Textbook Question
Which of the following is not part of an operon?
a. Operator
b. Promoter
c. Origin
d. Gene
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Ch. 7 - Microbial Genetics
Bauman6th EditionMicrobiology with Diseases by TaxonomyISBN: 9780134832302
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Table of contents
- Ch. 1 - A Brief History of Microbiology31
- Ch. 2 - The Chemistry of Microbiology28
- Ch. 3 - Cell Structure and Function39
- Ch. 4 - Microscopy, Staining, and Classification25
- Ch. 5 - Microbial Metabolism51
- Ch. 6 - Microbial Nutrition and Growth37
- Ch. 7 - Microbial Genetics51
- Ch. 8 - Recombinant DNA Technology21
- Ch. 9 - Controlling Microbial Growth in the Environment36
- Ch. 10 - Controlling Microbial Growth in the Body: Antimicrobial Drugs21
- Ch. 11 - Characterizing and Classifying Prokaryotes29
- Ch. 12 - Characterizing and Classifying Eukaryotes34
- Ch. 13 - Characterizing and Classifying Viruses, Viroids, and Prions23
- Ch. 14 - Infection, Infectious Diseases, and Epidemiology35
- Ch. 15 - Innate Immunity34
- Ch. 16 - Adaptive Immunity21
- Ch. 17 - Immunization and Immune Testing29
- Ch. 18 - Immune Disorders22
- Ch. 19 - Pathogenic Gram-Positive Bacteria25
- Ch. 20 - Pathogenic Gram-Negative Cocci and Bacilli28
- Ch. 21 - Rickettsias, Chlamydias, Spirochetes, and Vibrios25
- Ch. 22 - Pathogenic Fungi47
- Ch. 23 - Parasitic Protozoa, Helminths, and Arthropod Vectors44
- Ch. 24 - Pathogenic DNA Viruses23
- Ch. 25 - Pathogenic RNA Viruses30
- Ch. 26 - Applied and Industrial Microbiology29
- Ch. 27 - Microbial Ecology and Microbiomes22
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Chapter 7, Problem 17
A nucleotide is made of:
a. A five-carbon sugar
b. Phosphate
c. A nitrogenous base
d. All of the above
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Understand that a nucleotide is the basic building block of nucleic acids like DNA and RNA.
Recall that each nucleotide consists of three main components: a five-carbon sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base.
The five-carbon sugar can be either deoxyribose (in DNA) or ribose (in RNA).
The phosphate group links the sugar of one nucleotide to the sugar of the next nucleotide, forming the backbone of the nucleic acid strand.
The nitrogenous base (adenine, thymine, cytosine, guanine, or uracil) is attached to the sugar and is responsible for base pairing and encoding genetic information.
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Structure of a Nucleotide
A nucleotide is the basic building block of nucleic acids like DNA and RNA. It consists of three components: a five-carbon sugar, a phosphate group, and a nitrogenous base. These components link together to form the backbone and informational units of genetic material.
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Five-Carbon Sugar
The five-carbon sugar in nucleotides is either ribose (in RNA) or deoxyribose (in DNA). This sugar forms the central part of the nucleotide, connecting to both the phosphate group and the nitrogenous base, and helps establish the nucleotide’s identity and function.
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Nitrogenous Bases
Nitrogenous bases are organic molecules that contain nitrogen and act as the information carriers in nucleotides. They are classified into purines (adenine and guanine) and pyrimidines (cytosine, thymine in DNA, and uracil in RNA), and their sequence encodes genetic information.
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Textbook Question
Which of the following are called “jumping genes”?
a. Hfr cells
b. Transducing phages
c. Palindromic sequences
d. Transposons
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Textbook Question
A sequence of nucleotides formed during replication of the lagging DNA strand is a(n):
a. Palindrome
b. Okazaki fragment
c. Coding strand
d. Operon
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Textbook Question
Repressible operons are important in regulating prokaryotic:
a. DNA replication
b. RNA transcription
c. rRNA processing
d. Sugar catabolism
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Textbook Question
Transcription produces:
a. DNA molecules
b. RNA molecules
c. Polypeptides
d. Palindromes
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Textbook Question
Although two cells are totally unrelated, one cell receives DNA from the other cell and incorporates this new DNA into its chromosome. This process is ___________.
a. crossing over of DNA from the two cells
b. vertical gene transfer
c. horizontal gene transfer
d. transposition
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