Enzymes
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100

The place where the substrate binds

What is the active site?

100

True or false: all mutations are dangerous

False

100

This is the term for a hospital-acquired infection

What is a nosocomial infection?

100

The scientist who proved biogenesis with a S-shaped flask experiment

Who is Louis Pasteur?

100

The monomer of a protein

What is an amino acid?

200

This binds to the allosteric site in noncompetitive inhibition

What is the inhibitor?

200

These types of mutations involve adding an extra nucleotide.

What are insertion mutations?

200

This is the name of the sugar in DNA

What is deoxyribose?

200

The scientist who developed aseptic technique

Who is Joseph Lister?

200

The theory that says that living things can come from nonliving things like water and soil

What is spontaneous generation?

300

This enzyme unwinds the original DNA strand in replication

What is gyrase?

300

Name one of the stop codons. (you can give the three letter abbreviation)

What is UGA, UAA, or UAG?

300

Dehydration synthesis is this type of reaction

What is an anabolic reaction?

300

The scientist who developed binomial nomenclature

Who is Linnaeus?

300

The theory that states that mitochondria and chloroplasts were one their own cells

What is the endosymbiont theory?

400

This enzyme reads 3' to 5' and synthesizes 5' to 3'

What is DNA polymerase?

400

These mutations are the most dangerous type of mutation.

What are frameshift mutations?

400
Name one of the two most common nosocomial infections

What are surgical site infections or UTIs?

400

The scientist who discovered the first antibiotic, penicillin

Who is Alexander Fleming?

400

The three domains of life

What are bacteria, archaea, and eukarya?

500

This enzyme attaches Okazaki fragments to a newly formed strand of DNA

What is ligase?

500

The type of mutation that occurred if the sequence UAC was miscopied as UAG

What is a nonsense mutation?

500

The actual name of the start codon AUG

What is methionine?

500

The two scientists who helped develop cell theory

Who are Hooke and Virchow?

500

Where a hydrogen is located in a DNA molecule

What is the two prime carbon?