Cell and Molecular Biology
The molecule that forms the basic structure of cell membranes.
What are phospholipids?
The basic unit of inheritance.
What is a gene?
The tissue response for water transport in plants.
What is a xylem?
The bearded individual who developed the theory of evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
The cell structure where ribosomes are assembled.
What is the nucleolus?
The hormone that promotes cell elongation and growth.
What is auxin?
The collection of resources and conditions allowing a species to maintain a viable population.
What is an ecological niche?
Repetitive sequences that protect genetic material from chromosomes.
What are telomeres?
Examples include operons like the Lac operon and the Gal operon, or operons involved in antibiotic resistance.
What are examples of inducible promoters?
This process helps minimise photorespiration in hot climates.
What does C4 photosynthesis do?
This concept helps explain why islands often have many new, unique species.
What is the importance of adaptive radiation?
The guardian of the genome.
What is the p53 protein?
The molecule that regenerates RuBP in the Calvin Cycle.
What is Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate (G3P)?
The pathway that synthesises glucose from non-sugar precursors.
What is gluconeogenesis?
This is an ecological principle commonly attributed to Georgy Gause, but was originally developed by Darwin.
Resection, strand invasion, DNA synthesis, and resolution.
What processes are involved in Homologous Recombination Repair?
The tool that utilises accumulated mutations to uncover evolutionary relatedness of two species.
What is a molecular clock?