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6. When lipase breaks ..... down, you get glycerol and free fatty acids.

  • dipeptides
  • triglycerides
  • peptides

7. Why is it that bile salts produced in the gall bladder bother emulsifying fat droplets into smaller ones?

  • To increase their surface area to expedite digestion.
  • So that they fit through cell membranes.
  • So that they pass more easily through the digestive tract.

8. Which of the following is not a feature or characteristic of chloroplasts?

  • Phospholipid membrane
  • Stroma
  • Its own DNA stash
  • Glucose reservoir
  • Prokaryotic
  • Venue of photosynthesis

9. ‘Breaking down large molecules into smaller ones to fit though cell membranes’ roughly describes the purpose of what process?

  • Combustion
  • Digestion
  • Ingestion
  • Mitosis

10. Two interrelated photosystems, referred to PSI and PSII, combine the light harvesting mechanism with other proteins to transfer energy and electrons; they take place in the thylakoid ...... and ...... respectively.

  • stroma; lumen
  • lumen; stroma

11. Heterotrophic organism that secretes enzymes onto its food:

  • Saprophytes
  • Holozoic
  • Parasitic

12. Nutrition serves to do various things. Which of the following is not one of them?

  • Nutrients to be metabolised for fighting disease
  • Nutrients to be metabolised for aerodynamism.
  • Nutrients to be metabolised for cell maintenance
  • Nutrients to be metabolised for growth
  • Provide energy for metabolic process
  • Nutrients to be metabolised for reproduction

13. The disaccharide maltase breaks maltose down into:

  • Triglycerides
  • Glucose
  • Dipeptides
  • Fatty acids

14. Carbohydrase, disaccharides, lipase, proteases: all example of:

  • Triglycerides
  • Enzymes
  • Dipeptides
  • Substrates