Molecular Biology Basics
The section of biology that is responsible for explaining living processes on the chemical level.
What is molecular biology?
What are the four basic macromolecules of life?
What are Carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids.
The structure of DNA
What is a Double Helix?
The synthesis of mRNA copied from the DNA base sequences by RNA polymerase.
What is Transcription?
The release of energy from organic compounds to produce ATP.
What is Cellular Respiration?
Carbon-based molecules that are necessary for life.
What are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids?
The synthesis of larger molecules from smaller ones.
What is Anabolism?
The 'rungs' of the DNA 'ladder'
What are Complementary Base Pairs?
The translation is the synthesis of polypeptides on ribosomes.
What is Translation?
The production of carbon compounds in cells using the light’s energy.
What is Photosynthesis?
The sum of all the pathways used in a cell.
What is Metabolism?
The breakdown of larger molecules to smaller ones.
What is Catabolism?
Polymers of nucleotides.
What are Nucleic Acids?
Unwinds DNA and by breaking hydrogen bonds.
What is Helicase?
An immediately available source of energy in the cell
What is ATP?
The strongest type of carbon bond.
What is Covelent?
They can be saturated, monounsaturated or polyunsaturated.
What are Fatty acids?
A polymeric molecule essential in various biological roles relating to genes.
What is RNA?
A polymer consisting of a large number of amino-acid residues bonded together.
What is a Polypeptide?
Respiration using electron acceptors other than oxygen.
What is Anaerobic Respiration?
The basic building blocks that make up all life.
The building blocks of Macromolecules.
What are Monomers?
A molecule composed of two polynucleotide chains that carries genetic instructions.
What is DNA?
They have an anticodon of three bases that bind to a complementary base on mRNA.
What is tRNA?
A byproduct of photosynthesis.
What is Oxygen?