EXAM 1
Charged Particles
What are ions?
Proteins
What does almost everything in the cell?
The communication and influence between cells.
Cells that have two sets of chromosomes.
What are diploid cells?
The step of meiosis in which chiasmata are formed.
What is prophase I?
An atom's ability to attract electrons.
A non spontaneous reaction that requires and input of free energy.
What is an endergonic reaction?
Uncontrolled cell growth.
What is cancer?
The step of gene expression in which prokaryotes usually regulate.
What is transcription?
Groups of prokaryotic genes that share one promoter and are transcribed together.
What are operons?
Electrons in a bond are shared unequally.
What are polar covalent bonds?
The total net yield of cellular respiration.
What is 32 ATP?
Process of cell division in prokaryotes.
What is binary fission?
The independent segregation of genes during gamete formation.
What is independent assortment?
The eukaryotic organelle that aids in transmembrane protein synthesis and proteins destined for secretion.
What is the rough endoplasmic reticulum?
Diffusion of water through a selectively permeable membrane.
What is osmosis?
Competes with the substrate to bind to the active site.
What is a competitive inhibitor?
The strand of DNA that is synthesized away from the replication fork.
What is the lagging strand?
These bind to the enhancer region to recruit general transcription factors.
What are regulatory transcription factors?
Joins Okazaki fragments.
What is DNA ligase?
The movement of specific molecules across cell membranes through protein channels.
What is facilitated diffusion?
The electron donor in photosynthesis.
What is water?
This can dissolve through plasma membrane and bind to the receptor on the inside of the cell.
What is a hydrophobic ligand?
Traits that are influenced by many genes and the environment.
What are quantitative traits?
The types of DNA repair mechanisms.
What are mismatch repair, nucleotide excision repair, and base excision repair?