Five-carbon sugars, such as ribose, are made by metabolizing glucose through the

              contain the information that is used to make eukaryotic proteins.

RNAi (siRNA)                   .

a.  Can beta-oxidation occur in an organism that cannot perform cellular respiration? (1 point) b.  Why or why not?  (2 points)

Recently, an outbreak of                      lead to extensive recall of powdered infant formula produced by Abbott Labs.  This lead to nationwide shortage of infant formula.

The structural genes in an inducible operon (eg., the lactose operon) are                .

              is the template/instructions for translation;               is the product.

In photosynthesis, the ATP and NADPH used to fix carbon are produced by         .

If a transposon is “jumping” around a eukaryotic genome, would genes be disrupted and inactivated, always?

In            , a repair enzyme scans the DNA, and breaks apart pyrimidine dimers.