DNA/RNA
In RNA, what nitrogenous base does adenine pair with?
What is uracil?
What are the four carbon compounds that life is based on
What are Carbohydrates, Lipids, Proteins and Nucleic acids
What type of RNA is used as the template for creating polypeptide chains?
What is mRNA
What is the polymer of an nucleotide?
What is a nucleic acid
What are the reactants of photosynthesis?
What are Carbon Dioxide, Water, and Sunlight
What is the strand structure of DNA?
What is antiparallel and complementary
What is a branch of biology that deals with the structure and function of the macromolecules essential to life.
What is molecular biology
What breaks the hydrogen that bonds the complementary base pairs together?
What is Helicase
What is the process that creates monosaccharide monomers into disaccharide and polysaccharide polymers?
What is a condensation reaction
What is the process in photosynthesis where light is absorbed and reacts with water in order to separate hydrogen from oxygen?
What is photolysis
What bond holds a nucleotide together?
What are covalent bonds
What is the range of chemical reactions that occur within a living organism?
What is Metabolism
What is the direction that DNA Polymerase runs?
What is the 5’ to 3’ end.
What are the net set of proteins that an individual has which is unique solely to that individual?
What is a proteome
What is the chemical equation for cellular respiration?
What is C6H12O6 + 6O2 → 6CO2 + 6H2O + ATP
What bond holds DNA strands together?
What are hydrogen bonds
What are carbon atoms capable of forming?
What are four covalent bonds for more stable compounds
There are 64 of these types of combinations
What is the number of possible codon combinations
What is a specific type of a macromolecule (unknown due to the difficulty of the question) that helps form strong ligaments like muscle tendons, bones, and teeth. Helps Resist tearing of these organs?
What is Collagen
What is the process of enzymes splitting a molecule of glucose into two pyruvates, which releases energy that is transferred to ATP?
What is Glycolysis
What do nucleotides consist of?
What is a deoxyribose or pentose sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base.
How is anabolism and catabolism different from one another?
Anabolism is the creation of bonds, while catabolism is the destruction of bonds.
What determines which genes are transcribed into mRNA?
What is cell specialism and environment
What is a double bond on some type of macromolecule (unknown for the sake of the difficulty) that forms a bend in the structure of that macromolecule. They are loosely packed
What is a cis isomer
What are the products of light-dependent reactions?
What are ATP & NADPH