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level: PROTEIN

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level questions: PROTEIN

QuestionAnswer
Eating behaviour is habitual. True or false?True
Conditioned behaviourHabit
Peer pressureSocial
Food textureSenses
PsychologicalMood
PhysiologicalHormones
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov conditioned a dog to salivate at the sound of a bell in anticipation of receiving food. True or false?True
The way food smells is an example of which factor that influences our eating habits?Our senses
Always having a roast on a Sunday is an example of which factor that influences our eating habits?Habit
A religion with main feasting days eg: Christmas, Easter and Shrove Tuesdays?Christianity
A religion which is largely vegetarian and do not eat beef?Hinduism
A religion which does not eat pork and all meat must be 'kosher', also meat and veg is prepared separately?Judaism
A religion which only eats halal, doesn't eat pork and during the 9th month age 12+ may not eat or drink during daylightIslam
Exercise is a good way of relieving tension and the tactic of substituting one coping mechanism for a healthier one. True or false?True
Symptoms occur rapidly from tingling in the mouth and skin rash to life threatening swelling of the throat making it difficult to breathAllergy
Symptoms are delayed and long lasting involving the digestive system, including bloating and diarrhoeaIntolerance
Symptoms of dislike and avoiding the foodAversion
A real food allergy involves a reaction of the immune systemTrue
People who lose their sense of smell often experience a loss in appetite?True
Lifestyle is a greater influence on obesity levels than genetics?True
Most overweight people have a genetic disorderFalse
What type of cues are hunger and satiety?Physiological
A balanced diet is defined as one that contains a well-proportioned amount of all food groups. It needs to contain adequate levels of both macro and micronutrients. Consuming sufficient fluids and matching energy intakeTrue
The amounts that are set out in Report 41 are based on the amounts of certain nutrients to combat disease or optimal health?Combat disease
What is the name of the USA food model?MyPlate
What is the name of Greece's food model?MyPyramid
What is the name of China's food model?MyPagoda
Finish the following sentence. The salivary glands are connected to the___Mouth
Finish the following sentence. The billiard or bile system, consisting of the liver and gall bladder, is connected to the___Small intestine
Fill in the gap. The ___ is connected at a point along the small intestinePancreas
What is external to the digestive track but are essential to the digestive process providing additional digestive juices and fluids to help the whole digestive process?Accessory organs
Where does the majority of absorption happen in the digestive process?Small intestine
Alcohol and aspirin are absorbed through the stomach?True
Which organ produces acid and enzymes that partially break down food?Stomach
The small intestine produces ___ to help digest protein, carbs, and fat?Enzymes
Which organ produces bile which is stored in the gall bladder and then released into the small intestine to help digest fat?Liver
Which organ produces enzymes which are released into the small intestine to break down proteins, carbs and fat?Pancreas
When food is broken down into their component parts, where are they transpoted?Circulatory system
What percentage of food we ingest is made available for the body to use?95%
Which enzyme breaks down carbs?Amylase
Which vitamin helps prevent the development of Pernicious anaemia?B12
The stomach is a large muscle made from protein and gastric intrinsic factor?True
What is secreted in the throat?Mucus
Where does the digestion of carbs commence?Mouth
What is digested in the stomach?Protein Carbs
Enzymes released by the pancreas assist in the digestion of?Protein Carbs Fat
Bile salts released by the liver assist in the digestion of?Lipids (fat)
The contents of the digestive track are considered to be outside the bodyTrue
Where do the contents of digestive track go before entering the stomach?Oesophagus
The gastric juice secreted by the stomach contains nitric acid?False
Bile is secreted by the pancreasFalse
What do you call 2 amino acids joined together?Dipeptide
What do you call the bond that joins the amino acids together?Peptide bond
What do you call multiple amino acids joined together?Polypeptide
Polypeptides contain hundreds of amino acids. What do we call this?Protein
Which type of protein is a ball like structure and water-soluble which is involved in the metabolic process such as transporting and controlling biological processes. Include enzymes used in digestion, plasma, and hormones such as insulin?Globular proteins
Which type of protein is globular water-soluble and carries oxygen in red blood cells of all vertebrates, Also collects Carbon dioxide and is in a spiral shape?Haemoglobin
Which type of protein forms long rod-like fibres in sequences of amino acids and are water in-soluble. Structural roles in creating tissues, tendons and muscle fibres. Examples are keratins and collagens?Fibrous proteins
Fibrous proteins are involved in metabolism?False
An enzyme is an example of a globular protein?True
HaemoglobinTransportation
RegulationInsulin
StructuralCollagen
Animal proteins are complete proteins with a high biological value?True
Plant proteins are incomplete and have a low biological value?True
Histidine, Isoleucine, Leucine, Lysine, Methionine, Phenylalanine, Threonin, Tryptophan and ValineEEAs
When consuming protein exceeding the body's protein need, some may be used as energy or converted to fat and storedTrue
What is the name of the process in which amino acids are broken down?Deamination
The nitrogen component in amino acids are converted into urea and passed out?True
What supplements are needed for vegans?Vitamin B12
Eating vitamin C-rich foods along with iron-rich foods will greatly improve absorption of iron, tea and coffee impairs absorption?True
Daily iron requirement for women?15-18mg
Daily iron requirement for men?10mg
Daily requirement for vitamin B-12?1.5 ug
Daily requirement for calcium?1000-12000 mg
Daily requirement for zinc?15 mg
Poor resistance to illness is an indication of low proteinTrue
Which enzymes release amino acids by breaking peptide bonds between them?Proteases
Hydrolysis is the decomposition of a chemical compound by reaction with ___?Water
In the stomach Hydrochloric acid reacts with the enzyme pepsinogen and converts it to pepsin, the active form of pepsinogen.True
Protease is a group of enzymes and includes pepsin that begins protein catabolism by hydrolysis or breaking down of the peptide bonds of proteins?True
Pepsinogen is not in its active form in the stomach to avoid the enzyme digesting the proteins of the stomach wall. This is what happens with a peptic ulcer- its the body ___Self-digesting
Shorter polypeptides move from the stomach in to the ___ where the pancreas releases a range of protease enzymesDuodenum
Protease enzymes break the peptides down into___?Dipeptides
Dipeptides move o the small intestine where the brush border enzymes break the dipeptides down into single ___Amino acids
What do you call the bristles of the brush border in the small intestine?Villus
Inside each villus is a network of ___ _____ and lymph vesselsBlood capillaries
Amino acids compete with each other for the use of the protein carriers to get themselves across the intestinal mucosaTrue
What do you call the process of moving amino acids across the intestinal mucosa and involves proteins that are built into the mucosal cell walls?Facilitated diffusion
Once across the membrane wall the amino acid travels in the blood via the hepatic portal vein, back to the ___Liver
Pepsinogen is secreted by gastric chief cells of the stomach and is converted into the enzyme pepsin to chemically breakdown proteinTrue
The shorter peptide chains contain fewer amino acids and moves from the stomach to duodenum where a range of protease enzymes are secreted by thePancreas
Digestion is completed in the small intestine from the brush border enzymes located there?True
PepsinogenStomach
ProteasesPancreas
Brush border enzymesSmall intestine
Supplementing free & single amino acids will impair absorption of other amino acids and the greatest concentration of aminos will be absorbed preferentially over other amino acidsTrue
Hydrochloric acid in the stomach converts the enzyme pepsinogen into pepsinTrue
What breaks down peptides?Protease enzymes
Brush border enzymes break down the dipeptides into smaller amino acidsTrue