Study Guide for Exam 3.
Biol 1406.
Chapters 8 9, 10, and 11
Summer 2005
Chapter 8:
1) What is the overall reaction of aerobic respiration?
2) What are the possible products of fermentation? Do they produce
extra ATP? How does Fermentation help ATP production?
3) Know the parts of the mitochondria; where do the processes of
glycolysis, fermentation, Krebs cycle, and Electron Transport chain
take place.
4) What is the net ATP production of glycolysis?
5) What are the two stages of glycolysis?
6) In aerobic respiration, what is the final electron acceptor?
7) What is the function of NAD+ ?
8) In what part of the mitochondria do the H+ from NADH and FADH2
get concentrated?
9) How many ATP’s are produced by the Electron Transport Chain?
10)
Besides glucose, what other biomolecules can be used to
produce ATP?
Chapter 9:
1) What is the hereditaty material for all cells?
2) Grifith’s experiment: organism used, purpose, method, conclusions.
3) How are DNA, genes, and chromosomes related?
4) Where are genes located?
5) What are the components of DNA?
6) What are the bases present in DNA?
7) What are the bases present in RNA?
8) What was the result of Chargaff experiments?
9) What is a nucleotide and what is it made of?
10) What was the experiment of Wilkins and Franklin, and what were
their conclusions?
11)
What is the structure of the DNA? What are the bonds between
complementary strands? What is the backbone of the structure? What
binds nucleotides in the same chain?
12)
What does it mean when we say that DNA replication is
semiconservative?
13)
What are the enzymes involved in DNA replication and what is
their specific function?
14)
What is the enzyme that proofreads DNA? How many mistakes
makes on average?
15)
What causes errors in DNA replication? Common examples
Chapter 10:
16)
What in DNA determines the primary structure of a protein?
17)
What is the central dogma of molecular biology, regarding the
production of proteins?
18)
How are DNA and RNA different?
19)
How many types of RNA exist?
20)
What is a codon and how many nucleotides includes? How
many possible codons can be form with 4 different bases?
21)
What is the correspondence of bases between DNA and RNA?
22)
What is transcription?
23)
What is translation?
24)
What is a promoter?
25)
What is an anticodon? What does it code for?
26)
What are the components of a ribosome? What are the names of
the parts of a ribosome?
27)
How are amino acids connected in polypeptide chain?
28)
What is a Bar Body?
29)
What is RNA splicing? What are introns and exons?
Chapter 11:
30)
What is the genetic material in Bacteria?
31)
How do bacteria divide?
32)
What is mitosis? What cells undergo mitosis?
33)
What are the stages of the cell cycle? What happens in each?
Which one last the longest?
34)
What are the stages of mitosis? What happens in each
35)
What is diploid?
36)
What is haploid?
37)
What is a somatic or a sex cell? How many chromosomes do
they have in a human?
38)
What are the parts of a chromosome?
39)
What are homologous chromosomes?
40)
What are sister chromatids?
41)
What is cytokinesis?
42)
What is sexual reproduction? What are the consequences of
sexual reproduction?n
43)
What is meiosis and which cells can undergo meiosis?
44)
What happens during crossing over? When does it take place?