NUT 111B (FINAL-PROTEIN) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
ELABORATIONS!!
What is the primary reason why we need protein? Answers :Provides us with Nitrogen
What are amino acids the precursors to? Answers :Nucleic acids
Hormones
Neurotransmitters
What are essential amino acids? Answers :We cant make enough of the aa or any at all?
What are the essential amino acids? Answers :Phenylalanine
Valine
Threonine
Methionine
Tryptophan
Histidine
Isoleucine
Leucine
Lysine
What are the conditional amino acids? Answers :Arginine
Cysteine
Glutamine
Glycine
Proline
Tyrosine
Why do we conditionally need arginine? Answers :needed during critical illness and pregnancy
Why do we conditionally need cysteine? Answers :Needed during critical illness
Why do we conditionally need glutamine? Answers :Needed during critical illness
Why do we conditionally need glycine? Answers :Needs increased during pregnancy
Why do we conditionally need proline? Answers :Important for healing burns
Why do we conditionally need tyrosine? Answers :Needed for PKU (cant make it from met)
ELABORATIONS!!
What is the primary reason why we need protein? Answers :Provides us with Nitrogen
What are amino acids the precursors to? Answers :Nucleic acids
Hormones
Neurotransmitters
What are essential amino acids? Answers :We cant make enough of the aa or any at all?
What are the essential amino acids? Answers :Phenylalanine
Valine
Threonine
Methionine
Tryptophan
Histidine
Isoleucine
Leucine
Lysine
What are the conditional amino acids? Answers :Arginine
Cysteine
Glutamine
Glycine
Proline
Tyrosine
Why do we conditionally need arginine? Answers :needed during critical illness and pregnancy
Why do we conditionally need cysteine? Answers :Needed during critical illness
Why do we conditionally need glutamine? Answers :Needed during critical illness
Why do we conditionally need glycine? Answers :Needs increased during pregnancy
Why do we conditionally need proline? Answers :Important for healing burns
Why do we conditionally need tyrosine? Answers :Needed for PKU (cant make it from met)