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A2 Revision questions
Question | Answer |
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What is the role of deamination of amino acids and ammonia? | It removes the amino group of amino acids and forms ammonia. |
Why does the liver remove ammonia? | Because its very soluble and toxic. |
What process converts ammonia to urea? | The ornithine cycle. |
Name the first three reactants of the ornithine cycle? | CO2, ATP, Ammonia. |
What is the chemical formulae for urea? | CO(NH2)2. |
Where does detoxification takes place? | In the endoplasmic reticulum inside the hepatocytes. |
Name the enzyme that catalyses the breakdown of ethanol? | ethanol dehydrogenase. |
Why is it vital to break ethanol down? | Because it is toxic and can cause considerable damage to cells. |
What is produced when ethanol is catalysed by the enzyme ethanol dehydrogenase? | ethanal. |
How is ethanal converted to ethanoate? | aldehyde dehydrogenase. |
How could ethanoate be used in the body? | In the Krebs Cycle to produce ATP. |