Genetics
Who is known as the "father of modern genetics" and used pea plants as model for heredity?
Gregor Mendel
What are the three domains of life?
bacteria, archaea, and eukarya
small, hydrophobic molecules
Name the four classes of biomolecules
What do you call a structure with a carbon-carbon double bond?
alkene
What are the two ends of DNA referred to as?
5' and 3' end
What is a facultative anaerobe?
Can grow with or without the presence of oxygen
small interfering RNA
What kind of amino acid is glycine?
Hydrophobic
What do you call a pair of molecules that are non-superimposable mirror-images
enantiomer
In which cell phase does DNA synthesis occur
interphase/S phase
What are the four components of a Gram stain?
Crystal violet, iodine, ethanol, safranin
What is the function of chaperones and chaperonins?
Help fold proteins
What do you call an enzyme without its cofactor?
Apoenzyme
Which rule is said to be true when the hydrogen atom is attached to the carbon atom with the highest number of hydrogen substituents?
Markovnikov's Rule
What does CRISPR stand for
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
How do chemolithoautotrophs obtain energy?
oxidizing inorganic compounds
What is the name of the process microtubules undergo to polymerize?
Treadmilling
Where on a Lineweaver-Burk plot do you find the Vmax and Km?
x- and y-intercept
What is it called when a hydrogen atom along with its two bonding electrons migrate
Hydride shift
What substituent is added to the C-5 position of the cytosine ring to prevent transcription?
methyl group
What is MacConkey agar selective for?
Gram-negative bacteria
What are the three components of a heterotrimeric G protein?
Gɑ,Gβ, and GƔ
What kinase converts glucose into glucose 6-phosphate?
Hexokinase
What is the name for nucleophilic substitution which has a unimolecular rate-determining step?
SN1