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In the nucleus of your muscle cell, a nucleotide sequence in the DNA molecule in chromosome #2 contains the genetic instructions to make a protein. This nucleotide sequence is a -

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Gene

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In your cells, where are your genes located?

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DNA, chromatin, chromosome, mitochondrion, nucleus

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The nucleotide sequence of a gene that codes for a protein determines the sequence of _______ in the protein

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Amino acids

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The deoxyribonucleotide sequence of a gene that codes for a specialized RNA molecule determines the sequence of _______ in the specialized RNA molecule

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Ribonucleotides

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In the coronavirus RNA genome, a sequence of ribonucleotides codes for a protein that the virus needs to enter its host cell. This ribonucleotide sequence is a-

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Gene

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The viral receptor of your WBC recognizes a covid protein. Your WBC subsequently will activate the genes that code for proteins that-

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Neutralize the coronavirus

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The transcription factor proteins and the RNA polymerase enzyme are required for your cells to activate, and express, a gene. To which part of the gene do they bind to activate the gene?

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Promoter

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Which part of a gene contains the instructions that determine the amino acid sequence of the protein the gene encodes?

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Coding region (exon)

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Which part of a protein coding gene instructs your cell where to begin reading the instructions in the gene?

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Transcription start site

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The nucleotide sequence of a protein coding gene determines the linear sequence of the _______ of the protein the gene encodes

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Amino acids

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The replication (duplication) of the 46 DNA molecules occurs in the nucleus of your adult stem cells during the S phase of the cell cycle. This ensures that each daughter cell will inherit-

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46 DNA molecules

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The 46 chromatin molecules in the nucleus of most of your cell types consist of-

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DNA and histone proteins

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Which dynamic structure moves the 46 pairs of sister chromatids (92 chromosomes) during mitosis?

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Spindle

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Which dynamic protein filaments form the spindle?

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Microtubules

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The chromatin molecules must condense to their shorter chromosome form to facilitate their movement by the spindle. When does this occur?

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Prophase

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The nuclear envelope must disassemble so the spindle microtubules can attach to the sister chromatids. When is the nuclear envelope dismantled?

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Prophase

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The spindle microtubules must attach to each sister chromatid. To which structure on each sister chromatid do the microtubules bind?

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Kinetochore

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The spindle aligns all 46 pairs of human sister chromatids at the center of the cell. When does this occur during mitosis?

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Metaphase

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Each chromosome moves along the spindle microtubules during anaphase. Which proteins in the kinetochore enable this movement?

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Motor (dynein, kinesin)

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Two nuclei, each containing 46 chromosomes, are formed in your adult stem cell during mitosis. This occurs in-

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Telophase

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Your adult stem cell physically separates to form two, independent, daughter cells in the M phase. This occurs during-

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Cytokinesis

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Defective mitosis results in aneuploid daughter cells with an abnormal number of chromosomes in the nucleus. Aneuploidy is due to-

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Nondisjunction

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Your dynamic cell membrane consists of -

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Phospholipids that interact to form the lipid bilayer, steroids (cholesterol) within the lipid bilayer, and membrane proteins

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The versatile functions of your dynamic cell membrane include -

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Regulating the movement of substances into and out of the cell, creating a voltage that is a source of energy for the cell, cell signaling, and cell to cell binding

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Which organelles in the eukaryotic cell make and package all the materials necessary to build and repair the cell membrane?

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Endoplasmic reticulum and golgi apparatus

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What are examples of a substance that must cross the cell membrane to enter and exit your cells?

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Atoms (Ca++, Na+), water molecules, amino acids, monosaccharides, nucleotides, particles (LDH, HDL), and pathogens (viruses, bacteria)

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Which substances can directly pass through the hydrophobic interior of the cell membrane and diffuse from higher to lower concentration?

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Small hydrophobic, nonpolar molecules

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Which substances cross the cell membrane through the channel of the channel proteins?

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Water molecules and small ions like Na+

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Which small molecule diffuses across the cell membrane through channel proteins called aquaporins?

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Water

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Which molecules would be transported across the cell membrane by a carrier protein?

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Amino acid, glucose, nucleotide

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Which energy source enables the channel and carrier proteins to move small hydrophilic substances across the cell membrane by facilitated diffusion?

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Diffusion

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Small hydrophilic substances must cross the cell membrane from lower concentration to higher concentration. Which process performs this type of transport?

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Active transport

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The active transport proteins move small hydrophilic ions and small hydrophilic molecules from lower concentration to higher concentration. Which energy source drives active transport?

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ATP

34
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Some active transport proteins enable cancer cells to export anti cancer drugs and attain drug resistance. These membrane transport proteins are -

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Multidrug resistance proteins

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Which process enables your cell membrane to import large substances that can’t be transported by channel or carrier proteins?

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Endocytosis

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Which process enables your WBCs to import the SARS CoV-2 to destroy it?

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Phagocytosis

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Which process enables your cells to sample the substances that are in the extracellular fluid (ECF) that surrounds your cells?

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Pinocytosis

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What enables your cells to recognize a specific molecule or particle and import it?

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Receptor mediated endocytosis

39
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Which process enables your cell membrane to export large molecules and large particles?

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Exocytosis

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Which process enables your Beta cells to export many copies of the insulin hormone molecule simultaneously?

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Exocytosis

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Which energy source enables the motor proteins to transport substances by moving along the microtubule surface?

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ATP

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In order for your muscle cells to contact, which motor protein must interact with actin filaments?

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Myosin

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According to the central dogma theory, all cells store their genetic information in -

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DNA

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The genetic code is based on genetic code words called codons. Each codon (triplet) in the gene consists of 3 consecutive-

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Nucleotides (deoxyribonucleotides)

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A codon in a protein coding gene instructs the cell to place a specific ______ at a precise site in the protein

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Amino Acid

46
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All cells use the same rules to store genetic information in DNA and use this information to make proteins. This set of rules is the -

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Genetic code

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A receptor in your WBC recognized a flu virus. This cell will respond by expressing genes that code for-

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Anti Viral proteins

48
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Which enzymes synthesize mRNA (transcript) during transcription?

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RNA Polymerases

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To express a gene, which process in the nucleus makes an RNA copy of the coding strand of the gene?

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Transcription

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Which highly regulated process enables your cells to activate a gene when your cells need to make the protein the gene encodes?

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Gene expression

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Which nucleotide sequence is part of the transcription stop site of a gene that instructs RNA Polymerase to end transcription?

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Poly-Adenylation Signal (AATAAA)

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After a gene in the nucleus has been transcribed, in which organelle is the messenger RNA processed?

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Nucleus

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Which molecule does the capping enzyme complex add to the 5’ end of the mRNA?

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GTP

54
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The chemical structure attached to the 3’ end of the mRNA is called the

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Poly-A Tail

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The function of the 5’ G-Cap & 3’ Poly-A Tail is to

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-Increase mRNA stability
-Enable mRNA export from the nucleus
-Enable mRNA to be translated by ribosomes in the cytosol

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Which virus mRNA would avoid destruction and retain its ability to infect its human host cell?

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The mRNA of virus 2 has a 5’ C-Cap

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During messenger RNA processing in the nucleus, which process removes introns from the messenger RNA to make mature mRNA?

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Splicing

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After splicing, which nucleotide sequences in the mature mRNA determine the sequence of amino acids in the protein the gene encodes?

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Exons

59
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Which structure removes the introns from the mRNA and bonds the remaining exons together to form the mature mRNA?

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Spliceosome

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The types (versions) of proteins that your cells can make from one gene is increased by

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Alternative splicing

61
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A defect in the splicing process in the nucleus causes which medical conditions?

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-Beta thalassemia
-Colorectal cancer
-Neurological disorders possibly including some types of autism spectrum disorder

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The translation process in the cytosol enables your cells to synthesize

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Proteins

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Messenger RNA molecules made in the nucleus are translated by ribosomes in which cellular location?

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Cytosol/cytoplasm

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The small subunit and large subunit of the ribosome, which performs translation, are formed from

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Ribosomal RNA and ribosomal proteins

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Which type of biological molecule is the product of translation?

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Protein

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Which complex molecular machine reads the linear sequence of codons in mRNA to make a protein with a specific amino acid sequence?

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Ribosome

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The ribosomes require the 20 types of amino acids to make proteins. Which specialized RNA molecules deliver the amino acids to the ribosomes during translation?

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Transfer RNA

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Which enzyme attaches the proper amino acid to the proper transfer RNA (tRNA)?

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Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase

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Which additional proteins are required to form the translation initiation complex during the initiation phase?

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Initiation factors

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Which codon informs the ribosome where to begin translating the mRNA (transcript)?

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Start codon

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Which enzyme (ribozyme) in the large ribosomal subunit bonds the amino acids together during the elongation cycle?

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Peptidyl transferase

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Which protein interacts with the stop codon to initiate the translation termination phase?

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Release factor

73
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Which energy rich molecule fuels all three phases of translation?

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GTP

74
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Which amino acid sequence of a protein acts as the “zip code” that ensures its delivery to the organelle that requires the protein’s function?

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Signal sequence

75
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Some antibiotics harm pathogenic bacteria by preventing protein synthesis. These antibiotics inhibit which process?

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Translation

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