Category Archives: Miesfeld Biochemistry

Which hormone decreases the rate of glycolytic flux, while at the same time, stimulates flux through the gluconeogenic pathway; under what condition is this likely to occur?

Raffinose-series oligosaccharides are hard for humans to digest because____________.

What is the mechanism by which methicillin kills penicillin-resistant bacteria?

Why are A-T rich regions more susceptible to DNA denaturation than G-C rich regions?

Ovalbumin is the major protein constituent of egg white. What is the primary folded state of ovalbumin protein in a fully cooked egg?

Which molecular event is most responsible for transducing the signal from outside of the cell to the inside of the cell?

A hydrogen bond can best be described as a ________________.

In a hydrogen bond between a water molecule and another water molecule ___________.

Experimental evidence based on measuring bond energies between DNA strands using all combinations of G, C, A, and T stacked bases demonstrates that the DNA double helix is stabilized by noncovalent interactions between nucleotides owing to __________ .