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Organic Chemistry
Undergraduate 3
11/22/2011

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Cholesterol is an essential component of biological membranes
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True
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Cholesterol serves as a precursor to neurotransmitters and hemoglobin
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FALSE
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Because cholesterol is insoluble in plasma it must be transported within a complex of lipoprotein
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TRUE
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Cholesterol attached to HDL’s can build up in vessels to cause atherosclerosis
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FALSE
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Taken orally testosterone passes through the liver unmetabolized and elicits the same effects as testosterone synthesized naturally in the body
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FALSE
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Risks involved with taking anabolic steroids include the following: heightened aggressiveness sterility impotence and risk of premature death from complications of diabetes coronary artery disease and liver cancer.
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TRUE
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Synthetic progesterone-mimicking steroids can be taken to increase ovulation.
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FALSE
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Glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid hormones are both synthesized in the adrenal cortex.
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TRUE
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Prostaglandins and Leukotrienes belong to the family of 20 carbon polyunsaturated fatty acids called Prostacyclins.
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FALSE
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Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) inhibit the action of cyclooxygenase which is crucial to prostaglandin synthesis.
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TRUE
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The simple addition of a methyl group to the 15th carbon of PGF2? increases the potency of synthetic prostaglandins by 10 to 20 time that of the unmethylated structure.
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TRUE
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Prostaglandins are named so because are synthesized in the prostate gland.
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FALSE
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Leukotrienes are found primarily in circulating erythrocytes in the blood stream.
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FALSE
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Cysteine glycine and L-glutamic acid are the three amino acids typical to Luekotrinocytes.
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TRUE
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Aspirin acts as to induce coagulation by inhibiting the enzyme responsible for Thromboxane At synthesis.
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FALSE
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Cholesterol is an ?/? unsaturated alcohol
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FALSE
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Arachidonic acid is stored as a methyl ester.
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FALSE
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Aspirin deactivates cyclooxygenase by
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transesterification.
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Cyclooxygenase has an active carboxy group
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FALSE
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Least Basic
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double bond O, 3 groups, Chlorine
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Most Basic
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no double bonds, 2 groups,
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