Kahoot Questions - Midterm #2

What organism are you likely to find deep in the ocean?

Barophiles

What’s the purpose of fermentation?

making more NAD+

What’s the terminal electron acceptor in humans?

Oxygen

The 2nd law of thermodynamics is that energy is never lost, simply converted. T/F?

False

A microorganism uses light as a source of energy and CO2 as a source of carbon is called..

photoautotroph

What’s Chargraff’s rule?

A=T, C=G

What’s the last enzyme to function during DNA replication?

DNA Ligase

Transcription does not require a primer. T/F?

True

What’s bacteria’s method for replication?

Binary Fission

What’s the 1st stage of viral replication?

Attachment

Where does the process of transcription begin?

Promoter

Where does the process of Translation begin?

Ribosome Binding Site (RBS)

During what phase of bacterial growth does the rate of cell growth and cell death equal each other?

Stationary Phase

An organism that prefers oxygen but can live without it is called a facultative aerobe. T/F?

False

Who discovered that phosphate groups are found outside of DNA?

Rosalind Franklin

What role does Helicase play?

Unzips DNA into 2 separate strands

Fermentation produces less ATP than Respiration. T/F?

True

Which of the following enzymes causes a degradation of peptidoglycan?

Lysozyme

Catabolic reactions are generally exergonic. T/F?

True

An organism with an optimal pH of 11 is…

an Alkaliphile

Viral genus names tend to end in -viridae. T/F?

False

“DNA wrapped in histone proteins”

Nucleosome

What’s the start codon?

AUG

Which enzyme replaces RNA w/DNA?

DNA Polymerase I

Which of these are not a stage of viral replication?
A. Attachment

B. Entry

C. Detachment

D. Replication

C. Detachment

Which of these aren’t a pyrimidine?

A. Adenine

B. Cytosine

C. Uracil

A. Adenine

Capsomeres are build of small proteins call Capsids. T/F?

False

When an animal eats a plant, what percentage of that energy does it get from it?

10%

In DNA replication, one strand is made from 5’ → 3’ and the other is made from 3’ → 5’. T/F?

False

Viruses use Adhesins in the Assembly process. T/F?

False

An organism that HAS to use oxygen and cannot survive without it it called..

Obligate Aerobe

CO2 is produced during which process?

The Krebs Cycle

Bacteriophages are always naked viruses. T/F?

True

Viruses only have genomes, but not enzymes. T/F?

False

Which of these discoveries was NOT made by Rosalind Franklin?

A. The base-pairing rule

B. The helical structure of DNA

C. Double Helix structure of DNA

A and C

RNA Polymerase (reads/synthesizes) from 3’ → 5’.

Reads