Question 84

(Multiple Choice)

Use the following information to answer the questions below.
A patient comes into the emergency room having accidentally ingested methanol (a component in anti-freeze).The products of methanol degradation are toxic,and can lead to blindness,neurological issues,or death.However,if methanol degradation can be slowed down,the toxic by-products do not have a chance to accumulate.ADH has a higher affinity to ethanol,where it functions to oxidize ethanol into acetaldehyde with the end product of the pathway being acetic acid (vinegar).
-Choose the pair of terms that correctly completes this sentence: Catabolism is to anabolism as ________ is to ________.


A)exergonic; spontaneous
B)exergonic; endergonic
C)free energy; entropy
D)work; energy
E)entropy; enthalpy

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