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Biology Chapter 12 Flashcards

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True or false: Mice injected with a mixture of bacteria from harmful, heat- killed bacteria and live rough colonies survived.

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False (the mice died)

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True or false: The bacteria that cause pneumonia grew in smooth colonies while harmless bacteria had rough edges.

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True

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What is transformation?

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A process in which one strain of bacteria is changed by a gene or genes from another strain of bacteria

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True or false: Avery and his colleagues thought that the molecule required in transformation might be the molecule of a gene.

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True

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Transformation did not occur when what was destroyed?

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DNA

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What did Avery and his colleagues conclude?

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DNA stores and transmits genetic information

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What is a virus that infects bacteria?

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Bacteriophage

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True or false: The genetic information of a bacteriophage is stored in proteins.

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False (it’s stored in DNA)

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What three things make up a nucleotide?

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Deoxyribose, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base

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How many carbons does deoxyribose have?

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5

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What are the four nitrogenous bases?

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Adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine

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True or false: Adenine and guanine make up the pyrimidines while cytosine and thymine make up the purines.

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False (switch purines and pyrimidines)

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What makes up the DNA backbone?

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Sugar and phosphate groups

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What shape is DNA?

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A double helix

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14
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Where is DNA stored in prokaryotes?

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Cytoplasm

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Where is DNA stored in eukaryotes?

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The nucleus

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True or false: Eukaryotic cells have more DNA than eukaryotic cells.

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True

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17
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What are the proteins that get DNA wrapped around them called?

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Histones

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18
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What do nucleosomes do?

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They squeeze lots of DNA into a small space

19
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What are the places where DNA is separated called?

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Replication forks

20
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What breaks when DNA is unzipped?

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Hydrogen bonds between the base pairs

21
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What is the complementary strand to TACGTT?

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ATGCAA

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What does DNA polymerase do in DNA replication?

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It joins nucleotides to produce a DNA molecule and acts as the principle enzyme in DNA replication

23
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What is the difference between RNA and DNA?

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The sugar in RNA is ribose while it is deoxyribose in DNA
RNA is generally single-stranded
RNA has uracil in place of DNA’s thymine

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What does RNA have the information to?

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Making proteins

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What are the three main types of RNA?

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Messenger, ribosomal, and transfer

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What one job are most RNA molecules involved in?

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Protein synthesis

27
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What type of RNA carries information for making amino acids into proteins?

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Messenger

28
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What

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.

29
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What happens during transcription?

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RNA molecule are produced

30
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What type of RNA moves each amino acid to the ribosome to help assemble proteins?

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Transfer RNA

31
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True or false: The amino acids that transfer RNA carries is based off of the mRNA codon.

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True

32
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Where are anticodons found?

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tRNA

33
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What contains the instructions for assembling proteins?

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Genes

34
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What are long chains of amino acids that make up proteins called?

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Polypeptides

35
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What is a codon?

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Three consecutive nucleotides that specify a single amino acid to be added to the polypeptide

36
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How many possible three-base codons can there be?

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64

37
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What happens during translation?

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The cell uses information from messenger RNA to produce proteins

38
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Where does translation take place?

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Ribosomes

39
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Where does transcription take place?

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Nucleus

40
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What is an anticodon?

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An unpaired base carried by transfer RNA that is complementary to a mRNA codon

41
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What do enzymes do?

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Catalyze (speed up) and regulate chemical reactions

42
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What are mutations?

A

Changes in genetic material

43
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True or false: Point mutations occur in many nucleotides.

A

False (only a few)

44
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What is a mutation that involves the insertion or deletion of a nuclotide?

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Frameshift mutation

45
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What are the four types of chromosomal mutations?

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Deletion, duplication, inversion, and translocation

46
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What is a polyploidy?

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A condition in which an organism has extra sets of chromosomes

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