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Microbiology Exam 2

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Study guide for Microbiology I at UWF. Questions are taken directly from the sample exam
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Frage 1

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Which is true about biological reduction of nitrogen gas to ammonia?
Antworten
  • Can be accomplished by free-living organisms in Domains Archaea and Bacteria
  • Can be accomplished by a variety of symbioses between prokaryotes and eukaryotic macro organisms
  • Is thermodynamically exergonic but requires high input of cellular energy (ATP)
  • Is catalyzed by an enzyme that typically contains iron and molybdenum co-factors
  • All of these answers are true

Frage 2

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The tendency of systems to go from a lower state of order to a more organized system is supported by which of the below?
Antworten
  • entropy
  • First Law of Thermodynamics
  • Second Law of Thermodynamics
  • Chemiosmotic Theory
  • None of these answers are correct

Frage 3

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Enzyme(s) by which bacteria assimilate gaseous molecular nitrogen is/are...
Antworten
  • Nitrogenase
  • Glutamine synthetase (GS)
  • Glutamate synthase (GOGAT)
  • Glutamate degydrogenas (GDH)
  • Both Nitrogenase and GS

Frage 4

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The Ames test...
Antworten
  • determines histidine resistace of Salmonella typhimurium
  • uses Salmonella typhimurium
  • depends on reversion of histidine auxotrophs to prototrophy
  • assesses chemical mutagenicity

Frage 5

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Bacterial cells are not diploid because...
Antworten
  • they do not reproduce sexually
  • their DNA is single-stranded
  • their DNA is double-stranded
  • they use plasmids to reproduce
  • they usually have only one set of chromosomes

Frage 6

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Strains of E. coli with an F-factor that has integrated into the chromosome are known as
Antworten
  • Hfr strians
  • Super males
  • F+ strains
  • Episomes
  • All of these answers are correct

Frage 7

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Which of these mechanism(s) do NOT protect nitrogenase from denaturation by molecular oxygen?
Antworten
  • fixation of nitrogen under aerobic conditions
  • heterocysts of cyanobacteria that separate nitrogen fixation from oxygenic photosynthesis
  • uncoupling of oxidation from phosphorylation in respiratory chain (electron transport system)
  • leghemoglobin
  • all of these answers are correct

Frage 8

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Housekeeping genes are
Antworten
  • constitutively expressed
  • essential to growth and life of the cell
  • useful to determine whether a cell is active even without culturing it
  • all of these answers are correct
  • none of these answers are correct

Frage 9

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Which of the below contributed most to our understanding of "sex" in bacteria?
Antworten
  • Joshua Lederberg and Edward Tatum
  • Paul Berg
  • Myron Sasser
  • Max Delbruck and Salvador Luria
  • The Kardashians

Frage 10

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Transfer of gnetic information between prokaryotes that requires direct physical contact between the donor and recipient cells and does NOT require a bacterial virus is called
Antworten
  • transformation
  • transduction
  • Transcendental Mediation
  • conjugation
  • none of these answers are correct

Frage 11

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Four- and five-carbon sugars and NADPH, essential for biosynthetic (anabolic) functions, are provided by which pathway?
Antworten
  • oxidatie pentose phosphate
  • Entner-Doudoroff
  • Tricarboxylic acid cycle
  • Glycolysis
  • Embden-Meyerhof, Parnas

Frage 12

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Regulation of metabolic pathways within microorganisms is controlled in which of the following ways?
Antworten
  • altering activity of key enzymes
  • regulating biosyntheseis--and thus the amount--of key enzymes
  • induction and regression of genes
  • feedback inhibition of key enzymes by end products of a pathway
  • all of the above

Frage 13

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Why did Lederberg and Tatum use multiple auxotrophic mutants, i.e., strains with deficiencies in biosynthetic capabilities in several places, in their experiment that demonstrated conjugation in bacteria?
Antworten
  • Each mutation has reversion rate 10*-8 per cell per generation. Thus, 10 in a billion cells will revert to wild-type. By using 3 mutants, the likelihood of all three reverting to wild type is infinitesimally small
  • They had a lot of auxotrophs in their culture collection
  • To prove the Mobilome
  • They were sex addicts
  • none of these answers are correct

Frage 14

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Positive control of gene transcription involves
Antworten
  • a regulator protein binding to the DNA operon.
  • interaction of a regulator protein with DNA that is not a cestron
  • enhancement of transcription effieceny
  • suppression of trascription efficiency
  • All except D

Frage 15

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Positive control of gene transcription involves
Antworten
  • A regulator protein binding to the DNA operon
  • interaction of a regulator protein with DNA that is not a cistron
  • enhancement of transcription efficiency
  • suppression of trascription efficiency

Frage 16

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Specific regulatory interaction between proteins and DNA
Antworten
  • is common and occurs in all domains in life
  • is restricted to only Domain Bacteria
  • is restricted to only Domain Eukarya
  • is restricted to only Domain Archaea
  • is restricted to only the prokaryotic domains of Bacteria and Archaea

Frage 17

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Genomes of Domain Bacteria...
Antworten
  • are haploid.
  • typically consist of one chromosome.
  • are covalently closed circular DNA.
  • may be composed of single-stranded DNA.

Frage 18

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Nonsense-supressor mutations...
Antworten
  • allow a translation stop codon to be ignored.
  • require a change in tRNA specificity
  • restore in the original, wild phenotype
  • result in substitution of an amino acid into the position specified by the stop codon in the mRNA
  • All of these answers are correct

Frage 19

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Plasmid copy number is which of the below?
Antworten
  • The same as chromosomal copy number.
  • The ratio between the numbers of a specific plasmid inside a bacterial cell and the number of chromosomes.
  • The total copies of a plasmid in a single cell.
  • How efficiently a plasmid is copied during cell division.
  • The number of genes carried on each plasmid

Frage 20

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Nitrogenase...
Antworten
  • is an enzyme
  • is common in Domain Eukarya
  • may catalyze reduction of substrates other than nitrogen gas
  • is highly conserved in Domains Bacteria and Archaea

Frage 21

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The use of terminal electron acceptors other than molecular oxygen at the end of an electron transport chain is...
Antworten
  • anaerobic respiration
  • common in heterotrophic macroorganisms including humans
  • assiilatory nitrate reduction
  • aerobic respiration

Frage 22

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Which bacteriophage is the model for specialized transduction?
Antworten
  • Coliphage Lambda (a phage that attacks E. coli)
  • coliphage 42
  • T-even coliphage
  • General transducing phages
  • None of these answers are correct

Frage 23

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The rolling circle mechanism of DNA replication is utilized...
Antworten
  • during conjugative trasfer of DNA into an F- recipient
  • during replication of DNA of some viruses
  • during most replication of bacterial chromosomes
  • by Eukarya

Frage 24

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What principal metabolic advantage does fermentation confer to the cell?
Antworten
  • Produces useful metabolic byproducts such as ethanol, acetone, lactic acid
  • Generates a prodigious quantity of ATP
  • oxidizes reduced electron carriers such as NADH
  • makes alcoholic beverages and cheeses that make people happy
  • All of these answers are correct

Frage 25

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Which of the below mapping methods will give information on the polar relationship of two genes, e.g., whether gene B is between genes A and C?
Antworten
  • co-transformation
  • co-trasduction
  • interrupted conjugation
  • sequencing of DNA bases
  • All of these answers are correct

Frage 26

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The uncoupling of oxidation from phosphorylation during trasport of electrons via an electron trasport system to a terminal electron acceptor
Antworten
  • occurs in some natural systems
  • can be experimentally induced with certain chemicals
  • results in generation of no ATP
  • produces heat
  • all of these answers are correct

Frage 27

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The capability of a bacterial strain or species to take up naked DNA is called
Antworten
  • competence
  • fertility
  • promiscuity
  • trasduction
  • lysogeny

Frage 28

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Which possible fates for DNA that has been introduced (exogenote) into a new host cell result in the MOST-stable transfer into future generations of the recipient cell?
Antworten
  • Recombination with the endogenote
  • Digestion catalyzed by host enzymes
  • Formation of a partial diploid cell
  • Formation of partial diploid clone
  • All of these answers are correct

Frage 29

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The most abundant single protein in the biosphere is
Antworten
  • a key enzyme of the Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle
  • RuBisCO
  • pyruvate dehydrogenase
  • nitrogenase

Frage 30

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Okasaki fragments
Antworten
  • are proteins
  • encode housekeeping functions for the cell
  • are delicious but expensive appetizers at Japenese restaurants
  • accommodate the fact that DNA polymerase must synthesize the complementary new strand

Frage 31

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A metabolic pathway that fixes carbon dioxide into an organic molecule but does not support autotrophic growth is
Antworten
  • the reductive pentose phosphate cycle
  • an anaplerotic reaction
  • the reverse tricarboxylic acid cycle
  • the acetyl-CoA pathway
  • all of these answers are correct

Frage 32

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Who was curator for the genetic map of Escherichia coli for many years?
Antworten
  • Martha Hershey and Alred Chase
  • Avery, ClLeod and McCarty
  • Barbara Bachman
  • Barbara McClintock
  • Britney Spears

Frage 33

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For this course, we have adopted which terminology as our definition of a "gene?"
Antworten
  • DNA polynucleotide sequence that codes for a gene product, e.g., protein, tRNA, rRNA
  • Cistron
  • any DNA in a bacterial chromosome or plasmid
  • a DNA sequence with a specific start and end

Frage 34

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Which of the below used radioisotopes to demonstrate that the DNA and not the protein components of bacteriophages directed infection of the host cell?
Antworten
  • Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty
  • Hershey and Chase
  • Griffith
  • Watson and Crick
  • Gilbert and Sanger

Frage 35

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Auxotrophic mutant bacteria
Antworten
  • have the biosynthetic capability of the "wild type" e.g. typical bacteria of that species
  • may undergo reversion to their prototrophic forms
  • are resistant to multiple antibiotics
  • are able to obtain all their caron requirement by fixing carbon dioxide

Frage 36

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Which pathway of glucose catabolism is found only in prokaryotic microorganisms
Antworten
  • Entner-Doudoroff
  • Embden-Myerhof-Parnas
  • Calvin cycle
  • Oxidative Pentose Phosphate
  • Nitrogen fixation

Frage 37

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Who of belaw developed a "chemiosmotic" theory that provided a unified mechanism for how ATP was made during respiration and in the light reactions of photosynthesis?
Antworten
  • Peter Mitchell
  • Louis Pasteur
  • Woese, Falkow, Berg
  • Singer, Nicholson
  • Embden, Meyerhof, Parnas

Frage 38

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Small Interfering, siRNA, or "Silencer RNA" is used to
Antworten
  • suppress antibiotic resistant mutants
  • suppress expression of specific genes
  • select auxotrophic mutants
  • override stop codons
  • provide a mechanism for site-specific mutagenesis

Frage 39

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Who won the Nobel for discovering transposons
Antworten
  • Barbara McClintock
  • Barbara Bachman
  • Martha Hershey and Alfred Chase
  • Avery, McLeod and McCarty
  • Batman and Robin

Frage 40

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Which group below has a specialized cell that compartmentalizes nitrogen fixation and sequesters it from oxygenic photosynthesis
Antworten
  • filimentous cyanobacteria
  • purple non-sulfer bacteria
  • single-celled cyanobacteria
  • green sulfur bacteria
  • purple sulfur bacteria

Frage 41

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The principle that spontaneous mutations in bacteria are rare and random
Antworten
  • was supported by a fluctuation analysis experiment
  • was demonstrated by Max Delbruck and Salvador Luria
  • was demonstrated by using Poisson Distribution
  • was supported by following acquistition of mutant characteristics during the growth of E. coli in the absence of selection pressures
  • All of these answers are correct

Frage 42

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Under optimal conditions, the complete transfer of the entire chromosome during an Hfr x F- mating between two strains of E. coli takes approximately [blank_start]100[blank_end] minutes.
Antworten
  • 100
  • 10
  • 200
  • 50
  • 20

Frage 43

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Mutants of bacteria that are defectiv in biosynthetic capability relative to the wild type can be selected using which of the below?
Antworten
  • The Ames test
  • The auxotrophic-mutant rejection protocol
  • The Heimlich Maneuver
  • Use of penicillin counter-selection against prototrophs
  • Replica plating

Frage 44

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Which of the below are/were major player(s) in our understanding of biological nitrogen fixation?
Antworten
  • Robert Burris
  • Harold Evans
  • Arto Virtannen
  • Carnahan and ortenson
  • All of these answers are correct

Frage 45

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Which of the below discovered and experimentally demonstrated that a non-living "transforming" material could change an avirulent strain of a bacterium into a virulent, pathogenic microorganism?
Antworten
  • Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty
  • Fred Griffith
  • Hershey and Chase
  • Watson and Crick
  • Gilbert and Sanger

Frage 46

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Sulfanilamide...
Antworten
  • is a chemotherapeutic agent
  • competes with PABA (para-aminobenzoic acid) for an active site of an enzyme
  • is an antibiotic
  • stops transcription in bacteria

Frage 47

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To what does the term "bacteroid" refer?
Antworten
  • bacterial cells within genera Rhizobium or Bradyrhizobium that are symbiotic with leguminous plants
  • a prokaryote with characteristics similar to both Bacteria and Archaea
  • a prokaryotic bacterial cell with characteristics similar to those of eukaryotic cells
  • prokaryotic symbionts that a bacterium-like bacterium found on planets other than Earth

Frage 48

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How do bacteroids differ from the free-living bacteria?
Antworten
  • They are symbiotic form of genera Rhizobium or Bradyrhizobium with luminous plants
  • They cooperate with a plant host in producing legheoglobin
  • They reduce diatomic nitrogen gas to ammonia
  • All of these answers are correct
  • None of these answers are correct

Frage 49

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A bacterium experienceing a severe amino acid shortage
Antworten
  • may exhibit Stringent Response
  • will contain elevated levels of ppGpp
  • will continue biosynthesis of amino acids
  • will have a high level of uncharged tRNA
  • will have all of the listed properties

Frage 50

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Which pathway produces the most ATP?
Antworten
  • Entner-Doudoroff
  • Embden-Meyerhof-Pamas
  • Tricarboxylic acid cycle
  • Oxidative Pentose Phosphate Pathway
  • Electron transport chains coupled to chemiosmosis

Frage 51

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Who wrote a treatise on the "mobilome"--emphasizing horizontal gene transfer in bacteria
Antworten
  • Peter Mitchell
  • Tamar Barkay
  • Louis Pasteur
  • Carl Woese and George Fox
  • Paul Berg

Frage 52

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What is the principal Domain of biological organisms within which Operon Theory was developed?
Antworten
  • E. coli
  • Fungi
  • Eukarya
  • Archaea
  • Bacteria

Frage 53

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Which Biological Domains apply to the below...
Antworten
  • Escherichia coli = Bacteria
  • Cyanobacteria = Bacteria
  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae = Eukarya
  • Cyanobacteria = Archaea

Frage 54

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The use of nitrate as a source of nitrogen to build cells is
Antworten
  • assimilatory nitrate reduction
  • reduction of nitrate to ammonia, whcih is then incorporated into amino acids
  • nitrate respiration
  • denitrification

Frage 55

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Transposons used as mutagens
Antworten
  • alkylate (e.g., methylate) nitrogen bases of DNA
  • create thymidine dimers
  • distort the DNA backbone and cause reading frameshifts
  • interupt a gene by inserting into it
  • none of these answers are correct

Frage 56

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Which mechanism(s) may protect nitrogenase from denaturation by molecular oxygen?
Antworten
  • fixation of nitrogen under aerobic conditions
  • heterocysts of cyanobacteria that separate nitrogen fixation from oxygenic photosynthesis
  • uncoupling of oxidation from posphorylation in respiratory chain (electron trasport system
  • leghemoglobin

Frage 57

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The Calvin-Benson-Bassam cycle
Antworten
  • catalyzes the oxidation of CO2
  • has metabolic intermediates in common with the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway
  • carboxylates the sugar ribulose 1.5-bisphosphate
  • is found in both eukaryotic and prokarotic domains of life

Frage 58

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The physiological function of anaplerotic CO2 fixation pathways is
Antworten
  • to reoxidize NADH
  • to support autotrophic growth
  • to replenish 4-carbon compounds such as oxaloacetate in the TCA cycle
  • to reverse the TCA cycle

Frage 59

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Which of the below groups includes a genus name that is NOT a diazotroph?
Antworten
  • Escherichia, Fungi
  • Rhizobium, Sinorhizobium
  • Clostridium, Klebsiella
  • Azotobacter, Anabaena
  • Bradyrhizobium, Spirillum

Frage 60

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Lectins
Antworten
  • are proteins with an affinity for monosaccharide residues
  • may be used for ABO-typing of blood
  • are involved in host-plant selection for nitrogen-fixing symbioses between bacteria and legumes
  • are produced by legumes
  • all of these answers are correct

Frage 61

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The key enzyme(s) by which bacteria assimilate relatively-LOW concentrations of ammonia is/are
Antworten
  • glutamine synthetase
  • glutamate synthase
  • glutamate dehudrogenase or other amino acid dehydrogenases
  • nitrogenase

Frage 62

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Which of the below enzymes change the covalent structure of DNA?
Antworten
  • DNA polymerase III
  • DNA ligase
  • DNA gyrase
  • DNA helicase

Frage 63

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Who performed experiments using "fluctuation analysis" and Poisson distribution characterizing spontaneous mutations in bacteria?
Antworten
  • Lois Pasteur
  • Max Delbruck and Salvador Luria
  • Joshua Lederberg
  • Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur
  • Griffith, Avery McLeod and McCarty

Frage 64

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Early, seminal experiments that distinguished between enetic exchange mechanisms of bacteria that require physical contact and those that do not employed which of the below?
Antworten
  • auxotrophic mutants
  • E. coli
  • U-tube with sintered glass
  • strains of bacteria with multiple biosynthetic deficiencies
  • all of these answers are correct

Frage 65

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Catabolism of a protein bhy any organism requires which first step?
Antworten
  • hydrolysis of the polypeptide to amino acids
  • deamination
  • breakdown to glucose
  • all of these answers are correct

Frage 66

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"Positive control" regulatory mechanisms include
Antworten
  • catabolite repression
  • repression/co-repression
  • inducible operons
  • attenuation

Frage 67

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What is the utility of the Ames test?
Antworten
  • Drug resistance of Salmonella typhimurium may be determined
  • Salmonella typhimurium mutation rate may be determined
  • Genes defective in histidine biosynthesis may be corrected
  • Repair of auxotrophic mutants is accomplished
  • an index of potential carcinogenicity of a chemical may be estimated

Frage 68

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Batch-growth kinetics of E. coli grown on lactose and glucose hat become exponential pause for a second lag phase, and then proceed to a second logarithmic phase are
Antworten
  • a result of a positive-control regulatory meechanism
  • a result of a microbe's "preference"in carbon source
  • a result of a mechanism in which cyclic AMP interacts with an allosteric protein
  • termed "diauxie" or diauxic growth
  • all of these answers are correct

Frage 69

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Regulaion by attenuation requires tight coupling between transcription and translation and, therefore, occurs in
Antworten
  • eukaryotes
  • prokaryotes
  • fungi and plants
  • algae
  • protozoa

Frage 70

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The theoretical construct describing transfer of information between macromolecules within cells is known as
Antworten
  • trascriptomics
  • central dogma
  • genomics
  • proteomics
  • bioinformatics

Frage 71

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A contiguous series of genes (cistrons) under transcriptional control of a single operator siteand regulatory protein is known as
Antworten
  • a regulon
  • a transcription
  • a modulon
  • a transposon
  • an operon

Frage 72

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Regulation by attenuation occurs commonly in which kind of operons?
Antworten
  • Lac and other sugar-metabolizing operons
  • nitrogen fixation operons
  • Housekeeping gene operons
  • diauxic operons
  • amino acid biosynthesis operons

Frage 73

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Who was awarded the Nobel Prize for elucidating transcriptional regulation in bacteria?
Antworten
  • Francois Jacob, Andre L'Woff, Jacques Monod
  • Max Delbruck and Salvador Luria
  • Joshuaa Lederberg
  • Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur
  • Griffith, Avery McLeod and McCarty

Frage 74

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Which of the below regions of DNA within an operon are NOT genes/cistrons?
Antworten
  • operator
  • promoter
  • regulator

Frage 75

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Inducible operons
Antworten
  • control transcription of genes with catabolic function
  • control transcription of genes with anabolic/biosynthetic function
  • control transcription of genes with "food" acquisition and digestive function

Frage 76

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Which are cistrons within the Trp operon?
Antworten
  • control transcription of genes with catabolic fuction
  • control transcription of genes with "food" acquisition and digestive function
  • TrpE, TrpD, Trp C, TrpB, TrpA
  • LacZ, LacY, LacA

Frage 77

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Lower gastrointestinal tracts of vertebrates are anaerobic. Which metabolic pathway(s) is/are responsible for flatulence?
Antworten
  • fermentation
  • oxygenic photosynthesis
  • anoxygenic photosynthesis
  • TCA cycle
  • aerobic respiration

Frage 78

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The "chemiosmotic theory" of oxidative phosphorylation...
Antworten
  • provides a unified mechanism for how ATP is made during both aerobic and anaerobic respiration relevant to ALL biological Domains
  • depens on electron transport chains imbedded in an intact plasma- (cytoplasmic) or mitochondrial-membrane
  • explains "photophosphorylation" during the light reactions of phoosynthesis
  • won the Nobel Prize for Peter Mitchell
  • all of these answers are correct

Frage 79

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Which molecular regulatory mechanism(s) allow a bacterium to "decide" whether to use a "preferred" carbon substrate or not?
Antworten
  • catabolite repression
  • repression/corepression
  • inducible operons
  • attenuation

Frage 80

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Mutation has been defined as...
Antworten
  • a stable, heritable change in the DNA sequence of bases
  • a "genetic change that breeds true"
  • changes in the phenotype of an organism

Frage 81

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Which is the correct sequence (in direction of transcription) of genes and regulatory sites in the Lac operon?
Antworten
  • I-O-P-Z-Y-A
  • I-P-Z-Y-A
  • P-O-LEADER-E-D-C-B-A
  • Z-Y-A-P-O-I
  • LEADER-E-D-C-B-A-P-O
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