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The size of the cell should be measured in
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micrometers
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Prokaryotes have a nucleus and plasma membrane but do not
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have highly organized cytoplasm
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Hydrogen is
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the most abundent element in the body
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Ionic bond is a transfer of
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electrons
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The trade of nitrogenous base is
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DNA, thymine/ RNA, Uricil
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DNA double strands are held together by
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hydrogen bonds
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Amino acid side chains
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NH2 and COOH
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Sodium and Potassium
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Net charge of +1
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Glutamic acid can form ionic bonds
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because of its negative side chain
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The most important factor in reaction stability is
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shape and surface compatiability between the two molecules
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Fourth type of interaction between phospholipid bilayer
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hydrophobic interaction
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Chemical bonds store
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energy, used to generate biological molecules
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Heat
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increases disorder
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The nature of polar bonds is to
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unequally share electrons across a covalent bond
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The highest increase in standard free energy, delta G
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most favored
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Equilibrium constant
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k=x/y
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Enzymes
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lower the activation barrier that a reaction must overcome
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Hydrogen bonds are the backbone of
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A and B secondary folding
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Km
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respresents the enzyme and substrate binding affinity
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Vmax-Km
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represents the overall turnover number
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Glutamine
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produced by adding phosphate to glutamic acid
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Urea disrupts
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the hydrogen bond among water molecules
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Urea is used
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to denature proteins
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Protein domain is
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a protein segment that folds independently
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Unfolded proteins form
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protein aggregates
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Lowering the energy cost can also be termed
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decreasing the stability
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Lysozyme would be classified as
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a hydrolase
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hydrolase
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is a an enzyme that speeds up the catylase of proteins
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Lysozyme lowers the energy required for its substrate
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by distorting the substrate in a shape and speeding up the rate at which water molecules collide with the substrate
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Explaination for decrease in enzyme activity
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could be the absense of negative charges in the active site
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If an enzyme as two different pathways that are inhibited
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The spot of the pile up, the point where they cross will most likely be the spot for negative feedback
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Decrease in the rate of hydrolysis of GTP by Ras
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causes proliferation of the cell, cancer
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Ionic bond
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salt
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molecular bond
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molecule
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Molecules have a characteristic
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bond length
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Equal sharing of electrons
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non-polar
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Polar
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is unequal sharing
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Noncovalent bonds are
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weaker and critical for 3D shape
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Domain is
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modular unit from which many single-chain proteins are constructed
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Some proteins are composed of more than one
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subunit
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SH2 domain
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Phosphotyrosine
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SH3 domain
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Proline rich motifs such as RKXXPXXP and PXXPXPR
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FYVE domian
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PI3P
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PH domain
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Several Phospholipids
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Nuclease
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breaks down nucleic acids ny hydrolyzing bonds between nucleotides
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ATPase
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hydrolyze ATP
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Polymerase
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catalyzes the polymerization reaction, DNA and RNA synthesis
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Phosphatase
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Catalyzes the hydrolytic removal of phosphate group from the s molecule
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Hydrolase
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enzyme that catalyzes a hydrolytic clevage reation
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Protease
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breaks down proteins by hydrolyzing bonds between amino acids
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Kinase
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catalyze the addition of phosphate groups to molecules
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Syntease
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synthesize molecules in anabolic reaction via condensation
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Isomerase
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catalyze the rearrangement of bonds within a single molecule
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First protein structure solved in 1957
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myoglobin
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set of 20 amino acids can make
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160,000 combinations
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Heat effects enzyme reaction
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increased heat, increases the movement of molecules, with increase the kinetic energy
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Membrane lipids
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diffuse within the plane of the membranes
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Lipids with hydrocarbon tails that are shorter and have many double bonds
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are not effected much by temperature, tend to keep the same membrane fluidity
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New membrane pospholipids are on
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the cytosolic side of the endoplasmic reticulum
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Detergents
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purify a membrane protein
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The nuclear localization sequence
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bound by cytoplasmic proteins that direct the nuclear proteins to the nuclear pore
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Oligosaccharides are
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on the outside of the target cells, white blood cells example
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The deletion of proteins forming tight junctions
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would cause the redistribution of proteins around the entire cell
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FRAP
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Floresent Recovery after photo bleaching
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SPT
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single particle targeting
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The principle anion in the extracellular space that balances the sodium is
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Cl
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Out of glucose, water, gycerol, and ethanol
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glucose has the lowest rate of diffusion
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Proteases attacking transport proteins would result
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in the inability to import sugar into the cell
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Transporters
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bind and involve confrontational change
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K coupled
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is not a common active transport, Na ATP and light are however
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Ca pumps are important
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for preventing Ca from altering the activity of molecules in the cytosol
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Gated ion channels
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open more frequenctly in response to a given stimuli
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Na Open and
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resting membrane potential becomes more positive
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Voltage-gated ca channels are required
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for secreation of neurotransmitters in response to action potential
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Three cell types do not all express
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an acetylcholine receptor that belongs to the transmitter gated ion channel family
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Extracellular signal molecules that are hydrophobic
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must bind to a cell surface receptor so as to signal a target cell to change behavior
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Opening Cl channels prevents
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postsynaptic cells from firing an action potential in inhibitory nurotransmitters
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Protein kinases tranfers the
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terminal phosphate from ATP onto protein
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When a G protein is actived
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the alpha subunit exchanges its bound GDP for GTP
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Promoting uncontrolled cell proliferation a mutation that inactivates the protein tyrosine phosphatase
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that normally removes the phosphates from the tyrosine on the activated receptor
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Protein kinase can act as
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a signal integrating devise in signaling if it is activated by two or more proteins in different signaling pathways
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Inactivating an active RTK
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does not dephosphorylation by serine/threonine phosphatases
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PI 3 Kinase
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Phosphorylates a specific phospholipid in the membrane
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Brainy transcription
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a mutation in the gene that encodes cAMP phosphodiesterase that makes the enzyme inactive
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Most likely candidate to form a transmembrane region
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cannot contain R,T, and S, they are polar so would not be in a non polar region
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Addition of a drug that blocks portein Y from interacting with its target
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would turn off Ras downstream signal
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NO
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disolved extracellular gas
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Cytokine receptors associated with cytoplasmic tyrosine kinases call
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JAK
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Cytoplasmic transcriptional regulators
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STATs
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Proteins that posphralate each other
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example is MAP kinase
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DAG and IP3 are created by
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Phospholipase C cleaving the sugar phosphate head
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Membrane lipids are amphipathic
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which means it can have specialized functions determined by proteins
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Phospholipids
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are the most common lipids
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glycolipids
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are only on the outside of the cell
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Pholspholipid membrane proteins
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are in the membrane of the ER
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Proteins enter the nucleus
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unfolded
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Cytosol proteins do not contain
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sorting signals
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Proteins transported to the Golgi Apparatus buy
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transport vesicles
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ER tansport by
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protein transloctors, folded
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Clathrin
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forms a protein coat around vesicals
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Compact chromosomal segments
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heterochromosomal segement
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N-terminus for histones
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does not bind to DNA in a sequence specific manner
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Base pairs
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GC 3, AT 2
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Chromatin remodeling complex
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thrdrolysis move nucleosomes and slide
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Semi conservative
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each daughter DNA molecule consists of one strand from DNA molecule and one new strand
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Sliding clamp
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keeps the histone tight
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Repair DNA
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always repair the newly sythnesized
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A nick in the new strand
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makes for them to be prepared
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Deanimated
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C replaced by U
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Thymidine dimers
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do not covalently link across strands
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Transposase gene
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must be minimally carried on transponsons
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DNA and RNA are similar
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in that they run 5-3
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UTRs are not
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part of the introns
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The transcription of a eukaryotic gene can be influenced by
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additional porteins that bind for from the promoter that may affect the gene expression as a response to the cell signaling
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the sigma subunit
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recognizes promoter consensus in the DNA
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Ribosomes do not bind to the
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mRNA before it is exported
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The genetic code
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is redundant
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Anti codon CUU
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carries Lysine, GAA translated, must be read backwards
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rRNA is the catalytic component
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of the ribosome that joins amino acids together
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Ribosomes binding to the mRNA require
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a specific DNA sequence
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Regulates the amount of protein
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gene trascription efficiency, ribosomes can bind to a single mRNA molecule, proteins can be tagged for degradation
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Ribosymes
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RNA spicing
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Gene expression
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mostly transcription
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Mediator is not involved in
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post-transcriptional control
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The Lac repressor
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does not bind when lactose is present in the cell
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When tryptophan is available to the bacteria
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the Trp operon gets turned off because the repressor bound to trp will bind to the operator region
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Riboswitches
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self reguling mRNA to change it conformation
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Histone acetylse attach an acetyl group
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to selected lysine amino acid to the tail of histone proteins
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Cytocine
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only one that can DNA methylation
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