Introduction to Biochemistry Quiz

A. Lecture (15 points)

1. What is the simplest hydrocarbon?

Answer: Methane

2. Considered to be the strongest type of chemical bond.

Answer: Covalent bond

3. The only element known to form chains and rings with itself.

Answer: Carbon

4. The experiment that simulated primitive Earth and formation of biomolecules.

Answer: The Miller-Urey Experiment

5. Type of bond joining two monosaccharides to form a disaccharide.

Answer: Glycosidic bond

6. Considered to be the “good” type of cholesterol.

Answer: Unsaturated Fatty Acid

7. Type of lipid that is completely insoluble in water.

Answer: Steroids

8. It is a type of protein that can lower the activation energy of reactions.

Answer: Enzymes

9. Important structural support of bacterial cell walls.

Answer: Peptidoglycan
10. Molecules that bind to organic compounds which subsequently gives them unique

properties.

Answer: Functional Groups

11. What is the foundation of Biochemistry?

Answer: Organic Chemistry

12. The number of valence electrons in the outer shell of an element in order to be

considered as stable.

Answer: 8

13. What is the most widely accepted theory for the origin of the universe?

Answer: The Big Bang Theory

14. Out of the 20 natural occurring forms of amino acids, how many are essential?

Answer: 9

15. What does “mrt” stand for in the major types of RNA?

Answer: Messenger, Ribosomal, and Transfer

B. Laboratory (10 points)

Pick one of the commonly used techniques in Biochemistry then briefly discuss in 5

sentences how it can be important to healthcare.

Answer: One of the commonly used techniques that in Biochemistry that I discovered is

the Immunological techniques in Medical Biochemistry. Immunological techniques are

used to study the immune systems and methods to generate immunological reagents as

experimental tools. Some of these are the immunofluorescence assay and enzyme-linked

assay. They are relevantly used in the health care system because they help detect

human viral infections in clinical samples as well as the presence of antibodies to a

pathogen. It is important to know this information because our immune system plays a

vital role in protecting our body from harmful substances and germs that could make us

sick and this gives us the knowledge on how to make our immune system strong and

healthy.