Which of the following will not support viral cultivation?

Persistent viruses that can reactivate periodically are _____.

The envelope of enveloped viruses________.

Select the three choices that are the primary purposes of cultivating viruses.

During lysogeny, an inactive prophage state occurs when the viral DNA is inserted into the ________.

Select the three methods that are used to cultivate viruses.

A(n) _______ is the protein shell around the nucleic acid core of a virus.

The process of dissolving the envelope and capsid to release the viral nucleic acid is _______.

Which of the following is not a typical capsid shape?

A negative-sense RNA virus ________.

Viruses that cause infection resulting in alternating periods of activity with symptoms and inactivity without symptoms are called _____.

Viral tissue specificities are called _____.

Viruses that infect bacteria are specifically called _______.

Infectious protein particles are called _______.

Which of the following is incorrect about prophages?

Host range is limited by________.

Mammalian viruses capable of starting tumors are _____.

Viral nucleic acids include which of the following?

Lysogeny refers to ________.

When whole cells or large molecules in solution are engulfed by a cell, this endocytosis is specifically termed _______.

What type of media is used to demonstrate oxygen requirements of microbes?

Which of the following is not a major element of a microbial cell?

Nutrient absorption is mediated by the________.

An important mineral ion that is a component of chloroplasts and stabilizer of membranes and ribosomes is _______.

Select all of the cellular transport mechanisms that require energy.

Facilitated diffusion is limited by________.

Human pathogens fall into the group termed _______.

The movement of molecules from an area of high concentration to an area of lower concentration is called _______.

The toxic superoxide ion is converted to harmless oxygen by two enzymes, ________.

The term obligate refers to________.

What compound is the most abundant in a cell?

All of the following could find a location in or on body tissues suitable for growth except _______.

Bacterial biofilms stimulate the immune system differently than free (planktonic) bacteria.

Aerobic respiration is an example of _______.

Most of the dry weight of a microbial cell is from _______.

An organism that cannot tolerate an oxygen environment is a(n) _______.

Each of the following are denaturing agents except ________.

FAD, NAD, and coenzyme A are all _______ carriers.

Exergonic reactions ________.

The cell's metabolic reactions involve the participation of ________ that lower the activation energy needed for the initiation of a reaction.

In a bacterial cell, the genes that code for enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of an unusual carbohydrate source would be turned off unless that carbohydrate was the only fuel source available in the media, in which case________.

How many carbon dioxide molecules are produced by the complete aerobic breakdown of one glucose molecule?

Which of the following is not true of anaerobic respiration?

Which of the following is not involved in the step that occurs between glycolysis and the Krebs cycle?

In bacterial cells, when glucose is completely oxidized by all the pathways of aerobic cellular respiration, what is the maximum number of ATP generated?

Enzymes that hydrolyze a peptide bond are called _______.

When glucose is broken down by glycolysis during bacterial fermentation, how many ATP are generated?

Each of the following is true of enzymes except ________.

The property of organisms to integrate catabolic and anabolic pathways to improve cell efficiency is called _______.

Fatty acids can be converted to acetyl-CoA for entering the Krebs cycle by the process of _______.

Reduction of nitrogen-oxygen ions, such as nitrate, by some bacteria is called _______.

During which phase of cellular respiration is the majority of ATP formed?

In addition to electrons, which of the following can also be transferred, exchanging energy in the process?

The _______ strand is synthesized continuously while the ________ strand is synthesized in a series of short fragments called Okazaki fragments.

Mastery of synthetic biology will allow humans to ________.

Transcription occurs in the nucleus or at the nucleoid.

The emerging field of synthetic biology, while offering promising breakthroughs in medicine and energy production, is not without concern. Apprehension by ethicists is understandable since ________.

The specific sequence of three bases in mRNA that encodes a particular amino acid is the _______ whereas the complementary sequence of three bases in tRNA that binds to the mRNA is best known as the _______.

Eukaryotic chromosomes differ from bacterial chromosomes because only eukaryotes have ________.

When DNA is heated to 94 oC, the two strands will separate.

Select the statement that best describes the purpose of gel electrophoresis.

Induced mutations result from errors in DNA replication.

The lagging strand of DNA is made in small segments called Okazaki fragments, each one requiring a primer to begin synthesis, whereas the leading strand, synthesized continuously, does not require a primer to initiate the daughter strand.

Synthetic biology is an emerging field of science whereby researchers are creating new molecules and organisms from an array of chemicals, rather than as a result of cellular reproduction.

Repressible operons are normally turned on in the cell.

Reverse transcriptase is used to make cDNA from an RNA template.

The expression of genetic traits is the _______.

Each nucleotide is composed of ________.

When bacteriophages invade bacterial cells, they leave behind DNA that is recognized by the bacteria as foreign and can be eliminated in the event of another attack, reminiscent of adaptive immunity. This natural process can be adapted in the lab so that a combination of guide DNA and nucleases facilitate the cutting of DNA at a precise location in any organism. Here we are describing ________.

DNA replication proceeds in one direction around the bacterial chromosome.

Choose the statement that best describes the role of restriction enzymes in genetic engineering.