Basic Biology
What are 3 out of 6+ themes of life?
What is replication, metabolism, cellular organization, response to environment, cells and water?
Fluorine is an example of this.
What is an atom?
DNA is composed of
A sugar (ribose), phosphate backbone, and nitrogenous base
What are the characteristics of a cancer cell?
Uncontrolled growth, avoiding apoptosis, metastasis, inducing angiogenesis, replicative immortality, evading growth suppression
Name of advanced form of HIV
AIDS
The smallest unit of life
What is a cell?
What makes up an atom and what are their electrical properties?
Turning DNA into RNA, then into protein
What are transcription and translation?
The process of transmitting a signal to the nucleus
What is signal transduction?
The type of cell HIV infects
T- cells
The three different domains of cell life
What are prokaryotes (Bacterial), Eukaryotes (animals), and Archaea?
An atom contains 5 electrons, 3 protons, and 1 neutron. What is the overall charge?
-2 charge.. or an excess of 2 electrons, each with a -1 charge, contributing to an overall charge of -2.
RNA-Protein machinery that produces protein
What is the underlying general cause for cancer?
What are mutations?
The average time to AIDS progression
5-10 years without treatment
An organ grown in a dish
What are the types of bonds between atoms and/or molecules? Name as many as you can.
Covalent, Ionic (electrostatic), Non-covalent, Pi-cation, Vanderwaals, hydrophobic, Hydrogen bonding,
Powerful method that allows one to amplify known sequences of DNA
What is Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
A change in this can result in drug resistance.
What are genetics/genome? or Homogeneity
Enzyme involved in viral genome integration
Reverse Transcriptase
Keeping a normal cellular environment
What is homeostasis?
Besides cooling, what physical force can one apply to take a gas and force it into the liquid phase?
What is pressure
Two proteins unnaturally joined together
What is a Chimera?
1) Subatomic particle used in cancer treatment. 2) Type of cell engineered to combat cancer.
What are protons and (chimeric antigen receptor)T-cells?
What is the receptor and co-receptor involved in viral fusion called?
What are CD4, and CCR5?