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Today as per many of my follower's requests, I am breaking the chain of lectures to post some important questions. I will also add links to the previous years' question papers for your reference.

I.Essay Type questions: 

(These usually carry ten marks or eight marks.) 

What is the normal serum calcium level? Elaborate on the maintenance of calcium homeostasis. Define glycolysis. Write the steps of the glycolytic pathway and its regulatory steps. 

Describe briefly the uronic acid pathway. Write in brief the biomedical importance of this pathway. 

Outline the reactions of hexose monophosphate shunt. Write in brief the biomedical importance of this pathway.

 Describe the TCA cycle and its regulation. What do you understand by the amphibolic nature of the TCA cycle? 

Classify plasma lipoproteins. Describe in brief the metabolism of each class. 

Classify immunoglobulins. Describe them in detail. Describe in brief plasma proteins and their medical importance.

What is abnormal hemoglobin? describe in brief hemoglobinopathies.

What are the sources of amino acids? Describe in brief the various functions of amino acids in the human body.

Define amino acids. Classify amino acids on the basis of their chemical nature and structure.

What are peptides? Describe in brief the functions of various biologically active peptides.

Draw the urea cycle, describe the inherited disorders of the urea cycle. Write in brief the biomedical basis of the treatment of hyperammonemia.

What is jaundice? Describe in brief the biomedical basis of hemolytic hepatic and obstructive jaundice.

 What are lipids? Describe in brief the classification of lipids.

What are eicosanoids? Write in brief the synthesis of prostaglandins. Give a note on the functions of therapeutic uses of prostaglandins.

Describe the biomedical importance of lipids.

What are fatty acids? Describe in brief the physical and chemical properties of fatty acids.

What are Ketone Bodies? Describe in brief the ketogenesis and catalyzes mention various physiological and pathological conditions that lead to ketosis.

Describe briefly the de novo synthesis of cholesterol. Give an account of the regulation of cholesterol biosynthesis.

Describe the beta-oxidation of fatty acids. State how many molecules of ATP will be gained after the complete oxidation of palmitic acid. Write a note on the biomedical significance of Beta oxidation of fatty acids.

Describe in brief the cloverleaf model of tRNA.

Describe in brief the inborn errors of fatty acid oxidation.

What are inborn errors of metabolism? Describe in brief glycogen storage diseases.

What is Diabetes mellitus? Describe in brief the metabolic changes that occur in diabetes mellitus.

Compare Type 1 and type 2 Diabetes mellitus.

What is an oral glucose tolerance test? Write in brief the clinical significance of different glucose tolerance curves in oral GTT.

Write in brief causes symptoms metabolic changes and treatment of Type 1 Diabetes mellitus.

Define enzymes, describe in brief the general properties of enzymes.

List the factors influencing enzyme activity. Describe the effects of PH and temperature on reaction velocity.

What is enzyme inhibition? Describe in brief competitive and non-competitive enzyme inhibition with suitable examples.

Describe in brief the regulation of enzyme activity.

What is a balanced diet? Describe the nutritional importance of different components of the diet.

What is a balanced diet? Describe in brief the factors that can influence the composition of a balanced diet.

Describe in brief dietary requirements, sources, functions, and deficiency manifestation of vitamin B12.

Describe in brief dietary requirements, sources, functions, and deficiency manifestation of Vitamin C.

Describe in brief the dietary requirement, sources, and deficiency manifestation of vitamin D. How does Vitamin D regulate plasma calcium and phosphorus level.

What are teeth? explain human tooth structure and composition of the tooth?

Describe dental caries and the composition of dentine.

Describe in brief the dietary requirement, sources, functions, and deficiency manifestation of fluoride. 

Describe the factors that influence the intestinal absorption of iron.

Describe Glycolysis and explain its regulation, energetics, and importance



II. Write Notes on:  

(These usually carry Five or Three Marks each.)


1. Polysaccharides.

 2. Competitive Inhibition. 

3. Essential amino acids. 

4. Scurvy. 

5. Jaundice

6. Inborn errors of purine and pyrimidine metabolism [gout, xanthinuria, severe combined immunodeficiency(SCID), inherited deficiency of purine nucleoside phosphorylase(PNP), Lesch-Nyhan syndrome,  orotic aciduria, Reye's syndrome

7. Tay Sachs disease

8. Sphingolipids

9. Biomedical importance of Beta oxidation

10.mRNA

 11.tRNA

12. Nucleotides

13. Cortisol

14. Biomedical significance of bile salts

15. Factors that decrease the serum cholesterol levels and reduce the risk of CHD

16. leukotrienes

17. Gout

18. Heteropolysaccharides and Homopolysaccharides

19. Biomedical importance of Carbohydrates

20. Derivatives of monosaccharides and their biomedical importance

21. Dextrans

22. Glucose 6 phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency

23. Biomedical significance of HMP shunt

24. Biomedical importance of Cori cycle

25. Biomedical importance of sorbitol pathway

26. PDH complex

27. Hormonal regulation of glycogen metabolism

28. Glycoproteins and mucoproteins

29. Proteins biomedical significance of fibrinogen

30. Biomedical significance of LDL and VLDL

31. Write a short note on HDL and its significance

32. Write a short note on Bence Jones protein

33. Chylomicrons

34. Plasma lipoproteins

35. Hartnup's disease

36. Transport of ammonia in the blood

37. Catecholamines

38. Bile pigments

39. Iodine number

40. Waxes

41. Cholesterol 

42. Polyunsaturated fatty acids

43. Rancidity

44. Ketone bodies

45. Bile acids and bile salts

46. Describe the factors that influence the intestinal absorption of calcium.

47. list various liver function tests describe any one of them in detail. 48. Describe in brief the clinical importance of estimation of serum GPT and Alkaline phosphatase.

49. Differentiate between three Types of Jaundice on the basis of various liver function tests.

50. Describe various kidney function test and their importance. 

51. Creatinine clearance test is considered better than urea clearance test why?

52. Differentiate between respiratory acidosis and metabolic acidosis 

53. What is order toxification describe in the brief mechanism of detoxification?

54. What do you understand by respiratory chain mention the inhibitors of mitochondrial electron transport chain?

55. What is oxidative phosphorylation? Describe the chemiosmotic theory of ATP synthesis. Write a note on inherited disorders of oxidative phosphorylation.

56. What is transcription hence translation.

57. Regulation of gene expression

 58. Describe biological carcinogens

59. Blood glucose regulation.

60. Diabetes Mellitus.

61. Histones

62. Difference between replication and transcription or comparison between replication and transcription

63. Oxidative phosphorylation

64. Inhibitors of Respiratory Chain and oxidative phosphorylation

65. Xenobiotics

66. Cytochrome p450 mixed-function oxidase system

67. Iron storage proteins

68. disease

69. Functions of copper

70. Hypocalcemic tetany

71. Hypokalemia and hyperkalemia

72. lead toxicity

73. Nutritional importance of minerals

74. Hematuria

75. Describe in the brief the composition of normal urine 

76. free acidity of gastric juice and describe in the brief composition of gastric juice.

77. Pellagra

78. Renal rickets

79. Deficiency manifestation of thiamine

80. Describe protein-energy malnutrition(PEM)

81. What is BMR

82. SDA

83. Factors influencing BMR 

84. Dietary sources and deficiency  manifestations of water-soluble vitamins

85. Hypervitaminosis A

86. Role of vitamin K in blood coagulation

87. Visual cycle

88. Pernicious anemia

89. Dietary sources and deficiency manifestation of fat-soluble vitamins

90. Rickets

91. Antioxidant action of Vitamin E

92. Coenzymes and cofactors

93. Diagnostic importance of LDH and CPK in myocardial infarction. 

94. Enzymes of Diagnostic importance.

95. Diagnostic importance of SGPT andSGOT

96. Allosteric regulation of enzyme activity

97. Describe in brief phenyl Ketone urea

98. Sphingolipidoses

99. Essential pentosuria

100. Pompe's disease

101. Maple syrup urine disease

102. Alkaptonuria

103. Describe in brief the hormones that influence and control blood glucose levels. 

OR

104. How does our body regulate the blood glucose level?

105. Chronic complications of diabetes mellitus

106. Hyperglycemic hormones.


🔚 That is all, will be sharing the link to the previous papers soon ...
      Best of luck!