Advanced Molecular Biology & Genetics
This post-transcriptional modification involves removal of introns and joining of exons in eukaryotic mRNA.
What is RNA splicing?
The ratio of stress to strain in the elastic region of a material.
What is Young’s Modulus?
Functional group characterized by a carbon double-bonded to oxygen and single-bonded to hydroxyl.
What is a carboxylic acid?
Data structure using LIFO (Last In, First Out).
What is a stack?
The measure of biodiversity within a specific ecosystem.
What is alpha diversity?
The operon model that is inducible and activated in the presence of lactose.
What is the lac operon?
The flow rate of a fluid is proportional to the fourth power of the radius of a pipe according to this law.
What is Poiseuille’s Law?
The reaction mechanism where a nucleophile attacks a carbonyl carbon, forming a tetrahedral intermediate.
What is nucleophilic addition?
Worst-case time complexity of quicksort.
What is O(n²)?
Nutrient pollution in water bodies leading to algal blooms is called this.
What is eutrophication?
A mutation that changes an amino acid but preserves similar chemical properties is called this.
What is a conservative missense mutation?
This dimensionless number predicts flow regime (laminar vs turbulent).
What is the Reynolds number?
The pH at which an amino acid has no net charge.
What is the isoelectric point (pI)?
A function that calls itself to solve subproblems.
What is recursion?
This statistical test compares means between two groups.
What is a t-test?
This mechanism allows a single gene to produce multiple protein isoforms.
What is alternative splicing?
The principle stating that pressure decreases as fluid velocity increases.
What is Bernoulli’s Principle?
This effect stabilizes carbocations by electron donation from adjacent sigma bonds.
What is hyperconjugation?
This algorithm finds the shortest path in a weighted graph with non-negative edges.
What is Dijkstra’s Algorithm?
The carrying capacity of an ecosystem refers to this concept.
What is the maximum population size an environment can sustain?
In CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, this molecule guides Cas9 to the target DNA sequence.
What is guide RNA (gRNA)?
In thermodynamics, this quantity remains constant for an isolated system.
What is entropy + energy conservation (total energy / first law of thermodynamics)?
Enzyme kinetics model describing reaction rate with respect to substrate concentration.
What is Michaelis-Menten kinetics?
The space complexity of storing an adjacency matrix for a graph with n nodes.
What is O(n²)?
This model describes population growth that starts exponentially and levels off.
What is the logistic growth model?