FRQ
Cell Biology
This and That
Genetics, transcription and translation
Vocabulary
100

A small molecule that binds to a large and changes its shape

What is a ligand?

100

Two organelles with chemiosmotic and electron transport systems

What are chloroplast and mitochondria?

100

Blood clotting after a wound involve these blood components and this type of feedback mechanism

What are platelets and positive feedback?

100

This mutation type is caused by the addition or deletion of one base and causes 

What is a frameshift mutation and excessive missense or nonsense?

100

Hormone produced by the pituitary gland that regulates osmolarity and conserves water

What is antidiuretic hormone or ADH?

200

Type of receptor the stretches across the plasma membrane

What is a transmembranne receptor?


200

How the cell moves molecules and ions against the concentration gradient

What is ATP hydrolysis?

200

How the primary transcript can code for multiple proteins

What is alternative exon splicing?

200

Crossing over, bacterial conjugation and random fertilization have this in common

What is increase genetic diversity?

200

DNA replication is described as semi-conservative because

What is each old strand acts a template for one new strand?

300

How to activate an inactive kinase

What is phosphorlaytion?

300

How the elements in proteins and nucleic acids differ

What is proteins have S, nucleic acids have P?

300

What happens when plant cells are placed in a hypertonic solution?

What is plasmolysis or lose water to the solution? 

300

This brings the next amino acid to the growing polypeptide chain

What is tRNA?

300

Substituting a nonpolar R group for a polar R group affects these levels of protein structure

What is secondary and tertiary level?

400

How the activated signaling molecule changes the protein produced by the cell

What is move into the nucleus and act as a transcription factor?

400

The cell is growing in size and producing organelles and proteins

What is G1?

400

How DNA is amplified and separated in DNA analysis

What is PCR and gel electrophoresis?

400

Type of bond holding the adjacent amino acids together?

What is a covalent bond?

400

Viruses that infect bacteria

What are bacteriophages?

500

Two ways adding a small complementary RNA strand to mRNA affects its function

What is cause degradation or block translation?

500

How the mitochondria gets the energy to move protons against the concentration gradient to drive chemiosmosis

What is electrons flowing down the electron transport chain, or the cytochrome system?

500

The number of RNA bases/amino acid

What is 3?

500

A set of sequentially coordinated genes in prokaryotes

What is an operon?

500

Chemical produced during exercise that increases blood glucose levels

What is epinephrine?

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