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Biology
Undergraduate 3
03/03/2011
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base substitution
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frame shift mutation
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sickle cell anemia
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thymine dimer & UV damage
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photoreactive repair
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homologous recombination
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chromatid
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meiosis
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insertion sequence
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Barbara McClintock
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insertion/deletion mutation
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transition/transversion
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depurination/deamination
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free radical DNA damage
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nucleotide-excision repair
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crossing over
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chiasmata
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transposon
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retrotransposon
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"jumping genes"
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Properties of life
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nucleosynthesis of the elements
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Earth-based biopoesis
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Panspermia Theory
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interstellar organics
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Robert Hooke
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light microscopy
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prokaryote vs. eukaryote
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cellular organelles
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CHNOPS
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The most important biochemical elements
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Three stages of evolution
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Miller-Urey experiment 1953
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Murchison meteorite
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universal tree of life(3 domains of life)
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Antony Van Leeuwenhoek
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electron microscopy
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scientific names(genus species)
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genus = used for specifying species names
species = more specific way to refer to an organism
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endosymbiotic hypothesis
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covalent bond(polar and nonpolar)
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electronegativity
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how strong the valence electron pull in an element is to fill it's outer elcetron
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properties of water
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Bronsted-Lowrey acid/base theory
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isomers
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saturated vs unsaturated fatty acids
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zwitterions
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ATP
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adenosphinetriphosphate
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categories of biological work
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amino acid structure
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free energy
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entropy
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standard state
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lock-and-key vs induced-fit model
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Michaelis-Menten equation
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non covalent bond
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kelvin vs degrees Celsius
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K = C+273
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pH and the pH scale
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hydrocarbons
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constant building blocks
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disaccharides
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phospholipids
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amphoteric
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acid + base
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oxidation & reduction (know examples)
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two laws of Thermodynamics
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First
Second
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reaction coupling
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enthalpy
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coenzymes
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enzyme kinetics
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Vmax Km Kcat
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peptide bond characteristics
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isoelectric point (pI)
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carboxyl terminus(C-terminus)
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disulfide bond
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Beta-pleated sheet
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functional domain
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denaturation/renaturation
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X-ray crystallography
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ligand
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hyperbolic oxygen binding curve
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carbonic anhydrase
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feedback inhibition
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protein kinase
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polypeptide
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amino terminus (N-terminus)
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levels of protein structure
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alpha helix
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structural domain
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globular vs fibrous proetin
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chaperonins
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allosteric regulation
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hemoglobin & myoglobin (structure and function)
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sigmoidal oxygen binding curve
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the Bohr effect
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regulation by phosphorylation
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protein phosphatase
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