Metabolism ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Refers to carbon-containing substances - Correct answers✔✔Nitrogen
A nitrogen-containing waste product - Correct answers✔✔Amino Acids
Building blocks of lipids - Correct answers✔✔Fatty acids and glycerol
Nondigestible polysaccharide found in plants - Correct answers✔✔Cellulose
Building blocks joined together by peptide bonds - Correct answers✔✔Amino acids
Amino acids that cannot by synthesized by the body and must therefore be obtained through
dietary intake - Correct answers✔✔Essential amino acids
Monosaccharide that provides the primary source of energy for cells - Correct
answers✔✔glucose
Sucrose, maltose, and lactose; sometimes called double sugars - Correct
answers✔✔disaccharides
Glucose, fructose and galactose - Correct answers✔✔monosaccharides
, Glucose is stored as this polysaccharide; also called animal starch - Correct answers✔✔glycogen
Amino acids that can by synthesized by the body - Correct answers✔✔nonessential amino acids
Classification of triglycerides and steroids - Correct answers✔✔lipids
Chemical reactions that degrade larger, more complex substances into simpler substances -
Correct answers✔✔catabolism
Series of aerobic reaction that occur in the mitochondria - Correct answers✔✔Krebs cycle
In the absence of oxygen, pyruvic acid is converted to this substance - Correct answers✔✔Lactic
acid
End products of the aerobic catabolism of glucose - Correct answers✔✔CO2, water, energy
(ATP)
Almost every chemical reaction in the body is catalyzed by this - Correct answers✔✔glycolysis
Describes the anaerobic breakdown of glucose to lactic acid - Correct answers✔✔anaerobic
catabolism, to lactic acid and little ATP
Some of the chemical reactions occur within the mitochondria - Correct answers✔✔Aerobic
catabolism, to carbon dioxide, water and lots of ATP