Multiple Choice Quiz on Plant Biochemistry

This quiz is designed to assess your understanding about the "Plant Biochemistry Basics". Choose the best answer from the four options given. When you've finished answering as many of the questions as you can, scroll down to the bottom of the page and check your answers by clicking 'Score'. Percentage score will be displayed along with right answers.

1. Amino acid which accumulates as a result of stress
Histidine
Proline
Cysteine
Methionine
2. The biochemical pathway from phosphenol pyruvic acid to tyrosine is commonly called

Hatch and Slack pathway
Glycolate pathway
EMP pathway
Shikimic acid pathway
3. Vincristine and vinblastine are
Phenolics
Saponins
Terpenoids
Alkaloids
4. In aqueous solution glucose exists as a
Pentose
Pyranose
Furanose
None of the above
5. ----- is an example for sulphur containing amino acid
Isoleucine
Glycine
Methionine
All of these
6. One of the following sterols is less prevalent in plants
Cholesterol
Stigmasterol
Sitosterol
Campesterol
7. A linear monomer of D-galactose and 3,6 anhydro-L-galactopyranose is called
Dextran
Agarose
Silica
Acrylamide
8. Inactive precursors of certain proteolytic enzymes
Zymogens
Isozymes
Allozymes
Abzymes
9. The aminoacid that does not participate in transamination
Alanine
Lysine
Tryptophan
Glutamate
10. Which of these is a pentasaccharide sugar
Verbascose
Raffinose
Threose
Stachyose
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