7/24/2019 BIOL2220 final exam 2014-2015

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Final Examination

Section A: Multiple choice questions (45%)

- All lecture materials.

- Higher weighting on lectures after the mid-term exam.- Please refer to sample questions in moodle.

Section B: Short questions (55%)

- The following lecture notes may be covered in the short questions:

- TCA cycle

- Photosynthesis

- Fatty acid catabolism

- Biosynthesis of fatty acids and TAG

- Amino acid metabolism (up to p. 13)

- Structure drawing based on given substrate structures (i.e. not from scratch); May need

to write one or two reaction steps based on given structures.

- For fatty acids, shorthand notations, e.g. 18:0, 18:2(9,12), etc., will be provided and you

are expected to know how to draw the zig-zag structures accordingly.

- Enzyme, co-factor/co-enzyme, and metabolite names will be useful to answer the short

questions. Abbreviations are okay but they should be consistent with those used in

lecture notes

- Overall metabolic conversions (one question): starting substrates, key metabolites, final

products in the metabolic pathways concerned.- Please refer to sample questions in moodle.

- No need to use a calculator