Biochemistry
This type of reaction releases water when forming a new bond between subunits.
What is a dehydration (condensation) reaction?
A ___ reaction uses more energy than it releases.
DNA polymerase II
The fast movement of muscles in an effort to produce heat in response to a lowered body temperature.
What is shivering?
The term for when a protein is exposed to extreme heat and starts to misfold.
What is denaturation?
If there are more solutes outside of a cell than inside of the cell, water will move ___ (into/out of) the cell.
What is out of the cell?
What is the inner membrane?
The overall flow of genetic information in cells.
What is DNA to RNA to proteins?
This hormone causes the collecting duct to become more permeable to water, allowing control of water secretion.
What is ADH (antidiuretic hormone)?
The names of the liquid portions of mitochondria and chloroplasts are ___ and ___ respectively.
What are matrix and stroma?
The TWO macromolecules groups that contain the elements C,H and O and are used in energy functions in cells.
What are carbohydrates and lipids?
The amount of ATP produced directly from the Krebs cycle for one glucose molecule.
What is 1 ATP (GTP)?
This type of mutation results in the change of only 1 amino acid in a protein.
What is a missense mutation?
The ___ and ___ glands secrete hormones responsible for regulating the menstrual cycle in humans.
What are the anterior pituitary and ovaries?
What is repolarization?
A component of the cell membrane that is a lipid and helps to maintain the membrane's fluidity.
What is cholesterol?
The light-dependent reaction pathway that produces both NADPH and ATP.
What is non-cyclic electron flow?
What is the anticodon?
This region of the brain is a relay centre for sensory and motor information.
What is the thalamus?
A piece of DNA is inserted into a plasmid using restriction enzyme. If the same insert+plasmid is cut again with the same restriction enzyme and run on a gel, you would see ___ DNA fragments/bands.
What is 2 (1 for insert + 1 for plasmid)?
A molecule that inhibits an enzyme by binding to its active site.
What is a competitive inhibitor?
The molecule ___ is used to eventually make ___ during the light-independent reactions of photosynthesis, which takes 3 cycles to occur.
What are CO2 and glucose (C6H12O6)?
The last site on a ribosome that a tRNA will sit before it is ejected.
What is the E site?
___ hormones released by the ___ and ___ glands play a role in calcium regulation in the body.
What are calcitonin and parathyroid hormone, released by the thyroid and parathyroid glands?
There are 3 ways in which a neurotransmitter can be removed from the synaptic cleft. What are they?
What are diffusion out of the cleft, reuptake by transport proteins and degradation by enzymes?