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DNA Processes
Biotechnology
Principles of Evolution
Microbe Structure
Microbe Characteristics
100
5' --> 3'
What is the direction of DNA replication?
100
A specific DNA sequence that has the ability to move within and between chromosomes.
What is a transposon?
100
The definition of a vestigial structure.
What is a type of structure that has been reduced in size and/or function from an ancestral species?
100
The protective outer covering of a virus.
What is a capsid?
100
The type of organism that might use sunlight as an energy source and glucose as a carbon source.
What is a photoheterotroph?
200
The process that takes place between transcription and translation.
What is mRNA processing?
200
The specific type of intergenic sequences that telomeres are.
What are tandem repeats?
200
Disruptive selection.
What is the type of selection that occurs when two extreme phenotypes are favored over an intermediate one?
200
A loosely organized glycocalyx.
What is a slime layer?
200
The specific type of symbiotic relationship that viruses represent.
What is obligate intracellular parasitism?
300
The role of a histone.
What is the packaging of DNA into bead-like nucleosomes?
300
The goal of PCR.
What is the specific amplification of a targeted DNA sequence?
300
A random event that natural selection operates on.
What is heritable variation
300
The structure that allows bacteria to survive in unfavorable conditions.
What is an endospore?
300
The definition of a facultative anaerobe.
What is an organism that uses oxygen when available but does not require it for survival?
400
The names of the four bases of DNA.
What are adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine?
400
The definition of cloning.
What is the production of genetically identical copies of DNA, cells, or organisms through some asexual means?
400
The four types of traits used for classification.
What are fossil, behavioral, morphological, and molecular traits?
400
The type of viruses that use reverse transcriptase.
What are RNA retroviruses?
400
The three means of prokaryotic genetic recombination.
What are conjugation, transformation, and transduction?
500
The five types of enzymes involved in eukaryotic DNA replication.
What are DNA polymerase, helicase, ligase, RNA primase, and telomerase?
500
The definition of proteomics.
What is the study of the structure and function of proteins?
500
The definition of a species.
What is the smallest group of organisms capable of interbreeding that shares a common ancestor?
500
The role of fimbriae.
What is the adherence of bacterial cells to other surfaces?
500
The five major steps of the lytic cycle.
What are attachment, penetration, biosynthesis, maturation, and release?