Mutations and Bacterial Growth
In the __________ phase organisms are adjusting to their environment.
What is Lag phase?
The end product of Glycolysis?
What is Pyruvic acid?
What is the shape of a typical bacterial genome?
1. A single linear DNA piece
2. A single RNA circular piece.
3. A double DNA linear piece
4. A single circular DNA piece
A single circular DNA piece
What is DNA transcribed into?
What is mRNA
What is the Start codon in Eukaryotes?
What is AUG
When bacterial cells are most actively growing this is called the ___________.
What is the Log phase?
How many ATP molecules can theoretically be produced from Glycolysis, the krebs cycle and the ETC?
What is 38
What is the base pair rule? What bases pair with one another?
What is .... A - T G - C
Type of RNA that "brings" amino acids to the ribosome
What is tRNA?
The most reactive of the four toxic forms of oxygen is called?
What is a hydroxyl radical?
Ultraviolet light causes adjacent pyrimidine bases to crosslink within DNA forming _____________.
What are thymine dimers (pyrimidine dimers)
What is the last step in the sequence of Glycolysis?
What is Energy conservation?
Enzyme that proofreads new DNA strands
What is DNA polymerase?
The end product of translation
What is AN AMINO ACID
The molecule that acts upon a substate is called a/an
What is an enzyme?
Also called Jumping genes
What are Transposons
An amine group is moved from one amino acid to a metabolite producing a a different amino acid. This process is called _____________.
What is transamination?
Each daughter DNA molecule is composed of one original strand and one new strand. What is this also called?
What is semi conservative replication
Name three post-transcriptional modifications in eukaryotes.
Splicing, Capping and addition of a Poly A tail.
What is the horizontal transfer process in bacteria that involve a virus called?
What is transduction?
If the codon UUU is changed to UUC, it still codes for the amino acid PHENYLALANINE; this is an example of a
1. missense mutations
2. nonsense mutation
3. silent mutation
What is a silent mutation?
The key reaction that of the light independent pathway of photosynthesis is the calvin-benson cycle. This involves the attachment of _____ to RUBP.
What is CO2.
During DNA replication, a DNA strand that has the bases ATTCGA produces a strand with the complementary bases ...
What is TAAGCT?
Which of the following statements concerning transcription in bacteria is True?
1. It occurs in the nucleus
2. Different RNA polymerases are required
3. Termination is either self-induced or due to the presence of Rho protein
Termination is either self-induced or due to the presence of Rho protein
An example of both selective and differential media used to culture bacteria.
What is MacConkey agar?