FCH 532 Homework 1
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Define the terms as they are related to biochemistry:
Complementary base pair
transcription
translation
germ cell
somatic cell
haploid number
dominant
recessive
gametes
zygote
cistron
cis
trans
phage
permissive conditions
restrictive conditions
complementation
nucleotide
nucleoside
keto-enol tautomerism
2. What are the main differences between mitosis and meiosis. Use diagrams or
tables to explain your results.
3. Problems 8, 9, and10 in your textbook (Chapter 1, p. 38)
4. What are the differences between allelic and non-allelic genes?
5. What are Chargaff’s rules?
6. Draw the chemical structures of the nucleotides A, T, C, G, and U. Using these
structures draw the base pairs according to Chargaff’s rules. Draw keto-enol
tautomerisms for bases.