes Away? - Answer (click here)
313. The Search for Longevity - Answer (click here)
314. Living Cell - Answer (click here)
315. Types of Living cells - Answer (click here)
316. Sub cellular Organelles - Answer (click here)
317. Cell Membrane and its Functions - Answer (click here)
318. Cell Wall and its Functions - Answer (click here)
319. Nucleus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
320. Mitochondria and its Functions - Answer (click here)
321. Endoplasmic reticulum and its Functions - Answer (click here)
322. Golgi apparatus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
323. Ribosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
324. Lysosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
325. Peroxisomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
326. Cytoplasm and its Functions - Answer (click here)
327. Chloroplasts and its Functions - Answer (click here)
328. Cell Vacuoles - Answer (click here)
329. Blood: Composition and Functions - Answer (click here)
330. Formation of blood - Answer (click here)
331. Body Fluids - Answer (click here)
332. Buffers - Answer (click here)
333. Uses of buffer - Answer (click here)
334. Buffers of blood - Answer (click here)
335. Acids and bases - Answer (click here)
336. Biomolecule: Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
337. Classification and Functions of Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
338. Proteins: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
339. Lipids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
340. Nucleic acids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
341. Enzymes - Answer (click here)
342. Chemical nature of enzymes - Answer (click here)
343. Naming of enzymes - Answer (click here)
344. Classification of enzymes - Answer (click here)
345. Factors influencing enzyme activity - Answer (click here)
346. Types of enzyme inhibition - Answer (click here)
347. Iso enzymes - Answer (click here)
348. Importance of enzymes - Answer (click here)
349. Functions of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
350. Classification of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
351. Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
352. Physical properties of monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
353. Chemical properties of glucose - Answer (click here)
354. Haworth projection formula of glucose and fructose - Answer (click here)
355. Disaccharides - Answer (click here)
356. Poly saccharides - Answer (click here)
357. Proteins and Sources of protein - Answer (click here)
358. Amino acids - Answer (click here)
359. Properties of amino acids - Answer (click here)
360. Classification of amino acids - Answer (click here)
361. Physical and Chemical Properties of proteins - Answer (click here)
362. Protein structure - Answer (click here)
363. Biologically important proteins - Answer (click here)
364. Lipids - Answer (click here)
365. Classification of Fatty acids - Answer (click here)
366. Essential fatty acid (EFA): Structure, Functions - Answer (click here)
367. Structure of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
368. Physical and Chemical Properties of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
369. Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
370. Classification of Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
371. Properties of glycero phospholipids and sphingo phospholipids - Answer
(click here)
372. Importance of phospholipids - Answer (click here)
373. Sterols - Answer (click here)
374. Cholesterol: Structure, Properties - Answer (click here)
375. Structure and Properties of pyrimidine bases - Answer (click here)
376. Purine bases: Structure and Properties - Answer (click here)
377. Nucleic acids - Answer (click here)
378. Nucleic acids: Nucleosides and Nucleotides - Answer (click here)
379. Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
380. Functions of DNA - Answer (click here)
381. Structure and types of RNA - Answer (click here)
382. Vitamins - Answer (click here)
383. Fat soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
384. Water soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
385. Vitamin - A - Answer (click here)
386. Vitamin D - Answer (click here)
387. Vitamin E - Answer (click here)
388. Vitamin K - Answer (click here)
389. Thiamine (B1) - Answer (click here)
390. Riboflavin (B2) - Answer (click here)
391. Niacin (B3) - Answer (click here)
392. Pyridoxine (B6) - Answer (click here)
393. Folic acid - Answer (click here)
394. Vitamin B12 - Answer (click here)
395. Pantothenic acid (B5) - Answer (click here)
396. Biotin - Answer (click here)
397. Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) - Answer (click here)
398. Minerals Introduction - Answer (click here)
399. Calcium - Answer (click here)
400. Phosphorus - Answer (click here)
401. Sodium - Answer (click here)
402. Potassium - Answer (click here)
403. Chlorine - Answer (click here)
404. Magnesium - Answer (click here)
405. Sulphur - Answer (click here)
406. Iron - Answer (click here)
407. Copper - Answer (click here)
408. Iodine - Answer (click here)
409. Fluorine - Answer (click here)
410. Zinc - Answer (click here)
411. Cobalt - Answer (click here)
412. Manganese - Answer (click here)
413. Chromium - Answer (click here)
414. Molybdenum - Answer (click here)
415. Selenium - Answer (click here)
416. Chromatography - Answer (click here)
417. Types of chromatography - Answer (click here)
418. Column chromatography: Types, Principle - Answer (click here)
419. Thin Layer chromatography - Answer (click here)
420. Paper chromatography - Answer (click here)
421. Applications of chromatography - Answer (click here)
422. Electrophoresis: principle, Types - Answer (click here)
423. Centrifugation techniques: Principle, Types, Uses - Answer (click here)
424. Differential centrifugation technique - Answer (click here)
425. Spectrophotometry - Answer (click here)
426. The photoelectric colorimeter - Answer (click here)
427. Applications of spectrophotometry - Answer (click here)
428. Cell Membrane: Introduction - Answer (click here)
429. Cell Membrane: Chemical Composition - Answer (click here)
430. Models proposed for the plasma membrane - Answer (click here)
431. Membrane Transport - Answer (click here)
432. Cell Membrane: Viscosity - Answer (click here)
433. Surface tension - Answer (click here)
434. Osmosis and Biological Significance - Answer (click here)
435. Buffers - Answer (click here)
436. Biochemistry: Digestion - Answer (click here)
437. Carbohydrates in Digestion - Answer (click here)
438. Digestion of Proteins - Answer (click here)
439. Digestion of Lipids - Answer (click here)
440. Digestion of Nucleic acids - Answer (click here)
441. Biochemistry: Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
442. Carbohydrate as a source of energy - Answer (click here)
443. Tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA cycle) - Answer (click here)
444. HMP shunt pathway - Answer (click here)
445. Glycogen - Answer (click here)
446. Glycogen biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
447. Degradation of glycogen (Glycogenolysis) - Answer (click here)
448. Gluconeogenesis - Answer (click here)
449. Diabetes Mellitus - Answer (click here)
450. Protein Metabolism - Answer (click here)
451. Protein biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
452. Protein Metabolism Translation - Answer (click here)
453. Metabolism of Proteins - Answer (click here)
454. Urea Cycle - Answer (click here)
455. Formation of Niacin - Answer (click here)
456. Formation of Melanin - Answer (click here)
457. Formation of thyroid hormone - Answer (click here)
458. Formation of catecholamines - Answer (click here)
459. Lipid Metabolism - Answer (click here)
460. Biological functions of Lipids - Answer (click here)
461. Fatty acids - Answer (click here)
462. Biosynthesis of fatty acids - Answer (click here)
463. Oxidation of Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
464. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
465. Biosynthesis of cholesterol - Answer (click here)
466. Important products derived from cholesterol - Answer (click here)
467. Biosynthesis of phospholipids - Answer (click here)
468. Cephalin - Answer (click here)
469. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
470. Nucleic Acid Metabolism - Answer (click here)
471. Biosynthesis of DNA - Answer (click here)
472. Replication and Models of Replication - Answer (click here)
473. Sequential Process of Replication Initiation of DNA replication - Answer
(click here)
474. Catabolism of DNA by Deoxyribonucleases - Answer (click here)
475. Biosynthesis of RNA (Transcription) - Answer (click here)
476. Processing of mRNA molecules - Answer (click here)
477. mRNA Processing of tRNA Molecules - Answer (click here)
478. Role of tRNA in protein synthesis - Answer (click here)

Inborn Errors of Metabolism


1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
(click here)
254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
(click here)
256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)
259. Catabolism of Lipids - Answer (click here)
260. The Energy Yield from the Oxidationof Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
261. Catabolism of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Odd-Carbon Fatty Acids -
Answer (click here)
262. Ketone Bodies - Answer (click here)
263. Fatty-Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
264. Ketone Bodies and Effective Weight Loss - Answer (click here)
265. Synthesis of Acylglycerols and Compound Lipids - Answer (click here)
266. A Gene for Obesity - Answer (click here)
267. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase-A New Target in the Fight against Obesity? -
Answer (click here)
268. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
269. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
270. Chloroplasts Are the Site of Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
271. The Relationship between Wavelength and Energy of Light - Answer
(click here)
272. Photosystems I and II and the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis - Answer
(click here)
273. Cyclic Electron Transport in Photosystem I - Answer (click here)
274. Photosynthesis and ATP Production - Answer (click here)
275. Killing Weeds by Inhibiting Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
276. Evolutionary Implications of Photosynthesis with and without Oxygen -
Answer (click here)
277. Dark Reactions of Photosynthesis Fix CO2 - Answer (click here)
278. Chloroplast Genes - Answer (click here)
279. CO2 Fixation in Tropical Plants - Answer (click here)
280. Nitrogen Metabolism: An Overview - Answer (click here)
281. Nitrogen Fixation - Answer (click here)
282. Why Is the Nitrogen Content of Fertilizers So Important? - Answer (click
here)
283. Feedback Inhibition in Nitrogen Metabolism - Answer (click here)
284. Amino Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
285. Essential Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
286. Amino Acid Catabolism - Answer (click here)
287. Water and the Disposal of Nitrogen Wastes - Answer (click here)
288. Chemotherapy and Antibiotics - Taking Advantage of the Need for Folic
Acid - Answer (click here)
289. Purine Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
290. Purine Catabolism - Answer (click here)
291. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome - Answer (click here)
292. Pyrimidine Biosynthesis and Catabolism - Answer (click here)
293. Conversion of Ribonucleotides to Deoxyribonucleotides - Answer (click
here)
294. Conversion of dUTP to dTTP - Answer (click here)
295. Connections between Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
296. Biochemistry and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
297. What are required nutrients? - Answer (click here)
298. Why do we need vitamins? - Answer (click here)
299. What are minerals? - Answer (click here)
300. The Food Pyramid - Answer (click here)
301. What is obesity? - Answer (click here)
302. Alcohol Consumption and Addiction - Answer (click here)
303. Iron: An Example of a Mineral Requirement - Answer (click here)
304. Hormones and Second Messengers - Answer (click here)
305. What are hormones? - Answer (click here)
306. How do second messengers work? Cyclic AMP and G Proteins - Answer
(click here)
307. Calcium Ion as a Second Messenger - Answer (click here)
308. Receptor Tyrosine Kinases - Answer (click here)
309. Hormones and the Control of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
310. Insulin and Its Effects - Answer (click here)
311. Insulin and Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
312. A Workout a Day Keeps Diabetes Away? - Answer (click here)
313. The Search for Longevity - Answer (click here)
314. Living Cell - Answer (click here)
315. Types of Living cells - Answer (click here)
316. Sub cellular Organelles - Answer (click here)
317. Cell Membrane and its Functions - Answer (click here)
318. Cell Wall and its Functions - Answer (click here)
319. Nucleus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
320. Mitochondria and its Functions - Answer (click here)
321. Endoplasmic reticulum and its Functions - Answer (click here)
322. Golgi apparatus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
323. Ribosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
324. Lysosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
325. Peroxisomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
326. Cytoplasm and its Functions - Answer (click here)
327. Chloroplasts and its Functions - Answer (click here)
328. Cell Vacuoles - Answer (click here)
329. Blood: Composition and Functions - Answer (click here)
330. Formation of blood - Answer (click here)
331. Body Fluids - Answer (click here)
332. Buffers - Answer (click here)
333. Uses of buffer - Answer (click here)
334. Buffers of blood - Answer (click here)
335. Acids and bases - Answer (click here)
336. Biomolecule: Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
337. Classification and Functions of Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
338. Proteins: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
339. Lipids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
340. Nucleic acids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
341. Enzymes - Answer (click here)
342. Chemical nature of enzymes - Answer (click here)
343. Naming of enzymes - Answer (click here)
344. Classification of enzymes - Answer (click here)
345. Factors influencing enzyme activity - Answer (click here)
346. Types of enzyme inhibition - Answer (click here)
347. Iso enzymes - Answer (click here)
348. Importance of enzymes - Answer (click here)
349. Functions of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
350. Classification of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
351. Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
352. Physical properties of monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
353. Chemical properties of glucose - Answer (click here)
354. Haworth projection formula of glucose and fructose - Answer (click here)
355. Disaccharides - Answer (click here)
356. Poly saccharides - Answer (click here)
357. Proteins and Sources of protein - Answer (click here)
358. Amino acids - Answer (click here)
359. Properties of amino acids - Answer (click here)
360. Classification of amino acids - Answer (click here)
361. Physical and Chemical Properties of proteins - Answer (click here)
362. Protein structure - Answer (click here)
363. Biologically important proteins - Answer (click here)
364. Lipids - Answer (click here)
365. Classification of Fatty acids - Answer (click here)
366. Essential fatty acid (EFA): Structure, Functions - Answer (click here)
367. Structure of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
368. Physical and Chemical Properties of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
369. Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
370. Classification of Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
371. Properties of glycero phospholipids and sphingo phospholipids - Answer
(click here)
372. Importance of phospholipids - Answer (click here)
373. Sterols - Answer (click here)
374. Cholesterol: Structure, Properties - Answer (click here)
375. Structure and Properties of pyrimidine bases - Answer (click here)
376. Purine bases: Structure and Properties - Answer (click here)
377. Nucleic acids - Answer (click here)
378. Nucleic acids: Nucleosides and Nucleotides - Answer (click here)
379. Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
380. Functions of DNA - Answer (click here)
381. Structure and types of RNA - Answer (click here)
382. Vitamins - Answer (click here)
383. Fat soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
384. Water soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
385. Vitamin - A - Answer (click here)
386. Vitamin D - Answer (click here)
387. Vitamin E - Answer (click here)
388. Vitamin K - Answer (click here)
389. Thiamine (B1) - Answer (click here)
390. Riboflavin (B2) - Answer (click here)
391. Niacin (B3) - Answer (click here)
392. Pyridoxine (B6) - Answer (click here)
393. Folic acid - Answer (click here)
394. Vitamin B12 - Answer (click here)
395. Pantothenic acid (B5) - Answer (click here)
396. Biotin - Answer (click here)
397. Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) - Answer (click here)
398. Minerals Introduction - Answer (click here)
399. Calcium - Answer (click here)
400. Phosphorus - Answer (click here)
401. Sodium - Answer (click here)
402. Potassium - Answer (click here)
403. Chlorine - Answer (click here)
404. Magnesium - Answer (click here)
405. Sulphur - Answer (click here)
406. Iron - Answer (click here)
407. Copper - Answer (click here)
408. Iodine - Answer (click here)
409. Fluorine - Answer (click here)
410. Zinc - Answer (click here)
411. Cobalt - Answer (click here)
412. Manganese - Answer (click here)
413. Chromium - Answer (click here)
414. Molybdenum - Answer (click here)
415. Selenium - Answer (click here)
416. Chromatography - Answer (click here)
417. Types of chromatography - Answer (click here)
418. Column chromatography: Types, Principle - Answer (click here)
419. Thin Layer chromatography - Answer (click here)
420. Paper chromatography - Answer (click here)
421. Applications of chromatography - Answer (click here)
422. Electrophoresis: principle, Types - Answer (click here)
423. Centrifugation techniques: Principle, Types, Uses - Answer (click here)
424. Differential centrifugation technique - Answer (click here)
425. Spectrophotometry - Answer (click here)
426. The photoelectric colorimeter - Answer (click here)
427. Applications of spectrophotometry - Answer (click here)
428. Cell Membrane: Introduction - Answer (click here)
429. Cell Membrane: Chemical Composition - Answer (click here)
430. Models proposed for the plasma membrane - Answer (click here)
431. Membrane Transport - Answer (click here)
432. Cell Membrane: Viscosity - Answer (click here)
433. Surface tension - Answer (click here)
434. Osmosis and Biological Significance - Answer (click here)
435. Buffers - Answer (click here)
436. Biochemistry: Digestion - Answer (click here)
437. Carbohydrates in Digestion - Answer (click here)
438. Digestion of Proteins - Answer (click here)
439. Digestion of Lipids - Answer (click here)
440. Digestion of Nucleic acids - Answer (click here)
441. Biochemistry: Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
442. Carbohydrate as a source of energy - Answer (click here)
443. Tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA cycle) - Answer (click here)
444. HMP shunt pathway - Answer (click here)
445. Glycogen - Answer (click here)
446. Glycogen biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
447. Degradation of glycogen (Glycogenolysis) - Answer (click here)
448. Gluconeogenesis - Answer (click here)
449. Diabetes Mellitus - Answer (click here)
450. Protein Metabolism - Answer (click here)
451. Protein biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
452. Protein Metabolism Translation - Answer (click here)
453. Metabolism of Proteins - Answer (click here)
454. Urea Cycle - Answer (click here)
455. Formation of Niacin - Answer (click here)
456. Formation of Melanin - Answer (click here)
457. Formation of thyroid hormone - Answer (click here)
458. Formation of catecholamines - Answer (click here)
459. Lipid Metabolism - Answer (click here)
460. Biological functions of Lipids - Answer (click here)
461. Fatty acids - Answer (click here)
462. Biosynthesis of fatty acids - Answer (click here)
463. Oxidation of Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
464. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
465. Biosynthesis of cholesterol - Answer (click here)
466. Important products derived from cholesterol - Answer (click here)
467. Biosynthesis of phospholipids - Answer (click here)
468. Cephalin - Answer (click here)
469. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
470. Nucleic Acid Metabolism - Answer (click here)
471. Biosynthesis of DNA - Answer (click here)
472. Replication and Models of Replication - Answer (click here)
473. Sequential Process of Replication Initiation of DNA replication - Answer
(click here)
474. Catabolism of DNA by Deoxyribonucleases - Answer (click here)
475. Biosynthesis of RNA (Transcription) - Answer (click here)
476. Processing of mRNA molecules - Answer (click here)
477. mRNA Processing of tRNA Molecules - Answer (click here)
478. Role of tRNA in protein synthesis - Answer (click here)
479. Inborn Errors of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
480. Galactosemia: Causes, Symptoms - Answer (click here)
481. Von - Gierke’s Disease : Cause, Symptoms - Answer (click here)
482. Hemophilia: Causes, Symptoms - Answer (click here)
483. Albinism - Answer (click here)
484. Alkaptonuria: Causes, Symptoms - Answer (click here)
485. Taysach’s Disease: Causes, Symptoms - Answer (click here)
486. Neoplasm - Answer (click here)

Biological Oxidation
1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
(click here)
145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
(click here)
254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
(click here)
256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)
259. Catabolism of Lipids - Answer (click here)
260. The Energy Yield from the Oxidationof Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
261. Catabolism of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Odd-Carbon Fatty Acids -
Answer (click here)
262. Ketone Bodies - Answer (click here)
263. Fatty-Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
264. Ketone Bodies and Effective Weight Loss - Answer (click here)
265. Synthesis of Acylglycerols and Compound Lipids - Answer (click here)
266. A Gene for Obesity - Answer (click here)
267. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase-A New Target in the Fight against Obesity? -
Answer (click here)
268. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
269. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
270. Chloroplasts Are the Site of Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
271. The Relationship between Wavelength and Energy of Light - Answer
(click here)
272. Photosystems I and II and the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis - Answer
(click here)
273. Cyclic Electron Transport in Photosystem I - Answer (click here)
274. Photosynthesis and ATP Production - Answer (click here)
275. Killing Weeds by Inhibiting Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
276. Evolutionary Implications of Photosynthesis with and without Oxygen -
Answer (click here)
277. Dark Reactions of Photosynthesis Fix CO2 - Answer (click here)
278. Chloroplast Genes - Answer (click here)
279. CO2 Fixation in Tropical Plants - Answer (click here)
280. Nitrogen Metabolism: An Overview - Answer (click here)
281. Nitrogen Fixation - Answer (click here)
282. Why Is the Nitrogen Content of Fertilizers So Important? - Answer (click
here)
283. Feedback Inhibition in Nitrogen Metabolism - Answer (click here)
284. Amino Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
285. Essential Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
286. Amino Acid Catabolism - Answer (click here)
287. Water and the Disposal of Nitrogen Wastes - Answer (click here)
288. Chemotherapy and Antibiotics - Taking Advantage of the Need for Folic
Acid - Answer (click here)
289. Purine Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
290. Purine Catabolism - Answer (click here)
291. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome - Answer (click here)
292. Pyrimidine Biosynthesis and Catabolism - Answer (click here)
293. Conversion of Ribonucleotides to Deoxyribonucleotides - Answer (click
here)
294. Conversion of dUTP to dTTP - Answer (click here)
295. Connections between Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
296. Biochemistry and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
297. What are required nutrients? - Answer (click here)
298. Why do we need vitamins? - Answer (click here)
299. What are minerals? - Answer (click here)
300. The Food Pyramid - Answer (click here)
301. What is obesity? - Answer (click here)
302. Alcohol Consumption and Addiction - Answer (click here)
303. Iron: An Example of a Mineral Requirement - Answer (click here)
304. Hormones and Second Messengers - Answer (click here)
305. What are hormones? - Answer (click here)
306. How do second messengers work? Cyclic AMP and G Proteins - Answer
(click here)
307. Calcium Ion as a Second Messenger - Answer (click here)
308. Receptor Tyrosine Kinases - Answer (click here)
309. Hormones and the Control of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
310. Insulin and Its Effects - Answer (click here)
311. Insulin and Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
312. A Workout a Day Keeps Diabetes Away? - Answer (click here)
313. The Search for Longevity - Answer (click here)
314. Living Cell - Answer (click here)
315. Types of Living cells - Answer (click here)
316. Sub cellular Organelles - Answer (click here)
317. Cell Membrane and its Functions - Answer (click here)
318. Cell Wall and its Functions - Answer (click here)
319. Nucleus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
320. Mitochondria and its Functions - Answer (click here)
321. Endoplasmic reticulum and its Functions - Answer (click here)
322. Golgi apparatus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
323. Ribosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
324. Lysosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
325. Peroxisomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
326. Cytoplasm and its Functions - Answer (click here)
327. Chloroplasts and its Functions - Answer (click here)
328. Cell Vacuoles - Answer (click here)
329. Blood: Composition and Functions - Answer (click here)
330. Formation of blood - Answer (click here)
331. Body Fluids - Answer (click here)
332. Buffers - Answer (click here)
333. Uses of buffer - Answer (click here)
334. Buffers of blood - Answer (click here)
335. Acids and bases - Answer (click here)
336. Biomolecule: Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
337. Classification and Functions of Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
338. Proteins: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
339. Lipids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
340. Nucleic acids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
341. Enzymes - Answer (click here)
342. Chemical nature of enzymes - Answer (click here)
343. Naming of enzymes - Answer (click here)
344. Classification of enzymes - Answer (click here)
345. Factors influencing enzyme activity - Answer (click here)
346. Types of enzyme inhibition - Answer (click here)
347. Iso enzymes - Answer (click here)
348. Importance of enzymes - Answer (click here)
349. Functions of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
350. Classification of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
351. Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
352. Physical properties of monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
353. Chemical properties of glucose - Answer (click here)
354. Haworth projection formula of glucose and fructose - Answer (click here)
355. Disaccharides - Answer (click here)
356. Poly saccharides - Answer (click here)
357. Proteins and Sources of protein - Answer (click here)
358. Amino acids - Answer (click here)
359. Properties of amino acids - Answer (click here)
360. Classification of amino acids - Answer (click here)
361. Physical and Chemical Properties of proteins - Answer (click here)
362. Protein structure - Answer (click here)
363. Biologically important proteins - Answer (click here)
364. Lipids - Answer (click here)
365. Classification of Fatty acids - Answer (click here)
366. Essential fatty acid (EFA): Structure, Functions - Answer (click here)
367. Structure of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
368. Physical and Chemical Properties of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
369. Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
370. Classification of Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
371. Properties of glycero phospholipids and sphingo phospholipids - Answer
(click here)
372. Importance of phospholipids - Answer (click here)
373. Sterols - Answer (click here)
374. Cholesterol: Structure, Properties - Answer (click here)
375. Structure and Properties of pyrimidine bases - Answer (click here)
376. Purine bases: Structure and Properties - Answer (click here)
377. Nucleic acids - Answer (click here)
378. Nucleic acids: Nucleosides and Nucleotides - Answer (click here)
379. Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
380. Functions of DNA - Answer (click here)
381. Structure and types of RNA - Answer (click here)
382. Vitamins - Answer (click here)
383. Fat soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
384. Water soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
385. Vitamin - A - Answer (click here)
386. Vitamin D - Answer (click here)
387. Vitamin E - Answer (click here)
388. Vitamin K - Answer (click here)
389. Thiamine (B1) - Answer (click here)
390. Riboflavin (B2) - Answer (click here)
391. Niacin (B3) - Answer (click here)
392. Pyridoxine (B6) - Answer (click here)
393. Folic acid - Answer (click here)
394. Vitamin B12 - Answer (click here)
395. Pantothenic acid (B5) - Answer (click here)
396. Biotin - Answer (click here)
397. Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) - Answer (click here)
398. Minerals Introduction - Answer (click here)
399. Calcium - Answer (click here)
400. Phosphorus - Answer (click here)
401. Sodium - Answer (click here)
402. Potassium - Answer (click here)
403. Chlorine - Answer (click here)
404. Magnesium - Answer (click here)
405. Sulphur - Answer (click here)
406. Iron - Answer (click here)
407. Copper - Answer (click here)
408. Iodine - Answer (click here)
409. Fluorine - Answer (click here)
410. Zinc - Answer (click here)
411. Cobalt - Answer (click here)
412. Manganese - Answer (click here)
413. Chromium - Answer (click here)
414. Molybdenum - Answer (click here)
415. Selenium - Answer (click here)
416. Chromatography - Answer (click here)
417. Types of chromatography - Answer (click here)
418. Column chromatography: Types, Principle - Answer (click here)
419. Thin Layer chromatography - Answer (click here)
420. Paper chromatography - Answer (click here)
421. Applications of chromatography - Answer (click here)
422. Electrophoresis: principle, Types - Answer (click here)
423. Centrifugation techniques: Principle, Types, Uses - Answer (click here)
424. Differential centrifugation technique - Answer (click here)
425. Spectrophotometry - Answer (click here)
426. The photoelectric colorimeter - Answer (click here)
427. Applications of spectrophotometry - Answer (click here)
428. Cell Membrane: Introduction - Answer (click here)
429. Cell Membrane: Chemical Composition - Answer (click here)
430. Models proposed for the plasma membrane - Answer (click here)
431. Membrane Transport - Answer (click here)
432. Cell Membrane: Viscosity - Answer (click here)
433. Surface tension - Answer (click here)
434. Osmosis and Biological Significance - Answer (click here)
435. Buffers - Answer (click here)
436. Biochemistry: Digestion - Answer (click here)
437. Carbohydrates in Digestion - Answer (click here)
438. Digestion of Proteins - Answer (click here)
439. Digestion of Lipids - Answer (click here)
440. Digestion of Nucleic acids - Answer (click here)
441. Biochemistry: Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
442. Carbohydrate as a source of energy - Answer (click here)
443. Tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA cycle) - Answer (click here)
444. HMP shunt pathway - Answer (click here)
445. Glycogen - Answer (click here)
446. Glycogen biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
447. Degradation of glycogen (Glycogenolysis) - Answer (click here)
448. Gluconeogenesis - Answer (click here)
449. Diabetes Mellitus - Answer (click here)
450. Protein Metabolism - Answer (click here)
451. Protein biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
452. Protein Metabolism Translation - Answer (click here)
453. Metabolism of Proteins - Answer (click here)
454. Urea Cycle - Answer (click here)
455. Formation of Niacin - Answer (click here)
456. Formation of Melanin - Answer (click here)
457. Formation of thyroid hormone - Answer (click here)
458. Formation of catecholamines - Answer (click here)
459. Lipid Metabolism - Answer (click here)
460. Biological functions of Lipids - Answer (click here)
461. Fatty acids - Answer (click here)
462. Biosynthesis of fatty acids - Answer (click here)
463. Oxidation of Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
464. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
465. Biosynthesis of cholesterol - Answer (click here)
466. Important products derived from cholesterol - Answer (click here)
467. Biosynthesis of phospholipids - Answer (click here)
468. Cephalin - Answer (click here)
469. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
470. Nucleic Acid Metabolism - Answer (click here)
471. Biosynthesis of DNA - Answer (click here)
472. Replication and Models of Replication - Answer (click here)
473. Sequential Process of Replication Initiation of DNA replication - Answer
(click here)
474. Catabolism of DNA by Deoxyribonucleases - Answer (click here)
475. Biosynthesis of RNA (Transcription) - Answer (click here)
476. Processing of mRNA molecules - Answer (click here)
477. mRNA Processing of tRNA Molecules - Answer (click here)
478. Role of tRNA in protein synthesis - Answer (click here)
479. Inborn Errors of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
480. Galactosemia: Causes, Symptoms - Answer (click here)
481. Von - Gierke’s Disease : Cause, Symptoms - Answer (click here)
482. Hemophilia: Causes, Symptoms - Answer (click here)
483. Albinism - Answer (click here)
484. Alkaptonuria: Causes, Symptoms - Answer (click here)
485. Taysach’s Disease: Causes, Symptoms - Answer (click here)
486. Neoplasm - Answer (click here)
487. Biological Oxidation - Answer (click here)
488. Redox Couple - Answer (click here)
489. Electron transport chain - Answer (click here)
490. Oxidative phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
491. High energy compounds - Answer (click here)

Enzyme Kinetics
1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
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145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
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167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
(click here)
254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
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256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)
259. Catabolism of Lipids - Answer (click here)
260. The Energy Yield from the Oxidationof Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
261. Catabolism of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Odd-Carbon Fatty Acids -
Answer (click here)
262. Ketone Bodies - Answer (click here)
263. Fatty-Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
264. Ketone Bodies and Effective Weight Loss - Answer (click here)
265. Synthesis of Acylglycerols and Compound Lipids - Answer (click here)
266. A Gene for Obesity - Answer (click here)
267. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase-A New Target in the Fight against Obesity? -
Answer (click here)
268. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
269. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
270. Chloroplasts Are the Site of Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
271. The Relationship between Wavelength and Energy of Light - Answer
(click here)
272. Photosystems I and II and the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis - Answer
(click here)
273. Cyclic Electron Transport in Photosystem I - Answer (click here)
274. Photosynthesis and ATP Production - Answer (click here)
275. Killing Weeds by Inhibiting Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
276. Evolutionary Implications of Photosynthesis with and without Oxygen -
Answer (click here)
277. Dark Reactions of Photosynthesis Fix CO2 - Answer (click here)
278. Chloroplast Genes - Answer (click here)
279. CO2 Fixation in Tropical Plants - Answer (click here)
280. Nitrogen Metabolism: An Overview - Answer (click here)
281. Nitrogen Fixation - Answer (click here)
282. Why Is the Nitrogen Content of Fertilizers So Important? - Answer (click
here)
283. Feedback Inhibition in Nitrogen Metabolism - Answer (click here)
284. Amino Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
285. Essential Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
286. Amino Acid Catabolism - Answer (click here)
287. Water and the Disposal of Nitrogen Wastes - Answer (click here)
288. Chemotherapy and Antibiotics - Taking Advantage of the Need for Folic
Acid - Answer (click here)
289. Purine Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
290. Purine Catabolism - Answer (click here)
291. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome - Answer (click here)
292. Pyrimidine Biosynthesis and Catabolism - Answer (click here)
293. Conversion of Ribonucleotides to Deoxyribonucleotides - Answer (click
here)
294. Conversion of dUTP to dTTP - Answer (click here)
295. Connections between Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
296. Biochemistry and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
297. What are required nutrients? - Answer (click here)
298. Why do we need vitamins? - Answer (click here)
299. What are minerals? - Answer (click here)
300. The Food Pyramid - Answer (click here)
301. What is obesity? - Answer (click here)
302. Alcohol Consumption and Addiction - Answer (click here)
303. Iron: An Example of a Mineral Requirement - Answer (click here)
304. Hormones and Second Messengers - Answer (click here)
305. What are hormones? - Answer (click here)
306. How do second messengers work? Cyclic AMP and G Proteins - Answer
(click here)
307. Calcium Ion as a Second Messenger - Answer (click here)
308. Receptor Tyrosine Kinases - Answer (click here)
309. Hormones and the Control of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
310. Insulin and Its Effects - Answer (click here)
311. Insulin and Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
312. A Workout a Day Keeps Diabetes Away? - Answer (click here)
313. The Search for Longevity - Answer (click here)
314. Living Cell - Answer (click here)
315. Types of Living cells - Answer (click here)
316. Sub cellular Organelles - Answer (click here)
317. Cell Membrane and its Functions - Answer (click here)
318. Cell Wall and its Functions - Answer (click here)
319. Nucleus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
320. Mitochondria and its Functions - Answer (click here)
321. Endoplasmic reticulum and its Functions - Answer (click here)
322. Golgi apparatus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
323. Ribosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
324. Lysosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
325. Peroxisomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
326. Cytoplasm and its Functions - Answer (click here)
327. Chloroplasts and its Functions - Answer (click here)
328. Cell Vacuoles - Answer (click here)
329. Blood: Composition and Functions - Answer (click here)
330. Formation of blood - Answer (click here)
331. Body Fluids - Answer (click here)
332. Buffers - Answer (click here)
333. Uses of buffer - Answer (click here)
334. Buffers of blood - Answer (click here)
335. Acids and bases - Answer (click here)
336. Biomolecule: Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
337. Classification and Functions of Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
338. Proteins: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
339. Lipids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
340. Nucleic acids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
341. Enzymes - Answer (click here)
342. Chemical nature of enzymes - Answer (click here)
343. Naming of enzymes - Answer (click here)
344. Classification of enzymes - Answer (click here)
345. Factors influencing enzyme activity - Answer (click here)
346. Types of enzyme inhibition - Answer (click here)
347. Iso enzymes - Answer (click here)
348. Importance of enzymes - Answer (click here)
349. Functions of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
350. Classification of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
351. Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
352. Physical properties of monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
353. Chemical properties of glucose - Answer (click here)
354. Haworth projection formula of glucose and fructose - Answer (click here)
355. Disaccharides - Answer (click here)
356. Poly saccharides - Answer (click here)
357. Proteins and Sources of protein - Answer (click here)
358. Amino acids - Answer (click here)
359. Properties of amino acids - Answer (click here)
360. Classification of amino acids - Answer (click here)
361. Physical and Chemical Properties of proteins - Answer (click here)
362. Protein structure - Answer (click here)
363. Biologically important proteins - Answer (click here)
364. Lipids - Answer (click here)
365. Classification of Fatty acids - Answer (click here)
366. Essential fatty acid (EFA): Structure, Functions - Answer (click here)
367. Structure of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
368. Physical and Chemical Properties of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
369. Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
370. Classification of Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
371. Properties of glycero phospholipids and sphingo phospholipids - Answer
(click here)
372. Importance of phospholipids - Answer (click here)
373. Sterols - Answer (click here)
374. Cholesterol: Structure, Properties - Answer (click here)
375. Structure and Properties of pyrimidine bases - Answer (click here)
376. Purine bases: Structure and Properties - Answer (click here)
377. Nucleic acids - Answer (click here)
378. Nucleic acids: Nucleosides and Nucleotides - Answer (click here)
379. Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
380. Functions of DNA - Answer (click here)
381. Structure and types of RNA - Answer (click here)
382. Vitamins - Answer (click here)
383. Fat soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
384. Water soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
385. Vitamin - A - Answer (click here)
386. Vitamin D - Answer (click here)
387. Vitamin E - Answer (click here)
388. Vitamin K - Answer (click here)
389. Thiamine (B1) - Answer (click here)
390. Riboflavin (B2) - Answer (click here)
391. Niacin (B3) - Answer (click here)
392. Pyridoxine (B6) - Answer (click here)
393. Folic acid - Answer (click here)
394. Vitamin B12 - Answer (click here)
395. Pantothenic acid (B5) - Answer (click here)
396. Biotin - Answer (click here)
397. Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) - Answer (click here)
398. Minerals Introduction - Answer (click here)
399. Calcium - Answer (click here)
400. Phosphorus - Answer (click here)
401. Sodium - Answer (click here)
402. Potassium - Answer (click here)
403. Chlorine - Answer (click here)
404. Magnesium - Answer (click here)
405. Sulphur - Answer (click here)
406. Iron - Answer (click here)
407. Copper - Answer (click here)
408. Iodine - Answer (click here)
409. Fluorine - Answer (click here)
410. Zinc - Answer (click here)
411. Cobalt - Answer (click here)
412. Manganese - Answer (click here)
413. Chromium - Answer (click here)
414. Molybdenum - Answer (click here)
415. Selenium - Answer (click here)
416. Chromatography - Answer (click here)
417. Types of chromatography - Answer (click here)
418. Column chromatography: Types, Principle - Answer (click here)
419. Thin Layer chromatography - Answer (click here)
420. Paper chromatography - Answer (click here)
421. Applications of chromatography - Answer (click here)
422. Electrophoresis: principle, Types - Answer (click here)
423. Centrifugation techniques: Principle, Types, Uses - Answer (click here)
424. Differential centrifugation technique - Answer (click here)
425. Spectrophotometry - Answer (click here)
426. The photoelectric colorimeter - Answer (click here)
427. Applications of spectrophotometry - Answer (click here)
428. Cell Membrane: Introduction - Answer (click here)
429. Cell Membrane: Chemical Composition - Answer (click here)
430. Models proposed for the plasma membrane - Answer (click here)
431. Membrane Transport - Answer (click here)
432. Cell Membrane: Viscosity - Answer (click here)
433. Surface tension - Answer (click here)
434. Osmosis and Biological Significance - Answer (click here)
435. Buffers - Answer (click here)
436. Biochemistry: Digestion - Answer (click here)
437. Carbohydrates in Digestion - Answer (click here)
438. Digestion of Proteins - Answer (click here)
439. Digestion of Lipids - Answer (click here)
440. Digestion of Nucleic acids - Answer (click here)
441. Biochemistry: Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
442. Carbohydrate as a source of energy - Answer (click here)
443. Tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA cycle) - Answer (click here)
444. HMP shunt pathway - Answer (click here)
445. Glycogen - Answer (click here)
446. Glycogen biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
447. Degradation of glycogen (Glycogenolysis) - Answer (click here)
448. Gluconeogenesis - Answer (click here)
449. Diabetes Mellitus - Answer (click here)
450. Protein Metabolism - Answer (click here)
451. Protein biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
452. Protein Metabolism Translation - Answer (click here)
453. Metabolism of Proteins - Answer (click here)
454. Urea Cycle - Answer (click here)
455. Formation of Niacin - Answer (click here)
456. Formation of Melanin - Answer (click here)
457. Formation of thyroid hormone - Answer (click here)
458. Formation of catecholamines - Answer (click here)
459. Lipid Metabolism - Answer (click here)
460. Biological functions of Lipids - Answer (click here)
461. Fatty acids - Answer (click here)
462. Biosynthesis of fatty acids - Answer (click here)
463. Oxidation of Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
464. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
465. Biosynthesis of cholesterol - Answer (click here)
466. Important products derived from cholesterol - Answer (click here)
467. Biosynthesis of phospholipids - Answer (click here)
468. Cephalin - Answer (click here)
469. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
470. Nucleic Acid Metabolism - Answer (click here)
471. Biosynthesis of DNA - Answer (click here)
472. Replication and Models of Replication - Answer (click here)
473. Sequential Process of Replication Initiation of DNA replication - Answer
(click here)
474. Catabolism of DNA by Deoxyribonucleases - Answer (click here)
475. Biosynthesis of RNA (Transcription) - Answer (click here)
476. Processing of mRNA molecules - Answer (click here)
477. mRNA Processing of tRNA Molecules - Answer (click here)
478. Role of tRNA in protein synthesis - Answer (click here)
479. Inborn Errors of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
480. Galactosemia: Causes, Symptoms - Answer (click here)
481. Von - Gierke’s Disease : Cause, Symptoms - Answer (click here)
482. Hemophilia: Causes, Symptoms - Answer (click here)
483. Albinism - Answer (click here)
484. Alkaptonuria: Causes, Symptoms - Answer (click here)
485. Taysach’s Disease: Causes, Symptoms - Answer (click here)
486. Neoplasm - Answer (click here)
487. Biological Oxidation - Answer (click here)
488. Redox Couple - Answer (click here)
489. Electron transport chain - Answer (click here)
490. Oxidative phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
491. High energy compounds - Answer (click here)
492. Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
493. Derivation of M - M Equation - Answer (click here)
494. Enzyme Action - Answer (click here)
495. Enzyme Inhibitor - Concepts - Answer (click here)

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1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
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145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
(click here)
254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
(click here)
256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)
259. Catabolism of Lipids - Answer (click here)
260. The Energy Yield from the Oxidationof Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
261. Catabolism of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Odd-Carbon Fatty Acids -
Answer (click here)
262. Ketone Bodies - Answer (click here)
263. Fatty-Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
264. Ketone Bodies and Effective Weight Loss - Answer (click here)
265. Synthesis of Acylglycerols and Compound Lipids - Answer (click here)
266. A Gene for Obesity - Answer (click here)
267. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase-A New Target in the Fight against Obesity? -
Answer (click here)
268. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
269. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
270. Chloroplasts Are the Site of Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
271. The Relationship between Wavelength and Energy of Light - Answer
(click here)
272. Photosystems I and II and the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis - Answer
(click here)
273. Cyclic Electron Transport in Photosystem I - Answer (click here)
274. Photosynthesis and ATP Production - Answer (click here)
275. Killing Weeds by Inhibiting Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
276. Evolutionary Implications of Photosynthesis with and without Oxygen -
Answer (click here)
277. Dark Reactions of Photosynthesis Fix CO2 - Answer (click here)
278. Chloroplast Genes - Answer (click here)
279. CO2 Fixation in Tropical Plants - Answer (click here)
280. Nitrogen Metabolism: An Overview - Answer (click here)
281. Nitrogen Fixation - Answer (click here)
282. Why Is the Nitrogen Content of Fertilizers So Important? - Answer (click
here)
283. Feedback Inhibition in Nitrogen Metabolism - Answer (click here)
284. Amino Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
285. Essential Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
286. Amino Acid Catabolism - Answer (click here)
287. Water and the Disposal of Nitrogen Wastes - Answer (click here)
288. Chemotherapy and Antibiotics - Taking Advantage of the Need for Folic
Acid - Answer (click here)
289. Purine Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
290. Purine Catabolism - Answer (click here)
291. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome - Answer (click here)
292. Pyrimidine Biosynthesis and Catabolism - Answer (click here)
293. Conversion of Ribonucleotides to Deoxyribonucleotides - Answer (click
here)
294. Conversion of dUTP to dTTP - Answer (click here)
295. Connections between Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
296. Biochemistry and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
297. What are required nutrients? - Answer (click here)
298. Why do we need vitamins? - Answer (click here)
299. What are minerals? - Answer (click here)
300. The Food Pyramid - Answer (click here)
301. What is obesity? - Answer (click here)
302. Alcohol Consumption and Addiction - Answer (click here)
303. Iron: An Example of a Mineral Requirement - Answer (click here)
304. Hormones and Second Messengers - Answer (click here)
305. What are hormones? - Answer (click here)
306. How do second messengers work? Cyclic AMP and G Proteins - Answer
(click here)
307. Calcium Ion as a Second Messenger - Answer (click here)
308. Receptor Tyrosine Kinases - Answer (click here)
309. Hormones and the Control of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
310. Insulin and Its Effects - Answer (click here)
311. Insulin and Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
312. A Workout a Day Keeps Diabetes Away? - Answer (click here)
313. The Search for Longevity - Answer (click here)
314. Living Cell - Answer (click here)
315. Types of Living cells - Answer (click here)
316. Sub cellular Organelles - Answer (click here)
317. Cell Membrane and its Functions - Answer (click here)
318. Cell Wall and its Functions - Answer (click here)
319. Nucleus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
320. Mitochondria and its Functions - Answer (click here)
321. Endoplasmic reticulum and its Functions - Answer (click here)
322. Golgi apparatus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
323. Ribosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
324. Lysosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
325. Peroxisomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
326. Cytoplasm and its Functions - Answer (click here)
327. Chloroplasts and its Functions - Answer (click here)
328. Cell Vacuoles - Answer (click here)
329. Blood: Composition and Functions - Answer (click here)
330. Formation of blood - Answer (click here)
331. Body Fluids - Answer (click here)
332. Buffers - Answer (click here)
333. Uses of buffer - Answer (click here)
334. Buffers of blood - Answer (click here)
335. Acids and bases - Answer (click here)
336. Biomolecule: Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
337. Classification and Functions of Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
338. Proteins: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
339. Lipids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
340. Nucleic acids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
341. Enzymes - Answer (click here)
342. Chemical nature of enzymes - Answer (click here)
343. Naming of enzymes - Answer (click here)
344. Classification of enzymes - Answer (click here)
345. Factors influencing enzyme activity - Answer (click here)
346. Types of enzyme inhibition - Answer (click here)
347. Iso enzymes - Answer (click here)
348. Importance of enzymes - Answer (click here)
349. Functions of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
350. Classification of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
351. Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
352. Physical properties of monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
353. Chemical properties of glucose - Answer (click here)
354. Haworth projection formula of glucose and fructose - Answer (click here)
355. Disaccharides - Answer (click here)
356. Poly saccharides - Answer (click here)
357. Proteins and Sources of protein - Answer (click here)
358. Amino acids - Answer (click here)
359. Properties of amino acids - Answer (click here)
360. Classification of amino acids - Answer (click here)
361. Physical and Chemical Properties of proteins - Answer (click here)
362. Protein structure - Answer (click here)
363. Biologically important proteins - Answer (click here)
364. Lipids - Answer (click here)
365. Classification of Fatty acids - Answer (click here)
366. Essential fatty acid (EFA): Structure, Functions - Answer (click here)
367. Structure of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
368. Physical and Chemical Properties of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
369. Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
370. Classification of Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
371. Properties of glycero phospholipids and sphingo phospholipids - Answer
(click here)
372. Importance of phospholipids - Answer (click here)
373. Sterols - Answer (click here)
374. Cholesterol: Structure, Properties - Answer (click here)
375. Structure and Properties of pyrimidine bases - Answer (click here)
376. Purine bases: Structure and Properties - Answer (click here)
377. Nucleic acids - Answer (click here)
378. Nucleic acids: Nucleosides and Nucleotides - Answer (click here)
379. Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
380. Functions of DNA - Answer (click here)
381. Structure and types of RNA - Answer (click here)
382. Vitamins - Answer (click here)
383. Fat soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
384. Water soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
385. Vitamin - A - Answer (click here)
386. Vitamin D - Answer (click here)
387. Vitamin E - Answer (click here)
388. Vitamin K - Answer (click here)
389. Thiamine (B1) - Answer (click here)
390. Riboflavin (B2) - Answer (click here)
391. Niacin (B3) - Answer (click here)
392. Pyridoxine (B6) - Answer (click here)
393. Folic acid - Answer (click here)
394. Vitamin B12 - Answer (click here)
395. Pantothenic acid (B5) - Answer (click here)
396. Biotin - Answer (click here)
397. Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) - Answer (click here)
398. Minerals Introduction - Answer (click here)
399. Calcium - Answer (click here)
400. Phosphorus - Answer (click here)
401. Sodium - Answer (click here)
402. Potassium - Answer (click here)
403. Chlorine - Answer (click here)
404. Magnesium - Answer (click here)
405. Sulphur - Answer (click here)
406. Iron - Answer (click here)
407. Copper - Answer (click here)
408. Iodine - Answer (click here)
409. Fluorine - Answer (click here)
410. Zinc - Answer (click here)
411. Cobalt - Answer (click here)
412. Manganese - Answer (click here)
413. Chromium - Answer (click here)
414. Molybdenum - Answer (click here)
415. Selenium - Answer (click here)
416. Chromatography - Answer (click here)
417. Types of chromatography - Answer (click here)
418. Column chromatography: Types, Principle - Answer (click here)
419. Thin Layer chromatography - Answer (click here)
420. Paper chromatography - Answer (click here)
421. Applications of chromatography - Answer (click here)
422. Electrophoresis: principle, Types - Answer (click here)
423. Centrifugation techniques: Principle, Types, Uses - Answer (click here)
424. Differential centrifugation technique - Answer (click here)
425. Spectrophotometry - Answer (click here)
426. The photoelectric colorimeter - Answer (click here)
427. Applications of spectrophotometry - Answer (click here)
428. Cell Membrane: Introduction - Answer (click here)
429. Cell Membrane: Chemical Composition - Answer (click here)
430. Models proposed for the plasma membrane - Answer (click here)
431. Membrane Transport - Answer (click here)
432. Cell Membrane: Viscosity - Answer (click here)
433. Surface tension - Answer (click here)
434. Osmosis and Biological Significance - Answer (click here)
435. Buffers - Answer (click here)
436. Biochemistry: Digestion - Answer (click here)
437. Carbohydrates in Digestion - Answer (click here)
438. Digestion of Proteins - Answer (click here)
439. Digestion of Lipids - Answer (click here)
440. Digestion of Nucleic acids - Answer (click here)
441. Biochemistry: Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
442. Carbohydrate as a source of energy - Answer (click here)
443. Tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA cycle) - Answer (click here)
444. HMP shunt pathway - Answer (click here)
445. Glycogen - Answer (click here)
446. Glycogen biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
447. Degradation of glycogen (Glycogenolysis) - Answer (click here)
448. Gluconeogenesis - Answer (click here)
449. Diabetes Mellitus - Answer (click here)
450. Protein Metabolism - Answer (click here)
451. Protein biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
452. Protein Metabolism Translation - Answer (click here)
453. Metabolism of Proteins - Answer (click here)
454. Urea Cycle - Answer (click here)
455. Formation of Niacin - Answer (click here)
456. Formation of Melanin - Answer (click here)
457. Formation of thyroid hormone - Answer (click here)
458. Formation of catecholamines - Answer (click here)
459. Lipid Metabolism - Answer (click here)
460. Biological functions of Lipids - Answer (click here)
461. Fatty acids - Answer (click here)
462. Biosynthesis of fatty acids - Answer (click here)
463. Oxidation of Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
464. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
465. Biosynthesis of cholesterol - Answer (click here)
466. Important products derived from cholesterol - Answer (click here)
467. Biosynthesis of phospholipids - Answer (click here)
468. Cephalin - Answer (click here)
469. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
470. Nucleic Acid Metabolism - Answer (click here)
471. Biosynthesis of DNA - Answer (click here)
472. Replication and Models of Replication - Answer (click here)
473. Sequential Process of Replication Initiation of DNA replication - Answer
(click here)
474. Catabolism of DNA by Deoxyribonucleases - Answer (click here)
475. Biosynthesis of RNA (Transcription) - Answer (click here)
476. Processing of mRNA molecules - Answer (click here)
477. mRNA Processing of tRNA Molecules - Answer (click here)
478. Role of tRNA in protein synthesis - Answer (click here)
479. Inborn Errors of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
480. Galactosemia: Causes, Symptoms - Answer (click here)
481. Von - Gierke’s Disease : Cause, Symptoms - Answer (click here)
482. Hemophilia: Causes, Symptoms - Answer (click here)
483. Albinism - Answer (click here)
484. Alkaptonuria: Causes, Symptoms - Answer (click here)
485. Taysach’s Disease: Causes, Symptoms - Answer (click here)
486. Neoplasm - Answer (click here)
487. Biological Oxidation - Answer (click here)
488. Redox Couple - Answer (click here)
489. Electron transport chain - Answer (click here)
490. Oxidative phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
491. High energy compounds - Answer (click here)
492. Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
493. Derivation of M - M Equation - Answer (click here)
494. Enzyme Action - Answer (click here)
495. Enzyme Inhibitor - Concepts - Answer (click here)
496. Immunology - Answer (click here)
497. Infections - Answer (click here)
498. Immunity - Answer (click here)
499. Natural Immunity - Answer (click here)
500. Acquired immunity - Answer (click here)
501. Humoral immunity - Answer (click here)
502. Cell mediated immunity - Answer (click here)
503. Antigens - Answer (click here)
504. Structure and Types of Antigens - Answer (click here)
505. Factors influencing the antigenicity of antigens - Answer (click here)
506. Antibodies - Answer (click here)
507. Antibody Structure - Answer (click here)
508. Immunoglobulin and their functions, Types - Answer (click here)
509. Antigen antibody reactions - Answer (click here)
510. Blood groups - Answer (click here)

Practicals
1. How does biochemistry describe life processes? - Answer (click here)
2. How did living things originate? - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical Foundations of Biochemistry - Answer (click here)
4. How and when did the Earth come to be? - Answer (click here)
5. How were biomolecules likely to have formed on the early Earth? -
Answer (click here)
6. Molecules to Cells: Which came first - the catalysts or the hereditary
molecules? - Answer (click here)
7. The Biggest Biological Distinction-Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes - Answer
(click here)
8. How is prokaryotic DNA organized without a nucleus? - Answer (click
here)
9. Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
10. Five Kingdoms, Three Domains - Answer (click here)
11. Extremophiles: The Toast of the Industry - Answer (click here)
12. Common Ground for All Cells - Answer (click here)
13. Did eukaryotes develop from prokaryotes? - Answer (click here)
14. Did symbiosis play a role in the development of eukaryotes? - Answer
(click here)
15. Biochemical Energetics - Answer (click here)
16. Energy and Change: What kinds of energy changes take place in living
cells? - Answer (click here)
17. Spontaneity in Biochemical Reactions - Answer (click here)
18. Life and Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
19. Predicting Reactions - Answer (click here)
20. Water and Polarity - Answer (click here)
21. What is polarity? - Answer (click here)
22. Solvent Properties of Water - Answer (click here)
23. Hydrogen Bonds - Answer (click here)
24. Acids, Bases, and pH - Answer (click here)
25. Titration Curves - Answer (click here)
26. Buffers - Answer (click here)
27. How do buffers work? - Answer (click here)
28. How do we choose a buffer? - Answer (click here)
29. How do we make buffers in the laboratory? - Answer (click here)
30. Are naturally occurring pH buffers present in living organisms? - Answer
(click here)
31. Amino Acids Exist in a Three-Dimensional World - Answer (click here)
32. Individual Amino Acids:Their Structures and Properties - Answer (click
here)
33. Uncommon Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
34. Amino Acids to Calm Down and Pep Up - Answer (click here)
35. Amino Acids Can Act as Both Acids and Bases - Answer (click here)
36. The Peptide Bond - Answer (click here)
37. Small Peptides with Physiological Activity - Answer (click here)
38. Phenylketonuria-Little Molecules Have Big Effects - Answer (click here)
39. Peptide Hormones-More Small Molecules with Big Effects - Answer (click
here)
40. Amino Acids Go Many Different Places - Answer (click here)
41. Protein Structure and Function - Answer (click here)
42. Primary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
43. Secondary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
44. Complete Proteins and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
45. Periodic Structures in Protein Backbones - Answer (click here)
46. Secondary Structure of Proteins: Irregularities in Regular Structures -
Answer (click here)
47. Supersecondary Structures and Domains of Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. The Collagen Triple Helix - Answer (click here)
49. Two Types of Protein Conformations: Fibrous and Globular - Answer
(click here)
50. Tertiary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
51. Forces Involved in Tertiary Structures - Answer (click here)
52. Myoglobin: An Example of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
53. Denaturation and Refolding - Answer (click here)
54. Quaternary Structure of Proteins - Answer (click here)
55. Protein Folding Dynamics - Answer (click here)
56. Hydrophobic Interactions:A Case Study in Thermodynamics - Answer
(click here)
57. Protein Folding Dynamics: The Importance of Correct Folding - Answer
(click here)
58. Protein-Folding Chaperones - Answer (click here)
59. Prions and Disease - Answer (click here)
60. Extracting Pure Proteins from Cells - Answer (click here)
61. Column Chromatography - Answer (click here)
62. What are the different types of chromatography? - Answer (click here)
63. Electrophoresis - Answer (click here)
64. Determining the Primary Structure of a Protein - Answer (click here)
65. Cleavage of the Protein into Peptides - Answer (click here)
66. Sequencing of Peptides: The Edman Method - Answer (click here)
67. Protein Purification: Pulling It All Together - Answer (click here)
68. Enzymes Are Effective Biological Catalysts - Answer (click here)
69. Kinetics versus Thermodynamics - Answer (click here)
70. Enzymes as Markers for Disease - Answer (click here)
71. Enzyme Kinetic Equations - Answer (click here)
72. Enzyme-Substrate Binding - Answer (click here)
73. Examples of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions - Answer (click here)
74. The Michaelis–Menten Approachto Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
75. Enzyme Inhibition - Answer (click here)
76. Practical Information from Kinetic Data - Answer (click here)
77. Enzyme Inhibition in the Treatment of AIDS - Answer (click here)
78. The Behavior of Allosteric Enzymes - Answer (click here)
79. The Concerted and Sequential Models for Allosteric Enzymes - Answer
(click here)
80. Control of Enzyme Activity by Phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
81. Zymogens - Answer (click here)
82. The Nature of the Active Site - Answer (click here)
83. Chemical Reactions Involved in Enzyme Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
84. The Active Site and Transition States - Answer (click here)
85. Families of Enzymes: Proteases - Answer (click here)
86. Coenzymes - Answer (click here)
87. Catalytic Antibodies against Cocaine - Answer (click here)
88. Catalysts for Green Chemistry - Answer (click here)
89. The Definition of a Lipid - Answer (click here)
90. The Chemical Natures of the Lipid Types - Answer (click here)
91. What are fatty acids? - Answer (click here)
92. What are triacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
93. What are phosphoacylglycerols? - Answer (click here)
94. What are waxes and sphingolipids? - Answer (click here)
95. What are glycolipids? - Answer (click here)
96. What are steroids? - Answer (click here)
97. Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
98. What is the structure of lipid bilayers? - Answer (click here)
99. How does the composition of the bilayer affect its properties? - Answer
(click here)
100. Butter versus Margarine-Which Is Healthier? - Answer (click here)
101. The Kinds of Membrane Proteins - Answer (click here)
102. The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure - Answer (click here)
103. Membranes in Drug Delivery - Answer (click here)
104. The Functions of Biological Membranes - Answer (click here)
105. Lipid Droplets Are Not Just Great Balls of Fat - Answer (click here)
106. Lipid-Soluble Vitamins and Their Functions - Answer (click here)
107. Vision Has Great Chemistry - Answer (click here)
108. Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes - Answer (click here)
109. Why Should We Eat More Salmon? - Answer (click here)
110. Levels of Structure in Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
111. The Covalent Structure of Polynucleotides - Answer (click here)
112. The DNA Family Tree - Answer (click here)
113. The Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
114. What is the nature of the DNA double helix? - Answer (click here)
115. Are there other possible conformations of the double helix? - Answer (click
here)
116. How does prokaryotic DNA supercoil into its tertiary structure? - Answer
(click here)
117. How does supercoiling take place in eukaryotic DNA? - Answer (click here)
118. What Makes a Triple Helix Useful in Drug Design? - Answer (click here)
119. Denaturation of DNA - Answer (click here)
120. The Principal Kinds of RNA and Their Structures - Answer (click here)
121. What kinds of RNA play a role in life processes? - Answer (click here)
122. What is the role of transfer RNA in protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
123. How does ribosomal RNA combine with proteins to form the site of
protein synthesis? - Answer (click here)
124. The Human Genome Project: Treasure or Pandora’s Box? - Answer (click
here)
125. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical - Answer (click here)
126. The Flow of Genetic Information in the Cell - Answer (click here)
127. Replication of DNA - Answer (click here)
128. DNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
129. Semidiscontinuous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
130. DNA Polymerase from E. coli - Answer (click here)
131. Proteins Required for DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
132. Proofreading and Repair - Answer (click here)
133. Why Does DNA Contain Thymine and Not Uracil? - Answer (click here)
134. Eukaryotic DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
135. The SOS Response in E. coli - Answer (click here)
136. Telomerase and Cancer - Answer (click here)
137. Transcription of the Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
138. Transcription in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
139. Transcription Regulation in Prokaryotes - Answer (click here)
140. Transcription in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
141. Transcription Regulation in Eukaryotes - Answer (click here)
142. Structural Motifs in DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
143. Post transcriptional RNA Modification - Answer (click here)
144. Lupus: An Autoimmune Disease Involving RNA Processing - Answer
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145. Ribozymes - Answer (click here)
146. What are the characteristics of a ribozyme? - Answer (click here)
147. Proofreading in Transcription? RNA Fills In Another Missing Piece -
Answer (click here)
148. Translating the Genetic Message - Answer (click here)
149. The Genetic Code - Answer (click here)
150. Codon–Anticodon Pairing and Wobble - Answer (click here)
151. Amino Acid Activation - Answer (click here)
152. Prokaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
153. Eukaryotic Translation - Answer (click here)
154. Posttranslational Modification of Proteins - Answer (click here)
155. Protein Degradation - Answer (click here)
156. Chaperones: Preventing Unsuitable Associations - Answer (click here)
157. Silent Mutations Are Not Always Silent - Answer (click here)
158. How Do We Adapt to High Altitude? - Answer (click here)
159. Purification and Detection of Nucleic Acids - Answer (click here)
160. Restriction Endonucleases - Answer (click here)
161. Cloning - Answer (click here)
162. What is cloning? - Answer (click here)
163. What are plasmids? - Answer (click here)
164. Genetic Engineering - Answer (click here)
165. Genetic Engineering in Agriculture - Answer (click here)
166. Human Proteins through Genetic Recombination Techniques - Answer
(click here)
167. Fusion Proteins and Fast Purifications - Answer (click here)
168. DNA Libraries - Answer (click here)
169. The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
170. DNA Fingerprinting - Answer (click here)
171. CSI: Biochemistry - Forensic Uses of DNA Testing - Answer (click here)
172. Sequencing DNA - Answer (click here)
173. RNA Interference - The Newest Way to Study Genes - Answer (click here)
174. Genomics and Proteomics - Answer (click here)
175. Viruses - Answer (click here)
176. What is the structure of a virus? - Answer (click here)
177. Families of Viruses - Answer (click here)
178. Virus Life Cycles - Answer (click here)
179. Why are viruses important? - Answer (click here)
180. Retroviruses - Answer (click here)
181. Why are retroviruses important? - Answer (click here)
182. Viruses are Used for Gene Therapy - Answer (click here)
183. The Immune System - Answer (click here)
184. Innate Immunity-The Front Lines of Defense - Answer (click here)
185. Acquired Immunity: Cellular Aspects - Answer (click here)
186. T-Cell Functions - Answer (click here)
187. T-Cell Memory - Answer (click here)
188. The Immune System: Molecular Aspects - Answer (click here)
189. The Immune System: Distinguishing Self from Nonself - Answer (click
here)
190. Viral RNAs Outwit the Immune System - Answer (click here)
191. Cancer - Answer (click here)
192. Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
193. Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
194. Viruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
195. Viruses Helping Cure Cancer - Answer (click here)
196. Attacking the Symptoms instead of the Disease? - Answer (click here)
197. Standard States for Free-Energy Changes - Answer (click here)
198. A Modified Standard State for Biochemical Applications - Answer (click
here)
199. Living Things Need Energy-How Do They Use It? - Answer (click here)
200. The Nature of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
201. Living Things Are Unique Thermodynamic Systems - Answer (click here)
202. The Role of Oxidation and Reduction in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
203. Coenzymes in Biologically Important Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -
Answer (click here)
204. Coupling of Production and Use of Energy - Answer (click here)
205. Coenzyme A in Activation of Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
206. Sugars: Their Structures and Stereochemistry - Answer (click here)
207. What is unique about the structures of sugars? - Answer (click here)
208. What happens if a sugar forms a cyclic molecule? - Answer (click here)
209. Reactions of Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
210. Vitamin C Is Related to Sugars - Answer (click here)
211. Some Important Oligosaccharides - Answer (click here)
212. Fruits, Flowers, Striking Colors, and Medicinal Uses Too - Answer (click
here)
213. Lactose Intolerance: Why Do So Many People Not Want to Drink Milk?
- Answer (click here)
214. Structures and Functions of Polysaccharides - Answer (click here)
215. Why Is Dietary Fiber So Good for You? - Answer (click here)
216. Glycoproteins - Answer (click here)
217. Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
218. Glycoproteins and Blood Transfusions - Answer (click here)
219. The Overall Pathway of Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
220. Biofuels from Fermentation - Answer (click here)
221. Conversion of Six-Carbon Glucose toThree-Carbon Glyceraldehyde-3-
Phosphate - Answer (click here)
222. Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Is Converted to Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
223. Anaerobic Metabolism of Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
224. What Is the Connection between Anaerobic Metabolism and Dental
Plaque? - Answer (click here)
225. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome - Answer (click here)
226. Energy Production in Glycolysis - Answer (click here)
227. How Glycogen Is Produced and Degraded - Answer (click here)
228. How does the breakdown of glycogen take place? - Answer (click here)
229. How is glycogen formed from glucose? - Answer (click here)
230. How is glycogen metabolism controlled? - Answer (click here)
231. Why Do Athletes Go In for Glycogen Loading? - Answer (click here)
232. Gluconeogenesis Produces Glucose from Pyruvate - Answer (click here)
233. Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
234. Glucose Is Sometimes Diverted throughthe Pentose Phosphate Pathway -
Answer (click here)
235. The Pentose Phosphate Pathway and Hemolytic Anemia - Answer (click
here)
236. The Central Role of the Citric Acid Cycle in Metabolism - Answer (click
here)
237. The Overall Pathway of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
238. How Pyruvate Is Converted to Acetyl-CoA - Answer (click here)
239. The Individual Reactions of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
240. Plant Poisons and the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
241. Energetics and Control of the Citric Acid Cycle - Answer (click here)
242. The Glyoxylate Cycle: A Related Pathway - Answer (click here)
243. The Citric Acid Cycle in Catabolism - Answer (click here)
244. The Citric Acid Cycle in Anabolism - Answer (click here)
245. Why Can’t Animals Use All the Same Energy Sources as Plants and
Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
246. The Link to Oxygen - Answer (click here)
247. Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? - Answer (click here)
248. The Role of Electron Transport in Metabolism - Answer (click here)
249. Reduction Potentials in the Electron Transport Chain - Answer (click here)
250. Organization of Electron Transport Complexes - Answer (click here)
251. The Connection between Electron Transportand Phosphorylation -
Answer (click here)
252. The Mechanism of Coupling in Oxidative Phosphorylation - Answer (click
here)
253. Respiratory Inhibitors Can Be Usedto Study Electron Transport - Answer
(click here)
254. Shuttle Mechanisms - Answer (click here)
255. What Does Brown Adipose Tissue Have to Do with Obesity? - Answer
(click here)
256. The ATP Yield from Complete Oxidation of Glucose - Answer (click here)
257. Sports and Metabolism - Answer (click here)
258. The Darker Side of Sports - Answer (click here)
259. Catabolism of Lipids - Answer (click here)
260. The Energy Yield from the Oxidationof Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
261. Catabolism of Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Odd-Carbon Fatty Acids -
Answer (click here)
262. Ketone Bodies - Answer (click here)
263. Fatty-Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
264. Ketone Bodies and Effective Weight Loss - Answer (click here)
265. Synthesis of Acylglycerols and Compound Lipids - Answer (click here)
266. A Gene for Obesity - Answer (click here)
267. Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase-A New Target in the Fight against Obesity? -
Answer (click here)
268. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
269. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
270. Chloroplasts Are the Site of Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
271. The Relationship between Wavelength and Energy of Light - Answer
(click here)
272. Photosystems I and II and the Light Reactions of Photosynthesis - Answer
(click here)
273. Cyclic Electron Transport in Photosystem I - Answer (click here)
274. Photosynthesis and ATP Production - Answer (click here)
275. Killing Weeds by Inhibiting Photosynthesis - Answer (click here)
276. Evolutionary Implications of Photosynthesis with and without Oxygen -
Answer (click here)
277. Dark Reactions of Photosynthesis Fix CO2 - Answer (click here)
278. Chloroplast Genes - Answer (click here)
279. CO2 Fixation in Tropical Plants - Answer (click here)
280. Nitrogen Metabolism: An Overview - Answer (click here)
281. Nitrogen Fixation - Answer (click here)
282. Why Is the Nitrogen Content of Fertilizers So Important? - Answer (click
here)
283. Feedback Inhibition in Nitrogen Metabolism - Answer (click here)
284. Amino Acid Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
285. Essential Amino Acids - Answer (click here)
286. Amino Acid Catabolism - Answer (click here)
287. Water and the Disposal of Nitrogen Wastes - Answer (click here)
288. Chemotherapy and Antibiotics - Taking Advantage of the Need for Folic
Acid - Answer (click here)
289. Purine Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
290. Purine Catabolism - Answer (click here)
291. Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome - Answer (click here)
292. Pyrimidine Biosynthesis and Catabolism - Answer (click here)
293. Conversion of Ribonucleotides to Deoxyribonucleotides - Answer (click
here)
294. Conversion of dUTP to dTTP - Answer (click here)
295. Connections between Metabolic Pathways - Answer (click here)
296. Biochemistry and Nutrition - Answer (click here)
297. What are required nutrients? - Answer (click here)
298. Why do we need vitamins? - Answer (click here)
299. What are minerals? - Answer (click here)
300. The Food Pyramid - Answer (click here)
301. What is obesity? - Answer (click here)
302. Alcohol Consumption and Addiction - Answer (click here)
303. Iron: An Example of a Mineral Requirement - Answer (click here)
304. Hormones and Second Messengers - Answer (click here)
305. What are hormones? - Answer (click here)
306. How do second messengers work? Cyclic AMP and G Proteins - Answer
(click here)
307. Calcium Ion as a Second Messenger - Answer (click here)
308. Receptor Tyrosine Kinases - Answer (click here)
309. Hormones and the Control of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
310. Insulin and Its Effects - Answer (click here)
311. Insulin and Low-Carbohydrate Diets - Answer (click here)
312. A Workout a Day Keeps Diabetes Away? - Answer (click here)
313. The Search for Longevity - Answer (click here)
314. Living Cell - Answer (click here)
315. Types of Living cells - Answer (click here)
316. Sub cellular Organelles - Answer (click here)
317. Cell Membrane and its Functions - Answer (click here)
318. Cell Wall and its Functions - Answer (click here)
319. Nucleus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
320. Mitochondria and its Functions - Answer (click here)
321. Endoplasmic reticulum and its Functions - Answer (click here)
322. Golgi apparatus and its Functions - Answer (click here)
323. Ribosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
324. Lysosomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
325. Peroxisomes and its Functions - Answer (click here)
326. Cytoplasm and its Functions - Answer (click here)
327. Chloroplasts and its Functions - Answer (click here)
328. Cell Vacuoles - Answer (click here)
329. Blood: Composition and Functions - Answer (click here)
330. Formation of blood - Answer (click here)
331. Body Fluids - Answer (click here)
332. Buffers - Answer (click here)
333. Uses of buffer - Answer (click here)
334. Buffers of blood - Answer (click here)
335. Acids and bases - Answer (click here)
336. Biomolecule: Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
337. Classification and Functions of Carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
338. Proteins: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
339. Lipids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
340. Nucleic acids: Definition, Classification, Functions - Answer (click here)
341. Enzymes - Answer (click here)
342. Chemical nature of enzymes - Answer (click here)
343. Naming of enzymes - Answer (click here)
344. Classification of enzymes - Answer (click here)
345. Factors influencing enzyme activity - Answer (click here)
346. Types of enzyme inhibition - Answer (click here)
347. Iso enzymes - Answer (click here)
348. Importance of enzymes - Answer (click here)
349. Functions of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
350. Classification of carbohydrates - Answer (click here)
351. Monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
352. Physical properties of monosaccharides - Answer (click here)
353. Chemical properties of glucose - Answer (click here)
354. Haworth projection formula of glucose and fructose - Answer (click here)
355. Disaccharides - Answer (click here)
356. Poly saccharides - Answer (click here)
357. Proteins and Sources of protein - Answer (click here)
358. Amino acids - Answer (click here)
359. Properties of amino acids - Answer (click here)
360. Classification of amino acids - Answer (click here)
361. Physical and Chemical Properties of proteins - Answer (click here)
362. Protein structure - Answer (click here)
363. Biologically important proteins - Answer (click here)
364. Lipids - Answer (click here)
365. Classification of Fatty acids - Answer (click here)
366. Essential fatty acid (EFA): Structure, Functions - Answer (click here)
367. Structure of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
368. Physical and Chemical Properties of triacyl glycerol - Answer (click here)
369. Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
370. Classification of Phospholipids - Answer (click here)
371. Properties of glycero phospholipids and sphingo phospholipids - Answer
(click here)
372. Importance of phospholipids - Answer (click here)
373. Sterols - Answer (click here)
374. Cholesterol: Structure, Properties - Answer (click here)
375. Structure and Properties of pyrimidine bases - Answer (click here)
376. Purine bases: Structure and Properties - Answer (click here)
377. Nucleic acids - Answer (click here)
378. Nucleic acids: Nucleosides and Nucleotides - Answer (click here)
379. Structure of DNA - Answer (click here)
380. Functions of DNA - Answer (click here)
381. Structure and types of RNA - Answer (click here)
382. Vitamins - Answer (click here)
383. Fat soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
384. Water soluble vitamins - Answer (click here)
385. Vitamin - A - Answer (click here)
386. Vitamin D - Answer (click here)
387. Vitamin E - Answer (click here)
388. Vitamin K - Answer (click here)
389. Thiamine (B1) - Answer (click here)
390. Riboflavin (B2) - Answer (click here)
391. Niacin (B3) - Answer (click here)
392. Pyridoxine (B6) - Answer (click here)
393. Folic acid - Answer (click here)
394. Vitamin B12 - Answer (click here)
395. Pantothenic acid (B5) - Answer (click here)
396. Biotin - Answer (click here)
397. Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) - Answer (click here)
398. Minerals Introduction - Answer (click here)
399. Calcium - Answer (click here)
400. Phosphorus - Answer (click here)
401. Sodium - Answer (click here)
402. Potassium - Answer (click here)
403. Chlorine - Answer (click here)
404. Magnesium - Answer (click here)
405. Sulphur - Answer (click here)
406. Iron - Answer (click here)
407. Copper - Answer (click here)
408. Iodine - Answer (click here)
409. Fluorine - Answer (click here)
410. Zinc - Answer (click here)
411. Cobalt - Answer (click here)
412. Manganese - Answer (click here)
413. Chromium - Answer (click here)
414. Molybdenum - Answer (click here)
415. Selenium - Answer (click here)
416. Chromatography - Answer (click here)
417. Types of chromatography - Answer (click here)
418. Column chromatography: Types, Principle - Answer (click here)
419. Thin Layer chromatography - Answer (click here)
420. Paper chromatography - Answer (click here)
421. Applications of chromatography - Answer (click here)
422. Electrophoresis: principle, Types - Answer (click here)
423. Centrifugation techniques: Principle, Types, Uses - Answer (click here)
424. Differential centrifugation technique - Answer (click here)
425. Spectrophotometry - Answer (click here)
426. The photoelectric colorimeter - Answer (click here)
427. Applications of spectrophotometry - Answer (click here)
428. Cell Membrane: Introduction - Answer (click here)
429. Cell Membrane: Chemical Composition - Answer (click here)
430. Models proposed for the plasma membrane - Answer (click here)
431. Membrane Transport - Answer (click here)
432. Cell Membrane: Viscosity - Answer (click here)
433. Surface tension - Answer (click here)
434. Osmosis and Biological Significance - Answer (click here)
435. Buffers - Answer (click here)
436. Biochemistry: Digestion - Answer (click here)
437. Carbohydrates in Digestion - Answer (click here)
438. Digestion of Proteins - Answer (click here)
439. Digestion of Lipids - Answer (click here)
440. Digestion of Nucleic acids - Answer (click here)
441. Biochemistry: Carbohydrate Metabolism - Answer (click here)
442. Carbohydrate as a source of energy - Answer (click here)
443. Tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA cycle) - Answer (click here)
444. HMP shunt pathway - Answer (click here)
445. Glycogen - Answer (click here)
446. Glycogen biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
447. Degradation of glycogen (Glycogenolysis) - Answer (click here)
448. Gluconeogenesis - Answer (click here)
449. Diabetes Mellitus - Answer (click here)
450. Protein Metabolism - Answer (click here)
451. Protein biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
452. Protein Metabolism Translation - Answer (click here)
453. Metabolism of Proteins - Answer (click here)
454. Urea Cycle - Answer (click here)
455. Formation of Niacin - Answer (click here)
456. Formation of Melanin - Answer (click here)
457. Formation of thyroid hormone - Answer (click here)
458. Formation of catecholamines - Answer (click here)
459. Lipid Metabolism - Answer (click here)
460. Biological functions of Lipids - Answer (click here)
461. Fatty acids - Answer (click here)
462. Biosynthesis of fatty acids - Answer (click here)
463. Oxidation of Fatty Acids - Answer (click here)
464. Cholesterol Biosynthesis - Answer (click here)
465. Biosynthesis of cholesterol - Answer (click here)
466. Important products derived from cholesterol - Answer (click here)
467. Biosynthesis of phospholipids - Answer (click here)
468. Cephalin - Answer (click here)
469. Atherosclerosis - Answer (click here)
470. Nucleic Acid Metabolism - Answer (click here)
471. Biosynthesis of DNA - Answer (click here)
472. Replication and Models of Replication - Answer (click here)
473. Sequential Process of Replication Initiation of DNA replication - Answer
(click here)
474. Catabolism of DNA by Deoxyribonucleases - Answer (click here)
475. Biosynthesis of RNA (Transcription) - Answer (click here)
476. Processing of mRNA molecules - Answer (click here)
477. mRNA Processing of tRNA Molecules - Answer (click here)
478. Role of tRNA in protein synthesis - Answer (click here)
479. Inborn Errors of Metabolism - Answer (click here)
480. Galactosemia: Causes, Symptoms - Answer (click here)
481. Von - Gierke’s Disease : Cause, Symptoms - Answer (click here)
482. Hemophilia: Causes, Symptoms - Answer (click here)
483. Albinism - Answer (click here)
484. Alkaptonuria: Causes, Symptoms - Answer (click here)
485. Taysach’s Disease: Causes, Symptoms - Answer (click here)
486. Neoplasm - Answer (click here)
487. Biological Oxidation - Answer (click here)
488. Redox Couple - Answer (click here)
489. Electron transport chain - Answer (click here)
490. Oxidative phosphorylation - Answer (click here)
491. High energy compounds - Answer (click here)
492. Enzyme Kinetics - Answer (click here)
493. Derivation of M - M Equation - Answer (click here)
494. Enzyme Action - Answer (click here)
495. Enzyme Inhibitor - Concepts - Answer (click here)
496. Immunology - Answer (click here)
497. Infections - Answer (click here)
498. Immunity - Answer (click here)
499. Natural Immunity - Answer (click here)
500. Acquired immunity - Answer (click here)
501. Humoral immunity - Answer (click here)
502. Cell mediated immunity - Answer (click here)
503. Antigens - Answer (click here)
504. Structure and Types of Antigens - Answer (click here)
505. Factors influencing the antigenicity of antigens - Answer (click here)
506. Antibodies - Answer (click here)
507. Antibody Structure - Answer (click here)
508. Immunoglobulin and their functions, Types - Answer (click here)
509. Antigen antibody reactions - Answer (click here)
510. Blood groups - Answer (click here)
511. Collection of Blood - Answer (click here)
512. Preparation of Starch From Potatoes - Answer (click here)
513. Preparation of Casein From Milk - Answer (click here)
514. Estimation of Protein (Biuret Method) - Colorimetric Estimation - Answer
(click here)
515. Estimation of Glucose (Orthotoluidine method) - Answer (click here)
516. Estimation of Calcium (Titrimetric Method) - Answer (click here)
517. Determination of Blood Grouping - Answer (click here)

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