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  • A. Amylopsin
  • B. Bain H1
  • C. Arginase
  • D. Peptidyl transferase

Explanation: Peptidyl transferase is an enzyme that is not protein in nature. It is a ribozyme, a catalytic RNA molecule found in the ribosome.

Correct answer: Peptidyl transferase
  • A. Enzymes are sharp in action than catalyst
  • B. Catalysts used in large amount than enzymes
  • C. Catalysts are inorganic while enzymes are organic in nature
  • D. Enzymes need pH 1 while catalysts do not

Explanation: While catalysts can be organic or inorganic in nature, enzymes are only organic in nature.

Correct answer: Catalysts are inorganic while enzymes are organic in nature
  • A. All enzymes require co-factors for proper functioning
  • B. Only small amount of enzymes is required.
  • C. They work in vitro as well as in vivo conditions
  • D. They lower activation energy

Explanation: Co-factors are non-protein parts that are required for proper functioning of enzyme but some enzymes such as pepsin do not require…

Correct answer: All enzymes require co-factors for proper functioning
  • A. Binding sites
  • B. Products
  • C. Active site
  • D. Activation energy

Explanation: When enzyme molecules increase there will be more active sites available for the binding of more substrates, due to which reaction rate…

Correct answer: Active site
  • A. Increase in rate of reaction
  • B. Decrease in rate of reaction
  • C. First increase then decrease in rate of reaction
  • D. First increase then become constant

Explanation: The optimum temperature for the enzymes in human body is 37°C, When the temperature is increased from 30°C, the rate of reaction is also…

Correct answer: First increase then decrease in rate of reaction
  • A. Ionic bonds
  • B. Disulphide bonds
  • C. Hydrogen bond
  • D. Peptide Bond

Explanation: Hydrogen bond will have affected due to increasein temperature than optimum value, while change in pH will affects ionic bond.

Correct answer: Ionic bonds
  • A. Peptide bonds
  • B. Disulphide bridges
  • C. Hydrogen bonds
  • D. Ionic bonds

Explanation: Heavy metals bind to the thiol (-SH) group of amino acids and break the disulphide brides between the amino acids.

Correct answer: Disulphide bridges
  • A. Lyases
  • B. Ligase
  • C. Hydrolases
  • D. None of the above

Explanation: Lyases and ligases are enzymes involved in catalyzing biochemical reactions.

Correct answer: Hydrolases
  • A. α-ketoglutarate
  • B. Malonate
  • C. Pyruvate
  • D. Oxaloacetate

Explanation: Malonate or oxaloacetate resemble succinate in structure and inhibit the activity of succinate dehydrogenase.

Correct answer: Malonate
  • A. Increasing Temperature
  • B. Decreasing pH
  • C. Decreasing Activation energy
  • D. Increasing Activation energy

Explanation: Minimum amount of energy required to start a biochemical reaction is called activation energy.

Correct answer: Decreasing Activation energy
  • A. Binding site
  • B. Active site
  • C. Catalyst site
  • D. Inhibition site

Explanation: An enzyme and its specific substrate react with each other through a definite charge-bearing site of an enzyme called the active site.

Correct answer: Active site
  • A. The contact between the substrate and the enzyme causes a change in the shape of the active site
  • B. The shape of the substrate and the shape of the active site are complementary to each other
  • C. The substrate fits into the active site and forms bonds with the amino acids at the active site
  • D. All of the above options are correct

Explanation: Options B and C are common to both lock-and-key hypothesis and induced fit model.

Correct answer: The contact between the substrate and the enzyme causes a change in the shape of the active site
  • A. Concentration of enzyme
  • B. Concentration of substrate
  • C. Concentration of ES complex
  • D. Concentration of inhibitor

Explanation: Non-competitive inhibitors don't bind to the active site of the enzyme; therefore, the concentration of enzyme, substrate, or ES complex…

Correct answer: Concentration of inhibitor
  • A. Bind to substrate so that it cannot bind to the active site
  • B. Target the enzyme for destruction using a protease
  • C. Bind to the active site and prevent substrate from binding
  • D. Bind to allosteric site to cause a conformational shift in the enzyme

Explanation: As summed up by the diagram, the binding of noncompetitive inhibitor causes alteration in the bonding of active site, as a result…

Correct answer: Bind to allosteric site to cause a conformational shift in the enzyme
  • A. Enzymes
  • B. Reactant
  • C. Product
  • D. Substrate

Explanation: Inhibitors bind to the enzymes, and decrease their activity. They cannot bind to substrate, product or reactant.

Correct answer: Enzymes
  • A. Competitive inhibitors
  • B. Noncompetitive inhibitors
  • C. Irreversible inhibitors
  • D. Both A and B

Explanation: Competitive inhibition is reversible because the inhibitor forms weak linkages with the enzyme.

Correct answer: Competitive inhibitors
  • A. Enzyme
  • B. Substrate
  • C. ES complex
  • D. All of these

Explanation: Option C is correct since uncompetitive inhibition occurs when an inhibitor binds to an allosteric site of an enzyme, but only when the…

Correct answer: ES complex
  • A. Lock
  • B. Key
  • C. Both of these options are correct
  • D. None of these options are correct

Explanation: Lock andkey model assumes that like a particular key opens a particular lock, a specific enzyme(key) acts upon a particular substrate…

Correct answer: Key
  • A. By adding activation energy requirements
  • B. By lowering the activation energy requirements
  • C. By decreasing the concentration of products
  • D. By increasing the concentration of products
  • E. All of the the given options

Explanation: Enzymes are biological catalysts that increase the rate of reaction by lowering the activation of the energy of the reactions.

Correct answer: By lowering the activation energy requirements
  • A. Irreversible inhibitors
  • B. Competitive irreversible inhibitors
  • C. Non-competitive inhibitors
  • D. Reversible inhibitors

Explanation: Penicillin functions as a competitive inhibitor by mimicking the substrate that the bacterial enzyme would normally act upon, thus binding…

Correct answer: Competitive irreversible inhibitors