Your First Big Biology Exam Is Coming Up in a Few

question 11

Multiple Choice

Your first big biology exam is coming up in a few days, and in order to prepare for late-night study sessions, you buy a box of Yummies, a delicious type of snack cake. After checking out the nutrition facts label on the side of the box, you discover that a single Yummie cake contains 4.5 grams of total fat, 27 grams of carbohydrate, 0 grams of fiber, and 1 gram of protein.
-After eating a Yummie cake, which of the following metabolic processes is likely occurring at the fastest rate?

• A) hydrolysis of glycogen
• B) dehydration reactions involving glucose
• C) dehydration reactions involving fatty acids
• D) hydrolysis of cellulose

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Definitions:

Square Feet

A unit of area measurement equivalent to the area of a square with sides of one foot in length.

Quasilinear Preferences

Preferences where utility is linear in one argument, usually money, allowing for easy analysis of changes in wealth while other goods are evaluated non-linearly.

Homothetic

Pertaining to a class of production functions or utility functions where equal proportionate changes in inputs result in equal proportionate changes in output.

Utility Function

An economic tool used to encode a consumer's preference orderings over a set of alternatives into a real-valued function. (Duplicate rephrase)