BIOLOGY 133 WEEK 6 EXAM ELABORATIONS QUESTIONS. ALREADY GRADED A

Question 1 of 10 1.0/ 1.0 Points After many years of difficult research, your company invented a drug that increases the enzyme rate for the synthesis of an important metabolite. Patients with mutations in the enzyme lack the metabolite and have devastating symptoms. Your team is thrilled to have a drug that speeds up the enzymatic rate. At your celebration, the new intern pipes up: “You guys didn’t have to do all that work after all! Instead of giving patients this new drug, you could have just given them the metabolite directly.” Your response?  A. It would have been much easier to give patients a small pill once a week containing the product of the reaction. But that compound was already patented by another company.  B. She is correct – this is an example of how pharmaceutical companies create expensive drugs when a cheap solution would solve the problem.  C. Each enzyme can catalyze multiple reactions. It is not feasible to provide enough of the metabolite to each cell directly.  D. Products of metabolic reactions are not easily digestible, so it would pass through the patient undigested. Question 2 of 10 1.0/ 1.0 Points What is an example of potential energy? Select all that apply. This study source was downloaded by from CourseH on :33:32 GMT -05:00 This study resource was shared via CourseH A. energy in chemical bonds B. sound C. heat D. light E. concentration gradients Question 3 of 10 1.0/ 1.0 Points Making popsicles _____________the entropy of the system.  A. increases  B. decreases  C. does not effect Question 4 of 10 1.0/ 1.0 Points Neostigmine is a drug used to treat the disease myasthenia gravis. The drug binds to the active site of acetylcholinesterase preventing breakdown of acetylcholine. This drug is a(n)  This study source was downloaded by from CourseH on :33:32 GMT -05:00 This study resource wa