Molecular Biology Basics
Organic compounds consisting of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen:
What is carbohydrates?
Lipids, proteins, carbohydrates, and nucleic acids are all examples of:
What are macromolecules?
The sugar found in RNA:
What is Ribose?
The enzyme that unwinds the double helix:
What is chlorophyll?
The process of breaking down large molecules to form smaller units:
What is catabolism?
The process in which two macromolecules combine to make one is:
What is a condensation reaction?
Nucleic acids are made of:
What is nucleotides?
The enzyme that creates a new complementary strand using the parent strand is:
What is DNA Polymerase.
What process takes carbon dioxide and water to make energy?
What is photosynthesis?
The process of creating molecules from smaller units:
What is anabolism?
How many units are in a disaccharide macromolecule?
What is two units?
The nucleic acid with two antiparallel strands is:
The process in which mRNA is copied from a DNA base sequence is called:
What is transcription?
Aerobic respiration takes glucose and what to make ATP?
What is oxygen?
Proteins are made up of what?
What are amino acids?
Cellulose, amylose, and glycogen are all:
What are polysaccharides?
Adenine, Guanine, Uracil, and Cytosine are the bases that make up:
What is RNA?
What is found at the end of a tRNA molecule?
What is an anticodon?
What process takes organic compound energy and glucose and makes ATP?
What is cellular respiration?
Nucleotides are made up of what three parts?
Which isomer is commonly found in nature?
What is a cis-isomer?
What is DNA?
The collection of three bases encoding a specific amino acid is called:
What is a codon?
A process that does not need oxygen to make energy is what?
What is anaerobic respiration?