Monthly Archives: April 2020

Lecture 4.1 Competencies and Study Guide

Posted on April 29, 2020 by johwq64851

Membranes and Membrane Transport Vocabulary Endomembrane system Integral membrane protein Phospholipid Phosopholipid bilayer Diffusion Ion channel Carrier protein Facilitated diffusion Active transport Competencies State which cell structure uses the most metabolic energy. Identify the main molecular class out of which … Continue reading →

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Lecture 3.6 Study Guide and Competencies

Posted on April 25, 2020 by johwq64851

SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Vocabulary Prevalence (of a disease) Case fatality rate Exponential (growth) Zoonotic disease Nucleocapsid Spike (S) proteins Envelope (of a virus) Open reading frame Replicase/transcriptase complex ACE2 DPP4 TMPRSS2 Competencies Explain the difference between the designations SARS-CoV-2 and … Continue reading →

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Lecture 3.4 Competencies and Study Guide

Posted on April 17, 2020 by johwq64851

Translation Vocabulary snRNPs Spliceosome 5′ UTR 3′ UTRMutation Frameshift mutation Missense mutation Nonsense mutation Silent mutation Competencies Describe the difference between primary transcript and mature transcript. Describe how the ends of the primary transcript are stabilized during post-transcriptional processing of … Continue reading →

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Lecture 3.3 Competencies and Study Guide

Posted on April 14, 2020 by johwq64851

Transcription Vocabulary Codon Sense strand Template strand RNA polymerase α-helix β-pleated sheet Hemoglobin Pseudogene Transcription factor Regulator protein Enhancer Activator protein Competencies Explain the Central “Dogma” of biology. Define transcription in the context of gene expression. Define translation in the … Continue reading →

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Lecture 3.2 Competencies and Study Guide

Posted on April 7, 2020 by johwq64851

Vocabulary Centromere Telomere Metacentric Submetacentric Acrocentric p arm q arm Gene Locus mRNA tRNA Sense strand Promoter Coding region TATA box Exon Intron Competencies Describe the anatomical structures of chromosomes. Explain how chromosomal loci are designated. Identify a given chromosome … Continue reading →

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SARS-CoV-2 and COVID 19 Resources

Posted on April 7, 2020 by johwq64851

Introduction At the time of this writing (April 2020), the world is experiencing the most significant pandemic in the last few decades, at least. (One should not forget polio and smallpox, among others, that some now living may still remember.) … Continue reading →

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