Metabolism basics
Respiration & Fermentation
DNA replication
Transcription & Translation
Genetic change
100
What do we call an organism that uses carbon dioxide for its source of carbon?
Autotroph
100
Organic end product of Embden Meyerhoff
Pyruvate
100
Site at which replication starts in the bacterial chromosome.
Ori
100
What do we call the strand of DNA that carries the same nucleotide information as the mRNA?
coding strand
100
A mutation that changes a codon to one for a different amino acid is called a ___ mutation.
missense
200
Name the group of photoautotrophs that use H2S for a source of electrons
Purple sulfur bacteria
200
Pathway that generates NADPH
Pentose phosphate pathway or Entner Deudoroff
200
Name the direction of DNA synthesis.
5' to 3'
200
The region of the gene to which the RNA polymerase makes contact and recognizes the start of a gene
Promoter
200
Lederberg and Tatum discovered this type of bacterial gene transfer mechanism.
Conjugation
300
Type of enzyme regulation in which a molecule binds to a second site on the enzyme.
allosteric regulation
300
Term for making ATP by means of a proton motive force
Oxidative phosphorylation
300
Name the enzyme that relieves supercoiling behind the replication fork.
gyrase or topoisomerase
300
A type of regulation in which a gene is normally "On" but is turned off by means of a repressor.
Negative relation of a repressible gene.
300
Name the two enzymes used by replicative transposons
Transposase and resolvase
400
Name a type of electron carrier that uses a heme group with iron?
Cytochrome
400
A type of pathway that is used in both anabolism and catabolism (term).
Amphibolic
400
The lagging strand has separate pieces of DNA called...
Okasaki fragments
400
The sequence in the mRNA that is complementary to the small subunit rRNA.
Shine Dalgarno
400
Type of transduction carried out by a temperate phage
Specialized transduction.
500
The type of chemical reaction that has a negative delta G.
Exergonic
500
Fermentation product generated by directly reducing pyruvate.
Lactic acid
500
The type of replication used in plasmids and viruses
Rolling circle replication
500
What is the term for a mRNA that carries information to synthesize more than one polypeptide?
polycistronic
500
Name 4 types of plasmids.
F-factor, R-factor, virulence factor, metabolic, colicin
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