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Words in biology that start with C
100

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats

What does CRISPR stand for?

100

Where the positives of conducting a study outweigh the negatives.

What is beneficence?

100

These simple molecules form the basis of all proteins

What are amino acids?

100

Creates a starting point for a polymerase enzyme

What is a primer?

100

A peptide bond atom

What is carbon?

200

3-4 bases upstream from the PAM site

Where does Cas9 cleave the DNA?

200
What ethical approach would argue that golden rice is an ethically sound project because the positive outcomes outweigh the negative outcomes?

What is consequence based 

200

This is turned off when tryptophan concentration is high.

What is top operon?

200

Cut DNA fragments

What action do endonucleases perform?

200

This plant separates its Calvin cycle across night and day.

What is a CAM plant?

300

Present on all nucleated cells

What is MHC I

300

The Australian healthcare system is considering the best way to reach as many patients as possible.

What is justice?



300

This is not in the course but is the opposite of endergonic reactions.

What is exergonic reactions?

300

The uptake of a recombinant plasmid by a bacterium

What is bacterial transformation?

300

This will be very high when overcoming the effect of competitive inhibition on the rate of an enzyme reaction.

What is substrate concentration?

400

By what process can bacteria share plasmids

What is conjugation

400

Doctors and healthcare providers, each individual has a moral obligation to provide treatment to whoever is in need.

What is a duty/rule based approach?

400

What model suggests that enzyme active sites change to fit the substrate

What is the induced fit model

400

To transcribe an RNA strand and produce a complementary DNA strand.

What is reverse transcriptase?

400

A biologist designed an experiment to test the different rates of plant growth for C3, C4 and CAM plants. In this experiment he watered each plant with 50 mL of distilled water a day. In this experiment the water amount is a what?

Controlled variable

500

What is the enzyme that catalyses carbon fixation in photosynthesis 

What is RuBisco

500

Experimenters debrief participants after the experiment.

What is respect?

500

How many ATP molecules are made in glycolysis, the krebs cycle and the electron transport chain?

2, 2, 26 OR 28

500

This helps determine which bacteria have been transformed.

What is an antibiotic resistant gene (ampR) in a plasmid vector?

500

This is being used to increase the rate of photosynthesis in many plants by altering the shape of Rubisco with intent.

What is CRISPR-Cas9 technology/application?