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What is the RQ Formula?

Important Questions on Plant Physiology: Respiration

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Name the terminal acceptor of electrons in the mitochondrial electron transport chain.
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Which of the following biomolecules is common to respiration mediated breakdown of fats, carbohydrates, and proteins?
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Glycolysis is the breakdown of glucose to pyruvic acid. How many molecules of pyruvic acid are formed from one molecule of glucose?
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The respiratory quotient of the reaction given below is :

2C51H98O6+145O2102CO2+90H2O+ energy

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Conversion of glucose to glucose-6-phosphate, the first irreversible reaction of glycolysis, is catalyzed by:
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In which of the following cellular compartment (s) do respiratory reactions occur?
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During Citric Acid cycle, the various organic acid undergo decarboxylation. Which of the following organic acids of the above cycle have $4 \mathrm{C}, 5 \mathrm{C}$ and $6 \mathrm{C}$ respectively?
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The number of substrate-level phosphorylation in one turn of citric acid cycle is:
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Respiratory quotient is maximum when respiratory substrate is 
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Pyruvate dehydrogenase activity during aerobic respiration requires:-
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Arrange the following in the order of their occurrence in the glycolytic pathway.

I. Triose bisphosphate Triose phosphate

II. Fructose-6-phosphate  Fructose 1,6-bisphosphate

III. Phosphoenolpyruvate  Pyruvic acid

IV. 2-Phosphoglycerate Phosphoenolpyruvate

V. Glucose-6-phosphate Fructose-6-phosphate

VI. Triose phosphate 2-Phosphoglycerate

The correct sequence is:

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Choose the correct statements regarding entry of substrates into respiratory pathway.
A) The amino acids will be formed by protease activity on proteins.
B) Carbohydrates will be converted into glucose for entry.
C) Amino acids will enter as pyruvate or acetyl COA.
D) Fatty acids will be entered as PGAL.
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The number of net ATP molecules produced from 1 glucose molecule during glycolysis is:
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When tripalmitin is used as respiratory substrate. The process consumes 145 molecules of oxygen and releases 102 molecules of CO2, then RQ would be