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NEW TEST BANK For Microbiology for
the Healthcare Professional
What are the products of fueling reactions?
A. Precursor molecules
B. Reducing power
C. ATP
D. All of the above - -answer-All of the above
Antibiotics can
A. Inhibit anabolic pathways
B. Protect anabolic pathways
C. Have no effect on anabolic pathways - -answer-Inhibit anabolic pathways
True or false: metabolism is carefully regulated - -answer-True
Catabolic and anabolic pathways are ________ as some enzymes function in _______
direction(s)
A. Identical; both
B. Not identical; both
C. Identical; only one
D. Not identical; only one - -answer-Not identical; only one
Anabolic and catabolic reactions are
A. Located in separate compartments
B. Allowed to operate simultaneously but independently
C. A and B
D. None of them - -answer-A and B
Calvin cycle is
A. Used by most autotrophs to fix CO2
B. Used in the stroma of chloroplasts
C. Happens in the mitochondria
D. A and B - -answer-A and B
In the Calvin cycle, what is reduced and regenerated?
A. 3-phospho-glycerate is reduced and RuBP is regenerated
B. 3-phospho-glycerate is regenerated and RuBP is reduced
C. Glucose is reduced and RuBP is regenerated
D. B and C - -answer-3-phospho-glycerate is reduced and RuBP is regenerated
The reductive TCA cycle
A. Is a CO2 fixation pathway
B. Runs the same way as the oxidative TCA cycle
C. Runs the opposite way of the oxidative TCA cycle
D. A and C - -answer-A and C
In gluconeogenesis, synthesis of glucose and related sugars is done by starting with
A. Fructose
B. Glucose
C. Non-glucose precursors
D. Genesis precursors - -answer-Non-glucose precursors
Gluconeogenesis and glycolysis
A. Are functionally reverses of each other
B. Are functionally the same
C. Are both catabolic processes