MCBHD Questions
Membrane Structure Synthesis and Function:
1. What is the phospholipid bilayer
2. What does cholesterol do in the membrane?
3. What are the different types of transport mechanism?
4. What are the two broad types of glucose transporter? How are they different?
Energy I – Metabolism, ATP and Glycolysis
1. What is catabolism and anabolism?
2. What is ATP? Why is it important?
3. What are the basic steps of glycolysis and two important regulated enzymes?
4. How do muscles sometimes use glycolysis?
5. Why do tumours use glycolysis?
Energy II – Acetyl CoA, Mitochondria and Oxygen
1. What are the advantages/disadvantages of aerobic metabolism?
2. Where does TCA occur and ETC?
3. Basic TCA cycle, why is the TCA cycle important?
4. What regulates entry into the TCA cycle?
5. What is Beriberi?
6. What happens in ETC?
7. What is brown fat?
Carbohydrate Metabolism
1. What is glycogen? Where is it mainly present?
2. Why does our body try to maintain glucose levels?
3. How does the body deal with lack of glucose? Excess glucose?
4. What are the properties of glycogen?
5. What enzyme adds glucose to glycogen, what enzyme removes?
6. What regulates phosphorylase?
7. Why can liver control blood glucose but not muscle?
8. What hormones regulate glycogenolysis?
9. What is gluconeogenesis, where does it occur? What hormones stimulates it?
Lipid Synthesis and Degradation
1. When do we synthesise fat?
2. What tissue prefers fat
3. Where does lipid synthesis and degradation mostly occur?
4. How are most fats stored?
5. How do we make fatty acids and then what do we do with them?
6. How do we make cholesterol? What are its uses?
7. Describe the three steps of fatty acid degradation
Membrane Structure Synthesis and Function:
1. What is the phospholipid bilayer
2. What does cholesterol do in the membrane?
3. What are the different types of transport mechanism?
4. What are the two broad types of glucose transporter? How are they different?
Energy I – Metabolism, ATP and Glycolysis
1. What is catabolism and anabolism?
2. What is ATP? Why is it important?
3. What are the basic steps of glycolysis and two important regulated enzymes?
4. How do muscles sometimes use glycolysis?
5. Why do tumours use glycolysis?
Energy II – Acetyl CoA, Mitochondria and Oxygen
1. What are the advantages/disadvantages of aerobic metabolism?
2. Where does TCA occur and ETC?
3. Basic TCA cycle, why is the TCA cycle important?
4. What regulates entry into the TCA cycle?
5. What is Beriberi?
6. What happens in ETC?
7. What is brown fat?
Carbohydrate Metabolism
1. What is glycogen? Where is it mainly present?
2. Why does our body try to maintain glucose levels?
3. How does the body deal with lack of glucose? Excess glucose?
4. What are the properties of glycogen?
5. What enzyme adds glucose to glycogen, what enzyme removes?
6. What regulates phosphorylase?
7. Why can liver control blood glucose but not muscle?
8. What hormones regulate glycogenolysis?
9. What is gluconeogenesis, where does it occur? What hormones stimulates it?
Lipid Synthesis and Degradation
1. When do we synthesise fat?
2. What tissue prefers fat
3. Where does lipid synthesis and degradation mostly occur?
4. How are most fats stored?
5. How do we make fatty acids and then what do we do with them?
6. How do we make cholesterol? What are its uses?
7. Describe the three steps of fatty acid degradation
