O Essential Dispensable QUESTION 13 Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a genetic disorder

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O Essential Dispensable QUESTION 13 Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a genetic disorder in which the body is not able to metabolize phenylalanine. The inability to metabolize phenylalanine (essential amino acid) results in the failure to make tyrosine (non-essential amino acid). This in turn results in tyrosine becoming what? Complimentary amino acid OConditionally essential amino acid Essential amino acid QUESTION 14 There are four levels of protein structure. This level of protein structure determines each protein's function in the body. Primary Secondary Tertiary

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Ans 13 : Essential amino acid

Tyrosine becomes an essential amino acid in the patients with Phenylketonuria. Now since tyrosine cannot be synthesised in our body due to inability to metabolise phenylalanine , it has to be consumed through our diet.

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