Molecular Biology Basics
This science explains living processes in terms of the chemical substances involved.
What is molecular biology?
The four types of macromolecules.
What are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids?
The structure of a DNA molecule.
What is double helix?
The RNA that carries the blueprint for DNA to the ribosomes.
What is mRNA?
These organisms utilize photosynthesis.
What are plants?
The breakdown of complex molecules into much simpler ones.
What is catabolism?
This macromolecule can either be a monosaccharide, disaccharide, or polysaccharide.
What is a carbohydrate?
This is the nucleic acid that contains uracil.
What is RNA?
mRNA, unlike DNA, is _-stranded.
What is single-stranded?
The place on a plant that accepts energy from the sun.
What are chloroplasts?
These are the strongest types of bonds that carbon atoms form.
What is covalent?
There are 20 of these units that make up proteins.
What are amino acids?
In DNA, this item pairs with adenine.
What is thymine?
An enzyme that is needed for transcription.
What is RNA polymerase?
The five carbon sugar that makes up the backbone of DNA.
What is deoxiribose?
Scientists use this process in molecular biology that involves breaking larger systems into smaller parts.
What is reductionist?
These are the two types of isomers in unsaturated fats.
What are cis and trans?
The building block of DNA.
What are nucleotides?
The amino acid that corresponds with ATG.
What is tyrosine?
6CO2 + 6H2O → C6H12O6 + 6O2
What is photosynthesis?
The web of all the enzyme-catalyzed reactions in a cell or organism.
What is metabolism?
These can be used as a long term energy storage source.
What are triglycerides?
DNA replication goes in this direction.
What is 5' to 3'?
The transcription for the DNA code, "GATTAC."
What is CUAAUG?
This is the number of net ATP produced in respiration.
What is 38?