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PYQ’S AND MCQ’S

1. Conversion of glucose to glucose-6-phosphate, the

6. End product of glycolysis is
first irreversible reaction of glycolysis, is catalysed by
(a) acetyl CoA
(a) phosphofructokinase
(b) pyruvic acid
(b) aldolase
(c) glucose 1-phosphate
(c) hexokinase
(d) fructose 1-phosphate.
(d) enolase.
(1990)
(NEET 2019)

7. In which one of the following processes CO2 is

2. What is the role of NAD+ in cellular respiration?
not
(a) It functions as an enzyme.
released?
(b) It functions as an electron carrier.
(a) Aerobic respiration in plants
(c) It is a nucleotide source for ATP synthesis.

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(b) Aerobic respiration in animals

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(d) It is the final electron acceptor for anaerobic (c) Alcoholic fermentation

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respiration.

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(d) Lactate fermentation

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(NEET 2018) (2014)

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3. In glycolysis, during oxidation electrons are

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8. The energy-releasing metabolic process in which

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removed substrate is oxidised without an external electron

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by acceptor is called

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(a) ATP

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(a) glycolysis
(b) glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate

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(b) fermentation
(c) NAD+ (c) aerobic respiration
(d) molecular oxygen. (d) photorespiration.
(2004) (2010, 2008)

4. At the end of glycolysis, six carbon compound 9. In alcohol fermentation

ultimately changes into (a) triose phosphate is the electron donor while
(a) ethyl alcohol acetaldehyde is the electron acceptor
(b) acetyl Co-A (b) triose phosphate is the electron donor while
(c) pyruvic acid pyruvic acid is the electron acceptor
(d) ATP. (c) there is no electron donor
(1996) (d) oxygen is the electron acceptor.
(2003)
5. The first phase in the breakdown of glucose, in
animal cell, is 10. The end product of fermentation are
(a) fermentation (a) O2 and C2H5OH
(b) Krebs’ cycle (b) CO2 and acetaldehyde
(c) glycolysis (c) CO2 and O2
(d) ETS. (d) CO2 and C2H5OH.
(1994) (1997)
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15. Which of these statements is incorrect?

11. Which of the following products are obtained by
(a) Enzymes of TCA cycle are present in
anaerobic respiration from yeast?
mitochondrial matrix.
(a) Beer and wine
(b) Glycolysis occurs in cytosol.
(b) Alcohols
(c) Glycolysis operates as long as it is supplied with
(c) CO2
NAD that can pick up hydrogen atoms.
(d) All of these
(d) Oxidative phosphorylation takes place in outer
(1996)
mitochondrial membrane.
(NEET 2018)
12. When yeast ferments glucose, the products
obtained
16. Which statement is wrong for Krebs’ cycle?

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are
(a) There is one point in the cycle where FAD+ is

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(a) ethanol and CO2
reduced to FADH2.

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(b) methanol and CO2
(b) During conversion of succinyl CoA to succinic

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(c) ethanol and water
acid, a molecule of GTP is synthesised.

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(d) water and CO2.

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(c) The cycle starts with condensation of acetyl

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(1994)
group (acetyl CoA) with pyruvic acid to yield

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citric acid.
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(d) There are three points in the cycle where NAD+

A
13. The number of substrate level phosphorylations
is reduced to NADH + H+.

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in
(NEET 2017)
one turn of citric acid cycle is
(a) zero
17. Oxidative phosphorylation is
(b) one
(a) formation of ATP by transfer of phosphate
(c) two
group from a substrate to ADP
(d) three.
(b) oxidation of phosphate group in ATP
(NEET 2020)
(c) addition of phosphate group to ATP
(d) formation of ATP by energy released from
14. Where is respiratory electron transport system electrons removed during substrate oxidation.
(ETS) located in plants ? (NEET-II 2016)
(a) Mitochondrial matrix
(b) Outer mitochondrial membrane 18. Cytochromes are found in
(c) Inner mitochondrial membrane (a) cristae of mitochondria
(d) Intermembrane space (b) lysosomes
(Odisha NEET 2019) (c) matrix of mitochondria
(d) outer wall of mitochondria.
(2015 Cancelled)
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19. In mitochondria, protons accumulate in the

(a) outer membrane (a) It is a coloured cell.
(b) inner membrane (b) It is an enzyme involved in oxidation reactions.
(c) intermembrane space (c) It has an important role in metabolism.
(d) matrix. (d) It contains iron.
(Mains 2011) (1998)

20. All enzymes of TCA cycle are located in the 24. Which of the following is the key intermediate
mitochondrial matrix except one which is located compound linking glycolysis to the Krebs’ cycle?
in inner mitochondrial membranes in eukaryotes (a) Malic acid
and in cytosol in prokaryotes. This enzyme is (b) Acetyl CoA
(a) isocitrate dehydrogenase (c) NADH

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(d) ATP

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(b) malate dehydrogenase

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(c) succinate dehydrogenase (1997)

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(d) lactate dehydrogenase.
(2007) 25. In Krebs’ cycle, the FAD precipitates as electron

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acceptor during the conversion of

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21. In which one of the following do the two names (a) fumaric acid to malic acid

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refer to one and the same thing ? (b) succinic acid to fumaric acid

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(a) Krebs’ cycle and Calvin cycle (c) succinyl CoA to succinic acid

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(b) Tricarboxylic acid cycle and citric acid cycle (d) α-ketoglutarate to succinyl CoA.

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(c) Citric acid cycle and Calvin cycle (1997)
(d) Tricarboxylic acid cycle and urea cycle
(2003) 26. The correct sequence of electron acceptor in
ATP
22. Cytochrome is synthesis is
(a) metallo flavo protein (a) Cyt. b, c, a3, a
(b) Fe containing porphyrin pigment (b) Cyt. c, b, a, a3
(c) glycoprotein (c) Cyt. a, a, b, c
(d) lipid. (d) Cyt. b, c, a, a3.
(2001) (1997)

23. Which one of the following statements about

27. The 1992 Nobel Prize for medicine was
cytochrome P450 is wrong?
awarded to
Edmond H. Fischer and Edwin J. Krebs for their
work concerning
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(a) reversible protein phosphorylation as a biological 32. Connecting link between glycolysis and
regulation mechanism Krebs’ cycle
(b) isolation of the gene for a human disease before pyruvate entering Krebs’ cycle is changed
(c) human genome project to
(d) drug designing involving inhibition of DNA (a) oxaloacetate
synthesis of the pathogen. (b) PEP
(1994) (c) pyruvate
(d) acetyl CoA.
28. End product of citric acid cycle/Krebs’ cycle is (1990)
(a) citric acid
(b) lactic acid 33. The three boxes in this diagram represent the

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(c) pyruvic acid three

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(d) CO2 + H2O. major biosynthetic pathways in aerobic respiration.

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(1993) Arrows represent net reactants or products.

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29. Oxidative phosphorylation is production of
(a) ATP in photosynthesis

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(b) NADPH in photosynthesis

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(c) ATP in respiration

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(d) NADH in respiration.

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(1992)

30. End products of aerobic respiration are

(a) sugar and oxygen
(b) water and energy
(c) carbon dioxide, water and energy 34. The overall goal of glycolysis, Krebs’ cycle and
(d) carbon dioxide and energy. the
(1992) electron transport system is the formation of
(a) ATP in one large oxidation reaction
31. Terminal cytochrome of respiratory chain which (b) sugars
donates electrons to oxygen is (c) nucleic acids
(a) Cyt b (d) ATP in small stepwise units.
(b) Cyt c (2007)
(c) Cyt a1
(d) Cyt a3.
(1992)
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35. How many ATP molecules could maximally be

generated from one molecule of glucose, if the 39. When one molecule of ATP is disintegrated,
complete oxidation of one mole of glucose to CO2 what
and H2O yields 686 kcal and the useful chemical amount of energy is liberated?
energy available in the high energy phosphate (a) 8 kcal
bond (b) 38 kcal
of one mole of ATP is 12 kcal? (c) 7 kcal
(a) 1 (d) 4.5 kcal
(b) 2 (1996)
(c) 30
(d) 57 40. The ultimate respiratory substrate, yielding
(2006) maximum number of ATP molecules, is
(a) glycogen

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36. During which stage in the complete oxidation (b) ketogenic amino acid

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(c) glucose

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of

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glucose are the greatest number of ATP (d) amylose.
(1994)

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molecules

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formed from ADP?

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(a) Glycolysis 41. Out of 38 ATP molecules produced per

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(b) Krebs’ cycle glucose, 32

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ATP molecules are formed from NADH/FADH2

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(c) Conversion of pyruvic acid to acetyl CoA
in

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(d) Electron transport chain
(2005) (a) respiratory chain
(b) Krebs’ cycle
37. How many ATP molecules are produced by (c) oxidative decarboxylation
aerobic (d) EMP.
oxidation of one molecule of glucose? (1993)
(a) 2
(b) 4 42. When one glucose molecule is completely
(c) 38 oxidised,
(d) 34 it changes
(2002) (a) 36 ADP molecules into 36 ATP molecules
(b) 38 ADP molecules into 38 ATP molecules
38. Net gain of ATP molecules, during aerobic (c) 30 ADP molecules into 30 ATP molecules
respiration, is (d) 32 ADP molecules into 32 ATP molecules.
(a) 40 molecules (1992)
(b) 48 molecules
(c) 36 molecules 43. Out of 36 ATP molecules produced per
(d) 38 molecules glucose
. (1999) molecule during respiration
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47. Aerobic respiratory pathway is appropriately

(a) 2 are produced outside glycolysis and 34 termed
during (a) parabolic
respiratory chain (b) amphibolic
(b) 2 are produced outside mitochondria and 34 (c) anabolic
inside mitochondria (d) catabolic.
(c) 2 during glycolysis and 34 during Krebs’ cycle (2009)
(d) all are formed inside mitochondria.
(1992) 48. Plants, but not animals, can convert fatty
acids to
44. EMP can produce a total of sugars by a series of reactions called
(a) 6 ATP (a) photosynthesis

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(b) 8 ATP (b) Kreb’s cycle

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(c) 24 ATP (c) glycolysis

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(d) 38 ATP. (d) glyoxylate cycle.

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(1990) (1994)

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45. Which of the following biomolecules is

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49. Link between glycolysis, Krebs’ cycle and

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common β-oxidation of fatty acid or carbohydrate and fat

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to respiration-mediated breakdown of fats, metabolism is

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carbohydrates and proteins? (a) oxaloacetic acid

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(a) Glucose-6-phosphate (b) succinic acid
(b) Fructose 1, 6-bisphosphate (c) citric acid
(c) Pyruvic acid (d) acetyl CoA.
(d) Acetyl CoA (1992)
(NEET-II 2016)
50. NADP+ is reduced to NADPH in
46. Which of the metabolites is common to (a) HMP
respirationmediated breakdown of fats, (b) Calvin Cycle
carbohydrates and (c) glycolysis
proteins? (d) EMP.
(a) Pyruvic acid (1988)
(b) Acetyl CoA
(c) Glucose - 6 - phosphate 51. Respiratory Quotient (R.Q.) is defined as:
(d) Fructose 1, 6 - bisphosphate
(NEET 2013)
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56. Which of the following processes make direct

use of oxygen ?
52. What is the end product of glycolysis of a (a) Glycolysis
glucose molecule? (b) Fermentation
(a) Fructose 1, 6- diphosphate (c) Electron transport
(b) Pyruvate and ATP (d) citric acid cycle
(c) Phosphoglyceraldehyde
(d) Lactic acid and ATP 57. Glycolysis is a
(a) redox process
53. Connecting link between glycolysis and (b) aerobic process
Krebs cycle is/ (c) oxidative process
before entering Krebs cycle pyruvate is (d) reductive process

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changed to

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(a) oxaloacetate 58. In Kreb’s cycle, the FAD participates as

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(b) phosphoenol pyruvate electron acceptor

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(c) pyruvate during the conversion of

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(a) succinyl CoA to succinic acid

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(d) acetyl CoA

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(b) D - ketoglutarate to succinyl CoA

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54. Site of respiration in bacteria is (c) fumaric acid to malic acid

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(a) episome (d) succinic acid to fumaric acid

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(b) ribosome

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(c) mesosome 59. The major reason that glycolysis is not as
(d) microsome energy productive
as respiration is that
54. Terminal cytochrome of respiratory chain (a) NAD+
which donates is regenerated by alcohol or lactate production,
electrons to oxygen is without the high-energy electrons passing
(a) Cyt. b through the
(b) Cyt. c electron transport chain.
(c) Cyt. a1 (b) it is the pathway common to fermentation and
(d) Cyt. a3 respiration.
(c) it does not take place in a specialized
membrane-bound
organelle.
(d) pyruvate is more reduced than CO2
; it still contains
much of the energy from glucose
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60. Which of the following is a 4-carbon

64. The first dicarboxylic acid in Krebs’ cycle is
compound?
(a) isocitric acid
(a) Oxaloacetic acid
(b) pyruvic acid
(b) Citric acid
(c) oxalo acetic acid
(c) Phosphoglyceric acid
(d) D-ketoglutaric acid
(d) Phosphoenol pyruvate

65. Final electron acceptor in oxidative

61. Which of the following is a biological
phosphorylation is
uncoupler of oxidative
(a) hydrogen
phosphorylation ?
(b) dehydrogenase
(a) Thermogenin
(c) cytochrome
(b) 2, 4 – Dichlorophenoxy acetic acid
(d) oxygen

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(c) 2, 4 – Dinitrophenol

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(d) Ethylene diaminotetra acetic acid
66. Quantasomes are found in

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(a) mitochondria

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62. Which of the following is not true for
(b) chloroplast

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oxidative

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(c) lysosome

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phosphorylation?
(d) endoplasmic reticulum

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(a) It uses oxygen as the initial electron donor.

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(b) It involves the redox reactions of electron

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67. Which of the following statement(s) is/are
transport

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incorrect ?

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chain.
(i) Proton channel of oxysome / complex V / ATP
(c) It involves an ATP synthase located in the
synthase
inner
is located in F1
mitochondrial membrane.
(ii) Metabolic water is produced in terminal
(d) It depends on chemiosmosis.
oxidation / produced in respiration.
(iii) CoQ accepts electron from NADH
63. In which of the following reaction of
dehydrogenase
glycolysis, a molecule
(complex I) and also can accept electron from
of water is removed from the substrate ?
FADH2/Succinate Q-reductase / complex II.
(a) Frucoste-6-phosphate o Fructose 1, 6-
(iv) Cytochrome c is a small protein attached to
biphosphate
outer surface of the inner mitochondrial membrane
(b) 3-phosphate glyceraldehyde o 1, 3
and acts as mobile carrier for transfer of electrons
biphosphoglyceric acid
between complex I (Cyt bc, complex) and III.
(c) Phosphoenol-pyruvate o Pyruvic acid
(v) Complex IV refers to cytochrome c oxidase (cyt
(d) 2-phosphoglycerate o PEP
a, a3 and 2 Cu per centre).
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(vi) If a cell is treated with a drug that inhibits ATP

synthase,
the pH of mitochondrial matrix will increase. 72. R.Q. is highest when respiratory substance is
(a) (i), (ii) and (iii) (a) fat
(b) (iii), (v) and (vi) (b) malic acid
(c) (i) and (iv) (c) glucose
(d) Only (iii) (d) protein

68. Which of the following is an important 73. Electron transport chain is inhibited by
intermediate found (a) rotenone and amytal
in all the types of respiration ? (b) antimycin-A
(a) Acetyl CoA (c) cyanide (CN–), azide (N3–) and carbon
(b) Pyruvic acid

H
monoxide (CO)

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(c) Oxaloacetate (d) All of the above

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(d) Tricarboxylic acid

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69. Incomplete oxidation of glucose into pyruvic acid

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with

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several intermediate steps is known as

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74.
(a) TCA-pathway

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(b) Glycolysis

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(c) HMS-pathway

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(d) Krebs cycle

70. Common enzyme in glycolysis and pentose

phosphate
pathways is
(a) hexokinase
(b) aconitase
(c) fumarase
(d) dehydrogenase

71. Out of 36 ATP molecules produced per glucose 75. Identify A and B in the given diagram showing
molecule ATP
during respiration synthesis in oxysomes
(a) 2 are produced outside glycolysis and 34 during
respiratory chain.
(b) 2 are produced outside mitochondria and 34
inside
mitochondria.
(c) 2 during glycolysis and 34 during Krebs cycle.
(d) all are formed inside mitochondria
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(a) Pasteur effect will be enhanced

(b) Pasteur effect will remain unchanged
(c) Pasteur effect will not take place
(d) Variable effect

78. An inhibitor is added to a cell culture so that

succinate
accumulates. The enzyme catalysing the formation
(a) A = Mitochondrial matrix
of
B = Outer mitochondrial membrane
which substance has been blocked?
(b) A = Mitochondrial matrix
(a) Citrate
B = Inner mitochondrial membrane
(b) Oxaloacetate

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(c) A = Cell cytoplasm

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(c) D-Ketoglutarate
B = Inner mitochondrial membrane

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(d) Fumarate

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(d) A = Cell cytoplasm

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B = Outer mitochondrial membrane
79. One of the following is common to glycolysis

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as well as

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76. Potassium cyanide is known to interfere with

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Krebs cycle in eukaryotes :

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the formation
(a) Substrate level phosphorylation

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and use of ATP in cell metabolism.
(b) Photophosphorylation

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If the use of potassium cyanide resulted in an
(c) Localization in mitochondria

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accelerated
(d) Production of FADH2
entry of a solute into a cell, it may be reasonably
assumed
80. A mutant cell lacking mitochondria will show:
that, under normal circumstances, the solute
(a) Inability to oxidize carbohydrates
enters by
(b) Inability to oxidize fats
(a) active transport
(c) Inability to oxidize carbohydrates and fats
(b) osmosis
(d) Inability to synthesize glucose
(c) passive diffusion
(d) pinocytosis
81. During the early stages of alcoholic
fermentation there is a
77. When yeast growing anaerobically in
high rate of growth of yeast. After some time the
glucose-rich-environment is exposed to oxygen
rate
in sufficient quantity, its rate of
decreases. Which of the following conditions in
glucose utilization decreases. This pheno-menon
the
is known
culture medium is least likely to have caused this?
as the Pasteur effect. Adding an uncoupler of
oxidative phosphorylation would have what
effect on Pasteur effect?
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86. All enzymes of TCA cycle are located in the

82. Hexose monophosphate shunt does not take mitochondrial
place when : matrix except one which is located in inner
(a) Oxygen is not enough mitochondrial
(b) Glucose is the substrate membranes in eukaryotes and in cytosol in
(c) NAD is available prokaryotes.
(d) NAD is not available due to shortage of oxygen This enzyme is
(a) isocitrate dehydrogenase
83. Chemiosmotic theory of ATP synthesis in the (b) malate dehydrogenase
chloroplasts (c) succinate dehydrogenase
and mitochondria is based on (d) lactate dehydrogenase
.

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(a) membrane potential

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(b) accumulation of Na ions 87. The energy-releasing process in which the

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substrate is

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(c) accumulation of K ions

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(d) proton gradient oxidised without an external electron acceptor is

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called

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84. During the stage in the complete oxidation of (a) fermentation

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glucose are (b) photorespiration

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the greatest number of ATP molecules formed from (c) aerobic respiration

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ADP (d) glycolysis

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(a) glycolysis
88. In TCA cycle the conversion of succinyl Co-A to
(b) krebs cycle
succinic
(c) conversion of pyruvic acid to acetyl Co-A
acid requires
(d) electron transport chain
(a) Acetyl Co-A + GTP + iP
(b) Acetyl Co-A + GDP + iP
85. How many ATP molecules could maximally be
(c) Co-A + GTP + iP
generated
(d) GDP + iP
from one molecule of glucose, if the complete
oxidation of
one mole of glucose to CO2 89. The diagram shows the reversible
and H2O yields 686 kcal and the conversion of pyruvate
useful chemical energy available in the high energy to lactate by the enzyme lactate dehydrogenase.
phosphate bond of one mole of ATP is 12 kcal ?
(a) Thirty
(b) Fifty-seven
(c) One
(d) Two
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What would be the effect of inhibition of lactate

dehydrogenase in a mammalian cell under anaerobic
conditions?
(a) A decrease in cell pH, due to the accumulation of

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lactic

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acid.

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(b) A decrease in glycolysis, due to the lack of NAD.

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(c) An increase in ATP production, due to increased

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amounts of reduced NAD.

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(d) An increase in the activity of the Krebs cycle, due

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to

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increased amounts of pyruvate

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90. The diagram summarises the pathway of glucose
breakdown

When two steps result in a net increase of ATP?

(a) A and C
(b) A and D
(c) B and D
(d) B and E
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1.C 31.D 61.A

2.B,C 32.D 62.A
3.C 33.D 63.D
4.C 34.D 64.D
5.C 35.D 65.D
6.B 36.D 66.B
7.D 37.C 67.C
8.B 38.C 68.B
9.A 39.C 69.B
10.D 40.C 70.A
11.D 41.A 71.B

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12.A 42.B 72.B

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13.B 43.B 73.D

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14.C 44.B 74.C

A
15.D 45.D 75.B

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16.C 46.D 76.A

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17.D 46.B 77.C

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18.A 47.B 78.D

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19.C 48.D 79.A

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20.C 49.D 80.C

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21.B 50.A 81.B
22.B 51.B 82.C
23.A 52.B 83.D
24.B 53.D 84.D
25.B 54.C 85.B
26.D 55.D 86.C
27.A 56.C 87.D
28.D 57.D 88.D
29.C 58.D 89.B
30.C 59.D 90.D
60.A