Lecture Exam #1 will be administred on which of the following days?

Fatty foods are mostly digested in the small intestines.

Steroid hormones are steroids that: Have specific high affinity receptors Travel in the blood stream from endocrine glands to distant locations Affect gene transcription by direct DNA binding A) I only B) II only C) I and II only D) All three of them

What linkages occur in glycogen at branch points between glucose units? A) Alpha-1,4 B) Alpha-1,6 C) Beta-1,3 D) Beta-1,6

The sugar that forms a major component of nucleic acids (DNA, RNA) is A) Glucose B) Fructose C) Galactose D) Ribose

Out of the following, cholesterol does not serve as a precursor for which compounds? A)   Vitamin D B) sex hormones C) Bile salts D) Bile pigments

Which of these statements best describes anomers? A) Compounds that have two or more chiral carbons B) Diastereomers that differ in structure at just one of their chiral carbons C ) Cyclic monosaccharides that differ only in the arrangement of groups around the anomeric carbon D) Isomers whose structures are mirror images of one another  

. Which of the following best describes the cholesterol molecule? A) Amphiphatic B) Polar, charged C) Polar, uncharged D) Non-polar, charged E) Non-polar, uncharged

Which of the following is true about sphingolipids? A) They contained two esterified fatty acids B) Phosphatidylcholine is a sphingolipid C) Cerebrosides and gangliosides are sphingolipids D) They always contain glycerol and fatty acids

Which of the following molecule(s) is NOT involved in active transport? A) Glucose B) Sodium C) Chloride D) Carbon dioxide