MCQs

The Multiple Choice Questions on this site were written by:
Dr Tony Bradshaw, Oxford Brookes University
Dr Shirley McCready, Oxford Brookes University
Dr John Wright, University of Botswana Medical School
Lynne Rogers, Adelaide University

Click on the chapter links below to view the MCQs for each chapter. Please note that there are no MCQs for chapters 1 to 4.

Chapter 05: Methods in protein investigation
Chapter 06: Enzymes
Chapter 07: The cell membrane and membrane proteins
Chapter 08: Muscle contraction, the cytoskeleton, and molecular motors
Chapter 09: Food digestion, absorption, distribution to the tissues, and appetite control
Chapter 10: Mechanisms of transport, storage, and mobilization of dietary components
Chapter 11: Principles of energy release from food
Chapter 12: Glycolysis, the citric acid cycle, and the electron transport system
Chapter 13: Energy release from fat
Chapter 14: Synthesis of fat and related compounds
Chapter 15: Synthesis of glucose (gluconeogenesis)
Chapter 16: Strategies for metabolic control and their application to carbohydrate and fat metabolism
Chapter 17: Why should there be an alternative pathway of glucose oxidation? The pentose phosphate pathway
Chapter 18: Raising electrons of water back up the energy scale - photosynthesis
Chapter 19: Amino acid metabolism
Chapter 20: Nucleotide synthesis and metabolism
Chapter 21: The genome
Chapter 22: DNA synthesis, repair, and recombination
Chapter 23: Gene transcription and control
Chapter 24: Protein synthesis and controlled protein breakdown
Chapter 25: The RNA world - RNA microgenes and RNA interference
Chapter 26: Protein sorting and delivery
Chapter 27: Cell signalling
Chapter 28: Manipulating DNA and genes
Chapter 29: Special topics: blood clotting, xenobiotic metabolism, reactive oxygen species
Chapter 30: The immune system
Chapter 31: The cell cycle and its control
Chapter 32: Apoptosis
Chapter 33: Cancer

View print version

Oxford University Press, Online Resource Centre, MCQs.

MCQs