Week 7 Vocabulary

Question 1

Electrically Conductive Pili

Answer 1

Long, thin structures made by just a few bacteria that transport electrons from respiration to extracellular electron acceptors

Question 2

NADPH

Answer 2

Electron carrier for anabolic reactions

Question 3

Heterotroph

Answer 3

Bacteria that uses organic compounds as a carbon source

Question 4

Autotroph

Answer 4

Bacteria that uses inorganic compounds as a carbon source

Question 5

Calvin Cycle

Answer 5

Most common pathway for bacteria to fix CO2

Question 6

Ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate

Answer 6

First molecule in Calvin Cycle; 5 carbon sugar

Question 7

RuBisCo

Answer 7

Enzyme that incorporates CO2 into ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate

Question 8

Reductive Pentose Phosphate Pathway

Answer 8

Another name for the Calvin Cycle

Question 9

Glutamate Dehydrogenase

Answer 9

Incorporates ammonia into alpha-ketoglutarate to make glutamate

Question 10

Glutamate Synthase

Answer 10

Incorporates ammonia into glutamate into glutamine

Question 11

Transaminase

Answer 11

Transfers amine from glutamate to oxalocetate to make aspartate

Question 12

Nitrogenase

Answer 12

Enzyme which makes ammonia from nitrogen gas

Question 13

Flavodoxin

Answer 13

Protein which transfers electrons from pyruvate to nitrogenase

Question 14

Dinitrogenase Reductase and Dinitrogenase

Answer 14

Two activities contained within the nitrogenase enzyme

Question 15

Heterocyst

Answer 15

Thick-walled cell that does not use aerobic respiration; protect nitrogenase

Question 16

Assimilation

Answer 16

Incorporation of inorganic molecules into organic scaffolds

Question 17

PAPS

Answer 17

Phosphoadenosine 5’-phosphosulfate

Question 18

O-acetylserine

Answer 18

Intermediate in making cysteine from serine

Question 19

Gluconeogenesis

Answer 19

Synthesis of glucose from pyruvate

Question 20

Pentose Phosphate Pathway

Answer 20

Major pathway for making 5 carbon sugars

Question 21

Ribulose 5-phosphate

Answer 21

First sugar in the pentose phosphate pathway

Question 22

Alpha-ketoglutarate

Answer 22

Molecule in the TCA cycle that is the precursor to glutamate

Question 23

Oxaloacetate

Answer 23

Molecule in the TCA cycle that is the precursor to aspartate

Question 24

Nucleoside

Answer 24

Nitrogenous base + pentose sugar

Question 25

Nucleotide

Answer 25

Nitrogenous base + pentose + 1-3 phosphates

Question 26

Acyl Carrier Protein

Answer 26

Protein on which fatty acids are built

Question 27

CDP-diglyceride

Answer 27

Activated phosphatidic acid intermediate in phospholipid bilayer