Introduction to the Living cell

Question 1

How do all cells store the hereditary info as?

Answer 1

(double stranded) Dna

Question 2

How do cells replicate their hereditary info?

Question 3

What do all cells transcribe portions of their dna to?

Question 4

What do all cells use proteins for?

Question 5

Do all cells translate rna to protein in the same way?

Question 6

What is each protein encoded by?

Question 7

What does life require?

Question 8

What do all cells function as?

Question 9

What are all cells enclosed by and what is passed through?

Question 10

At the microscopic level what is the behaviour and movement within cells driven by?

Question 11

How many genes can a living cell exist with?

Question 12

How can scientists read and interpret the sequence of nucleotides in dna?

Question 13

How are nucleotides connected?

Question 14

Why is base -paring important?

Question 15

How is DNA able to separate without breaking its backbone?

Question 16

What aspect of dna replication is different to other cells?

Question 17

What are functions of rna?

Question 18

What is definition of gene?

Question 19

What is a living cell?

Question 20

Why is free energy needed in a cell?

Question 21

What does copying genetic info (dna seq. ) require?

Question 22

What does free energy ensure?

Question 23

How do animals obtain free energy?

Question 24

How do plants obtain free energy?

Question 25

What is importance of selective plasma membrane?

Question 26

What is the most numerous living organisms on our planet?

Question 27

What is the 3 major domains of “the tree of life”