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Basic Chemistry and Cell Biology
Cell Processes
Genetics and Inheritance
DNA and Genetic Engineering
Miscellaneous
100
The two major types of intermolecular interactions.
What are hydrogen bonding and Van der Waals forces?
100
The enzyme involved in carbon fixation in C3 plants.
What is rubisco?
100
The structures that fail to separate during nondisjunction in meiosis I?
What are homologous chromosomes?
100
The type of chromatin that is accessible to transcription machinery.
What is euchromatin?
100
The method used to incorporate the pGLO plasmid into E. coli
What is the heat shock method?
200
The basic building blocks of carbohydrates, proteins, nucleic acids, and triglycerides, respectively.
What are monosaccharides, amino acids, nucleotides, and fatty acids?
200
The purpose of an electron transport chain.
What is the stepwise harvesting of energy via sequential electron transfer?
200
The definition of epistasis.
What is the alteration of phenotypic expression of one gene by another gene?
200
The three enzymes involved in nucleotide excision repair.
What are nuclease, DNA polymerase, and DNA ligase?
200
The two most abundant organelles in a muscle cell.
What are ribosomes and mitochondria?
300
The definition of a polypeptide tertiary structure.
What is the three-dimensional shape of a polypeptide stabilized by interactions between side chains?
300
The role of the M checkpoint.
What is the verification of proper attachment of spindle fibers to kinetochores during metaphase?
300
The law of independent assortment.
What principle states that each pair of alleles segregate independently of each other pair during gamete formation?
300
The scientists who repeated and improved upon Griffith's experiment.
Who are Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty?
300
The definition of an emergent property.
What is a novel property that arises due to the arrangement and interaction of parts as complexity increases?
400
The two defining conditions of active transport.
What are the expenditure of energy and movement of solutes against their concentration gradient?
400
The three molecules that are consumed in photorespiration.
What are O2, RuBP, and ATP?
400
The condition required for gene linkage to occur.
What is a recombination frequency of less than 50%?
400
The three steps of PCR, in order.
What are denaturation, annealing, and extension?
400
The molarity of a 500 mL solution containing 8 g of NaOH (molar mass = 40g/mol)
What is 0.4 M?
500
The process through which a protein's function at a specific site is affected by binding of a molecule at a separate site.
What is allosteric regulation?
500
The three major events of prophase.
What is the condensation of chromatin, disappearance of the nucleoli, and the formation of the mitotic spindle?
500
The four types of chromosomal structure alteration.
What are deletion, inversion, duplication, and translocation?
500
Chargaff's rules.
What is the variation of base composition between species, and the equal proportions of A to T and C to G?
500
The main conclusion of the experiments by Rao and Johnson.
What is the presence of cytoplasmic factors that control the progression of cell cycle stages?