Explore topic-wise MCQs in Life Sciences.

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1.

What is an Isozyme?

A. Same structure, different function
B. Different structure, the same function
C. Same structure, the same function
D. Different structure, different function
Answer» C. Same structure, the same function
2.

Name the enzyme which is found in tears, sweat, and an egg white?

A. Ribozyme
B. Lysozyme
C. Zymogen
D. Isozymes
Answer» C. Zymogen
3.

Lineweaver-Burk plot is also known as______

A. Double reciprocal plot
B. Hanes-Woolf plot
C. Eadie-Hofstee plot
D. Steady-state equation
Answer» B. Hanes-Woolf plot
4.

Which of the following is not an example of irreversible enzyme inhibitor?

A. Cyanide
B. Sarin
C. Diisopropyl phosphoflouridate (DIPF)
D. Statin drugs
Answer» E.
5.

What is the SI unit of enzyme activity?

A. Km
B. Kat
C. K<sub>cat</sub>
D. V<sub>max</sub>
Answer» C. K<sub>cat</sub>
6.

Which of the following is not a catalytic strategy for an enzyme to perform specific reaction?

A. Covalent catalysis
B. Metal ion catalysis
C. Michaelis constant
D. Acid-base catalysis
Answer» D. Acid-base catalysis
7.

Which of the following is INCORRECT for the lock-and-key model?

A. It is used to describe the binding process
B. The active site of the enzyme is complementary to the substrate
C. It demonstrates enzyme-substrate complex
D. The binding of the substrate produces a conformational change in enzyme
Answer» E.
8.

What is the binding energy?

A. Free energy released in the formation of enzyme-substrate interaction
B. The energy required to form a bond
C. The energy required to bind substrate
D. It is the activation energy
Answer» B. The energy required to form a bond
9.

Which of the following is an example of ligases enzyme?

A. Mutases
B. Epimerases
C. Racemases
D. Carboxylases
Answer» E.
10.

The zymogen is an inactive precursor of an active enzyme.

A. True
B. False
Answer» B. False
11.

Which of the following function is catalyzed by Racemases?

A. Removal of water
B. Intramolecular transfer of a functional group
C. Interconversion of L and D stereoisomers
D. Inversion of asymmetric carbon atom
Answer» D. Inversion of asymmetric carbon atom