WorksheetsPROTEIN RELATED DISORDERS
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 7mins
Symptoms of kwashiorkor include
cracked and scaly skin
loss of appetite
excess sweating
itching
Protein deficiency in children is called as
beriberi
scurvy
diabetes
kwashiorkor
The causative agent for the 'scrapie' in sheep is
Virion
Prion
Viroid
A1-antitrypsin deficiency
Bovine Spongiform encephalopathy' is also known as
scrapie
Kuru disease
Mad Cow's disease
creutzfeldt jakob disease
A 2 year-old child has been brought to the pediatrician because of suspected child abuse. Physical examination reveals blue sclerae, diminished hearing in both ears and radiographs of the child’s extremities show recent and long bone fractures. The child is diagnosed with Osteogenesis imperfect. This disorder is a defect in the synthesis of which of the following proteins?
elastin
hemoglobin
collagen
B-myosin in heavy chain
aka Brittle Bone disease
Bovine transmissible encephalopathy
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Osteoporosis
Osteogenesis imperfecta
A-1 antitrypsin deficiency may result to the following condition, EXCEPT
Cirrhosis
Emphysema
COPD
Alzheimer's disease
are aggregates of proteins that become folded into a shape that allows many copies of that protein to stick together forming fibrils.
Alzheimers
amyloids
Sickled cell
Osteogenesis imperfecta
In sickle cell anemia, this amino acid is the replacement of the normal amino acid in the normal protein structure of the fibers of the RBC that causes off point mutation
Glu
Val
Cys
Gln
The following are example of QUALITATIVE hemoglobinopathies, EXCEPT:
Sickle cell anemia
hemoglobin C disease
Hemoglobin SC disease
Thalassemia
