For its activity, carboxypeptidase requires

• Zinc

• Iron

• Niacin

• Niacin

Three of the following statements about enzymes are correct and one is wrong. which one is wrong?

• Enymes require optimum pH for maximal activity

• Enzymes are denatured at high temperature but in certain exceptional organisms they are effective even at temperatures 80^o-90^o C

• Enzymes are highly specific

• Enzymes are highly specific

Which one of the following biomolecules is correctly characterised?

• Lecithin – A phosphorylated glyceride found in cell membrane

• Palmitic acid – An unsaturated fatty acid with 18 carbon atoms

• Adenylic acid – adenosine with a glucose phosphate molecule

• Adenylic acid – adenosine with a glucose phosphate molecule

The 3' 5'  phosphodiester linkages inside a polynucleotide chain serve to join

• one DNA strand with the other DNA strand

• one nucleoside with another nucleoside

• one nucleotide with another nucleotide

• one nucleotide with another nucleotide

Which of the following enzymes carries out initial step in the digestion of milk in humans?

• Rennin

• Lipase

• Trypsin

• Trypsin

Which one out of A – D given below correctly represents the structural formula of the basic amino acid?

• C

• D

• A

• A

The curve given below shows enzymatic activity with relation to three conditions (pH, temperature and substrate concentration)

What do the two axises (X and Y) represent?

• X –axis	Y-axis
  Temperature	Enzyme activity

• X –axis	Y-axis
  Substrate concentration	enzymatic activity

• X –axis	Y-axis
  enzymatic activity	temperature

• X –axis	Y-axis
  enzymatic activity	temperature

The enzyme recombinase is required at which stage of meiosis

• Pachytene

• Zygotene

• Diplotene

• Diplotene

Which one is the most abundant protein in the animal world?

• Trypsin

• Haemoglobin

• Collagen

• Collagen

Which one of the following statements in incorrect?

• A competitive inhibitor reacts reversibly with the enzyme to form an enzymeinhibitor complex

• In competitive inhibition, the inhibitor molecule is not chemically changed by the enzyme.

• The competitive inhibitor does not affect the rate of breakdown of the enzymesubstrate complex.

• The competitive inhibitor does not affect the rate of breakdown of the enzymesubstrate complex.