Random Biology
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C Words in Biology
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Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats

What does CRISPR stand for?

100

Where the positives of conducting a study outweigh the negatives.

What is beneficence?

100

These simple molecules form the basis of all proteins

What are amino acids?

100

Creates a starting point for a polymerase enzyme

What is a primer?

100

A peptide bond atom

What is carbon?

200

3-4 bases upstream from the PAM site

Where does Cas9 cleave the DNA?

200

This type of variable had an effect on results but this type of variable may have an effect on results.

What is the difference between confounding and extraneous variables?

200

This is turned off when tryptophan concentration is high.

What is top operon?

200

Cut DNA fragments

What action do endonucleases perform?

200

This plant separates its Calvin cycle across night and day.

What is a CAM plant?

300

DNA ↔ RNA → Protein

What is the central dogma of molecular bio?

300

The Australian healthcare system is considering the best way to reach as many patients as possible.

What is justice?



300

This is not in the course but is the opposite of endergonic reactions.

What is exergonic reactions?

300

The uptake of a recombinant plasmid by a bacterium

What is bacterial transformation?

300

This will be very high when overcoming the effect of competitive inhibition on the rate of an enzyme reaction.

What is substrate concentration?

400

Methylation of histones

What process decreases the rate gene expression?

400

Doctors and healthcare providers, each individual has a moral obligation to provide treatment to whoever is in need.

What is a duty/rule based approach?

400

This process produces four genetically unique cells, each with half the number of chromosomes as in the parent

What is meiosis?

400

To transcribe an RNA strand and produce a complementary DNA strand.

What is reverse transcriptase?

400

A geneticist weighs up the pros and cons of development of a drug before making a decision.

What is the consequence-based approach?

500

2 of molecule X form Glucose. What is molecule X?

What is G3P?

500

Experimenters debrief participants after the experiment.

What is respect?

500

Which characteristic do all organisms in Kindoms Animalia, Protista, and Fungi have in common?

What is eukaryotic?

500

This helps determine which bacteria have been transformed.

What is an antibiotic resistant gene (ampR) in a plasmid vector?

500

This is being used to increase the rate of photosynthesis in many plants by altering the shape of Rubisco with intent.

What is CRISPR-Cas9 technology/application?

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