Cell Biology
Metabolism
Central Dogma
Genetics
Basics of Evolution
100
The two types of proteins involved in passive transport.
What are channel and carrier proteins?
100
The role of an active site.
What is the location at which an enzyme binds to its specific substrate?
100
The three steps of protein synthesis, in order.
What are transcription, mRNA processing, and translation?
100
The steps of cell division, in order.
What are prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase?
100
The four stages of abiogenesis, in order.
What are monomer, polymer, protocell, and living cell evolution?
200
The three major components of the plasma membrane.
What are phospholipids, proteins, and short carbohydrate chains?
200
The two processes in which electron transport chains are present.
What are cellular respiration and photosynthesis?
200
The two enzymes involved in DNA replication.
What are helicase and DNA polymerase?
200
The period during which cells are neither dividing nor preparing to divide.
What is the G0 stage?
200
The endosymbiotic theory.
What is the idea that mitochondria and chloroplasts originated from prokaryotes living inside of other, larger cells?
300
The type of organelle in which intracellular enzymes are produced.
What is a ribosome?
300
The condition under which fermentation occurs.
What is the absence of oxygen?
300
The full names of the three types of RNA.
What are messenger, transfer, and ribosomal RNA?
300
The definition of codominance.
What is the pattern of inheritance in which two alleles of a gene pair are fully expressed in the phenotype?
300
The definition of fitness.
What is the relative number of offspring left over an individual's lifetime?
400
The four monomers of macromolecules.
What are nucleotides, monosaccharides, fatty acids, and amino acids?
400
The specific role of the light-independent reactions.
What is the fixation of carbon from carbon dioxide to glucose?
400
The definition of a frameshift mutation.
What is the insertion or deletion of a nucleotide into DNA to shift the entire sequence?
400
The ploidy and copy number of daughter cells from meiosis I?
What are haploid cells with two copies?
400
The definition of Lamarckian inheritance.
What is the theory that organisms can pass down characteristics acquired during their lifetime to their offspring?
500
The pathway from gene to secreted protein (five structures).
What is the sequence of nucleus to ribosome to rough ER to Golgi apparatus to plasma membrane?
500
The three specific products of glycolysis.
What are ATP, pyruvate, and NADH?
500
The definition of the genetic code.
What is the code that dictates which amino acid corresponds to specific mRNA codons?
500
The role of fertilization.
What is the union of two haploid gametes to produce a diploid zygote?
500
The significance of the Miller-Urey experiment.
What is the idea that the building blocks of life could have originated from nonliving materials in the early atmosphere of the Earth?
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