GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE

Question 1

rare conditions the affected individual can’t use or store glycogen properly

Answer 1

GLYCOGEN STORAGE DISEASE

Question 2

Body creates glycogen from glucose through a
process called?

Answer 2

glycogenesis

Question 3

When your body needs extra fuel, it breaks
down glycogen for use through a process called?

Answer 3

glycogenolysis

Question 4

What is the unique sign and symptom of Glycogen Storage Disease?

Answer 4

Hyperphagia

Question 5

It is a type of Glycogen Storage Disease that has a unique historical significance.

Answer 5

Pompe Disease

Question 6

Black Urine Disease
Black Bone Disease

Answer 6

ALKAPTONURIA

Question 7

Inhibits the body from completely breaking down two protein building blocks (amino acids) named tyrosine and phenylalanine

Answer 7

Alkaptonuria

Question 8

What are the the inhibited protein in Alkaptonuria?

Answer 8

Tyrosine and Phenylalanine

Question 9

Alkaptonuria is the disease that is caused by?

Answer 9

Homogentisic dioxygenase

Question 10

It is the first Mendelian disorders to be identified and discovered by Archibald Garrod in 1902.

Answer 10

Alkaptonuria

Question 11

William Osler described Alkaptonuria as?

Answer 11

Rare anomaly