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Genetics and Molecular Biology

Subject : Genetics and Molecular Biology


An Overview of Cell Structure and Function
1. Cell’s Need for Immense Amounts of Information - Answer (click here)
2. Rudiments of Prokaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
3. Rudiments of Eukaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
4. Packing DNA into Cells - Answer (click here)
5. Moving Molecules into or out of Cells - Answer (click here)
6. Diffusion within the Small Volume of a Cell - Answer (click here)
7. Exponentially Growing Populations - Answer (click here)
8. Composition Change in Growing Cells - Answer (click here)
9. Age Distribution in Populations of Growing Cell - Answer (click here)

Nucleic Acid and Chromosome Structure


1. Cell’s Need for Immense Amounts of Information - Answer (click here)
2. Rudiments of Prokaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
3. Rudiments of Eukaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
4. Packing DNA into Cells - Answer (click here)
5. Moving Molecules into or out of Cells - Answer (click here)
6. Diffusion within the Small Volume of a Cell - Answer (click here)
7. Exponentially Growing Populations - Answer (click here)
8. Composition Change in Growing Cells - Answer (click here)
9. Age Distribution in Populations of Growing Cell - Answer (click here)
10. The Regular Backbone of DNA - Answer (click here)
11. Grooves in DNA and Helical Forms of DNA - Answer (click here)
12. Dissociation and Reassociation of Base-paired Strands - Answer (click here)
13. Reading Sequence Without Dissociating Strands - Answer (click here)
14. Electrophoretic Fragment Separation - Answer (click here)
15. Bent DNA Sequences - Answer (click here)
16. Measurement of Helical Pitch - Answer (click here)
17. Topological Considerations in DNA Structure - Answer (click here)
18. Generating DNA with Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
19. Measuring Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
20. Determining Lk, Tw, and Wr in Hypothetical Structures - Answer (click
here)
21. Altering Linking Number - Answer (click here)
22. Biological Significance of Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
23. The Linking Number Paradox of Nucleosomes - Answer (click here)
24. General Chromosome Structure - Answer (click here)
25. Southern Transfers to Locate Nucleosomes on Genes - Answer (click here)
26. ARS Elements, Centromeres, and Telomeres - Answer (click here)

DNA Synthesis
1. Cell’s Need for Immense Amounts of Information - Answer (click here)
2. Rudiments of Prokaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
3. Rudiments of Eukaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
4. Packing DNA into Cells - Answer (click here)
5. Moving Molecules into or out of Cells - Answer (click here)
6. Diffusion within the Small Volume of a Cell - Answer (click here)
7. Exponentially Growing Populations - Answer (click here)
8. Composition Change in Growing Cells - Answer (click here)
9. Age Distribution in Populations of Growing Cell - Answer (click here)
10. The Regular Backbone of DNA - Answer (click here)
11. Grooves in DNA and Helical Forms of DNA - Answer (click here)
12. Dissociation and Reassociation of Base-paired Strands - Answer (click here)
13. Reading Sequence Without Dissociating Strands - Answer (click here)
14. Electrophoretic Fragment Separation - Answer (click here)
15. Bent DNA Sequences - Answer (click here)
16. Measurement of Helical Pitch - Answer (click here)
17. Topological Considerations in DNA Structure - Answer (click here)
18. Generating DNA with Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
19. Measuring Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
20. Determining Lk, Tw, and Wr in Hypothetical Structures - Answer (click
here)
21. Altering Linking Number - Answer (click here)
22. Biological Significance of Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
23. The Linking Number Paradox of Nucleosomes - Answer (click here)
24. General Chromosome Structure - Answer (click here)
25. Southern Transfers to Locate Nucleosomes on Genes - Answer (click here)
26. ARS Elements, Centromeres, and Telomeres - Answer (click here)
27. DNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
28. Proofreading, Okazaki Fragments, and DNA Ligase - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
29. Detection and Basic Properties of DNA Polymerases - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
30. In vitro DNA Replication - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
31. Error and Damage Correction - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
32. DNA Replication Areas In Chromosomes - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
33. Bidirectional Replication from E. coli Origins - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
34. The DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
35. Constancy of the E. coli DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
36. Regulating Initiations - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
37. Gel Electrophoresis Assay of Eukaryotic Replication Origins -
Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
38. How Fast Could DNA Be Replicated? - Physiological Aspects - Answer
(click here)

RNA Polymerase and RNA Initiation


1. Cell’s Need for Immense Amounts of Information - Answer (click here)
2. Rudiments of Prokaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
3. Rudiments of Eukaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
4. Packing DNA into Cells - Answer (click here)
5. Moving Molecules into or out of Cells - Answer (click here)
6. Diffusion within the Small Volume of a Cell - Answer (click here)
7. Exponentially Growing Populations - Answer (click here)
8. Composition Change in Growing Cells - Answer (click here)
9. Age Distribution in Populations of Growing Cell - Answer (click here)
10. The Regular Backbone of DNA - Answer (click here)
11. Grooves in DNA and Helical Forms of DNA - Answer (click here)
12. Dissociation and Reassociation of Base-paired Strands - Answer (click here)
13. Reading Sequence Without Dissociating Strands - Answer (click here)
14. Electrophoretic Fragment Separation - Answer (click here)
15. Bent DNA Sequences - Answer (click here)
16. Measurement of Helical Pitch - Answer (click here)
17. Topological Considerations in DNA Structure - Answer (click here)
18. Generating DNA with Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
19. Measuring Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
20. Determining Lk, Tw, and Wr in Hypothetical Structures - Answer (click
here)
21. Altering Linking Number - Answer (click here)
22. Biological Significance of Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
23. The Linking Number Paradox of Nucleosomes - Answer (click here)
24. General Chromosome Structure - Answer (click here)
25. Southern Transfers to Locate Nucleosomes on Genes - Answer (click here)
26. ARS Elements, Centromeres, and Telomeres - Answer (click here)
27. DNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
28. Proofreading, Okazaki Fragments, and DNA Ligase - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
29. Detection and Basic Properties of DNA Polymerases - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
30. In vitro DNA Replication - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
31. Error and Damage Correction - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
32. DNA Replication Areas In Chromosomes - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
33. Bidirectional Replication from E. coli Origins - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
34. The DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
35. Constancy of the E. coli DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
36. Regulating Initiations - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
37. Gel Electrophoresis Assay of Eukaryotic Replication Origins -
Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
38. How Fast Could DNA Be Replicated? - Physiological Aspects - Answer
(click here)
39. Measuring the Activity of RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
40. Concentration of Free RNA Polymerase in Cells - Answer (click here)
41. The RNA Polymerase in Escherichia coli - Answer (click here)
42. Three RNA Polymerases in Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
43. Multiple but Related Subunits in Polymerases - Answer (click here)
44. Multiple Sigma Subunits - Answer (click here)
45. Structure of Promoters - Answer (click here)
46. Enhancers - Answer (click here)
47. Enhancer-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. DNA Looping in Regulating Promoter Activities - Answer (click here)
49. Steps of the Initiation Process - Answer (click here)
50. Measurement of Binding and Initiation Rates - Answer (click here)
51. Relating Abortive Initiations to Binding and Initiating - Answer (click here)
52. Roles of Auxiliary Transcription Factors - Answer (click here)
53. Melted DNA Under RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)

TranscriptionTermination and RNA Processing


1. Cell’s Need for Immense Amounts of Information - Answer (click here)
2. Rudiments of Prokaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
3. Rudiments of Eukaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
4. Packing DNA into Cells - Answer (click here)
5. Moving Molecules into or out of Cells - Answer (click here)
6. Diffusion within the Small Volume of a Cell - Answer (click here)
7. Exponentially Growing Populations - Answer (click here)
8. Composition Change in Growing Cells - Answer (click here)
9. Age Distribution in Populations of Growing Cell - Answer (click here)
10. The Regular Backbone of DNA - Answer (click here)
11. Grooves in DNA and Helical Forms of DNA - Answer (click here)
12. Dissociation and Reassociation of Base-paired Strands - Answer (click here)
13. Reading Sequence Without Dissociating Strands - Answer (click here)
14. Electrophoretic Fragment Separation - Answer (click here)
15. Bent DNA Sequences - Answer (click here)
16. Measurement of Helical Pitch - Answer (click here)
17. Topological Considerations in DNA Structure - Answer (click here)
18. Generating DNA with Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
19. Measuring Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
20. Determining Lk, Tw, and Wr in Hypothetical Structures - Answer (click
here)
21. Altering Linking Number - Answer (click here)
22. Biological Significance of Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
23. The Linking Number Paradox of Nucleosomes - Answer (click here)
24. General Chromosome Structure - Answer (click here)
25. Southern Transfers to Locate Nucleosomes on Genes - Answer (click here)
26. ARS Elements, Centromeres, and Telomeres - Answer (click here)
27. DNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
28. Proofreading, Okazaki Fragments, and DNA Ligase - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
29. Detection and Basic Properties of DNA Polymerases - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
30. In vitro DNA Replication - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
31. Error and Damage Correction - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
32. DNA Replication Areas In Chromosomes - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
33. Bidirectional Replication from E. coli Origins - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
34. The DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
35. Constancy of the E. coli DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
36. Regulating Initiations - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
37. Gel Electrophoresis Assay of Eukaryotic Replication Origins -
Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
38. How Fast Could DNA Be Replicated? - Physiological Aspects - Answer
(click here)
39. Measuring the Activity of RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
40. Concentration of Free RNA Polymerase in Cells - Answer (click here)
41. The RNA Polymerase in Escherichia coli - Answer (click here)
42. Three RNA Polymerases in Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
43. Multiple but Related Subunits in Polymerases - Answer (click here)
44. Multiple Sigma Subunits - Answer (click here)
45. Structure of Promoters - Answer (click here)
46. Enhancers - Answer (click here)
47. Enhancer-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. DNA Looping in Regulating Promoter Activities - Answer (click here)
49. Steps of the Initiation Process - Answer (click here)
50. Measurement of Binding and Initiation Rates - Answer (click here)
51. Relating Abortive Initiations to Binding and Initiating - Answer (click here)
52. Roles of Auxiliary Transcription Factors - Answer (click here)
53. Melted DNA Under RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
54. Polymerase Elongation Rate - Answer (click here)
55. Transcription Termination at Specific Sites - Answer (click here)
56. RNA Termination - Answer (click here)
57. Processing Prokaryotic RNAs After Synthesis - Answer (click here)
58. S1 Mapping to Locate 5’ and 3’ Ends of Transcripts - Answer (click here)
59. Caps, Splices, Edits, and Poly-A Tails on Eukaryotic RNAs - Answer
(click here)
60. The Discovery and Assay of RNA Splicing - Answer (click here)
61. Involvement of the U1 snRNP Particle in Splicing - Answer (click here)
62. Splicing Reactions and Complexes - Answer (click here)
63. The Discovery of Self-Splicing RNAs - Answer (click here)
64. A Common Mechanism for Splicing Reactions - Answer (click here)
65. Other RNA Processing Reactions - Answer (click here)

Protein Structure
1. Cell’s Need for Immense Amounts of Information - Answer (click here)
2. Rudiments of Prokaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
3. Rudiments of Eukaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
4. Packing DNA into Cells - Answer (click here)
5. Moving Molecules into or out of Cells - Answer (click here)
6. Diffusion within the Small Volume of a Cell - Answer (click here)
7. Exponentially Growing Populations - Answer (click here)
8. Composition Change in Growing Cells - Answer (click here)
9. Age Distribution in Populations of Growing Cell - Answer (click here)
10. The Regular Backbone of DNA - Answer (click here)
11. Grooves in DNA and Helical Forms of DNA - Answer (click here)
12. Dissociation and Reassociation of Base-paired Strands - Answer (click here)
13. Reading Sequence Without Dissociating Strands - Answer (click here)
14. Electrophoretic Fragment Separation - Answer (click here)
15. Bent DNA Sequences - Answer (click here)
16. Measurement of Helical Pitch - Answer (click here)
17. Topological Considerations in DNA Structure - Answer (click here)
18. Generating DNA with Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
19. Measuring Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
20. Determining Lk, Tw, and Wr in Hypothetical Structures - Answer (click
here)
21. Altering Linking Number - Answer (click here)
22. Biological Significance of Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
23. The Linking Number Paradox of Nucleosomes - Answer (click here)
24. General Chromosome Structure - Answer (click here)
25. Southern Transfers to Locate Nucleosomes on Genes - Answer (click here)
26. ARS Elements, Centromeres, and Telomeres - Answer (click here)
27. DNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
28. Proofreading, Okazaki Fragments, and DNA Ligase - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
29. Detection and Basic Properties of DNA Polymerases - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
30. In vitro DNA Replication - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
31. Error and Damage Correction - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
32. DNA Replication Areas In Chromosomes - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
33. Bidirectional Replication from E. coli Origins - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
34. The DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
35. Constancy of the E. coli DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
36. Regulating Initiations - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
37. Gel Electrophoresis Assay of Eukaryotic Replication Origins -
Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
38. How Fast Could DNA Be Replicated? - Physiological Aspects - Answer
(click here)
39. Measuring the Activity of RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
40. Concentration of Free RNA Polymerase in Cells - Answer (click here)
41. The RNA Polymerase in Escherichia coli - Answer (click here)
42. Three RNA Polymerases in Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
43. Multiple but Related Subunits in Polymerases - Answer (click here)
44. Multiple Sigma Subunits - Answer (click here)
45. Structure of Promoters - Answer (click here)
46. Enhancers - Answer (click here)
47. Enhancer-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. DNA Looping in Regulating Promoter Activities - Answer (click here)
49. Steps of the Initiation Process - Answer (click here)
50. Measurement of Binding and Initiation Rates - Answer (click here)
51. Relating Abortive Initiations to Binding and Initiating - Answer (click here)
52. Roles of Auxiliary Transcription Factors - Answer (click here)
53. Melted DNA Under RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
54. Polymerase Elongation Rate - Answer (click here)
55. Transcription Termination at Specific Sites - Answer (click here)
56. RNA Termination - Answer (click here)
57. Processing Prokaryotic RNAs After Synthesis - Answer (click here)
58. S1 Mapping to Locate 5’ and 3’ Ends of Transcripts - Answer (click here)
59. Caps, Splices, Edits, and Poly-A Tails on Eukaryotic RNAs - Answer
(click here)
60. The Discovery and Assay of RNA Splicing - Answer (click here)
61. Involvement of the U1 snRNP Particle in Splicing - Answer (click here)
62. Splicing Reactions and Complexes - Answer (click here)
63. The Discovery of Self-Splicing RNAs - Answer (click here)
64. A Common Mechanism for Splicing Reactions - Answer (click here)
65. Other RNA Processing Reactions - Answer (click here)
66. Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
67. The Amino Acids - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
68. Peptide Bond - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
69. Electrostatic Forces that Determine Protein Structure - Protein Structure
- Answer (click here)
70. Hydrogen Bonds and the Chelate Effect - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
71. Hydrophobic Forces - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
72. Thermodynamic Considerations of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
73. Structures within Proteins - Answer (click here)
74. Alpha Helix, Beta Sheet, and Beta Turn - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
75. Calculation of Protein Tertiary Structure - Answer (click here)
76. Secondary Structure Predictions - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
77. Structures of DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
78. Salt Effects on Protein-DNA Interactions - Answer (click here)
79. Locating Specific Residue-Base Interactions - Protein Structure - Answer
(click here)
Protein Synthesis
1. Cell’s Need for Immense Amounts of Information - Answer (click here)
2. Rudiments of Prokaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
3. Rudiments of Eukaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
4. Packing DNA into Cells - Answer (click here)
5. Moving Molecules into or out of Cells - Answer (click here)
6. Diffusion within the Small Volume of a Cell - Answer (click here)
7. Exponentially Growing Populations - Answer (click here)
8. Composition Change in Growing Cells - Answer (click here)
9. Age Distribution in Populations of Growing Cell - Answer (click here)
10. The Regular Backbone of DNA - Answer (click here)
11. Grooves in DNA and Helical Forms of DNA - Answer (click here)
12. Dissociation and Reassociation of Base-paired Strands - Answer (click here)
13. Reading Sequence Without Dissociating Strands - Answer (click here)
14. Electrophoretic Fragment Separation - Answer (click here)
15. Bent DNA Sequences - Answer (click here)
16. Measurement of Helical Pitch - Answer (click here)
17. Topological Considerations in DNA Structure - Answer (click here)
18. Generating DNA with Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
19. Measuring Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
20. Determining Lk, Tw, and Wr in Hypothetical Structures - Answer (click
here)
21. Altering Linking Number - Answer (click here)
22. Biological Significance of Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
23. The Linking Number Paradox of Nucleosomes - Answer (click here)
24. General Chromosome Structure - Answer (click here)
25. Southern Transfers to Locate Nucleosomes on Genes - Answer (click here)
26. ARS Elements, Centromeres, and Telomeres - Answer (click here)
27. DNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
28. Proofreading, Okazaki Fragments, and DNA Ligase - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
29. Detection and Basic Properties of DNA Polymerases - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
30. In vitro DNA Replication - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
31. Error and Damage Correction - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
32. DNA Replication Areas In Chromosomes - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
33. Bidirectional Replication from E. coli Origins - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
34. The DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
35. Constancy of the E. coli DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
36. Regulating Initiations - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
37. Gel Electrophoresis Assay of Eukaryotic Replication Origins -
Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
38. How Fast Could DNA Be Replicated? - Physiological Aspects - Answer
(click here)
39. Measuring the Activity of RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
40. Concentration of Free RNA Polymerase in Cells - Answer (click here)
41. The RNA Polymerase in Escherichia coli - Answer (click here)
42. Three RNA Polymerases in Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
43. Multiple but Related Subunits in Polymerases - Answer (click here)
44. Multiple Sigma Subunits - Answer (click here)
45. Structure of Promoters - Answer (click here)
46. Enhancers - Answer (click here)
47. Enhancer-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. DNA Looping in Regulating Promoter Activities - Answer (click here)
49. Steps of the Initiation Process - Answer (click here)
50. Measurement of Binding and Initiation Rates - Answer (click here)
51. Relating Abortive Initiations to Binding and Initiating - Answer (click here)
52. Roles of Auxiliary Transcription Factors - Answer (click here)
53. Melted DNA Under RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
54. Polymerase Elongation Rate - Answer (click here)
55. Transcription Termination at Specific Sites - Answer (click here)
56. RNA Termination - Answer (click here)
57. Processing Prokaryotic RNAs After Synthesis - Answer (click here)
58. S1 Mapping to Locate 5’ and 3’ Ends of Transcripts - Answer (click here)
59. Caps, Splices, Edits, and Poly-A Tails on Eukaryotic RNAs - Answer
(click here)
60. The Discovery and Assay of RNA Splicing - Answer (click here)
61. Involvement of the U1 snRNP Particle in Splicing - Answer (click here)
62. Splicing Reactions and Complexes - Answer (click here)
63. The Discovery of Self-Splicing RNAs - Answer (click here)
64. A Common Mechanism for Splicing Reactions - Answer (click here)
65. Other RNA Processing Reactions - Answer (click here)
66. Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
67. The Amino Acids - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
68. Peptide Bond - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
69. Electrostatic Forces that Determine Protein Structure - Protein Structure
- Answer (click here)
70. Hydrogen Bonds and the Chelate Effect - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
71. Hydrophobic Forces - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
72. Thermodynamic Considerations of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
73. Structures within Proteins - Answer (click here)
74. Alpha Helix, Beta Sheet, and Beta Turn - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
75. Calculation of Protein Tertiary Structure - Answer (click here)
76. Secondary Structure Predictions - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
77. Structures of DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
78. Salt Effects on Protein-DNA Interactions - Answer (click here)
79. Locating Specific Residue-Base Interactions - Protein Structure - Answer
(click here)
80. Activation of Amino Acids During Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
81. Fidelity of Aminoacylation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
82. How Synthetases Identify the Correct tRNA Molecule - Answer (click here)
83. Decoding the Message - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
84. Base Pairing between Ribosomal RNA and Messenger - Answer (click here)
85. Experimental Support for the Shine-Dalgarno Hypothesis - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
86. Eukaryotic Translation and the First AUG - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
87. Tricking the Translation Machinery into Initiating - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
88. Protein Elongation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
89. Peptide Bond Formation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
90. Translocation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
91. Termination, Nonsense, and Suppression - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
92. Chaperones and Catalyzed Protein Folding - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
93. Resolution of a Paradox - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
94. Messenger Instability - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
95. Protein Elongation Rates - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
96. Directing Proteins to Specific Cellular Sites - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
97. Verifying the Signal Peptide Model - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
98. The Signal Recognition Particle and Translocation - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
99. Expectations for Ribosome Regulation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
100. Proportionality of Ribosome Levels and Growth Rates - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
101. Regulation of Ribosome Synthesis - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
102. Balancing Synthesis of Ribosomal Components - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)

Genetics
1. Cell’s Need for Immense Amounts of Information - Answer (click here)
2. Rudiments of Prokaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
3. Rudiments of Eukaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
4. Packing DNA into Cells - Answer (click here)
5. Moving Molecules into or out of Cells - Answer (click here)
6. Diffusion within the Small Volume of a Cell - Answer (click here)
7. Exponentially Growing Populations - Answer (click here)
8. Composition Change in Growing Cells - Answer (click here)
9. Age Distribution in Populations of Growing Cell - Answer (click here)
10. The Regular Backbone of DNA - Answer (click here)
11. Grooves in DNA and Helical Forms of DNA - Answer (click here)
12. Dissociation and Reassociation of Base-paired Strands - Answer (click here)
13. Reading Sequence Without Dissociating Strands - Answer (click here)
14. Electrophoretic Fragment Separation - Answer (click here)
15. Bent DNA Sequences - Answer (click here)
16. Measurement of Helical Pitch - Answer (click here)
17. Topological Considerations in DNA Structure - Answer (click here)
18. Generating DNA with Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
19. Measuring Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
20. Determining Lk, Tw, and Wr in Hypothetical Structures - Answer (click
here)
21. Altering Linking Number - Answer (click here)
22. Biological Significance of Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
23. The Linking Number Paradox of Nucleosomes - Answer (click here)
24. General Chromosome Structure - Answer (click here)
25. Southern Transfers to Locate Nucleosomes on Genes - Answer (click here)
26. ARS Elements, Centromeres, and Telomeres - Answer (click here)
27. DNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
28. Proofreading, Okazaki Fragments, and DNA Ligase - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
29. Detection and Basic Properties of DNA Polymerases - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
30. In vitro DNA Replication - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
31. Error and Damage Correction - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
32. DNA Replication Areas In Chromosomes - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
33. Bidirectional Replication from E. coli Origins - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
34. The DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
35. Constancy of the E. coli DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
36. Regulating Initiations - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
37. Gel Electrophoresis Assay of Eukaryotic Replication Origins -
Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
38. How Fast Could DNA Be Replicated? - Physiological Aspects - Answer
(click here)
39. Measuring the Activity of RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
40. Concentration of Free RNA Polymerase in Cells - Answer (click here)
41. The RNA Polymerase in Escherichia coli - Answer (click here)
42. Three RNA Polymerases in Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
43. Multiple but Related Subunits in Polymerases - Answer (click here)
44. Multiple Sigma Subunits - Answer (click here)
45. Structure of Promoters - Answer (click here)
46. Enhancers - Answer (click here)
47. Enhancer-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. DNA Looping in Regulating Promoter Activities - Answer (click here)
49. Steps of the Initiation Process - Answer (click here)
50. Measurement of Binding and Initiation Rates - Answer (click here)
51. Relating Abortive Initiations to Binding and Initiating - Answer (click here)
52. Roles of Auxiliary Transcription Factors - Answer (click here)
53. Melted DNA Under RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
54. Polymerase Elongation Rate - Answer (click here)
55. Transcription Termination at Specific Sites - Answer (click here)
56. RNA Termination - Answer (click here)
57. Processing Prokaryotic RNAs After Synthesis - Answer (click here)
58. S1 Mapping to Locate 5’ and 3’ Ends of Transcripts - Answer (click here)
59. Caps, Splices, Edits, and Poly-A Tails on Eukaryotic RNAs - Answer
(click here)
60. The Discovery and Assay of RNA Splicing - Answer (click here)
61. Involvement of the U1 snRNP Particle in Splicing - Answer (click here)
62. Splicing Reactions and Complexes - Answer (click here)
63. The Discovery of Self-Splicing RNAs - Answer (click here)
64. A Common Mechanism for Splicing Reactions - Answer (click here)
65. Other RNA Processing Reactions - Answer (click here)
66. Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
67. The Amino Acids - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
68. Peptide Bond - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
69. Electrostatic Forces that Determine Protein Structure - Protein Structure
- Answer (click here)
70. Hydrogen Bonds and the Chelate Effect - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
71. Hydrophobic Forces - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
72. Thermodynamic Considerations of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
73. Structures within Proteins - Answer (click here)
74. Alpha Helix, Beta Sheet, and Beta Turn - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
75. Calculation of Protein Tertiary Structure - Answer (click here)
76. Secondary Structure Predictions - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
77. Structures of DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
78. Salt Effects on Protein-DNA Interactions - Answer (click here)
79. Locating Specific Residue-Base Interactions - Protein Structure - Answer
(click here)
80. Activation of Amino Acids During Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
81. Fidelity of Aminoacylation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
82. How Synthetases Identify the Correct tRNA Molecule - Answer (click here)
83. Decoding the Message - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
84. Base Pairing between Ribosomal RNA and Messenger - Answer (click here)
85. Experimental Support for the Shine-Dalgarno Hypothesis - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
86. Eukaryotic Translation and the First AUG - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
87. Tricking the Translation Machinery into Initiating - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
88. Protein Elongation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
89. Peptide Bond Formation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
90. Translocation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
91. Termination, Nonsense, and Suppression - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
92. Chaperones and Catalyzed Protein Folding - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
93. Resolution of a Paradox - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
94. Messenger Instability - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
95. Protein Elongation Rates - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
96. Directing Proteins to Specific Cellular Sites - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
97. Verifying the Signal Peptide Model - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
98. The Signal Recognition Particle and Translocation - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
99. Expectations for Ribosome Regulation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
100. Proportionality of Ribosome Levels and Growth Rates - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
101. Regulation of Ribosome Synthesis - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
102. Balancing Synthesis of Ribosomal Components - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
103. Genetics Mutations - Answer (click here)
104. Point Mutations, Deletions, Insertions, and Damage - Answer (click here)
105. Classical Genetics of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
106. Complementation, Cis, Trans, Dominant, and Recessive - Answer (click
here)
107. Mechanism of a trans Dominant Negative Mutation - Answer (click here)
108. Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
109. Genetics Mapping by Recombination Frequencies - Answer (click here)
110. Genetics: Mapping by Deletions - Answer (click here)
111. Heteroduplexes and Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
112. Genetics: Branch Migration and Isomerization - Answer (click here)
113. Elements of Recombination in E. coli, RecA, RecBCD, and Chi - Answer
(click here)
114. Genetic Systems - Answer (click here)
115. Growing Cells for Genetics Experiments - Answer (click here)
116. Testing Purified Cultures, Scoring - Answer (click here)
117. Isolating Auxotrophs, Use of Mutagens and Replica Plating - Answer
(click here)
118. Genetic Selections - Answer (click here)
119. Mapping with Generalized Transducing Phage - Answer (click here)
120. Principles of Bacterial Sex - Answer (click here)
121. Elements of Yeast Genetics - Answer (click here)
122. Elements of Drosophila Genetics - Answer (click here)
123. Isolating Mutations in Muscle or Nerve in Drosophila - Answer (click here)
124. Fate Mapping and Study of Tissue-Specific Gene Expression - Answer
(click here)

Genetic Engineering and Recombinant DNA


1. Cell’s Need for Immense Amounts of Information - Answer (click here)
2. Rudiments of Prokaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
3. Rudiments of Eukaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
4. Packing DNA into Cells - Answer (click here)
5. Moving Molecules into or out of Cells - Answer (click here)
6. Diffusion within the Small Volume of a Cell - Answer (click here)
7. Exponentially Growing Populations - Answer (click here)
8. Composition Change in Growing Cells - Answer (click here)
9. Age Distribution in Populations of Growing Cell - Answer (click here)
10. The Regular Backbone of DNA - Answer (click here)
11. Grooves in DNA and Helical Forms of DNA - Answer (click here)
12. Dissociation and Reassociation of Base-paired Strands - Answer (click here)
13. Reading Sequence Without Dissociating Strands - Answer (click here)
14. Electrophoretic Fragment Separation - Answer (click here)
15. Bent DNA Sequences - Answer (click here)
16. Measurement of Helical Pitch - Answer (click here)
17. Topological Considerations in DNA Structure - Answer (click here)
18. Generating DNA with Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
19. Measuring Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
20. Determining Lk, Tw, and Wr in Hypothetical Structures - Answer (click
here)
21. Altering Linking Number - Answer (click here)
22. Biological Significance of Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
23. The Linking Number Paradox of Nucleosomes - Answer (click here)
24. General Chromosome Structure - Answer (click here)
25. Southern Transfers to Locate Nucleosomes on Genes - Answer (click here)
26. ARS Elements, Centromeres, and Telomeres - Answer (click here)
27. DNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
28. Proofreading, Okazaki Fragments, and DNA Ligase - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
29. Detection and Basic Properties of DNA Polymerases - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
30. In vitro DNA Replication - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
31. Error and Damage Correction - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
32. DNA Replication Areas In Chromosomes - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
33. Bidirectional Replication from E. coli Origins - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
34. The DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
35. Constancy of the E. coli DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
36. Regulating Initiations - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
37. Gel Electrophoresis Assay of Eukaryotic Replication Origins -
Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
38. How Fast Could DNA Be Replicated? - Physiological Aspects - Answer
(click here)
39. Measuring the Activity of RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
40. Concentration of Free RNA Polymerase in Cells - Answer (click here)
41. The RNA Polymerase in Escherichia coli - Answer (click here)
42. Three RNA Polymerases in Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
43. Multiple but Related Subunits in Polymerases - Answer (click here)
44. Multiple Sigma Subunits - Answer (click here)
45. Structure of Promoters - Answer (click here)
46. Enhancers - Answer (click here)
47. Enhancer-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. DNA Looping in Regulating Promoter Activities - Answer (click here)
49. Steps of the Initiation Process - Answer (click here)
50. Measurement of Binding and Initiation Rates - Answer (click here)
51. Relating Abortive Initiations to Binding and Initiating - Answer (click here)
52. Roles of Auxiliary Transcription Factors - Answer (click here)
53. Melted DNA Under RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
54. Polymerase Elongation Rate - Answer (click here)
55. Transcription Termination at Specific Sites - Answer (click here)
56. RNA Termination - Answer (click here)
57. Processing Prokaryotic RNAs After Synthesis - Answer (click here)
58. S1 Mapping to Locate 5’ and 3’ Ends of Transcripts - Answer (click here)
59. Caps, Splices, Edits, and Poly-A Tails on Eukaryotic RNAs - Answer
(click here)
60. The Discovery and Assay of RNA Splicing - Answer (click here)
61. Involvement of the U1 snRNP Particle in Splicing - Answer (click here)
62. Splicing Reactions and Complexes - Answer (click here)
63. The Discovery of Self-Splicing RNAs - Answer (click here)
64. A Common Mechanism for Splicing Reactions - Answer (click here)
65. Other RNA Processing Reactions - Answer (click here)
66. Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
67. The Amino Acids - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
68. Peptide Bond - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
69. Electrostatic Forces that Determine Protein Structure - Protein Structure
- Answer (click here)
70. Hydrogen Bonds and the Chelate Effect - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
71. Hydrophobic Forces - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
72. Thermodynamic Considerations of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
73. Structures within Proteins - Answer (click here)
74. Alpha Helix, Beta Sheet, and Beta Turn - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
75. Calculation of Protein Tertiary Structure - Answer (click here)
76. Secondary Structure Predictions - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
77. Structures of DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
78. Salt Effects on Protein-DNA Interactions - Answer (click here)
79. Locating Specific Residue-Base Interactions - Protein Structure - Answer
(click here)
80. Activation of Amino Acids During Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
81. Fidelity of Aminoacylation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
82. How Synthetases Identify the Correct tRNA Molecule - Answer (click here)
83. Decoding the Message - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
84. Base Pairing between Ribosomal RNA and Messenger - Answer (click here)
85. Experimental Support for the Shine-Dalgarno Hypothesis - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
86. Eukaryotic Translation and the First AUG - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
87. Tricking the Translation Machinery into Initiating - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
88. Protein Elongation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
89. Peptide Bond Formation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
90. Translocation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
91. Termination, Nonsense, and Suppression - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
92. Chaperones and Catalyzed Protein Folding - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
93. Resolution of a Paradox - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
94. Messenger Instability - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
95. Protein Elongation Rates - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
96. Directing Proteins to Specific Cellular Sites - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
97. Verifying the Signal Peptide Model - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
98. The Signal Recognition Particle and Translocation - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
99. Expectations for Ribosome Regulation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
100. Proportionality of Ribosome Levels and Growth Rates - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
101. Regulation of Ribosome Synthesis - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
102. Balancing Synthesis of Ribosomal Components - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
103. Genetics Mutations - Answer (click here)
104. Point Mutations, Deletions, Insertions, and Damage - Answer (click here)
105. Classical Genetics of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
106. Complementation, Cis, Trans, Dominant, and Recessive - Answer (click
here)
107. Mechanism of a trans Dominant Negative Mutation - Answer (click here)
108. Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
109. Genetics Mapping by Recombination Frequencies - Answer (click here)
110. Genetics: Mapping by Deletions - Answer (click here)
111. Heteroduplexes and Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
112. Genetics: Branch Migration and Isomerization - Answer (click here)
113. Elements of Recombination in E. coli, RecA, RecBCD, and Chi - Answer
(click here)
114. Genetic Systems - Answer (click here)
115. Growing Cells for Genetics Experiments - Answer (click here)
116. Testing Purified Cultures, Scoring - Answer (click here)
117. Isolating Auxotrophs, Use of Mutagens and Replica Plating - Answer
(click here)
118. Genetic Selections - Answer (click here)
119. Mapping with Generalized Transducing Phage - Answer (click here)
120. Principles of Bacterial Sex - Answer (click here)
121. Elements of Yeast Genetics - Answer (click here)
122. Elements of Drosophila Genetics - Answer (click here)
123. Isolating Mutations in Muscle or Nerve in Drosophila - Answer (click here)
124. Fate Mapping and Study of Tissue-Specific Gene Expression - Answer
(click here)
125. Isolation of DNA - Answer (click here)
126. Biology of Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
127. Cutting DNA with Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
128. Isolation of DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
129. Joining DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
130. Vectors: Selection and Autonomous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
131. Plasmid Vectors - Answer (click here)
132. A Phage Vector for Bacteria - Answer (click here)
133. Vectors for Higher Cells - Answer (click here)
134. Putting DNA Back into Cells - Answer (click here)
135. Cloning from RNA - Answer (click here)
136. Plaque and Colony Hybridization for Clone Identification - Answer (click
here)
137. Walking Along a Chromosome to Clone a Gene - Answer (click here)
138. Arrest of Translation to Assay for DNA of a Gene - Answer (click here)
139. Chemical DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
140. Enzymatic DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
Advanced Genetic Engineering
1. Cell’s Need for Immense Amounts of Information - Answer (click here)
2. Rudiments of Prokaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
3. Rudiments of Eukaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
4. Packing DNA into Cells - Answer (click here)
5. Moving Molecules into or out of Cells - Answer (click here)
6. Diffusion within the Small Volume of a Cell - Answer (click here)
7. Exponentially Growing Populations - Answer (click here)
8. Composition Change in Growing Cells - Answer (click here)
9. Age Distribution in Populations of Growing Cell - Answer (click here)
10. The Regular Backbone of DNA - Answer (click here)
11. Grooves in DNA and Helical Forms of DNA - Answer (click here)
12. Dissociation and Reassociation of Base-paired Strands - Answer (click here)
13. Reading Sequence Without Dissociating Strands - Answer (click here)
14. Electrophoretic Fragment Separation - Answer (click here)
15. Bent DNA Sequences - Answer (click here)
16. Measurement of Helical Pitch - Answer (click here)
17. Topological Considerations in DNA Structure - Answer (click here)
18. Generating DNA with Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
19. Measuring Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
20. Determining Lk, Tw, and Wr in Hypothetical Structures - Answer (click
here)
21. Altering Linking Number - Answer (click here)
22. Biological Significance of Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
23. The Linking Number Paradox of Nucleosomes - Answer (click here)
24. General Chromosome Structure - Answer (click here)
25. Southern Transfers to Locate Nucleosomes on Genes - Answer (click here)
26. ARS Elements, Centromeres, and Telomeres - Answer (click here)
27. DNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
28. Proofreading, Okazaki Fragments, and DNA Ligase - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
29. Detection and Basic Properties of DNA Polymerases - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
30. In vitro DNA Replication - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
31. Error and Damage Correction - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
32. DNA Replication Areas In Chromosomes - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
33. Bidirectional Replication from E. coli Origins - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
34. The DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
35. Constancy of the E. coli DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
36. Regulating Initiations - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
37. Gel Electrophoresis Assay of Eukaryotic Replication Origins -
Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
38. How Fast Could DNA Be Replicated? - Physiological Aspects - Answer
(click here)
39. Measuring the Activity of RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
40. Concentration of Free RNA Polymerase in Cells - Answer (click here)
41. The RNA Polymerase in Escherichia coli - Answer (click here)
42. Three RNA Polymerases in Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
43. Multiple but Related Subunits in Polymerases - Answer (click here)
44. Multiple Sigma Subunits - Answer (click here)
45. Structure of Promoters - Answer (click here)
46. Enhancers - Answer (click here)
47. Enhancer-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. DNA Looping in Regulating Promoter Activities - Answer (click here)
49. Steps of the Initiation Process - Answer (click here)
50. Measurement of Binding and Initiation Rates - Answer (click here)
51. Relating Abortive Initiations to Binding and Initiating - Answer (click here)
52. Roles of Auxiliary Transcription Factors - Answer (click here)
53. Melted DNA Under RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
54. Polymerase Elongation Rate - Answer (click here)
55. Transcription Termination at Specific Sites - Answer (click here)
56. RNA Termination - Answer (click here)
57. Processing Prokaryotic RNAs After Synthesis - Answer (click here)
58. S1 Mapping to Locate 5’ and 3’ Ends of Transcripts - Answer (click here)
59. Caps, Splices, Edits, and Poly-A Tails on Eukaryotic RNAs - Answer
(click here)
60. The Discovery and Assay of RNA Splicing - Answer (click here)
61. Involvement of the U1 snRNP Particle in Splicing - Answer (click here)
62. Splicing Reactions and Complexes - Answer (click here)
63. The Discovery of Self-Splicing RNAs - Answer (click here)
64. A Common Mechanism for Splicing Reactions - Answer (click here)
65. Other RNA Processing Reactions - Answer (click here)
66. Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
67. The Amino Acids - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
68. Peptide Bond - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
69. Electrostatic Forces that Determine Protein Structure - Protein Structure
- Answer (click here)
70. Hydrogen Bonds and the Chelate Effect - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
71. Hydrophobic Forces - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
72. Thermodynamic Considerations of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
73. Structures within Proteins - Answer (click here)
74. Alpha Helix, Beta Sheet, and Beta Turn - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
75. Calculation of Protein Tertiary Structure - Answer (click here)
76. Secondary Structure Predictions - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
77. Structures of DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
78. Salt Effects on Protein-DNA Interactions - Answer (click here)
79. Locating Specific Residue-Base Interactions - Protein Structure - Answer
(click here)
80. Activation of Amino Acids During Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
81. Fidelity of Aminoacylation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
82. How Synthetases Identify the Correct tRNA Molecule - Answer (click here)
83. Decoding the Message - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
84. Base Pairing between Ribosomal RNA and Messenger - Answer (click here)
85. Experimental Support for the Shine-Dalgarno Hypothesis - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
86. Eukaryotic Translation and the First AUG - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
87. Tricking the Translation Machinery into Initiating - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
88. Protein Elongation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
89. Peptide Bond Formation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
90. Translocation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
91. Termination, Nonsense, and Suppression - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
92. Chaperones and Catalyzed Protein Folding - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
93. Resolution of a Paradox - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
94. Messenger Instability - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
95. Protein Elongation Rates - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
96. Directing Proteins to Specific Cellular Sites - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
97. Verifying the Signal Peptide Model - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
98. The Signal Recognition Particle and Translocation - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
99. Expectations for Ribosome Regulation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
100. Proportionality of Ribosome Levels and Growth Rates - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
101. Regulation of Ribosome Synthesis - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
102. Balancing Synthesis of Ribosomal Components - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
103. Genetics Mutations - Answer (click here)
104. Point Mutations, Deletions, Insertions, and Damage - Answer (click here)
105. Classical Genetics of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
106. Complementation, Cis, Trans, Dominant, and Recessive - Answer (click
here)
107. Mechanism of a trans Dominant Negative Mutation - Answer (click here)
108. Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
109. Genetics Mapping by Recombination Frequencies - Answer (click here)
110. Genetics: Mapping by Deletions - Answer (click here)
111. Heteroduplexes and Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
112. Genetics: Branch Migration and Isomerization - Answer (click here)
113. Elements of Recombination in E. coli, RecA, RecBCD, and Chi - Answer
(click here)
114. Genetic Systems - Answer (click here)
115. Growing Cells for Genetics Experiments - Answer (click here)
116. Testing Purified Cultures, Scoring - Answer (click here)
117. Isolating Auxotrophs, Use of Mutagens and Replica Plating - Answer
(click here)
118. Genetic Selections - Answer (click here)
119. Mapping with Generalized Transducing Phage - Answer (click here)
120. Principles of Bacterial Sex - Answer (click here)
121. Elements of Yeast Genetics - Answer (click here)
122. Elements of Drosophila Genetics - Answer (click here)
123. Isolating Mutations in Muscle or Nerve in Drosophila - Answer (click here)
124. Fate Mapping and Study of Tissue-Specific Gene Expression - Answer
(click here)
125. Isolation of DNA - Answer (click here)
126. Biology of Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
127. Cutting DNA with Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
128. Isolation of DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
129. Joining DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
130. Vectors: Selection and Autonomous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
131. Plasmid Vectors - Answer (click here)
132. A Phage Vector for Bacteria - Answer (click here)
133. Vectors for Higher Cells - Answer (click here)
134. Putting DNA Back into Cells - Answer (click here)
135. Cloning from RNA - Answer (click here)
136. Plaque and Colony Hybridization for Clone Identification - Answer (click
here)
137. Walking Along a Chromosome to Clone a Gene - Answer (click here)
138. Arrest of Translation to Assay for DNA of a Gene - Answer (click here)
139. Chemical DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
140. Enzymatic DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
141. Finding Clones from a Known Amino Acid Sequence - Answer (click here)
142. Finding Clones Using Antibodies Against a Protein - Answer (click here)
143. Southern, Northern, and Western Transfers - Genetic Engineering -
Answer (click here)
144. Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
145. Isolation of Rare Sequences Utilizing PCR - Answer (click here)
146. Physical and Genetic Maps of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
147. Chromosome Mapping - Answer (click here)
148. DNA Fingerprinting - Forensics - Answer (click here)
149. Megabase Sequencing - Answer (click here)
150. Footprinting, Premodification and Missing Contact Probing - Answer (click
here)
151. Antisense RNA: Selective Gene Inactivation - Answer (click here)
152. Hypersynthesis of Proteins - Answer (click here)
153. Altering Cloned DNA by in vitro Mutagenesis - Answer (click here)
154. Mutagenesis with Chemically Synthesized DNA - Answer (click here)

Repression and the lac Operon


1. Cell’s Need for Immense Amounts of Information - Answer (click here)
2. Rudiments of Prokaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
3. Rudiments of Eukaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
4. Packing DNA into Cells - Answer (click here)
5. Moving Molecules into or out of Cells - Answer (click here)
6. Diffusion within the Small Volume of a Cell - Answer (click here)
7. Exponentially Growing Populations - Answer (click here)
8. Composition Change in Growing Cells - Answer (click here)
9. Age Distribution in Populations of Growing Cell - Answer (click here)
10. The Regular Backbone of DNA - Answer (click here)
11. Grooves in DNA and Helical Forms of DNA - Answer (click here)
12. Dissociation and Reassociation of Base-paired Strands - Answer (click here)
13. Reading Sequence Without Dissociating Strands - Answer (click here)
14. Electrophoretic Fragment Separation - Answer (click here)
15. Bent DNA Sequences - Answer (click here)
16. Measurement of Helical Pitch - Answer (click here)
17. Topological Considerations in DNA Structure - Answer (click here)
18. Generating DNA with Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
19. Measuring Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
20. Determining Lk, Tw, and Wr in Hypothetical Structures - Answer (click
here)
21. Altering Linking Number - Answer (click here)
22. Biological Significance of Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
23. The Linking Number Paradox of Nucleosomes - Answer (click here)
24. General Chromosome Structure - Answer (click here)
25. Southern Transfers to Locate Nucleosomes on Genes - Answer (click here)
26. ARS Elements, Centromeres, and Telomeres - Answer (click here)
27. DNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
28. Proofreading, Okazaki Fragments, and DNA Ligase - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
29. Detection and Basic Properties of DNA Polymerases - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
30. In vitro DNA Replication - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
31. Error and Damage Correction - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
32. DNA Replication Areas In Chromosomes - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
33. Bidirectional Replication from E. coli Origins - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
34. The DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
35. Constancy of the E. coli DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
36. Regulating Initiations - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
37. Gel Electrophoresis Assay of Eukaryotic Replication Origins -
Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
38. How Fast Could DNA Be Replicated? - Physiological Aspects - Answer
(click here)
39. Measuring the Activity of RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
40. Concentration of Free RNA Polymerase in Cells - Answer (click here)
41. The RNA Polymerase in Escherichia coli - Answer (click here)
42. Three RNA Polymerases in Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
43. Multiple but Related Subunits in Polymerases - Answer (click here)
44. Multiple Sigma Subunits - Answer (click here)
45. Structure of Promoters - Answer (click here)
46. Enhancers - Answer (click here)
47. Enhancer-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. DNA Looping in Regulating Promoter Activities - Answer (click here)
49. Steps of the Initiation Process - Answer (click here)
50. Measurement of Binding and Initiation Rates - Answer (click here)
51. Relating Abortive Initiations to Binding and Initiating - Answer (click here)
52. Roles of Auxiliary Transcription Factors - Answer (click here)
53. Melted DNA Under RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
54. Polymerase Elongation Rate - Answer (click here)
55. Transcription Termination at Specific Sites - Answer (click here)
56. RNA Termination - Answer (click here)
57. Processing Prokaryotic RNAs After Synthesis - Answer (click here)
58. S1 Mapping to Locate 5’ and 3’ Ends of Transcripts - Answer (click here)
59. Caps, Splices, Edits, and Poly-A Tails on Eukaryotic RNAs - Answer
(click here)
60. The Discovery and Assay of RNA Splicing - Answer (click here)
61. Involvement of the U1 snRNP Particle in Splicing - Answer (click here)
62. Splicing Reactions and Complexes - Answer (click here)
63. The Discovery of Self-Splicing RNAs - Answer (click here)
64. A Common Mechanism for Splicing Reactions - Answer (click here)
65. Other RNA Processing Reactions - Answer (click here)
66. Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
67. The Amino Acids - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
68. Peptide Bond - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
69. Electrostatic Forces that Determine Protein Structure - Protein Structure
- Answer (click here)
70. Hydrogen Bonds and the Chelate Effect - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
71. Hydrophobic Forces - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
72. Thermodynamic Considerations of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
73. Structures within Proteins - Answer (click here)
74. Alpha Helix, Beta Sheet, and Beta Turn - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
75. Calculation of Protein Tertiary Structure - Answer (click here)
76. Secondary Structure Predictions - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
77. Structures of DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
78. Salt Effects on Protein-DNA Interactions - Answer (click here)
79. Locating Specific Residue-Base Interactions - Protein Structure - Answer
(click here)
80. Activation of Amino Acids During Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
81. Fidelity of Aminoacylation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
82. How Synthetases Identify the Correct tRNA Molecule - Answer (click here)
83. Decoding the Message - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
84. Base Pairing between Ribosomal RNA and Messenger - Answer (click here)
85. Experimental Support for the Shine-Dalgarno Hypothesis - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
86. Eukaryotic Translation and the First AUG - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
87. Tricking the Translation Machinery into Initiating - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
88. Protein Elongation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
89. Peptide Bond Formation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
90. Translocation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
91. Termination, Nonsense, and Suppression - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
92. Chaperones and Catalyzed Protein Folding - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
93. Resolution of a Paradox - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
94. Messenger Instability - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
95. Protein Elongation Rates - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
96. Directing Proteins to Specific Cellular Sites - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
97. Verifying the Signal Peptide Model - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
98. The Signal Recognition Particle and Translocation - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
99. Expectations for Ribosome Regulation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
100. Proportionality of Ribosome Levels and Growth Rates - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
101. Regulation of Ribosome Synthesis - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
102. Balancing Synthesis of Ribosomal Components - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
103. Genetics Mutations - Answer (click here)
104. Point Mutations, Deletions, Insertions, and Damage - Answer (click here)
105. Classical Genetics of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
106. Complementation, Cis, Trans, Dominant, and Recessive - Answer (click
here)
107. Mechanism of a trans Dominant Negative Mutation - Answer (click here)
108. Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
109. Genetics Mapping by Recombination Frequencies - Answer (click here)
110. Genetics: Mapping by Deletions - Answer (click here)
111. Heteroduplexes and Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
112. Genetics: Branch Migration and Isomerization - Answer (click here)
113. Elements of Recombination in E. coli, RecA, RecBCD, and Chi - Answer
(click here)
114. Genetic Systems - Answer (click here)
115. Growing Cells for Genetics Experiments - Answer (click here)
116. Testing Purified Cultures, Scoring - Answer (click here)
117. Isolating Auxotrophs, Use of Mutagens and Replica Plating - Answer
(click here)
118. Genetic Selections - Answer (click here)
119. Mapping with Generalized Transducing Phage - Answer (click here)
120. Principles of Bacterial Sex - Answer (click here)
121. Elements of Yeast Genetics - Answer (click here)
122. Elements of Drosophila Genetics - Answer (click here)
123. Isolating Mutations in Muscle or Nerve in Drosophila - Answer (click here)
124. Fate Mapping and Study of Tissue-Specific Gene Expression - Answer
(click here)
125. Isolation of DNA - Answer (click here)
126. Biology of Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
127. Cutting DNA with Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
128. Isolation of DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
129. Joining DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
130. Vectors: Selection and Autonomous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
131. Plasmid Vectors - Answer (click here)
132. A Phage Vector for Bacteria - Answer (click here)
133. Vectors for Higher Cells - Answer (click here)
134. Putting DNA Back into Cells - Answer (click here)
135. Cloning from RNA - Answer (click here)
136. Plaque and Colony Hybridization for Clone Identification - Answer (click
here)
137. Walking Along a Chromosome to Clone a Gene - Answer (click here)
138. Arrest of Translation to Assay for DNA of a Gene - Answer (click here)
139. Chemical DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
140. Enzymatic DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
141. Finding Clones from a Known Amino Acid Sequence - Answer (click here)
142. Finding Clones Using Antibodies Against a Protein - Answer (click here)
143. Southern, Northern, and Western Transfers - Genetic Engineering -
Answer (click here)
144. Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
145. Isolation of Rare Sequences Utilizing PCR - Answer (click here)
146. Physical and Genetic Maps of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
147. Chromosome Mapping - Answer (click here)
148. DNA Fingerprinting - Forensics - Answer (click here)
149. Megabase Sequencing - Answer (click here)
150. Footprinting, Premodification and Missing Contact Probing - Answer (click
here)
151. Antisense RNA: Selective Gene Inactivation - Answer (click here)
152. Hypersynthesis of Proteins - Answer (click here)
153. Altering Cloned DNA by in vitro Mutagenesis - Answer (click here)
154. Mutagenesis with Chemically Synthesized DNA - Answer (click here)
155. Repression and the lac Operon - Answer (click here)
156. Role of Inducer Analogs in the Study of the lac Operon - Answer (click
here)
157. Proving lac Repressor is a Protein - Answer (click here)
158. An Assay for lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
159. Difficulty of Detecting Wild Type lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
160. Detection and Purification of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
161. Repressor Binds to DNA: The Operator is DNA - Answer (click here)
162. Migration Retardation Assay and DNA Looping - Repression and the lac
Operon - Answer (click here)
163. Isolation and Structure of Operator - Repression and the lac Operon -
Answer (click here)
164. In vivo Affinity of Repressor for Operator - Answer (click here)
165. DNA-binding Domain of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
166. A Mechanism for Induction - Repression and the lac Operon - Answer
(click here)

Induction Repression and the araBAD Operon


1. Cell’s Need for Immense Amounts of Information - Answer (click here)
2. Rudiments of Prokaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
3. Rudiments of Eukaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
4. Packing DNA into Cells - Answer (click here)
5. Moving Molecules into or out of Cells - Answer (click here)
6. Diffusion within the Small Volume of a Cell - Answer (click here)
7. Exponentially Growing Populations - Answer (click here)
8. Composition Change in Growing Cells - Answer (click here)
9. Age Distribution in Populations of Growing Cell - Answer (click here)
10. The Regular Backbone of DNA - Answer (click here)
11. Grooves in DNA and Helical Forms of DNA - Answer (click here)
12. Dissociation and Reassociation of Base-paired Strands - Answer (click here)
13. Reading Sequence Without Dissociating Strands - Answer (click here)
14. Electrophoretic Fragment Separation - Answer (click here)
15. Bent DNA Sequences - Answer (click here)
16. Measurement of Helical Pitch - Answer (click here)
17. Topological Considerations in DNA Structure - Answer (click here)
18. Generating DNA with Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
19. Measuring Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
20. Determining Lk, Tw, and Wr in Hypothetical Structures - Answer (click
here)
21. Altering Linking Number - Answer (click here)
22. Biological Significance of Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
23. The Linking Number Paradox of Nucleosomes - Answer (click here)
24. General Chromosome Structure - Answer (click here)
25. Southern Transfers to Locate Nucleosomes on Genes - Answer (click here)
26. ARS Elements, Centromeres, and Telomeres - Answer (click here)
27. DNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
28. Proofreading, Okazaki Fragments, and DNA Ligase - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
29. Detection and Basic Properties of DNA Polymerases - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
30. In vitro DNA Replication - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
31. Error and Damage Correction - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
32. DNA Replication Areas In Chromosomes - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
33. Bidirectional Replication from E. coli Origins - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
34. The DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
35. Constancy of the E. coli DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
36. Regulating Initiations - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
37. Gel Electrophoresis Assay of Eukaryotic Replication Origins -
Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
38. How Fast Could DNA Be Replicated? - Physiological Aspects - Answer
(click here)
39. Measuring the Activity of RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
40. Concentration of Free RNA Polymerase in Cells - Answer (click here)
41. The RNA Polymerase in Escherichia coli - Answer (click here)
42. Three RNA Polymerases in Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
43. Multiple but Related Subunits in Polymerases - Answer (click here)
44. Multiple Sigma Subunits - Answer (click here)
45. Structure of Promoters - Answer (click here)
46. Enhancers - Answer (click here)
47. Enhancer-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. DNA Looping in Regulating Promoter Activities - Answer (click here)
49. Steps of the Initiation Process - Answer (click here)
50. Measurement of Binding and Initiation Rates - Answer (click here)
51. Relating Abortive Initiations to Binding and Initiating - Answer (click here)
52. Roles of Auxiliary Transcription Factors - Answer (click here)
53. Melted DNA Under RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
54. Polymerase Elongation Rate - Answer (click here)
55. Transcription Termination at Specific Sites - Answer (click here)
56. RNA Termination - Answer (click here)
57. Processing Prokaryotic RNAs After Synthesis - Answer (click here)
58. S1 Mapping to Locate 5’ and 3’ Ends of Transcripts - Answer (click here)
59. Caps, Splices, Edits, and Poly-A Tails on Eukaryotic RNAs - Answer
(click here)
60. The Discovery and Assay of RNA Splicing - Answer (click here)
61. Involvement of the U1 snRNP Particle in Splicing - Answer (click here)
62. Splicing Reactions and Complexes - Answer (click here)
63. The Discovery of Self-Splicing RNAs - Answer (click here)
64. A Common Mechanism for Splicing Reactions - Answer (click here)
65. Other RNA Processing Reactions - Answer (click here)
66. Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
67. The Amino Acids - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
68. Peptide Bond - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
69. Electrostatic Forces that Determine Protein Structure - Protein Structure
- Answer (click here)
70. Hydrogen Bonds and the Chelate Effect - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
71. Hydrophobic Forces - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
72. Thermodynamic Considerations of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
73. Structures within Proteins - Answer (click here)
74. Alpha Helix, Beta Sheet, and Beta Turn - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
75. Calculation of Protein Tertiary Structure - Answer (click here)
76. Secondary Structure Predictions - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
77. Structures of DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
78. Salt Effects on Protein-DNA Interactions - Answer (click here)
79. Locating Specific Residue-Base Interactions - Protein Structure - Answer
(click here)
80. Activation of Amino Acids During Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
81. Fidelity of Aminoacylation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
82. How Synthetases Identify the Correct tRNA Molecule - Answer (click here)
83. Decoding the Message - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
84. Base Pairing between Ribosomal RNA and Messenger - Answer (click here)
85. Experimental Support for the Shine-Dalgarno Hypothesis - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
86. Eukaryotic Translation and the First AUG - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
87. Tricking the Translation Machinery into Initiating - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
88. Protein Elongation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
89. Peptide Bond Formation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
90. Translocation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
91. Termination, Nonsense, and Suppression - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
92. Chaperones and Catalyzed Protein Folding - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
93. Resolution of a Paradox - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
94. Messenger Instability - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
95. Protein Elongation Rates - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
96. Directing Proteins to Specific Cellular Sites - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
97. Verifying the Signal Peptide Model - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
98. The Signal Recognition Particle and Translocation - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
99. Expectations for Ribosome Regulation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
100. Proportionality of Ribosome Levels and Growth Rates - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
101. Regulation of Ribosome Synthesis - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
102. Balancing Synthesis of Ribosomal Components - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
103. Genetics Mutations - Answer (click here)
104. Point Mutations, Deletions, Insertions, and Damage - Answer (click here)
105. Classical Genetics of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
106. Complementation, Cis, Trans, Dominant, and Recessive - Answer (click
here)
107. Mechanism of a trans Dominant Negative Mutation - Answer (click here)
108. Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
109. Genetics Mapping by Recombination Frequencies - Answer (click here)
110. Genetics: Mapping by Deletions - Answer (click here)
111. Heteroduplexes and Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
112. Genetics: Branch Migration and Isomerization - Answer (click here)
113. Elements of Recombination in E. coli, RecA, RecBCD, and Chi - Answer
(click here)
114. Genetic Systems - Answer (click here)
115. Growing Cells for Genetics Experiments - Answer (click here)
116. Testing Purified Cultures, Scoring - Answer (click here)
117. Isolating Auxotrophs, Use of Mutagens and Replica Plating - Answer
(click here)
118. Genetic Selections - Answer (click here)
119. Mapping with Generalized Transducing Phage - Answer (click here)
120. Principles of Bacterial Sex - Answer (click here)
121. Elements of Yeast Genetics - Answer (click here)
122. Elements of Drosophila Genetics - Answer (click here)
123. Isolating Mutations in Muscle or Nerve in Drosophila - Answer (click here)
124. Fate Mapping and Study of Tissue-Specific Gene Expression - Answer
(click here)
125. Isolation of DNA - Answer (click here)
126. Biology of Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
127. Cutting DNA with Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
128. Isolation of DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
129. Joining DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
130. Vectors: Selection and Autonomous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
131. Plasmid Vectors - Answer (click here)
132. A Phage Vector for Bacteria - Answer (click here)
133. Vectors for Higher Cells - Answer (click here)
134. Putting DNA Back into Cells - Answer (click here)
135. Cloning from RNA - Answer (click here)
136. Plaque and Colony Hybridization for Clone Identification - Answer (click
here)
137. Walking Along a Chromosome to Clone a Gene - Answer (click here)
138. Arrest of Translation to Assay for DNA of a Gene - Answer (click here)
139. Chemical DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
140. Enzymatic DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
141. Finding Clones from a Known Amino Acid Sequence - Answer (click here)
142. Finding Clones Using Antibodies Against a Protein - Answer (click here)
143. Southern, Northern, and Western Transfers - Genetic Engineering -
Answer (click here)
144. Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
145. Isolation of Rare Sequences Utilizing PCR - Answer (click here)
146. Physical and Genetic Maps of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
147. Chromosome Mapping - Answer (click here)
148. DNA Fingerprinting - Forensics - Answer (click here)
149. Megabase Sequencing - Answer (click here)
150. Footprinting, Premodification and Missing Contact Probing - Answer (click
here)
151. Antisense RNA: Selective Gene Inactivation - Answer (click here)
152. Hypersynthesis of Proteins - Answer (click here)
153. Altering Cloned DNA by in vitro Mutagenesis - Answer (click here)
154. Mutagenesis with Chemically Synthesized DNA - Answer (click here)
155. Repression and the lac Operon - Answer (click here)
156. Role of Inducer Analogs in the Study of the lac Operon - Answer (click
here)
157. Proving lac Repressor is a Protein - Answer (click here)
158. An Assay for lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
159. Difficulty of Detecting Wild Type lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
160. Detection and Purification of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
161. Repressor Binds to DNA: The Operator is DNA - Answer (click here)
162. Migration Retardation Assay and DNA Looping - Repression and the lac
Operon - Answer (click here)
163. Isolation and Structure of Operator - Repression and the lac Operon -
Answer (click here)
164. In vivo Affinity of Repressor for Operator - Answer (click here)
165. DNA-binding Domain of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
166. A Mechanism for Induction - Repression and the lac Operon - Answer
(click here)
167. Sugar Arabinose and Arabinose Metabolism - Answer (click here)
168. Genetics of the Arabinose System - Answer (click here)
169. Detection and Isolation of AraC Protein - Answer (click here)
170. Repression by AraC - Answer (click here)
171. Regulating AraC Synthesis - Answer (click here)
172. Binding Sites of the ara Regulatory Proteins - Answer (click here)
173. DNA Looping and Repression of araBAD - Answer (click here)
174. In vivo Footprinting Demonstration of Looping - Answer (click here)
175. How AraC Protein Loops and Unloops - Answer (click here)
176. Why Looping is Biologically Sensible - Answer (click here)
177. Why Positive Regulators are a Good Idea - Answer (click here)

Attenuation and the trp Operon


1. Cell’s Need for Immense Amounts of Information - Answer (click here)
2. Rudiments of Prokaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
3. Rudiments of Eukaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
4. Packing DNA into Cells - Answer (click here)
5. Moving Molecules into or out of Cells - Answer (click here)
6. Diffusion within the Small Volume of a Cell - Answer (click here)
7. Exponentially Growing Populations - Answer (click here)
8. Composition Change in Growing Cells - Answer (click here)
9. Age Distribution in Populations of Growing Cell - Answer (click here)
10. The Regular Backbone of DNA - Answer (click here)
11. Grooves in DNA and Helical Forms of DNA - Answer (click here)
12. Dissociation and Reassociation of Base-paired Strands - Answer (click here)
13. Reading Sequence Without Dissociating Strands - Answer (click here)
14. Electrophoretic Fragment Separation - Answer (click here)
15. Bent DNA Sequences - Answer (click here)
16. Measurement of Helical Pitch - Answer (click here)
17. Topological Considerations in DNA Structure - Answer (click here)
18. Generating DNA with Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
19. Measuring Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
20. Determining Lk, Tw, and Wr in Hypothetical Structures - Answer (click
here)
21. Altering Linking Number - Answer (click here)
22. Biological Significance of Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
23. The Linking Number Paradox of Nucleosomes - Answer (click here)
24. General Chromosome Structure - Answer (click here)
25. Southern Transfers to Locate Nucleosomes on Genes - Answer (click here)
26. ARS Elements, Centromeres, and Telomeres - Answer (click here)
27. DNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
28. Proofreading, Okazaki Fragments, and DNA Ligase - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
29. Detection and Basic Properties of DNA Polymerases - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
30. In vitro DNA Replication - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
31. Error and Damage Correction - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
32. DNA Replication Areas In Chromosomes - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
33. Bidirectional Replication from E. coli Origins - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
34. The DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
35. Constancy of the E. coli DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
36. Regulating Initiations - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
37. Gel Electrophoresis Assay of Eukaryotic Replication Origins -
Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
38. How Fast Could DNA Be Replicated? - Physiological Aspects - Answer
(click here)
39. Measuring the Activity of RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
40. Concentration of Free RNA Polymerase in Cells - Answer (click here)
41. The RNA Polymerase in Escherichia coli - Answer (click here)
42. Three RNA Polymerases in Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
43. Multiple but Related Subunits in Polymerases - Answer (click here)
44. Multiple Sigma Subunits - Answer (click here)
45. Structure of Promoters - Answer (click here)
46. Enhancers - Answer (click here)
47. Enhancer-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. DNA Looping in Regulating Promoter Activities - Answer (click here)
49. Steps of the Initiation Process - Answer (click here)
50. Measurement of Binding and Initiation Rates - Answer (click here)
51. Relating Abortive Initiations to Binding and Initiating - Answer (click here)
52. Roles of Auxiliary Transcription Factors - Answer (click here)
53. Melted DNA Under RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
54. Polymerase Elongation Rate - Answer (click here)
55. Transcription Termination at Specific Sites - Answer (click here)
56. RNA Termination - Answer (click here)
57. Processing Prokaryotic RNAs After Synthesis - Answer (click here)
58. S1 Mapping to Locate 5’ and 3’ Ends of Transcripts - Answer (click here)
59. Caps, Splices, Edits, and Poly-A Tails on Eukaryotic RNAs - Answer
(click here)
60. The Discovery and Assay of RNA Splicing - Answer (click here)
61. Involvement of the U1 snRNP Particle in Splicing - Answer (click here)
62. Splicing Reactions and Complexes - Answer (click here)
63. The Discovery of Self-Splicing RNAs - Answer (click here)
64. A Common Mechanism for Splicing Reactions - Answer (click here)
65. Other RNA Processing Reactions - Answer (click here)
66. Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
67. The Amino Acids - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
68. Peptide Bond - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
69. Electrostatic Forces that Determine Protein Structure - Protein Structure
- Answer (click here)
70. Hydrogen Bonds and the Chelate Effect - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
71. Hydrophobic Forces - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
72. Thermodynamic Considerations of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
73. Structures within Proteins - Answer (click here)
74. Alpha Helix, Beta Sheet, and Beta Turn - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
75. Calculation of Protein Tertiary Structure - Answer (click here)
76. Secondary Structure Predictions - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
77. Structures of DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
78. Salt Effects on Protein-DNA Interactions - Answer (click here)
79. Locating Specific Residue-Base Interactions - Protein Structure - Answer
(click here)
80. Activation of Amino Acids During Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
81. Fidelity of Aminoacylation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
82. How Synthetases Identify the Correct tRNA Molecule - Answer (click here)
83. Decoding the Message - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
84. Base Pairing between Ribosomal RNA and Messenger - Answer (click here)
85. Experimental Support for the Shine-Dalgarno Hypothesis - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
86. Eukaryotic Translation and the First AUG - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
87. Tricking the Translation Machinery into Initiating - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
88. Protein Elongation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
89. Peptide Bond Formation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
90. Translocation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
91. Termination, Nonsense, and Suppression - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
92. Chaperones and Catalyzed Protein Folding - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
93. Resolution of a Paradox - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
94. Messenger Instability - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
95. Protein Elongation Rates - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
96. Directing Proteins to Specific Cellular Sites - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
97. Verifying the Signal Peptide Model - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
98. The Signal Recognition Particle and Translocation - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
99. Expectations for Ribosome Regulation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
100. Proportionality of Ribosome Levels and Growth Rates - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
101. Regulation of Ribosome Synthesis - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
102. Balancing Synthesis of Ribosomal Components - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
103. Genetics Mutations - Answer (click here)
104. Point Mutations, Deletions, Insertions, and Damage - Answer (click here)
105. Classical Genetics of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
106. Complementation, Cis, Trans, Dominant, and Recessive - Answer (click
here)
107. Mechanism of a trans Dominant Negative Mutation - Answer (click here)
108. Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
109. Genetics Mapping by Recombination Frequencies - Answer (click here)
110. Genetics: Mapping by Deletions - Answer (click here)
111. Heteroduplexes and Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
112. Genetics: Branch Migration and Isomerization - Answer (click here)
113. Elements of Recombination in E. coli, RecA, RecBCD, and Chi - Answer
(click here)
114. Genetic Systems - Answer (click here)
115. Growing Cells for Genetics Experiments - Answer (click here)
116. Testing Purified Cultures, Scoring - Answer (click here)
117. Isolating Auxotrophs, Use of Mutagens and Replica Plating - Answer
(click here)
118. Genetic Selections - Answer (click here)
119. Mapping with Generalized Transducing Phage - Answer (click here)
120. Principles of Bacterial Sex - Answer (click here)
121. Elements of Yeast Genetics - Answer (click here)
122. Elements of Drosophila Genetics - Answer (click here)
123. Isolating Mutations in Muscle or Nerve in Drosophila - Answer (click here)
124. Fate Mapping and Study of Tissue-Specific Gene Expression - Answer
(click here)
125. Isolation of DNA - Answer (click here)
126. Biology of Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
127. Cutting DNA with Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
128. Isolation of DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
129. Joining DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
130. Vectors: Selection and Autonomous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
131. Plasmid Vectors - Answer (click here)
132. A Phage Vector for Bacteria - Answer (click here)
133. Vectors for Higher Cells - Answer (click here)
134. Putting DNA Back into Cells - Answer (click here)
135. Cloning from RNA - Answer (click here)
136. Plaque and Colony Hybridization for Clone Identification - Answer (click
here)
137. Walking Along a Chromosome to Clone a Gene - Answer (click here)
138. Arrest of Translation to Assay for DNA of a Gene - Answer (click here)
139. Chemical DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
140. Enzymatic DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
141. Finding Clones from a Known Amino Acid Sequence - Answer (click here)
142. Finding Clones Using Antibodies Against a Protein - Answer (click here)
143. Southern, Northern, and Western Transfers - Genetic Engineering -
Answer (click here)
144. Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
145. Isolation of Rare Sequences Utilizing PCR - Answer (click here)
146. Physical and Genetic Maps of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
147. Chromosome Mapping - Answer (click here)
148. DNA Fingerprinting - Forensics - Answer (click here)
149. Megabase Sequencing - Answer (click here)
150. Footprinting, Premodification and Missing Contact Probing - Answer (click
here)
151. Antisense RNA: Selective Gene Inactivation - Answer (click here)
152. Hypersynthesis of Proteins - Answer (click here)
153. Altering Cloned DNA by in vitro Mutagenesis - Answer (click here)
154. Mutagenesis with Chemically Synthesized DNA - Answer (click here)
155. Repression and the lac Operon - Answer (click here)
156. Role of Inducer Analogs in the Study of the lac Operon - Answer (click
here)
157. Proving lac Repressor is a Protein - Answer (click here)
158. An Assay for lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
159. Difficulty of Detecting Wild Type lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
160. Detection and Purification of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
161. Repressor Binds to DNA: The Operator is DNA - Answer (click here)
162. Migration Retardation Assay and DNA Looping - Repression and the lac
Operon - Answer (click here)
163. Isolation and Structure of Operator - Repression and the lac Operon -
Answer (click here)
164. In vivo Affinity of Repressor for Operator - Answer (click here)
165. DNA-binding Domain of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
166. A Mechanism for Induction - Repression and the lac Operon - Answer
(click here)
167. Sugar Arabinose and Arabinose Metabolism - Answer (click here)
168. Genetics of the Arabinose System - Answer (click here)
169. Detection and Isolation of AraC Protein - Answer (click here)
170. Repression by AraC - Answer (click here)
171. Regulating AraC Synthesis - Answer (click here)
172. Binding Sites of the ara Regulatory Proteins - Answer (click here)
173. DNA Looping and Repression of araBAD - Answer (click here)
174. In vivo Footprinting Demonstration of Looping - Answer (click here)
175. How AraC Protein Loops and Unloops - Answer (click here)
176. Why Looping is Biologically Sensible - Answer (click here)
177. Why Positive Regulators are a Good Idea - Answer (click here)
178. Attenuation and the trp Operon - Answer (click here)
179. Rapid Induction Capabilities of the trp Operon - Answer (click here)
180. Serendipitous Discovery of trp Enzyme Hypersynthesis - Answer (click
here)
181. Early Explorations of the Hypersynthesis - Answer (click here)
182. trp Multiple Secondary Structures in trp Leader RNA - Answer (click here)
183. Coupling Translation to Termination - Answer (click here)
184. RNA Secondary Structure and the Attenuation Mechanism - Answer (click
here)
185. Other Attenuated Systems: Operons, Bacillus subtilis and HIV - Answer
(click here)

Lambda Phage Genes and Regulatory Circuitry


1. Cell’s Need for Immense Amounts of Information - Answer (click here)
2. Rudiments of Prokaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
3. Rudiments of Eukaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
4. Packing DNA into Cells - Answer (click here)
5. Moving Molecules into or out of Cells - Answer (click here)
6. Diffusion within the Small Volume of a Cell - Answer (click here)
7. Exponentially Growing Populations - Answer (click here)
8. Composition Change in Growing Cells - Answer (click here)
9. Age Distribution in Populations of Growing Cell - Answer (click here)
10. The Regular Backbone of DNA - Answer (click here)
11. Grooves in DNA and Helical Forms of DNA - Answer (click here)
12. Dissociation and Reassociation of Base-paired Strands - Answer (click here)
13. Reading Sequence Without Dissociating Strands - Answer (click here)
14. Electrophoretic Fragment Separation - Answer (click here)
15. Bent DNA Sequences - Answer (click here)
16. Measurement of Helical Pitch - Answer (click here)
17. Topological Considerations in DNA Structure - Answer (click here)
18. Generating DNA with Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
19. Measuring Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
20. Determining Lk, Tw, and Wr in Hypothetical Structures - Answer (click
here)
21. Altering Linking Number - Answer (click here)
22. Biological Significance of Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
23. The Linking Number Paradox of Nucleosomes - Answer (click here)
24. General Chromosome Structure - Answer (click here)
25. Southern Transfers to Locate Nucleosomes on Genes - Answer (click here)
26. ARS Elements, Centromeres, and Telomeres - Answer (click here)
27. DNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
28. Proofreading, Okazaki Fragments, and DNA Ligase - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
29. Detection and Basic Properties of DNA Polymerases - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
30. In vitro DNA Replication - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
31. Error and Damage Correction - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
32. DNA Replication Areas In Chromosomes - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
33. Bidirectional Replication from E. coli Origins - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
34. The DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
35. Constancy of the E. coli DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
36. Regulating Initiations - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
37. Gel Electrophoresis Assay of Eukaryotic Replication Origins -
Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
38. How Fast Could DNA Be Replicated? - Physiological Aspects - Answer
(click here)
39. Measuring the Activity of RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
40. Concentration of Free RNA Polymerase in Cells - Answer (click here)
41. The RNA Polymerase in Escherichia coli - Answer (click here)
42. Three RNA Polymerases in Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
43. Multiple but Related Subunits in Polymerases - Answer (click here)
44. Multiple Sigma Subunits - Answer (click here)
45. Structure of Promoters - Answer (click here)
46. Enhancers - Answer (click here)
47. Enhancer-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. DNA Looping in Regulating Promoter Activities - Answer (click here)
49. Steps of the Initiation Process - Answer (click here)
50. Measurement of Binding and Initiation Rates - Answer (click here)
51. Relating Abortive Initiations to Binding and Initiating - Answer (click here)
52. Roles of Auxiliary Transcription Factors - Answer (click here)
53. Melted DNA Under RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
54. Polymerase Elongation Rate - Answer (click here)
55. Transcription Termination at Specific Sites - Answer (click here)
56. RNA Termination - Answer (click here)
57. Processing Prokaryotic RNAs After Synthesis - Answer (click here)
58. S1 Mapping to Locate 5’ and 3’ Ends of Transcripts - Answer (click here)
59. Caps, Splices, Edits, and Poly-A Tails on Eukaryotic RNAs - Answer
(click here)
60. The Discovery and Assay of RNA Splicing - Answer (click here)
61. Involvement of the U1 snRNP Particle in Splicing - Answer (click here)
62. Splicing Reactions and Complexes - Answer (click here)
63. The Discovery of Self-Splicing RNAs - Answer (click here)
64. A Common Mechanism for Splicing Reactions - Answer (click here)
65. Other RNA Processing Reactions - Answer (click here)
66. Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
67. The Amino Acids - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
68. Peptide Bond - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
69. Electrostatic Forces that Determine Protein Structure - Protein Structure
- Answer (click here)
70. Hydrogen Bonds and the Chelate Effect - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
71. Hydrophobic Forces - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
72. Thermodynamic Considerations of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
73. Structures within Proteins - Answer (click here)
74. Alpha Helix, Beta Sheet, and Beta Turn - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
75. Calculation of Protein Tertiary Structure - Answer (click here)
76. Secondary Structure Predictions - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
77. Structures of DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
78. Salt Effects on Protein-DNA Interactions - Answer (click here)
79. Locating Specific Residue-Base Interactions - Protein Structure - Answer
(click here)
80. Activation of Amino Acids During Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
81. Fidelity of Aminoacylation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
82. How Synthetases Identify the Correct tRNA Molecule - Answer (click here)
83. Decoding the Message - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
84. Base Pairing between Ribosomal RNA and Messenger - Answer (click here)
85. Experimental Support for the Shine-Dalgarno Hypothesis - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
86. Eukaryotic Translation and the First AUG - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
87. Tricking the Translation Machinery into Initiating - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
88. Protein Elongation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
89. Peptide Bond Formation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
90. Translocation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
91. Termination, Nonsense, and Suppression - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
92. Chaperones and Catalyzed Protein Folding - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
93. Resolution of a Paradox - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
94. Messenger Instability - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
95. Protein Elongation Rates - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
96. Directing Proteins to Specific Cellular Sites - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
97. Verifying the Signal Peptide Model - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
98. The Signal Recognition Particle and Translocation - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
99. Expectations for Ribosome Regulation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
100. Proportionality of Ribosome Levels and Growth Rates - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
101. Regulation of Ribosome Synthesis - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
102. Balancing Synthesis of Ribosomal Components - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
103. Genetics Mutations - Answer (click here)
104. Point Mutations, Deletions, Insertions, and Damage - Answer (click here)
105. Classical Genetics of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
106. Complementation, Cis, Trans, Dominant, and Recessive - Answer (click
here)
107. Mechanism of a trans Dominant Negative Mutation - Answer (click here)
108. Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
109. Genetics Mapping by Recombination Frequencies - Answer (click here)
110. Genetics: Mapping by Deletions - Answer (click here)
111. Heteroduplexes and Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
112. Genetics: Branch Migration and Isomerization - Answer (click here)
113. Elements of Recombination in E. coli, RecA, RecBCD, and Chi - Answer
(click here)
114. Genetic Systems - Answer (click here)
115. Growing Cells for Genetics Experiments - Answer (click here)
116. Testing Purified Cultures, Scoring - Answer (click here)
117. Isolating Auxotrophs, Use of Mutagens and Replica Plating - Answer
(click here)
118. Genetic Selections - Answer (click here)
119. Mapping with Generalized Transducing Phage - Answer (click here)
120. Principles of Bacterial Sex - Answer (click here)
121. Elements of Yeast Genetics - Answer (click here)
122. Elements of Drosophila Genetics - Answer (click here)
123. Isolating Mutations in Muscle or Nerve in Drosophila - Answer (click here)
124. Fate Mapping and Study of Tissue-Specific Gene Expression - Answer
(click here)
125. Isolation of DNA - Answer (click here)
126. Biology of Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
127. Cutting DNA with Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
128. Isolation of DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
129. Joining DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
130. Vectors: Selection and Autonomous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
131. Plasmid Vectors - Answer (click here)
132. A Phage Vector for Bacteria - Answer (click here)
133. Vectors for Higher Cells - Answer (click here)
134. Putting DNA Back into Cells - Answer (click here)
135. Cloning from RNA - Answer (click here)
136. Plaque and Colony Hybridization for Clone Identification - Answer (click
here)
137. Walking Along a Chromosome to Clone a Gene - Answer (click here)
138. Arrest of Translation to Assay for DNA of a Gene - Answer (click here)
139. Chemical DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
140. Enzymatic DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
141. Finding Clones from a Known Amino Acid Sequence - Answer (click here)
142. Finding Clones Using Antibodies Against a Protein - Answer (click here)
143. Southern, Northern, and Western Transfers - Genetic Engineering -
Answer (click here)
144. Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
145. Isolation of Rare Sequences Utilizing PCR - Answer (click here)
146. Physical and Genetic Maps of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
147. Chromosome Mapping - Answer (click here)
148. DNA Fingerprinting - Forensics - Answer (click here)
149. Megabase Sequencing - Answer (click here)
150. Footprinting, Premodification and Missing Contact Probing - Answer (click
here)
151. Antisense RNA: Selective Gene Inactivation - Answer (click here)
152. Hypersynthesis of Proteins - Answer (click here)
153. Altering Cloned DNA by in vitro Mutagenesis - Answer (click here)
154. Mutagenesis with Chemically Synthesized DNA - Answer (click here)
155. Repression and the lac Operon - Answer (click here)
156. Role of Inducer Analogs in the Study of the lac Operon - Answer (click
here)
157. Proving lac Repressor is a Protein - Answer (click here)
158. An Assay for lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
159. Difficulty of Detecting Wild Type lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
160. Detection and Purification of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
161. Repressor Binds to DNA: The Operator is DNA - Answer (click here)
162. Migration Retardation Assay and DNA Looping - Repression and the lac
Operon - Answer (click here)
163. Isolation and Structure of Operator - Repression and the lac Operon -
Answer (click here)
164. In vivo Affinity of Repressor for Operator - Answer (click here)
165. DNA-binding Domain of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
166. A Mechanism for Induction - Repression and the lac Operon - Answer
(click here)
167. Sugar Arabinose and Arabinose Metabolism - Answer (click here)
168. Genetics of the Arabinose System - Answer (click here)
169. Detection and Isolation of AraC Protein - Answer (click here)
170. Repression by AraC - Answer (click here)
171. Regulating AraC Synthesis - Answer (click here)
172. Binding Sites of the ara Regulatory Proteins - Answer (click here)
173. DNA Looping and Repression of araBAD - Answer (click here)
174. In vivo Footprinting Demonstration of Looping - Answer (click here)
175. How AraC Protein Loops and Unloops - Answer (click here)
176. Why Looping is Biologically Sensible - Answer (click here)
177. Why Positive Regulators are a Good Idea - Answer (click here)
178. Attenuation and the trp Operon - Answer (click here)
179. Rapid Induction Capabilities of the trp Operon - Answer (click here)
180. Serendipitous Discovery of trp Enzyme Hypersynthesis - Answer (click
here)
181. Early Explorations of the Hypersynthesis - Answer (click here)
182. trp Multiple Secondary Structures in trp Leader RNA - Answer (click here)
183. Coupling Translation to Termination - Answer (click here)
184. RNA Secondary Structure and the Attenuation Mechanism - Answer (click
here)
185. Other Attenuated Systems: Operons, Bacillus subtilis and HIV - Answer
(click here)
186. Physical Structure of Lambda - Answer (click here)
187. Genetic Structure of Lambda - Answer (click here)
188. Lysogeny and Immunity - Answer (click here)
189. Lambda’s Relatives and Lambda Hybrids - Answer (click here)
190. Lambda Adsorption to Cells - Answer (click here)
191. Early Transcription of Genes N and Cro - Answer (click here)
192. N Protein and Antitermination of Early Gene Transcription - Answer (click
here)
193. Role of Cro Protein - Answer (click here)
194. Initiating DNA Synthesis with the O and P Proteins - Answer (click here)
195. Proteins Kil, γ, β, and Exo - Answer (click here)
196. Q Protein and Late Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
197. Lysis - Answer (click here)
198. Chronology of Becoming a Lysogen - Answer (click here)
199. Site for Cro Repression and CI Activation - Answer (click here)
200. Cooperativity in Repressor Binding and its Measurement - Answer (click
here)
201. Need for and the Realization of Hair-Trigger Induction - Answer (click
here)
202. Induction from the Lysogenic State - Answer (click here)
203. Entropy, a Basis for Lambda Repressor Inactivation - Answer (click here)

Xenopus 5S RNA Synthesis


1. Cell’s Need for Immense Amounts of Information - Answer (click here)
2. Rudiments of Prokaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
3. Rudiments of Eukaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
4. Packing DNA into Cells - Answer (click here)
5. Moving Molecules into or out of Cells - Answer (click here)
6. Diffusion within the Small Volume of a Cell - Answer (click here)
7. Exponentially Growing Populations - Answer (click here)
8. Composition Change in Growing Cells - Answer (click here)
9. Age Distribution in Populations of Growing Cell - Answer (click here)
10. The Regular Backbone of DNA - Answer (click here)
11. Grooves in DNA and Helical Forms of DNA - Answer (click here)
12. Dissociation and Reassociation of Base-paired Strands - Answer (click here)
13. Reading Sequence Without Dissociating Strands - Answer (click here)
14. Electrophoretic Fragment Separation - Answer (click here)
15. Bent DNA Sequences - Answer (click here)
16. Measurement of Helical Pitch - Answer (click here)
17. Topological Considerations in DNA Structure - Answer (click here)
18. Generating DNA with Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
19. Measuring Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
20. Determining Lk, Tw, and Wr in Hypothetical Structures - Answer (click
here)
21. Altering Linking Number - Answer (click here)
22. Biological Significance of Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
23. The Linking Number Paradox of Nucleosomes - Answer (click here)
24. General Chromosome Structure - Answer (click here)
25. Southern Transfers to Locate Nucleosomes on Genes - Answer (click here)
26. ARS Elements, Centromeres, and Telomeres - Answer (click here)
27. DNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
28. Proofreading, Okazaki Fragments, and DNA Ligase - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
29. Detection and Basic Properties of DNA Polymerases - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
30. In vitro DNA Replication - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
31. Error and Damage Correction - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
32. DNA Replication Areas In Chromosomes - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
33. Bidirectional Replication from E. coli Origins - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
34. The DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
35. Constancy of the E. coli DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
36. Regulating Initiations - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
37. Gel Electrophoresis Assay of Eukaryotic Replication Origins -
Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
38. How Fast Could DNA Be Replicated? - Physiological Aspects - Answer
(click here)
39. Measuring the Activity of RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
40. Concentration of Free RNA Polymerase in Cells - Answer (click here)
41. The RNA Polymerase in Escherichia coli - Answer (click here)
42. Three RNA Polymerases in Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
43. Multiple but Related Subunits in Polymerases - Answer (click here)
44. Multiple Sigma Subunits - Answer (click here)
45. Structure of Promoters - Answer (click here)
46. Enhancers - Answer (click here)
47. Enhancer-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. DNA Looping in Regulating Promoter Activities - Answer (click here)
49. Steps of the Initiation Process - Answer (click here)
50. Measurement of Binding and Initiation Rates - Answer (click here)
51. Relating Abortive Initiations to Binding and Initiating - Answer (click here)
52. Roles of Auxiliary Transcription Factors - Answer (click here)
53. Melted DNA Under RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
54. Polymerase Elongation Rate - Answer (click here)
55. Transcription Termination at Specific Sites - Answer (click here)
56. RNA Termination - Answer (click here)
57. Processing Prokaryotic RNAs After Synthesis - Answer (click here)
58. S1 Mapping to Locate 5’ and 3’ Ends of Transcripts - Answer (click here)
59. Caps, Splices, Edits, and Poly-A Tails on Eukaryotic RNAs - Answer
(click here)
60. The Discovery and Assay of RNA Splicing - Answer (click here)
61. Involvement of the U1 snRNP Particle in Splicing - Answer (click here)
62. Splicing Reactions and Complexes - Answer (click here)
63. The Discovery of Self-Splicing RNAs - Answer (click here)
64. A Common Mechanism for Splicing Reactions - Answer (click here)
65. Other RNA Processing Reactions - Answer (click here)
66. Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
67. The Amino Acids - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
68. Peptide Bond - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
69. Electrostatic Forces that Determine Protein Structure - Protein Structure
- Answer (click here)
70. Hydrogen Bonds and the Chelate Effect - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
71. Hydrophobic Forces - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
72. Thermodynamic Considerations of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
73. Structures within Proteins - Answer (click here)
74. Alpha Helix, Beta Sheet, and Beta Turn - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
75. Calculation of Protein Tertiary Structure - Answer (click here)
76. Secondary Structure Predictions - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
77. Structures of DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
78. Salt Effects on Protein-DNA Interactions - Answer (click here)
79. Locating Specific Residue-Base Interactions - Protein Structure - Answer
(click here)
80. Activation of Amino Acids During Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
81. Fidelity of Aminoacylation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
82. How Synthetases Identify the Correct tRNA Molecule - Answer (click here)
83. Decoding the Message - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
84. Base Pairing between Ribosomal RNA and Messenger - Answer (click here)
85. Experimental Support for the Shine-Dalgarno Hypothesis - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
86. Eukaryotic Translation and the First AUG - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
87. Tricking the Translation Machinery into Initiating - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
88. Protein Elongation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
89. Peptide Bond Formation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
90. Translocation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
91. Termination, Nonsense, and Suppression - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
92. Chaperones and Catalyzed Protein Folding - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
93. Resolution of a Paradox - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
94. Messenger Instability - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
95. Protein Elongation Rates - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
96. Directing Proteins to Specific Cellular Sites - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
97. Verifying the Signal Peptide Model - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
98. The Signal Recognition Particle and Translocation - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
99. Expectations for Ribosome Regulation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
100. Proportionality of Ribosome Levels and Growth Rates - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
101. Regulation of Ribosome Synthesis - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
102. Balancing Synthesis of Ribosomal Components - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
103. Genetics Mutations - Answer (click here)
104. Point Mutations, Deletions, Insertions, and Damage - Answer (click here)
105. Classical Genetics of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
106. Complementation, Cis, Trans, Dominant, and Recessive - Answer (click
here)
107. Mechanism of a trans Dominant Negative Mutation - Answer (click here)
108. Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
109. Genetics Mapping by Recombination Frequencies - Answer (click here)
110. Genetics: Mapping by Deletions - Answer (click here)
111. Heteroduplexes and Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
112. Genetics: Branch Migration and Isomerization - Answer (click here)
113. Elements of Recombination in E. coli, RecA, RecBCD, and Chi - Answer
(click here)
114. Genetic Systems - Answer (click here)
115. Growing Cells for Genetics Experiments - Answer (click here)
116. Testing Purified Cultures, Scoring - Answer (click here)
117. Isolating Auxotrophs, Use of Mutagens and Replica Plating - Answer
(click here)
118. Genetic Selections - Answer (click here)
119. Mapping with Generalized Transducing Phage - Answer (click here)
120. Principles of Bacterial Sex - Answer (click here)
121. Elements of Yeast Genetics - Answer (click here)
122. Elements of Drosophila Genetics - Answer (click here)
123. Isolating Mutations in Muscle or Nerve in Drosophila - Answer (click here)
124. Fate Mapping and Study of Tissue-Specific Gene Expression - Answer
(click here)
125. Isolation of DNA - Answer (click here)
126. Biology of Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
127. Cutting DNA with Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
128. Isolation of DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
129. Joining DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
130. Vectors: Selection and Autonomous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
131. Plasmid Vectors - Answer (click here)
132. A Phage Vector for Bacteria - Answer (click here)
133. Vectors for Higher Cells - Answer (click here)
134. Putting DNA Back into Cells - Answer (click here)
135. Cloning from RNA - Answer (click here)
136. Plaque and Colony Hybridization for Clone Identification - Answer (click
here)
137. Walking Along a Chromosome to Clone a Gene - Answer (click here)
138. Arrest of Translation to Assay for DNA of a Gene - Answer (click here)
139. Chemical DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
140. Enzymatic DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
141. Finding Clones from a Known Amino Acid Sequence - Answer (click here)
142. Finding Clones Using Antibodies Against a Protein - Answer (click here)
143. Southern, Northern, and Western Transfers - Genetic Engineering -
Answer (click here)
144. Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
145. Isolation of Rare Sequences Utilizing PCR - Answer (click here)
146. Physical and Genetic Maps of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
147. Chromosome Mapping - Answer (click here)
148. DNA Fingerprinting - Forensics - Answer (click here)
149. Megabase Sequencing - Answer (click here)
150. Footprinting, Premodification and Missing Contact Probing - Answer (click
here)
151. Antisense RNA: Selective Gene Inactivation - Answer (click here)
152. Hypersynthesis of Proteins - Answer (click here)
153. Altering Cloned DNA by in vitro Mutagenesis - Answer (click here)
154. Mutagenesis with Chemically Synthesized DNA - Answer (click here)
155. Repression and the lac Operon - Answer (click here)
156. Role of Inducer Analogs in the Study of the lac Operon - Answer (click
here)
157. Proving lac Repressor is a Protein - Answer (click here)
158. An Assay for lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
159. Difficulty of Detecting Wild Type lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
160. Detection and Purification of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
161. Repressor Binds to DNA: The Operator is DNA - Answer (click here)
162. Migration Retardation Assay and DNA Looping - Repression and the lac
Operon - Answer (click here)
163. Isolation and Structure of Operator - Repression and the lac Operon -
Answer (click here)
164. In vivo Affinity of Repressor for Operator - Answer (click here)
165. DNA-binding Domain of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
166. A Mechanism for Induction - Repression and the lac Operon - Answer
(click here)
167. Sugar Arabinose and Arabinose Metabolism - Answer (click here)
168. Genetics of the Arabinose System - Answer (click here)
169. Detection and Isolation of AraC Protein - Answer (click here)
170. Repression by AraC - Answer (click here)
171. Regulating AraC Synthesis - Answer (click here)
172. Binding Sites of the ara Regulatory Proteins - Answer (click here)
173. DNA Looping and Repression of araBAD - Answer (click here)
174. In vivo Footprinting Demonstration of Looping - Answer (click here)
175. How AraC Protein Loops and Unloops - Answer (click here)
176. Why Looping is Biologically Sensible - Answer (click here)
177. Why Positive Regulators are a Good Idea - Answer (click here)
178. Attenuation and the trp Operon - Answer (click here)
179. Rapid Induction Capabilities of the trp Operon - Answer (click here)
180. Serendipitous Discovery of trp Enzyme Hypersynthesis - Answer (click
here)
181. Early Explorations of the Hypersynthesis - Answer (click here)
182. trp Multiple Secondary Structures in trp Leader RNA - Answer (click here)
183. Coupling Translation to Termination - Answer (click here)
184. RNA Secondary Structure and the Attenuation Mechanism - Answer (click
here)
185. Other Attenuated Systems: Operons, Bacillus subtilis and HIV - Answer
(click here)
186. Physical Structure of Lambda - Answer (click here)
187. Genetic Structure of Lambda - Answer (click here)
188. Lysogeny and Immunity - Answer (click here)
189. Lambda’s Relatives and Lambda Hybrids - Answer (click here)
190. Lambda Adsorption to Cells - Answer (click here)
191. Early Transcription of Genes N and Cro - Answer (click here)
192. N Protein and Antitermination of Early Gene Transcription - Answer (click
here)
193. Role of Cro Protein - Answer (click here)
194. Initiating DNA Synthesis with the O and P Proteins - Answer (click here)
195. Proteins Kil, γ, β, and Exo - Answer (click here)
196. Q Protein and Late Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
197. Lysis - Answer (click here)
198. Chronology of Becoming a Lysogen - Answer (click here)
199. Site for Cro Repression and CI Activation - Answer (click here)
200. Cooperativity in Repressor Binding and its Measurement - Answer (click
here)
201. Need for and the Realization of Hair-Trigger Induction - Answer (click
here)
202. Induction from the Lysogenic State - Answer (click here)
203. Entropy, a Basis for Lambda Repressor Inactivation - Answer (click here)
204. Biology of 5S RNA Synthesis in Xenopus - Answer (click here)
205. In vitro 5S RNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
206. TFIIIA Binding to the Middle of its Gene as Well as to RNA - Answer
(click here)
207. Switching from Oocyte to Somatic 5S Synthesis - Answer (click here)
208. Structure and Function of TFIIIA - Answer (click here)

Regulation of Mating Type in Yeast


1. Cell’s Need for Immense Amounts of Information - Answer (click here)
2. Rudiments of Prokaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
3. Rudiments of Eukaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
4. Packing DNA into Cells - Answer (click here)
5. Moving Molecules into or out of Cells - Answer (click here)
6. Diffusion within the Small Volume of a Cell - Answer (click here)
7. Exponentially Growing Populations - Answer (click here)
8. Composition Change in Growing Cells - Answer (click here)
9. Age Distribution in Populations of Growing Cell - Answer (click here)
10. The Regular Backbone of DNA - Answer (click here)
11. Grooves in DNA and Helical Forms of DNA - Answer (click here)
12. Dissociation and Reassociation of Base-paired Strands - Answer (click here)
13. Reading Sequence Without Dissociating Strands - Answer (click here)
14. Electrophoretic Fragment Separation - Answer (click here)
15. Bent DNA Sequences - Answer (click here)
16. Measurement of Helical Pitch - Answer (click here)
17. Topological Considerations in DNA Structure - Answer (click here)
18. Generating DNA with Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
19. Measuring Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
20. Determining Lk, Tw, and Wr in Hypothetical Structures - Answer (click
here)
21. Altering Linking Number - Answer (click here)
22. Biological Significance of Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
23. The Linking Number Paradox of Nucleosomes - Answer (click here)
24. General Chromosome Structure - Answer (click here)
25. Southern Transfers to Locate Nucleosomes on Genes - Answer (click here)
26. ARS Elements, Centromeres, and Telomeres - Answer (click here)
27. DNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
28. Proofreading, Okazaki Fragments, and DNA Ligase - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
29. Detection and Basic Properties of DNA Polymerases - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
30. In vitro DNA Replication - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
31. Error and Damage Correction - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
32. DNA Replication Areas In Chromosomes - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
33. Bidirectional Replication from E. coli Origins - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
34. The DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
35. Constancy of the E. coli DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
36. Regulating Initiations - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
37. Gel Electrophoresis Assay of Eukaryotic Replication Origins -
Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
38. How Fast Could DNA Be Replicated? - Physiological Aspects - Answer
(click here)
39. Measuring the Activity of RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
40. Concentration of Free RNA Polymerase in Cells - Answer (click here)
41. The RNA Polymerase in Escherichia coli - Answer (click here)
42. Three RNA Polymerases in Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
43. Multiple but Related Subunits in Polymerases - Answer (click here)
44. Multiple Sigma Subunits - Answer (click here)
45. Structure of Promoters - Answer (click here)
46. Enhancers - Answer (click here)
47. Enhancer-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. DNA Looping in Regulating Promoter Activities - Answer (click here)
49. Steps of the Initiation Process - Answer (click here)
50. Measurement of Binding and Initiation Rates - Answer (click here)
51. Relating Abortive Initiations to Binding and Initiating - Answer (click here)
52. Roles of Auxiliary Transcription Factors - Answer (click here)
53. Melted DNA Under RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
54. Polymerase Elongation Rate - Answer (click here)
55. Transcription Termination at Specific Sites - Answer (click here)
56. RNA Termination - Answer (click here)
57. Processing Prokaryotic RNAs After Synthesis - Answer (click here)
58. S1 Mapping to Locate 5’ and 3’ Ends of Transcripts - Answer (click here)
59. Caps, Splices, Edits, and Poly-A Tails on Eukaryotic RNAs - Answer
(click here)
60. The Discovery and Assay of RNA Splicing - Answer (click here)
61. Involvement of the U1 snRNP Particle in Splicing - Answer (click here)
62. Splicing Reactions and Complexes - Answer (click here)
63. The Discovery of Self-Splicing RNAs - Answer (click here)
64. A Common Mechanism for Splicing Reactions - Answer (click here)
65. Other RNA Processing Reactions - Answer (click here)
66. Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
67. The Amino Acids - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
68. Peptide Bond - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
69. Electrostatic Forces that Determine Protein Structure - Protein Structure
- Answer (click here)
70. Hydrogen Bonds and the Chelate Effect - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
71. Hydrophobic Forces - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
72. Thermodynamic Considerations of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
73. Structures within Proteins - Answer (click here)
74. Alpha Helix, Beta Sheet, and Beta Turn - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
75. Calculation of Protein Tertiary Structure - Answer (click here)
76. Secondary Structure Predictions - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
77. Structures of DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
78. Salt Effects on Protein-DNA Interactions - Answer (click here)
79. Locating Specific Residue-Base Interactions - Protein Structure - Answer
(click here)
80. Activation of Amino Acids During Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
81. Fidelity of Aminoacylation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
82. How Synthetases Identify the Correct tRNA Molecule - Answer (click here)
83. Decoding the Message - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
84. Base Pairing between Ribosomal RNA and Messenger - Answer (click here)
85. Experimental Support for the Shine-Dalgarno Hypothesis - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
86. Eukaryotic Translation and the First AUG - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
87. Tricking the Translation Machinery into Initiating - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
88. Protein Elongation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
89. Peptide Bond Formation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
90. Translocation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
91. Termination, Nonsense, and Suppression - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
92. Chaperones and Catalyzed Protein Folding - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
93. Resolution of a Paradox - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
94. Messenger Instability - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
95. Protein Elongation Rates - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
96. Directing Proteins to Specific Cellular Sites - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
97. Verifying the Signal Peptide Model - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
98. The Signal Recognition Particle and Translocation - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
99. Expectations for Ribosome Regulation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
100. Proportionality of Ribosome Levels and Growth Rates - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
101. Regulation of Ribosome Synthesis - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
102. Balancing Synthesis of Ribosomal Components - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
103. Genetics Mutations - Answer (click here)
104. Point Mutations, Deletions, Insertions, and Damage - Answer (click here)
105. Classical Genetics of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
106. Complementation, Cis, Trans, Dominant, and Recessive - Answer (click
here)
107. Mechanism of a trans Dominant Negative Mutation - Answer (click here)
108. Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
109. Genetics Mapping by Recombination Frequencies - Answer (click here)
110. Genetics: Mapping by Deletions - Answer (click here)
111. Heteroduplexes and Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
112. Genetics: Branch Migration and Isomerization - Answer (click here)
113. Elements of Recombination in E. coli, RecA, RecBCD, and Chi - Answer
(click here)
114. Genetic Systems - Answer (click here)
115. Growing Cells for Genetics Experiments - Answer (click here)
116. Testing Purified Cultures, Scoring - Answer (click here)
117. Isolating Auxotrophs, Use of Mutagens and Replica Plating - Answer
(click here)
118. Genetic Selections - Answer (click here)
119. Mapping with Generalized Transducing Phage - Answer (click here)
120. Principles of Bacterial Sex - Answer (click here)
121. Elements of Yeast Genetics - Answer (click here)
122. Elements of Drosophila Genetics - Answer (click here)
123. Isolating Mutations in Muscle or Nerve in Drosophila - Answer (click here)
124. Fate Mapping and Study of Tissue-Specific Gene Expression - Answer
(click here)
125. Isolation of DNA - Answer (click here)
126. Biology of Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
127. Cutting DNA with Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
128. Isolation of DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
129. Joining DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
130. Vectors: Selection and Autonomous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
131. Plasmid Vectors - Answer (click here)
132. A Phage Vector for Bacteria - Answer (click here)
133. Vectors for Higher Cells - Answer (click here)
134. Putting DNA Back into Cells - Answer (click here)
135. Cloning from RNA - Answer (click here)
136. Plaque and Colony Hybridization for Clone Identification - Answer (click
here)
137. Walking Along a Chromosome to Clone a Gene - Answer (click here)
138. Arrest of Translation to Assay for DNA of a Gene - Answer (click here)
139. Chemical DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
140. Enzymatic DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
141. Finding Clones from a Known Amino Acid Sequence - Answer (click here)
142. Finding Clones Using Antibodies Against a Protein - Answer (click here)
143. Southern, Northern, and Western Transfers - Genetic Engineering -
Answer (click here)
144. Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
145. Isolation of Rare Sequences Utilizing PCR - Answer (click here)
146. Physical and Genetic Maps of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
147. Chromosome Mapping - Answer (click here)
148. DNA Fingerprinting - Forensics - Answer (click here)
149. Megabase Sequencing - Answer (click here)
150. Footprinting, Premodification and Missing Contact Probing - Answer (click
here)
151. Antisense RNA: Selective Gene Inactivation - Answer (click here)
152. Hypersynthesis of Proteins - Answer (click here)
153. Altering Cloned DNA by in vitro Mutagenesis - Answer (click here)
154. Mutagenesis with Chemically Synthesized DNA - Answer (click here)
155. Repression and the lac Operon - Answer (click here)
156. Role of Inducer Analogs in the Study of the lac Operon - Answer (click
here)
157. Proving lac Repressor is a Protein - Answer (click here)
158. An Assay for lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
159. Difficulty of Detecting Wild Type lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
160. Detection and Purification of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
161. Repressor Binds to DNA: The Operator is DNA - Answer (click here)
162. Migration Retardation Assay and DNA Looping - Repression and the lac
Operon - Answer (click here)
163. Isolation and Structure of Operator - Repression and the lac Operon -
Answer (click here)
164. In vivo Affinity of Repressor for Operator - Answer (click here)
165. DNA-binding Domain of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
166. A Mechanism for Induction - Repression and the lac Operon - Answer
(click here)
167. Sugar Arabinose and Arabinose Metabolism - Answer (click here)
168. Genetics of the Arabinose System - Answer (click here)
169. Detection and Isolation of AraC Protein - Answer (click here)
170. Repression by AraC - Answer (click here)
171. Regulating AraC Synthesis - Answer (click here)
172. Binding Sites of the ara Regulatory Proteins - Answer (click here)
173. DNA Looping and Repression of araBAD - Answer (click here)
174. In vivo Footprinting Demonstration of Looping - Answer (click here)
175. How AraC Protein Loops and Unloops - Answer (click here)
176. Why Looping is Biologically Sensible - Answer (click here)
177. Why Positive Regulators are a Good Idea - Answer (click here)
178. Attenuation and the trp Operon - Answer (click here)
179. Rapid Induction Capabilities of the trp Operon - Answer (click here)
180. Serendipitous Discovery of trp Enzyme Hypersynthesis - Answer (click
here)
181. Early Explorations of the Hypersynthesis - Answer (click here)
182. trp Multiple Secondary Structures in trp Leader RNA - Answer (click here)
183. Coupling Translation to Termination - Answer (click here)
184. RNA Secondary Structure and the Attenuation Mechanism - Answer (click
here)
185. Other Attenuated Systems: Operons, Bacillus subtilis and HIV - Answer
(click here)
186. Physical Structure of Lambda - Answer (click here)
187. Genetic Structure of Lambda - Answer (click here)
188. Lysogeny and Immunity - Answer (click here)
189. Lambda’s Relatives and Lambda Hybrids - Answer (click here)
190. Lambda Adsorption to Cells - Answer (click here)
191. Early Transcription of Genes N and Cro - Answer (click here)
192. N Protein and Antitermination of Early Gene Transcription - Answer (click
here)
193. Role of Cro Protein - Answer (click here)
194. Initiating DNA Synthesis with the O and P Proteins - Answer (click here)
195. Proteins Kil, γ, β, and Exo - Answer (click here)
196. Q Protein and Late Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
197. Lysis - Answer (click here)
198. Chronology of Becoming a Lysogen - Answer (click here)
199. Site for Cro Repression and CI Activation - Answer (click here)
200. Cooperativity in Repressor Binding and its Measurement - Answer (click
here)
201. Need for and the Realization of Hair-Trigger Induction - Answer (click
here)
202. Induction from the Lysogenic State - Answer (click here)
203. Entropy, a Basis for Lambda Repressor Inactivation - Answer (click here)
204. Biology of 5S RNA Synthesis in Xenopus - Answer (click here)
205. In vitro 5S RNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
206. TFIIIA Binding to the Middle of its Gene as Well as to RNA - Answer
(click here)
207. Switching from Oocyte to Somatic 5S Synthesis - Answer (click here)
208. Structure and Function of TFIIIA - Answer (click here)
209. Regulation of Mating Type in Yeast - Answer (click here)
210. Yeast Cell Cycle - Answer (click here)
211. Mating Type Conversion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae - Answer (click here)
212. Cloning the Mating Type Loci in Yeast - Answer (click here)
213. Transfer of Mating Type Gene Copies to an Expression Site - Answer
(click here)
214. Structure of the Mating Type Loci - Answer (click here)
215. Expression and Recombination Paradoxes - Answer (click here)
216. Silencing HML and HMR - Answer (click here)
217. Isolation of α2 Protein - Answer (click here)
218. α2 and MCM1 - Answer (click here)
219. Sterile Mutants, Membrane Receptors and G Factors - Answer (click here)
220. DNA Cleavage at the MAT Locus - Answer (click here)
221. DNA Strand Inheritance and Switching in Fission Yeast - Answer (click
here)

Genes Regulating Development


1. Cell’s Need for Immense Amounts of Information - Answer (click here)
2. Rudiments of Prokaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
3. Rudiments of Eukaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
4. Packing DNA into Cells - Answer (click here)
5. Moving Molecules into or out of Cells - Answer (click here)
6. Diffusion within the Small Volume of a Cell - Answer (click here)
7. Exponentially Growing Populations - Answer (click here)
8. Composition Change in Growing Cells - Answer (click here)
9. Age Distribution in Populations of Growing Cell - Answer (click here)
10. The Regular Backbone of DNA - Answer (click here)
11. Grooves in DNA and Helical Forms of DNA - Answer (click here)
12. Dissociation and Reassociation of Base-paired Strands - Answer (click here)
13. Reading Sequence Without Dissociating Strands - Answer (click here)
14. Electrophoretic Fragment Separation - Answer (click here)
15. Bent DNA Sequences - Answer (click here)
16. Measurement of Helical Pitch - Answer (click here)
17. Topological Considerations in DNA Structure - Answer (click here)
18. Generating DNA with Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
19. Measuring Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
20. Determining Lk, Tw, and Wr in Hypothetical Structures - Answer (click
here)
21. Altering Linking Number - Answer (click here)
22. Biological Significance of Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
23. The Linking Number Paradox of Nucleosomes - Answer (click here)
24. General Chromosome Structure - Answer (click here)
25. Southern Transfers to Locate Nucleosomes on Genes - Answer (click here)
26. ARS Elements, Centromeres, and Telomeres - Answer (click here)
27. DNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
28. Proofreading, Okazaki Fragments, and DNA Ligase - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
29. Detection and Basic Properties of DNA Polymerases - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
30. In vitro DNA Replication - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
31. Error and Damage Correction - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
32. DNA Replication Areas In Chromosomes - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
33. Bidirectional Replication from E. coli Origins - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
34. The DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
35. Constancy of the E. coli DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
36. Regulating Initiations - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
37. Gel Electrophoresis Assay of Eukaryotic Replication Origins -
Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
38. How Fast Could DNA Be Replicated? - Physiological Aspects - Answer
(click here)
39. Measuring the Activity of RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
40. Concentration of Free RNA Polymerase in Cells - Answer (click here)
41. The RNA Polymerase in Escherichia coli - Answer (click here)
42. Three RNA Polymerases in Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
43. Multiple but Related Subunits in Polymerases - Answer (click here)
44. Multiple Sigma Subunits - Answer (click here)
45. Structure of Promoters - Answer (click here)
46. Enhancers - Answer (click here)
47. Enhancer-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. DNA Looping in Regulating Promoter Activities - Answer (click here)
49. Steps of the Initiation Process - Answer (click here)
50. Measurement of Binding and Initiation Rates - Answer (click here)
51. Relating Abortive Initiations to Binding and Initiating - Answer (click here)
52. Roles of Auxiliary Transcription Factors - Answer (click here)
53. Melted DNA Under RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
54. Polymerase Elongation Rate - Answer (click here)
55. Transcription Termination at Specific Sites - Answer (click here)
56. RNA Termination - Answer (click here)
57. Processing Prokaryotic RNAs After Synthesis - Answer (click here)
58. S1 Mapping to Locate 5’ and 3’ Ends of Transcripts - Answer (click here)
59. Caps, Splices, Edits, and Poly-A Tails on Eukaryotic RNAs - Answer
(click here)
60. The Discovery and Assay of RNA Splicing - Answer (click here)
61. Involvement of the U1 snRNP Particle in Splicing - Answer (click here)
62. Splicing Reactions and Complexes - Answer (click here)
63. The Discovery of Self-Splicing RNAs - Answer (click here)
64. A Common Mechanism for Splicing Reactions - Answer (click here)
65. Other RNA Processing Reactions - Answer (click here)
66. Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
67. The Amino Acids - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
68. Peptide Bond - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
69. Electrostatic Forces that Determine Protein Structure - Protein Structure
- Answer (click here)
70. Hydrogen Bonds and the Chelate Effect - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
71. Hydrophobic Forces - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
72. Thermodynamic Considerations of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
73. Structures within Proteins - Answer (click here)
74. Alpha Helix, Beta Sheet, and Beta Turn - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
75. Calculation of Protein Tertiary Structure - Answer (click here)
76. Secondary Structure Predictions - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
77. Structures of DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
78. Salt Effects on Protein-DNA Interactions - Answer (click here)
79. Locating Specific Residue-Base Interactions - Protein Structure - Answer
(click here)
80. Activation of Amino Acids During Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
81. Fidelity of Aminoacylation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
82. How Synthetases Identify the Correct tRNA Molecule - Answer (click here)
83. Decoding the Message - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
84. Base Pairing between Ribosomal RNA and Messenger - Answer (click here)
85. Experimental Support for the Shine-Dalgarno Hypothesis - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
86. Eukaryotic Translation and the First AUG - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
87. Tricking the Translation Machinery into Initiating - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
88. Protein Elongation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
89. Peptide Bond Formation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
90. Translocation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
91. Termination, Nonsense, and Suppression - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
92. Chaperones and Catalyzed Protein Folding - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
93. Resolution of a Paradox - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
94. Messenger Instability - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
95. Protein Elongation Rates - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
96. Directing Proteins to Specific Cellular Sites - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
97. Verifying the Signal Peptide Model - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
98. The Signal Recognition Particle and Translocation - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
99. Expectations for Ribosome Regulation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
100. Proportionality of Ribosome Levels and Growth Rates - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
101. Regulation of Ribosome Synthesis - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
102. Balancing Synthesis of Ribosomal Components - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
103. Genetics Mutations - Answer (click here)
104. Point Mutations, Deletions, Insertions, and Damage - Answer (click here)
105. Classical Genetics of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
106. Complementation, Cis, Trans, Dominant, and Recessive - Answer (click
here)
107. Mechanism of a trans Dominant Negative Mutation - Answer (click here)
108. Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
109. Genetics Mapping by Recombination Frequencies - Answer (click here)
110. Genetics: Mapping by Deletions - Answer (click here)
111. Heteroduplexes and Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
112. Genetics: Branch Migration and Isomerization - Answer (click here)
113. Elements of Recombination in E. coli, RecA, RecBCD, and Chi - Answer
(click here)
114. Genetic Systems - Answer (click here)
115. Growing Cells for Genetics Experiments - Answer (click here)
116. Testing Purified Cultures, Scoring - Answer (click here)
117. Isolating Auxotrophs, Use of Mutagens and Replica Plating - Answer
(click here)
118. Genetic Selections - Answer (click here)
119. Mapping with Generalized Transducing Phage - Answer (click here)
120. Principles of Bacterial Sex - Answer (click here)
121. Elements of Yeast Genetics - Answer (click here)
122. Elements of Drosophila Genetics - Answer (click here)
123. Isolating Mutations in Muscle or Nerve in Drosophila - Answer (click here)
124. Fate Mapping and Study of Tissue-Specific Gene Expression - Answer
(click here)
125. Isolation of DNA - Answer (click here)
126. Biology of Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
127. Cutting DNA with Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
128. Isolation of DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
129. Joining DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
130. Vectors: Selection and Autonomous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
131. Plasmid Vectors - Answer (click here)
132. A Phage Vector for Bacteria - Answer (click here)
133. Vectors for Higher Cells - Answer (click here)
134. Putting DNA Back into Cells - Answer (click here)
135. Cloning from RNA - Answer (click here)
136. Plaque and Colony Hybridization for Clone Identification - Answer (click
here)
137. Walking Along a Chromosome to Clone a Gene - Answer (click here)
138. Arrest of Translation to Assay for DNA of a Gene - Answer (click here)
139. Chemical DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
140. Enzymatic DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
141. Finding Clones from a Known Amino Acid Sequence - Answer (click here)
142. Finding Clones Using Antibodies Against a Protein - Answer (click here)
143. Southern, Northern, and Western Transfers - Genetic Engineering -
Answer (click here)
144. Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
145. Isolation of Rare Sequences Utilizing PCR - Answer (click here)
146. Physical and Genetic Maps of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
147. Chromosome Mapping - Answer (click here)
148. DNA Fingerprinting - Forensics - Answer (click here)
149. Megabase Sequencing - Answer (click here)
150. Footprinting, Premodification and Missing Contact Probing - Answer (click
here)
151. Antisense RNA: Selective Gene Inactivation - Answer (click here)
152. Hypersynthesis of Proteins - Answer (click here)
153. Altering Cloned DNA by in vitro Mutagenesis - Answer (click here)
154. Mutagenesis with Chemically Synthesized DNA - Answer (click here)
155. Repression and the lac Operon - Answer (click here)
156. Role of Inducer Analogs in the Study of the lac Operon - Answer (click
here)
157. Proving lac Repressor is a Protein - Answer (click here)
158. An Assay for lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
159. Difficulty of Detecting Wild Type lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
160. Detection and Purification of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
161. Repressor Binds to DNA: The Operator is DNA - Answer (click here)
162. Migration Retardation Assay and DNA Looping - Repression and the lac
Operon - Answer (click here)
163. Isolation and Structure of Operator - Repression and the lac Operon -
Answer (click here)
164. In vivo Affinity of Repressor for Operator - Answer (click here)
165. DNA-binding Domain of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
166. A Mechanism for Induction - Repression and the lac Operon - Answer
(click here)
167. Sugar Arabinose and Arabinose Metabolism - Answer (click here)
168. Genetics of the Arabinose System - Answer (click here)
169. Detection and Isolation of AraC Protein - Answer (click here)
170. Repression by AraC - Answer (click here)
171. Regulating AraC Synthesis - Answer (click here)
172. Binding Sites of the ara Regulatory Proteins - Answer (click here)
173. DNA Looping and Repression of araBAD - Answer (click here)
174. In vivo Footprinting Demonstration of Looping - Answer (click here)
175. How AraC Protein Loops and Unloops - Answer (click here)
176. Why Looping is Biologically Sensible - Answer (click here)
177. Why Positive Regulators are a Good Idea - Answer (click here)
178. Attenuation and the trp Operon - Answer (click here)
179. Rapid Induction Capabilities of the trp Operon - Answer (click here)
180. Serendipitous Discovery of trp Enzyme Hypersynthesis - Answer (click
here)
181. Early Explorations of the Hypersynthesis - Answer (click here)
182. trp Multiple Secondary Structures in trp Leader RNA - Answer (click here)
183. Coupling Translation to Termination - Answer (click here)
184. RNA Secondary Structure and the Attenuation Mechanism - Answer (click
here)
185. Other Attenuated Systems: Operons, Bacillus subtilis and HIV - Answer
(click here)
186. Physical Structure of Lambda - Answer (click here)
187. Genetic Structure of Lambda - Answer (click here)
188. Lysogeny and Immunity - Answer (click here)
189. Lambda’s Relatives and Lambda Hybrids - Answer (click here)
190. Lambda Adsorption to Cells - Answer (click here)
191. Early Transcription of Genes N and Cro - Answer (click here)
192. N Protein and Antitermination of Early Gene Transcription - Answer (click
here)
193. Role of Cro Protein - Answer (click here)
194. Initiating DNA Synthesis with the O and P Proteins - Answer (click here)
195. Proteins Kil, γ, β, and Exo - Answer (click here)
196. Q Protein and Late Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
197. Lysis - Answer (click here)
198. Chronology of Becoming a Lysogen - Answer (click here)
199. Site for Cro Repression and CI Activation - Answer (click here)
200. Cooperativity in Repressor Binding and its Measurement - Answer (click
here)
201. Need for and the Realization of Hair-Trigger Induction - Answer (click
here)
202. Induction from the Lysogenic State - Answer (click here)
203. Entropy, a Basis for Lambda Repressor Inactivation - Answer (click here)
204. Biology of 5S RNA Synthesis in Xenopus - Answer (click here)
205. In vitro 5S RNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
206. TFIIIA Binding to the Middle of its Gene as Well as to RNA - Answer
(click here)
207. Switching from Oocyte to Somatic 5S Synthesis - Answer (click here)
208. Structure and Function of TFIIIA - Answer (click here)
209. Regulation of Mating Type in Yeast - Answer (click here)
210. Yeast Cell Cycle - Answer (click here)
211. Mating Type Conversion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae - Answer (click here)
212. Cloning the Mating Type Loci in Yeast - Answer (click here)
213. Transfer of Mating Type Gene Copies to an Expression Site - Answer
(click here)
214. Structure of the Mating Type Loci - Answer (click here)
215. Expression and Recombination Paradoxes - Answer (click here)
216. Silencing HML and HMR - Answer (click here)
217. Isolation of α2 Protein - Answer (click here)
218. α2 and MCM1 - Answer (click here)
219. Sterile Mutants, Membrane Receptors and G Factors - Answer (click here)
220. DNA Cleavage at the MAT Locus - Answer (click here)
221. DNA Strand Inheritance and Switching in Fission Yeast - Answer (click
here)
222. General Considerations on Signaling - Answer (click here)
223. Outline of Early Drosophila Development - Answer (click here)
224. Classical Embryology - Answer (click here)
225. Using Genetics to Begin Study of Developmental Systems - Answer (click
here)
226. Cloning Developmental Genes - Answer (click here)
227. Enhancer Traps for Detecting and Cloning Developmental Genes -
Answer (click here)
228. Expression Patterns of Developmental Genes - Answer (click here)
229. Similarities Among Developmental Genes - Answer (click here)
230. Overall Model of Drosophila Early Development - Answer (click here)

Lambda Phage Integration and Excision


1. Cell’s Need for Immense Amounts of Information - Answer (click here)
2. Rudiments of Prokaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
3. Rudiments of Eukaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
4. Packing DNA into Cells - Answer (click here)
5. Moving Molecules into or out of Cells - Answer (click here)
6. Diffusion within the Small Volume of a Cell - Answer (click here)
7. Exponentially Growing Populations - Answer (click here)
8. Composition Change in Growing Cells - Answer (click here)
9. Age Distribution in Populations of Growing Cell - Answer (click here)
10. The Regular Backbone of DNA - Answer (click here)
11. Grooves in DNA and Helical Forms of DNA - Answer (click here)
12. Dissociation and Reassociation of Base-paired Strands - Answer (click here)
13. Reading Sequence Without Dissociating Strands - Answer (click here)
14. Electrophoretic Fragment Separation - Answer (click here)
15. Bent DNA Sequences - Answer (click here)
16. Measurement of Helical Pitch - Answer (click here)
17. Topological Considerations in DNA Structure - Answer (click here)
18. Generating DNA with Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
19. Measuring Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
20. Determining Lk, Tw, and Wr in Hypothetical Structures - Answer (click
here)
21. Altering Linking Number - Answer (click here)
22. Biological Significance of Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
23. The Linking Number Paradox of Nucleosomes - Answer (click here)
24. General Chromosome Structure - Answer (click here)
25. Southern Transfers to Locate Nucleosomes on Genes - Answer (click here)
26. ARS Elements, Centromeres, and Telomeres - Answer (click here)
27. DNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
28. Proofreading, Okazaki Fragments, and DNA Ligase - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
29. Detection and Basic Properties of DNA Polymerases - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
30. In vitro DNA Replication - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
31. Error and Damage Correction - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
32. DNA Replication Areas In Chromosomes - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
33. Bidirectional Replication from E. coli Origins - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
34. The DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
35. Constancy of the E. coli DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
36. Regulating Initiations - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
37. Gel Electrophoresis Assay of Eukaryotic Replication Origins -
Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
38. How Fast Could DNA Be Replicated? - Physiological Aspects - Answer
(click here)
39. Measuring the Activity of RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
40. Concentration of Free RNA Polymerase in Cells - Answer (click here)
41. The RNA Polymerase in Escherichia coli - Answer (click here)
42. Three RNA Polymerases in Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
43. Multiple but Related Subunits in Polymerases - Answer (click here)
44. Multiple Sigma Subunits - Answer (click here)
45. Structure of Promoters - Answer (click here)
46. Enhancers - Answer (click here)
47. Enhancer-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. DNA Looping in Regulating Promoter Activities - Answer (click here)
49. Steps of the Initiation Process - Answer (click here)
50. Measurement of Binding and Initiation Rates - Answer (click here)
51. Relating Abortive Initiations to Binding and Initiating - Answer (click here)
52. Roles of Auxiliary Transcription Factors - Answer (click here)
53. Melted DNA Under RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
54. Polymerase Elongation Rate - Answer (click here)
55. Transcription Termination at Specific Sites - Answer (click here)
56. RNA Termination - Answer (click here)
57. Processing Prokaryotic RNAs After Synthesis - Answer (click here)
58. S1 Mapping to Locate 5’ and 3’ Ends of Transcripts - Answer (click here)
59. Caps, Splices, Edits, and Poly-A Tails on Eukaryotic RNAs - Answer
(click here)
60. The Discovery and Assay of RNA Splicing - Answer (click here)
61. Involvement of the U1 snRNP Particle in Splicing - Answer (click here)
62. Splicing Reactions and Complexes - Answer (click here)
63. The Discovery of Self-Splicing RNAs - Answer (click here)
64. A Common Mechanism for Splicing Reactions - Answer (click here)
65. Other RNA Processing Reactions - Answer (click here)
66. Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
67. The Amino Acids - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
68. Peptide Bond - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
69. Electrostatic Forces that Determine Protein Structure - Protein Structure
- Answer (click here)
70. Hydrogen Bonds and the Chelate Effect - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
71. Hydrophobic Forces - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
72. Thermodynamic Considerations of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
73. Structures within Proteins - Answer (click here)
74. Alpha Helix, Beta Sheet, and Beta Turn - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
75. Calculation of Protein Tertiary Structure - Answer (click here)
76. Secondary Structure Predictions - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
77. Structures of DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
78. Salt Effects on Protein-DNA Interactions - Answer (click here)
79. Locating Specific Residue-Base Interactions - Protein Structure - Answer
(click here)
80. Activation of Amino Acids During Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
81. Fidelity of Aminoacylation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
82. How Synthetases Identify the Correct tRNA Molecule - Answer (click here)
83. Decoding the Message - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
84. Base Pairing between Ribosomal RNA and Messenger - Answer (click here)
85. Experimental Support for the Shine-Dalgarno Hypothesis - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
86. Eukaryotic Translation and the First AUG - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
87. Tricking the Translation Machinery into Initiating - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
88. Protein Elongation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
89. Peptide Bond Formation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
90. Translocation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
91. Termination, Nonsense, and Suppression - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
92. Chaperones and Catalyzed Protein Folding - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
93. Resolution of a Paradox - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
94. Messenger Instability - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
95. Protein Elongation Rates - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
96. Directing Proteins to Specific Cellular Sites - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
97. Verifying the Signal Peptide Model - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
98. The Signal Recognition Particle and Translocation - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
99. Expectations for Ribosome Regulation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
100. Proportionality of Ribosome Levels and Growth Rates - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
101. Regulation of Ribosome Synthesis - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
102. Balancing Synthesis of Ribosomal Components - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
103. Genetics Mutations - Answer (click here)
104. Point Mutations, Deletions, Insertions, and Damage - Answer (click here)
105. Classical Genetics of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
106. Complementation, Cis, Trans, Dominant, and Recessive - Answer (click
here)
107. Mechanism of a trans Dominant Negative Mutation - Answer (click here)
108. Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
109. Genetics Mapping by Recombination Frequencies - Answer (click here)
110. Genetics: Mapping by Deletions - Answer (click here)
111. Heteroduplexes and Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
112. Genetics: Branch Migration and Isomerization - Answer (click here)
113. Elements of Recombination in E. coli, RecA, RecBCD, and Chi - Answer
(click here)
114. Genetic Systems - Answer (click here)
115. Growing Cells for Genetics Experiments - Answer (click here)
116. Testing Purified Cultures, Scoring - Answer (click here)
117. Isolating Auxotrophs, Use of Mutagens and Replica Plating - Answer
(click here)
118. Genetic Selections - Answer (click here)
119. Mapping with Generalized Transducing Phage - Answer (click here)
120. Principles of Bacterial Sex - Answer (click here)
121. Elements of Yeast Genetics - Answer (click here)
122. Elements of Drosophila Genetics - Answer (click here)
123. Isolating Mutations in Muscle or Nerve in Drosophila - Answer (click here)
124. Fate Mapping and Study of Tissue-Specific Gene Expression - Answer
(click here)
125. Isolation of DNA - Answer (click here)
126. Biology of Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
127. Cutting DNA with Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
128. Isolation of DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
129. Joining DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
130. Vectors: Selection and Autonomous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
131. Plasmid Vectors - Answer (click here)
132. A Phage Vector for Bacteria - Answer (click here)
133. Vectors for Higher Cells - Answer (click here)
134. Putting DNA Back into Cells - Answer (click here)
135. Cloning from RNA - Answer (click here)
136. Plaque and Colony Hybridization for Clone Identification - Answer (click
here)
137. Walking Along a Chromosome to Clone a Gene - Answer (click here)
138. Arrest of Translation to Assay for DNA of a Gene - Answer (click here)
139. Chemical DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
140. Enzymatic DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
141. Finding Clones from a Known Amino Acid Sequence - Answer (click here)
142. Finding Clones Using Antibodies Against a Protein - Answer (click here)
143. Southern, Northern, and Western Transfers - Genetic Engineering -
Answer (click here)
144. Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
145. Isolation of Rare Sequences Utilizing PCR - Answer (click here)
146. Physical and Genetic Maps of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
147. Chromosome Mapping - Answer (click here)
148. DNA Fingerprinting - Forensics - Answer (click here)
149. Megabase Sequencing - Answer (click here)
150. Footprinting, Premodification and Missing Contact Probing - Answer (click
here)
151. Antisense RNA: Selective Gene Inactivation - Answer (click here)
152. Hypersynthesis of Proteins - Answer (click here)
153. Altering Cloned DNA by in vitro Mutagenesis - Answer (click here)
154. Mutagenesis with Chemically Synthesized DNA - Answer (click here)
155. Repression and the lac Operon - Answer (click here)
156. Role of Inducer Analogs in the Study of the lac Operon - Answer (click
here)
157. Proving lac Repressor is a Protein - Answer (click here)
158. An Assay for lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
159. Difficulty of Detecting Wild Type lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
160. Detection and Purification of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
161. Repressor Binds to DNA: The Operator is DNA - Answer (click here)
162. Migration Retardation Assay and DNA Looping - Repression and the lac
Operon - Answer (click here)
163. Isolation and Structure of Operator - Repression and the lac Operon -
Answer (click here)
164. In vivo Affinity of Repressor for Operator - Answer (click here)
165. DNA-binding Domain of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
166. A Mechanism for Induction - Repression and the lac Operon - Answer
(click here)
167. Sugar Arabinose and Arabinose Metabolism - Answer (click here)
168. Genetics of the Arabinose System - Answer (click here)
169. Detection and Isolation of AraC Protein - Answer (click here)
170. Repression by AraC - Answer (click here)
171. Regulating AraC Synthesis - Answer (click here)
172. Binding Sites of the ara Regulatory Proteins - Answer (click here)
173. DNA Looping and Repression of araBAD - Answer (click here)
174. In vivo Footprinting Demonstration of Looping - Answer (click here)
175. How AraC Protein Loops and Unloops - Answer (click here)
176. Why Looping is Biologically Sensible - Answer (click here)
177. Why Positive Regulators are a Good Idea - Answer (click here)
178. Attenuation and the trp Operon - Answer (click here)
179. Rapid Induction Capabilities of the trp Operon - Answer (click here)
180. Serendipitous Discovery of trp Enzyme Hypersynthesis - Answer (click
here)
181. Early Explorations of the Hypersynthesis - Answer (click here)
182. trp Multiple Secondary Structures in trp Leader RNA - Answer (click here)
183. Coupling Translation to Termination - Answer (click here)
184. RNA Secondary Structure and the Attenuation Mechanism - Answer (click
here)
185. Other Attenuated Systems: Operons, Bacillus subtilis and HIV - Answer
(click here)
186. Physical Structure of Lambda - Answer (click here)
187. Genetic Structure of Lambda - Answer (click here)
188. Lysogeny and Immunity - Answer (click here)
189. Lambda’s Relatives and Lambda Hybrids - Answer (click here)
190. Lambda Adsorption to Cells - Answer (click here)
191. Early Transcription of Genes N and Cro - Answer (click here)
192. N Protein and Antitermination of Early Gene Transcription - Answer (click
here)
193. Role of Cro Protein - Answer (click here)
194. Initiating DNA Synthesis with the O and P Proteins - Answer (click here)
195. Proteins Kil, γ, β, and Exo - Answer (click here)
196. Q Protein and Late Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
197. Lysis - Answer (click here)
198. Chronology of Becoming a Lysogen - Answer (click here)
199. Site for Cro Repression and CI Activation - Answer (click here)
200. Cooperativity in Repressor Binding and its Measurement - Answer (click
here)
201. Need for and the Realization of Hair-Trigger Induction - Answer (click
here)
202. Induction from the Lysogenic State - Answer (click here)
203. Entropy, a Basis for Lambda Repressor Inactivation - Answer (click here)
204. Biology of 5S RNA Synthesis in Xenopus - Answer (click here)
205. In vitro 5S RNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
206. TFIIIA Binding to the Middle of its Gene as Well as to RNA - Answer
(click here)
207. Switching from Oocyte to Somatic 5S Synthesis - Answer (click here)
208. Structure and Function of TFIIIA - Answer (click here)
209. Regulation of Mating Type in Yeast - Answer (click here)
210. Yeast Cell Cycle - Answer (click here)
211. Mating Type Conversion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae - Answer (click here)
212. Cloning the Mating Type Loci in Yeast - Answer (click here)
213. Transfer of Mating Type Gene Copies to an Expression Site - Answer
(click here)
214. Structure of the Mating Type Loci - Answer (click here)
215. Expression and Recombination Paradoxes - Answer (click here)
216. Silencing HML and HMR - Answer (click here)
217. Isolation of α2 Protein - Answer (click here)
218. α2 and MCM1 - Answer (click here)
219. Sterile Mutants, Membrane Receptors and G Factors - Answer (click here)
220. DNA Cleavage at the MAT Locus - Answer (click here)
221. DNA Strand Inheritance and Switching in Fission Yeast - Answer (click
here)
222. General Considerations on Signaling - Answer (click here)
223. Outline of Early Drosophila Development - Answer (click here)
224. Classical Embryology - Answer (click here)
225. Using Genetics to Begin Study of Developmental Systems - Answer (click
here)
226. Cloning Developmental Genes - Answer (click here)
227. Enhancer Traps for Detecting and Cloning Developmental Genes -
Answer (click here)
228. Expression Patterns of Developmental Genes - Answer (click here)
229. Similarities Among Developmental Genes - Answer (click here)
230. Overall Model of Drosophila Early Development - Answer (click here)
231. Mapping Integrated Lambda - Answer (click here)
232. Simultaneous Deletion of Chromosomal and Lambda DNA - Answer (click
here)
233. DNA Heteroduplexes Prove that Lambda Integrates - Answer (click here)
234. Gene Order Permutation and the Campbell Model - Answer (click here)
235. Isolation of Integration-Defective Mutants - Answer (click here)
236. Isolation of Excision-Deficient Mutants - Answer (click here)
237. Properties of the int and xis Gene Products - Answer (click here)
238. Incorrect Excision and gal and bio Transducing Phage - Answer (click here)
239. Transducing Phage Carrying Genes Other than gal and bio - Answer (click
here)
240. Use of Transducing Phage to Study Integration and Excision - Answer
(click here)
241. The Double att Phage, att.squ - Answer (click here)
242. Demonstrating Xis is Unstable - Answer (click here)
243. Inhibition By a Downstream Element - Answer (click here)
244. In vitro Assay of Integration and Excision - Answer (click here)
245. Host Proteins Involved in Integration and Excision - Answer (click here)
246. Structure of the att Regions - Answer (click here)
247. Structure of the Intasome - Answer (click here)
248. Holliday Structures and Branch Migration in Integration - Answer (click
here)

Transposable Genetic Elements


1. Cell’s Need for Immense Amounts of Information - Answer (click here)
2. Rudiments of Prokaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
3. Rudiments of Eukaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
4. Packing DNA into Cells - Answer (click here)
5. Moving Molecules into or out of Cells - Answer (click here)
6. Diffusion within the Small Volume of a Cell - Answer (click here)
7. Exponentially Growing Populations - Answer (click here)
8. Composition Change in Growing Cells - Answer (click here)
9. Age Distribution in Populations of Growing Cell - Answer (click here)
10. The Regular Backbone of DNA - Answer (click here)
11. Grooves in DNA and Helical Forms of DNA - Answer (click here)
12. Dissociation and Reassociation of Base-paired Strands - Answer (click here)
13. Reading Sequence Without Dissociating Strands - Answer (click here)
14. Electrophoretic Fragment Separation - Answer (click here)
15. Bent DNA Sequences - Answer (click here)
16. Measurement of Helical Pitch - Answer (click here)
17. Topological Considerations in DNA Structure - Answer (click here)
18. Generating DNA with Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
19. Measuring Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
20. Determining Lk, Tw, and Wr in Hypothetical Structures - Answer (click
here)
21. Altering Linking Number - Answer (click here)
22. Biological Significance of Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
23. The Linking Number Paradox of Nucleosomes - Answer (click here)
24. General Chromosome Structure - Answer (click here)
25. Southern Transfers to Locate Nucleosomes on Genes - Answer (click here)
26. ARS Elements, Centromeres, and Telomeres - Answer (click here)
27. DNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
28. Proofreading, Okazaki Fragments, and DNA Ligase - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
29. Detection and Basic Properties of DNA Polymerases - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
30. In vitro DNA Replication - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
31. Error and Damage Correction - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
32. DNA Replication Areas In Chromosomes - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
33. Bidirectional Replication from E. coli Origins - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
34. The DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
35. Constancy of the E. coli DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
36. Regulating Initiations - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
37. Gel Electrophoresis Assay of Eukaryotic Replication Origins -
Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
38. How Fast Could DNA Be Replicated? - Physiological Aspects - Answer
(click here)
39. Measuring the Activity of RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
40. Concentration of Free RNA Polymerase in Cells - Answer (click here)
41. The RNA Polymerase in Escherichia coli - Answer (click here)
42. Three RNA Polymerases in Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
43. Multiple but Related Subunits in Polymerases - Answer (click here)
44. Multiple Sigma Subunits - Answer (click here)
45. Structure of Promoters - Answer (click here)
46. Enhancers - Answer (click here)
47. Enhancer-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. DNA Looping in Regulating Promoter Activities - Answer (click here)
49. Steps of the Initiation Process - Answer (click here)
50. Measurement of Binding and Initiation Rates - Answer (click here)
51. Relating Abortive Initiations to Binding and Initiating - Answer (click here)
52. Roles of Auxiliary Transcription Factors - Answer (click here)
53. Melted DNA Under RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
54. Polymerase Elongation Rate - Answer (click here)
55. Transcription Termination at Specific Sites - Answer (click here)
56. RNA Termination - Answer (click here)
57. Processing Prokaryotic RNAs After Synthesis - Answer (click here)
58. S1 Mapping to Locate 5’ and 3’ Ends of Transcripts - Answer (click here)
59. Caps, Splices, Edits, and Poly-A Tails on Eukaryotic RNAs - Answer
(click here)
60. The Discovery and Assay of RNA Splicing - Answer (click here)
61. Involvement of the U1 snRNP Particle in Splicing - Answer (click here)
62. Splicing Reactions and Complexes - Answer (click here)
63. The Discovery of Self-Splicing RNAs - Answer (click here)
64. A Common Mechanism for Splicing Reactions - Answer (click here)
65. Other RNA Processing Reactions - Answer (click here)
66. Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
67. The Amino Acids - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
68. Peptide Bond - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
69. Electrostatic Forces that Determine Protein Structure - Protein Structure
- Answer (click here)
70. Hydrogen Bonds and the Chelate Effect - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
71. Hydrophobic Forces - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
72. Thermodynamic Considerations of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
73. Structures within Proteins - Answer (click here)
74. Alpha Helix, Beta Sheet, and Beta Turn - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
75. Calculation of Protein Tertiary Structure - Answer (click here)
76. Secondary Structure Predictions - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
77. Structures of DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
78. Salt Effects on Protein-DNA Interactions - Answer (click here)
79. Locating Specific Residue-Base Interactions - Protein Structure - Answer
(click here)
80. Activation of Amino Acids During Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
81. Fidelity of Aminoacylation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
82. How Synthetases Identify the Correct tRNA Molecule - Answer (click here)
83. Decoding the Message - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
84. Base Pairing between Ribosomal RNA and Messenger - Answer (click here)
85. Experimental Support for the Shine-Dalgarno Hypothesis - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
86. Eukaryotic Translation and the First AUG - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
87. Tricking the Translation Machinery into Initiating - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
88. Protein Elongation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
89. Peptide Bond Formation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
90. Translocation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
91. Termination, Nonsense, and Suppression - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
92. Chaperones and Catalyzed Protein Folding - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
93. Resolution of a Paradox - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
94. Messenger Instability - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
95. Protein Elongation Rates - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
96. Directing Proteins to Specific Cellular Sites - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
97. Verifying the Signal Peptide Model - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
98. The Signal Recognition Particle and Translocation - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
99. Expectations for Ribosome Regulation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
100. Proportionality of Ribosome Levels and Growth Rates - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
101. Regulation of Ribosome Synthesis - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
102. Balancing Synthesis of Ribosomal Components - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
103. Genetics Mutations - Answer (click here)
104. Point Mutations, Deletions, Insertions, and Damage - Answer (click here)
105. Classical Genetics of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
106. Complementation, Cis, Trans, Dominant, and Recessive - Answer (click
here)
107. Mechanism of a trans Dominant Negative Mutation - Answer (click here)
108. Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
109. Genetics Mapping by Recombination Frequencies - Answer (click here)
110. Genetics: Mapping by Deletions - Answer (click here)
111. Heteroduplexes and Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
112. Genetics: Branch Migration and Isomerization - Answer (click here)
113. Elements of Recombination in E. coli, RecA, RecBCD, and Chi - Answer
(click here)
114. Genetic Systems - Answer (click here)
115. Growing Cells for Genetics Experiments - Answer (click here)
116. Testing Purified Cultures, Scoring - Answer (click here)
117. Isolating Auxotrophs, Use of Mutagens and Replica Plating - Answer
(click here)
118. Genetic Selections - Answer (click here)
119. Mapping with Generalized Transducing Phage - Answer (click here)
120. Principles of Bacterial Sex - Answer (click here)
121. Elements of Yeast Genetics - Answer (click here)
122. Elements of Drosophila Genetics - Answer (click here)
123. Isolating Mutations in Muscle or Nerve in Drosophila - Answer (click here)
124. Fate Mapping and Study of Tissue-Specific Gene Expression - Answer
(click here)
125. Isolation of DNA - Answer (click here)
126. Biology of Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
127. Cutting DNA with Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
128. Isolation of DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
129. Joining DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
130. Vectors: Selection and Autonomous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
131. Plasmid Vectors - Answer (click here)
132. A Phage Vector for Bacteria - Answer (click here)
133. Vectors for Higher Cells - Answer (click here)
134. Putting DNA Back into Cells - Answer (click here)
135. Cloning from RNA - Answer (click here)
136. Plaque and Colony Hybridization for Clone Identification - Answer (click
here)
137. Walking Along a Chromosome to Clone a Gene - Answer (click here)
138. Arrest of Translation to Assay for DNA of a Gene - Answer (click here)
139. Chemical DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
140. Enzymatic DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
141. Finding Clones from a Known Amino Acid Sequence - Answer (click here)
142. Finding Clones Using Antibodies Against a Protein - Answer (click here)
143. Southern, Northern, and Western Transfers - Genetic Engineering -
Answer (click here)
144. Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
145. Isolation of Rare Sequences Utilizing PCR - Answer (click here)
146. Physical and Genetic Maps of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
147. Chromosome Mapping - Answer (click here)
148. DNA Fingerprinting - Forensics - Answer (click here)
149. Megabase Sequencing - Answer (click here)
150. Footprinting, Premodification and Missing Contact Probing - Answer (click
here)
151. Antisense RNA: Selective Gene Inactivation - Answer (click here)
152. Hypersynthesis of Proteins - Answer (click here)
153. Altering Cloned DNA by in vitro Mutagenesis - Answer (click here)
154. Mutagenesis with Chemically Synthesized DNA - Answer (click here)
155. Repression and the lac Operon - Answer (click here)
156. Role of Inducer Analogs in the Study of the lac Operon - Answer (click
here)
157. Proving lac Repressor is a Protein - Answer (click here)
158. An Assay for lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
159. Difficulty of Detecting Wild Type lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
160. Detection and Purification of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
161. Repressor Binds to DNA: The Operator is DNA - Answer (click here)
162. Migration Retardation Assay and DNA Looping - Repression and the lac
Operon - Answer (click here)
163. Isolation and Structure of Operator - Repression and the lac Operon -
Answer (click here)
164. In vivo Affinity of Repressor for Operator - Answer (click here)
165. DNA-binding Domain of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
166. A Mechanism for Induction - Repression and the lac Operon - Answer
(click here)
167. Sugar Arabinose and Arabinose Metabolism - Answer (click here)
168. Genetics of the Arabinose System - Answer (click here)
169. Detection and Isolation of AraC Protein - Answer (click here)
170. Repression by AraC - Answer (click here)
171. Regulating AraC Synthesis - Answer (click here)
172. Binding Sites of the ara Regulatory Proteins - Answer (click here)
173. DNA Looping and Repression of araBAD - Answer (click here)
174. In vivo Footprinting Demonstration of Looping - Answer (click here)
175. How AraC Protein Loops and Unloops - Answer (click here)
176. Why Looping is Biologically Sensible - Answer (click here)
177. Why Positive Regulators are a Good Idea - Answer (click here)
178. Attenuation and the trp Operon - Answer (click here)
179. Rapid Induction Capabilities of the trp Operon - Answer (click here)
180. Serendipitous Discovery of trp Enzyme Hypersynthesis - Answer (click
here)
181. Early Explorations of the Hypersynthesis - Answer (click here)
182. trp Multiple Secondary Structures in trp Leader RNA - Answer (click here)
183. Coupling Translation to Termination - Answer (click here)
184. RNA Secondary Structure and the Attenuation Mechanism - Answer (click
here)
185. Other Attenuated Systems: Operons, Bacillus subtilis and HIV - Answer
(click here)
186. Physical Structure of Lambda - Answer (click here)
187. Genetic Structure of Lambda - Answer (click here)
188. Lysogeny and Immunity - Answer (click here)
189. Lambda’s Relatives and Lambda Hybrids - Answer (click here)
190. Lambda Adsorption to Cells - Answer (click here)
191. Early Transcription of Genes N and Cro - Answer (click here)
192. N Protein and Antitermination of Early Gene Transcription - Answer (click
here)
193. Role of Cro Protein - Answer (click here)
194. Initiating DNA Synthesis with the O and P Proteins - Answer (click here)
195. Proteins Kil, γ, β, and Exo - Answer (click here)
196. Q Protein and Late Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
197. Lysis - Answer (click here)
198. Chronology of Becoming a Lysogen - Answer (click here)
199. Site for Cro Repression and CI Activation - Answer (click here)
200. Cooperativity in Repressor Binding and its Measurement - Answer (click
here)
201. Need for and the Realization of Hair-Trigger Induction - Answer (click
here)
202. Induction from the Lysogenic State - Answer (click here)
203. Entropy, a Basis for Lambda Repressor Inactivation - Answer (click here)
204. Biology of 5S RNA Synthesis in Xenopus - Answer (click here)
205. In vitro 5S RNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
206. TFIIIA Binding to the Middle of its Gene as Well as to RNA - Answer
(click here)
207. Switching from Oocyte to Somatic 5S Synthesis - Answer (click here)
208. Structure and Function of TFIIIA - Answer (click here)
209. Regulation of Mating Type in Yeast - Answer (click here)
210. Yeast Cell Cycle - Answer (click here)
211. Mating Type Conversion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae - Answer (click here)
212. Cloning the Mating Type Loci in Yeast - Answer (click here)
213. Transfer of Mating Type Gene Copies to an Expression Site - Answer
(click here)
214. Structure of the Mating Type Loci - Answer (click here)
215. Expression and Recombination Paradoxes - Answer (click here)
216. Silencing HML and HMR - Answer (click here)
217. Isolation of α2 Protein - Answer (click here)
218. α2 and MCM1 - Answer (click here)
219. Sterile Mutants, Membrane Receptors and G Factors - Answer (click here)
220. DNA Cleavage at the MAT Locus - Answer (click here)
221. DNA Strand Inheritance and Switching in Fission Yeast - Answer (click
here)
222. General Considerations on Signaling - Answer (click here)
223. Outline of Early Drosophila Development - Answer (click here)
224. Classical Embryology - Answer (click here)
225. Using Genetics to Begin Study of Developmental Systems - Answer (click
here)
226. Cloning Developmental Genes - Answer (click here)
227. Enhancer Traps for Detecting and Cloning Developmental Genes -
Answer (click here)
228. Expression Patterns of Developmental Genes - Answer (click here)
229. Similarities Among Developmental Genes - Answer (click here)
230. Overall Model of Drosophila Early Development - Answer (click here)
231. Mapping Integrated Lambda - Answer (click here)
232. Simultaneous Deletion of Chromosomal and Lambda DNA - Answer (click
here)
233. DNA Heteroduplexes Prove that Lambda Integrates - Answer (click here)
234. Gene Order Permutation and the Campbell Model - Answer (click here)
235. Isolation of Integration-Defective Mutants - Answer (click here)
236. Isolation of Excision-Deficient Mutants - Answer (click here)
237. Properties of the int and xis Gene Products - Answer (click here)
238. Incorrect Excision and gal and bio Transducing Phage - Answer (click here)
239. Transducing Phage Carrying Genes Other than gal and bio - Answer (click
here)
240. Use of Transducing Phage to Study Integration and Excision - Answer
(click here)
241. The Double att Phage, att.squ - Answer (click here)
242. Demonstrating Xis is Unstable - Answer (click here)
243. Inhibition By a Downstream Element - Answer (click here)
244. In vitro Assay of Integration and Excision - Answer (click here)
245. Host Proteins Involved in Integration and Excision - Answer (click here)
246. Structure of the att Regions - Answer (click here)
247. Structure of the Intasome - Answer (click here)
248. Holliday Structures and Branch Migration in Integration - Answer (click
here)
249. Transposable Genetic Elements - Answer (click here)
250. IS Elements in Bacteria - Answer (click here)
251. Structure and Properties of IS Elements - Answer (click here)
252. Discovery of Tn Elements - Answer (click here)
253. Structure and Properties of Tn Elements - Answer (click here)
254. Inverting DNA Segments by Recombination, Flagellin Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
255. Mu Phage As a Giant Transposable Element - Answer (click here)
256. An Invertible Segment of Mu Phage - Answer (click here)
257. In vitro Transposition, Threading or Global Topology? - Answer (click here)
258. Hopping by Tn10 - Answer (click here)
259. Retrotransposons in Higher Cells - Answer (click here)
260. An RNA Transposition Intermediate - Answer (click here)
261. P Elements and Transformation - Answer (click here)
262. P Element Hopping by Chromosome Rescue - Answer (click here)

Generating Genetic Diversity


1. Cell’s Need for Immense Amounts of Information - Answer (click here)
2. Rudiments of Prokaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
3. Rudiments of Eukaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
4. Packing DNA into Cells - Answer (click here)
5. Moving Molecules into or out of Cells - Answer (click here)
6. Diffusion within the Small Volume of a Cell - Answer (click here)
7. Exponentially Growing Populations - Answer (click here)
8. Composition Change in Growing Cells - Answer (click here)
9. Age Distribution in Populations of Growing Cell - Answer (click here)
10. The Regular Backbone of DNA - Answer (click here)
11. Grooves in DNA and Helical Forms of DNA - Answer (click here)
12. Dissociation and Reassociation of Base-paired Strands - Answer (click here)
13. Reading Sequence Without Dissociating Strands - Answer (click here)
14. Electrophoretic Fragment Separation - Answer (click here)
15. Bent DNA Sequences - Answer (click here)
16. Measurement of Helical Pitch - Answer (click here)
17. Topological Considerations in DNA Structure - Answer (click here)
18. Generating DNA with Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
19. Measuring Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
20. Determining Lk, Tw, and Wr in Hypothetical Structures - Answer (click
here)
21. Altering Linking Number - Answer (click here)
22. Biological Significance of Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
23. The Linking Number Paradox of Nucleosomes - Answer (click here)
24. General Chromosome Structure - Answer (click here)
25. Southern Transfers to Locate Nucleosomes on Genes - Answer (click here)
26. ARS Elements, Centromeres, and Telomeres - Answer (click here)
27. DNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
28. Proofreading, Okazaki Fragments, and DNA Ligase - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
29. Detection and Basic Properties of DNA Polymerases - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
30. In vitro DNA Replication - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
31. Error and Damage Correction - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
32. DNA Replication Areas In Chromosomes - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
33. Bidirectional Replication from E. coli Origins - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
34. The DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
35. Constancy of the E. coli DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
36. Regulating Initiations - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
37. Gel Electrophoresis Assay of Eukaryotic Replication Origins -
Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
38. How Fast Could DNA Be Replicated? - Physiological Aspects - Answer
(click here)
39. Measuring the Activity of RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
40. Concentration of Free RNA Polymerase in Cells - Answer (click here)
41. The RNA Polymerase in Escherichia coli - Answer (click here)
42. Three RNA Polymerases in Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
43. Multiple but Related Subunits in Polymerases - Answer (click here)
44. Multiple Sigma Subunits - Answer (click here)
45. Structure of Promoters - Answer (click here)
46. Enhancers - Answer (click here)
47. Enhancer-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. DNA Looping in Regulating Promoter Activities - Answer (click here)
49. Steps of the Initiation Process - Answer (click here)
50. Measurement of Binding and Initiation Rates - Answer (click here)
51. Relating Abortive Initiations to Binding and Initiating - Answer (click here)
52. Roles of Auxiliary Transcription Factors - Answer (click here)
53. Melted DNA Under RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
54. Polymerase Elongation Rate - Answer (click here)
55. Transcription Termination at Specific Sites - Answer (click here)
56. RNA Termination - Answer (click here)
57. Processing Prokaryotic RNAs After Synthesis - Answer (click here)
58. S1 Mapping to Locate 5’ and 3’ Ends of Transcripts - Answer (click here)
59. Caps, Splices, Edits, and Poly-A Tails on Eukaryotic RNAs - Answer
(click here)
60. The Discovery and Assay of RNA Splicing - Answer (click here)
61. Involvement of the U1 snRNP Particle in Splicing - Answer (click here)
62. Splicing Reactions and Complexes - Answer (click here)
63. The Discovery of Self-Splicing RNAs - Answer (click here)
64. A Common Mechanism for Splicing Reactions - Answer (click here)
65. Other RNA Processing Reactions - Answer (click here)
66. Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
67. The Amino Acids - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
68. Peptide Bond - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
69. Electrostatic Forces that Determine Protein Structure - Protein Structure
- Answer (click here)
70. Hydrogen Bonds and the Chelate Effect - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
71. Hydrophobic Forces - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
72. Thermodynamic Considerations of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
73. Structures within Proteins - Answer (click here)
74. Alpha Helix, Beta Sheet, and Beta Turn - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
75. Calculation of Protein Tertiary Structure - Answer (click here)
76. Secondary Structure Predictions - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
77. Structures of DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
78. Salt Effects on Protein-DNA Interactions - Answer (click here)
79. Locating Specific Residue-Base Interactions - Protein Structure - Answer
(click here)
80. Activation of Amino Acids During Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
81. Fidelity of Aminoacylation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
82. How Synthetases Identify the Correct tRNA Molecule - Answer (click here)
83. Decoding the Message - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
84. Base Pairing between Ribosomal RNA and Messenger - Answer (click here)
85. Experimental Support for the Shine-Dalgarno Hypothesis - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
86. Eukaryotic Translation and the First AUG - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
87. Tricking the Translation Machinery into Initiating - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
88. Protein Elongation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
89. Peptide Bond Formation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
90. Translocation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
91. Termination, Nonsense, and Suppression - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
92. Chaperones and Catalyzed Protein Folding - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
93. Resolution of a Paradox - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
94. Messenger Instability - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
95. Protein Elongation Rates - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
96. Directing Proteins to Specific Cellular Sites - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
97. Verifying the Signal Peptide Model - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
98. The Signal Recognition Particle and Translocation - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
99. Expectations for Ribosome Regulation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
100. Proportionality of Ribosome Levels and Growth Rates - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
101. Regulation of Ribosome Synthesis - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
102. Balancing Synthesis of Ribosomal Components - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
103. Genetics Mutations - Answer (click here)
104. Point Mutations, Deletions, Insertions, and Damage - Answer (click here)
105. Classical Genetics of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
106. Complementation, Cis, Trans, Dominant, and Recessive - Answer (click
here)
107. Mechanism of a trans Dominant Negative Mutation - Answer (click here)
108. Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
109. Genetics Mapping by Recombination Frequencies - Answer (click here)
110. Genetics: Mapping by Deletions - Answer (click here)
111. Heteroduplexes and Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
112. Genetics: Branch Migration and Isomerization - Answer (click here)
113. Elements of Recombination in E. coli, RecA, RecBCD, and Chi - Answer
(click here)
114. Genetic Systems - Answer (click here)
115. Growing Cells for Genetics Experiments - Answer (click here)
116. Testing Purified Cultures, Scoring - Answer (click here)
117. Isolating Auxotrophs, Use of Mutagens and Replica Plating - Answer
(click here)
118. Genetic Selections - Answer (click here)
119. Mapping with Generalized Transducing Phage - Answer (click here)
120. Principles of Bacterial Sex - Answer (click here)
121. Elements of Yeast Genetics - Answer (click here)
122. Elements of Drosophila Genetics - Answer (click here)
123. Isolating Mutations in Muscle or Nerve in Drosophila - Answer (click here)
124. Fate Mapping and Study of Tissue-Specific Gene Expression - Answer
(click here)
125. Isolation of DNA - Answer (click here)
126. Biology of Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
127. Cutting DNA with Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
128. Isolation of DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
129. Joining DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
130. Vectors: Selection and Autonomous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
131. Plasmid Vectors - Answer (click here)
132. A Phage Vector for Bacteria - Answer (click here)
133. Vectors for Higher Cells - Answer (click here)
134. Putting DNA Back into Cells - Answer (click here)
135. Cloning from RNA - Answer (click here)
136. Plaque and Colony Hybridization for Clone Identification - Answer (click
here)
137. Walking Along a Chromosome to Clone a Gene - Answer (click here)
138. Arrest of Translation to Assay for DNA of a Gene - Answer (click here)
139. Chemical DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
140. Enzymatic DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
141. Finding Clones from a Known Amino Acid Sequence - Answer (click here)
142. Finding Clones Using Antibodies Against a Protein - Answer (click here)
143. Southern, Northern, and Western Transfers - Genetic Engineering -
Answer (click here)
144. Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
145. Isolation of Rare Sequences Utilizing PCR - Answer (click here)
146. Physical and Genetic Maps of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
147. Chromosome Mapping - Answer (click here)
148. DNA Fingerprinting - Forensics - Answer (click here)
149. Megabase Sequencing - Answer (click here)
150. Footprinting, Premodification and Missing Contact Probing - Answer (click
here)
151. Antisense RNA: Selective Gene Inactivation - Answer (click here)
152. Hypersynthesis of Proteins - Answer (click here)
153. Altering Cloned DNA by in vitro Mutagenesis - Answer (click here)
154. Mutagenesis with Chemically Synthesized DNA - Answer (click here)
155. Repression and the lac Operon - Answer (click here)
156. Role of Inducer Analogs in the Study of the lac Operon - Answer (click
here)
157. Proving lac Repressor is a Protein - Answer (click here)
158. An Assay for lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
159. Difficulty of Detecting Wild Type lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
160. Detection and Purification of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
161. Repressor Binds to DNA: The Operator is DNA - Answer (click here)
162. Migration Retardation Assay and DNA Looping - Repression and the lac
Operon - Answer (click here)
163. Isolation and Structure of Operator - Repression and the lac Operon -
Answer (click here)
164. In vivo Affinity of Repressor for Operator - Answer (click here)
165. DNA-binding Domain of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
166. A Mechanism for Induction - Repression and the lac Operon - Answer
(click here)
167. Sugar Arabinose and Arabinose Metabolism - Answer (click here)
168. Genetics of the Arabinose System - Answer (click here)
169. Detection and Isolation of AraC Protein - Answer (click here)
170. Repression by AraC - Answer (click here)
171. Regulating AraC Synthesis - Answer (click here)
172. Binding Sites of the ara Regulatory Proteins - Answer (click here)
173. DNA Looping and Repression of araBAD - Answer (click here)
174. In vivo Footprinting Demonstration of Looping - Answer (click here)
175. How AraC Protein Loops and Unloops - Answer (click here)
176. Why Looping is Biologically Sensible - Answer (click here)
177. Why Positive Regulators are a Good Idea - Answer (click here)
178. Attenuation and the trp Operon - Answer (click here)
179. Rapid Induction Capabilities of the trp Operon - Answer (click here)
180. Serendipitous Discovery of trp Enzyme Hypersynthesis - Answer (click
here)
181. Early Explorations of the Hypersynthesis - Answer (click here)
182. trp Multiple Secondary Structures in trp Leader RNA - Answer (click here)
183. Coupling Translation to Termination - Answer (click here)
184. RNA Secondary Structure and the Attenuation Mechanism - Answer (click
here)
185. Other Attenuated Systems: Operons, Bacillus subtilis and HIV - Answer
(click here)
186. Physical Structure of Lambda - Answer (click here)
187. Genetic Structure of Lambda - Answer (click here)
188. Lysogeny and Immunity - Answer (click here)
189. Lambda’s Relatives and Lambda Hybrids - Answer (click here)
190. Lambda Adsorption to Cells - Answer (click here)
191. Early Transcription of Genes N and Cro - Answer (click here)
192. N Protein and Antitermination of Early Gene Transcription - Answer (click
here)
193. Role of Cro Protein - Answer (click here)
194. Initiating DNA Synthesis with the O and P Proteins - Answer (click here)
195. Proteins Kil, γ, β, and Exo - Answer (click here)
196. Q Protein and Late Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
197. Lysis - Answer (click here)
198. Chronology of Becoming a Lysogen - Answer (click here)
199. Site for Cro Repression and CI Activation - Answer (click here)
200. Cooperativity in Repressor Binding and its Measurement - Answer (click
here)
201. Need for and the Realization of Hair-Trigger Induction - Answer (click
here)
202. Induction from the Lysogenic State - Answer (click here)
203. Entropy, a Basis for Lambda Repressor Inactivation - Answer (click here)
204. Biology of 5S RNA Synthesis in Xenopus - Answer (click here)
205. In vitro 5S RNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
206. TFIIIA Binding to the Middle of its Gene as Well as to RNA - Answer
(click here)
207. Switching from Oocyte to Somatic 5S Synthesis - Answer (click here)
208. Structure and Function of TFIIIA - Answer (click here)
209. Regulation of Mating Type in Yeast - Answer (click here)
210. Yeast Cell Cycle - Answer (click here)
211. Mating Type Conversion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae - Answer (click here)
212. Cloning the Mating Type Loci in Yeast - Answer (click here)
213. Transfer of Mating Type Gene Copies to an Expression Site - Answer
(click here)
214. Structure of the Mating Type Loci - Answer (click here)
215. Expression and Recombination Paradoxes - Answer (click here)
216. Silencing HML and HMR - Answer (click here)
217. Isolation of α2 Protein - Answer (click here)
218. α2 and MCM1 - Answer (click here)
219. Sterile Mutants, Membrane Receptors and G Factors - Answer (click here)
220. DNA Cleavage at the MAT Locus - Answer (click here)
221. DNA Strand Inheritance and Switching in Fission Yeast - Answer (click
here)
222. General Considerations on Signaling - Answer (click here)
223. Outline of Early Drosophila Development - Answer (click here)
224. Classical Embryology - Answer (click here)
225. Using Genetics to Begin Study of Developmental Systems - Answer (click
here)
226. Cloning Developmental Genes - Answer (click here)
227. Enhancer Traps for Detecting and Cloning Developmental Genes -
Answer (click here)
228. Expression Patterns of Developmental Genes - Answer (click here)
229. Similarities Among Developmental Genes - Answer (click here)
230. Overall Model of Drosophila Early Development - Answer (click here)
231. Mapping Integrated Lambda - Answer (click here)
232. Simultaneous Deletion of Chromosomal and Lambda DNA - Answer (click
here)
233. DNA Heteroduplexes Prove that Lambda Integrates - Answer (click here)
234. Gene Order Permutation and the Campbell Model - Answer (click here)
235. Isolation of Integration-Defective Mutants - Answer (click here)
236. Isolation of Excision-Deficient Mutants - Answer (click here)
237. Properties of the int and xis Gene Products - Answer (click here)
238. Incorrect Excision and gal and bio Transducing Phage - Answer (click here)
239. Transducing Phage Carrying Genes Other than gal and bio - Answer (click
here)
240. Use of Transducing Phage to Study Integration and Excision - Answer
(click here)
241. The Double att Phage, att.squ - Answer (click here)
242. Demonstrating Xis is Unstable - Answer (click here)
243. Inhibition By a Downstream Element - Answer (click here)
244. In vitro Assay of Integration and Excision - Answer (click here)
245. Host Proteins Involved in Integration and Excision - Answer (click here)
246. Structure of the att Regions - Answer (click here)
247. Structure of the Intasome - Answer (click here)
248. Holliday Structures and Branch Migration in Integration - Answer (click
here)
249. Transposable Genetic Elements - Answer (click here)
250. IS Elements in Bacteria - Answer (click here)
251. Structure and Properties of IS Elements - Answer (click here)
252. Discovery of Tn Elements - Answer (click here)
253. Structure and Properties of Tn Elements - Answer (click here)
254. Inverting DNA Segments by Recombination, Flagellin Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
255. Mu Phage As a Giant Transposable Element - Answer (click here)
256. An Invertible Segment of Mu Phage - Answer (click here)
257. In vitro Transposition, Threading or Global Topology? - Answer (click here)
258. Hopping by Tn10 - Answer (click here)
259. Retrotransposons in Higher Cells - Answer (click here)
260. An RNA Transposition Intermediate - Answer (click here)
261. P Elements and Transformation - Answer (click here)
262. P Element Hopping by Chromosome Rescue - Answer (click here)
263. Generating Genetic Diversity: Antibodies - Answer (click here)
264. Basic Adaptive Immune Response - Answer (click here)
265. Telling the Difference Between Foreign and Self - Answer (click here)
266. Number of Different Antibodies Produced - Answer (click here)
267. Myelomas and Monoclonal Antibodies - Answer (click here)
268. Structure of Antibodies - Answer (click here)
269. Many Copies of V Genes and Only a Few C Genes - Answer (click here)
270. J Regions - Generating Genetic Diversity: Antibodies - Answer (click here)
271. D Regions in H Chains - Answer (click here)
272. Induced Mutations and Antibody Diversity - Answer (click here)
273. Class Switching of Heavy Chains - Answer (click here)
274. Enhancers and Expression of Immunoglobulin Genes - Answer (click here)
275. AIDS Virus - Answer (click here)
276. Engineering Antibody Synthesis in Bacteria - Answer (click here)
277. Assaying for Sequence Requirements of Gene Rearrangements - Answer
(click here)
278. Cloning the Recombinase - Answer (click here)

Biological Assembly Ribosomes and Lambda Phage


1. Cell’s Need for Immense Amounts of Information - Answer (click here)
2. Rudiments of Prokaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
3. Rudiments of Eukaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
4. Packing DNA into Cells - Answer (click here)
5. Moving Molecules into or out of Cells - Answer (click here)
6. Diffusion within the Small Volume of a Cell - Answer (click here)
7. Exponentially Growing Populations - Answer (click here)
8. Composition Change in Growing Cells - Answer (click here)
9. Age Distribution in Populations of Growing Cell - Answer (click here)
10. The Regular Backbone of DNA - Answer (click here)
11. Grooves in DNA and Helical Forms of DNA - Answer (click here)
12. Dissociation and Reassociation of Base-paired Strands - Answer (click here)
13. Reading Sequence Without Dissociating Strands - Answer (click here)
14. Electrophoretic Fragment Separation - Answer (click here)
15. Bent DNA Sequences - Answer (click here)
16. Measurement of Helical Pitch - Answer (click here)
17. Topological Considerations in DNA Structure - Answer (click here)
18. Generating DNA with Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
19. Measuring Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
20. Determining Lk, Tw, and Wr in Hypothetical Structures - Answer (click
here)
21. Altering Linking Number - Answer (click here)
22. Biological Significance of Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
23. The Linking Number Paradox of Nucleosomes - Answer (click here)
24. General Chromosome Structure - Answer (click here)
25. Southern Transfers to Locate Nucleosomes on Genes - Answer (click here)
26. ARS Elements, Centromeres, and Telomeres - Answer (click here)
27. DNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
28. Proofreading, Okazaki Fragments, and DNA Ligase - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
29. Detection and Basic Properties of DNA Polymerases - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
30. In vitro DNA Replication - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
31. Error and Damage Correction - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
32. DNA Replication Areas In Chromosomes - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
33. Bidirectional Replication from E. coli Origins - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
34. The DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
35. Constancy of the E. coli DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
36. Regulating Initiations - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
37. Gel Electrophoresis Assay of Eukaryotic Replication Origins -
Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
38. How Fast Could DNA Be Replicated? - Physiological Aspects - Answer
(click here)
39. Measuring the Activity of RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
40. Concentration of Free RNA Polymerase in Cells - Answer (click here)
41. The RNA Polymerase in Escherichia coli - Answer (click here)
42. Three RNA Polymerases in Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
43. Multiple but Related Subunits in Polymerases - Answer (click here)
44. Multiple Sigma Subunits - Answer (click here)
45. Structure of Promoters - Answer (click here)
46. Enhancers - Answer (click here)
47. Enhancer-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. DNA Looping in Regulating Promoter Activities - Answer (click here)
49. Steps of the Initiation Process - Answer (click here)
50. Measurement of Binding and Initiation Rates - Answer (click here)
51. Relating Abortive Initiations to Binding and Initiating - Answer (click here)
52. Roles of Auxiliary Transcription Factors - Answer (click here)
53. Melted DNA Under RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
54. Polymerase Elongation Rate - Answer (click here)
55. Transcription Termination at Specific Sites - Answer (click here)
56. RNA Termination - Answer (click here)
57. Processing Prokaryotic RNAs After Synthesis - Answer (click here)
58. S1 Mapping to Locate 5’ and 3’ Ends of Transcripts - Answer (click here)
59. Caps, Splices, Edits, and Poly-A Tails on Eukaryotic RNAs - Answer
(click here)
60. The Discovery and Assay of RNA Splicing - Answer (click here)
61. Involvement of the U1 snRNP Particle in Splicing - Answer (click here)
62. Splicing Reactions and Complexes - Answer (click here)
63. The Discovery of Self-Splicing RNAs - Answer (click here)
64. A Common Mechanism for Splicing Reactions - Answer (click here)
65. Other RNA Processing Reactions - Answer (click here)
66. Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
67. The Amino Acids - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
68. Peptide Bond - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
69. Electrostatic Forces that Determine Protein Structure - Protein Structure
- Answer (click here)
70. Hydrogen Bonds and the Chelate Effect - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
71. Hydrophobic Forces - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
72. Thermodynamic Considerations of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
73. Structures within Proteins - Answer (click here)
74. Alpha Helix, Beta Sheet, and Beta Turn - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
75. Calculation of Protein Tertiary Structure - Answer (click here)
76. Secondary Structure Predictions - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
77. Structures of DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
78. Salt Effects on Protein-DNA Interactions - Answer (click here)
79. Locating Specific Residue-Base Interactions - Protein Structure - Answer
(click here)
80. Activation of Amino Acids During Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
81. Fidelity of Aminoacylation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
82. How Synthetases Identify the Correct tRNA Molecule - Answer (click here)
83. Decoding the Message - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
84. Base Pairing between Ribosomal RNA and Messenger - Answer (click here)
85. Experimental Support for the Shine-Dalgarno Hypothesis - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
86. Eukaryotic Translation and the First AUG - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
87. Tricking the Translation Machinery into Initiating - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
88. Protein Elongation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
89. Peptide Bond Formation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
90. Translocation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
91. Termination, Nonsense, and Suppression - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
92. Chaperones and Catalyzed Protein Folding - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
93. Resolution of a Paradox - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
94. Messenger Instability - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
95. Protein Elongation Rates - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
96. Directing Proteins to Specific Cellular Sites - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
97. Verifying the Signal Peptide Model - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
98. The Signal Recognition Particle and Translocation - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
99. Expectations for Ribosome Regulation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
100. Proportionality of Ribosome Levels and Growth Rates - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
101. Regulation of Ribosome Synthesis - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
102. Balancing Synthesis of Ribosomal Components - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
103. Genetics Mutations - Answer (click here)
104. Point Mutations, Deletions, Insertions, and Damage - Answer (click here)
105. Classical Genetics of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
106. Complementation, Cis, Trans, Dominant, and Recessive - Answer (click
here)
107. Mechanism of a trans Dominant Negative Mutation - Answer (click here)
108. Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
109. Genetics Mapping by Recombination Frequencies - Answer (click here)
110. Genetics: Mapping by Deletions - Answer (click here)
111. Heteroduplexes and Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
112. Genetics: Branch Migration and Isomerization - Answer (click here)
113. Elements of Recombination in E. coli, RecA, RecBCD, and Chi - Answer
(click here)
114. Genetic Systems - Answer (click here)
115. Growing Cells for Genetics Experiments - Answer (click here)
116. Testing Purified Cultures, Scoring - Answer (click here)
117. Isolating Auxotrophs, Use of Mutagens and Replica Plating - Answer
(click here)
118. Genetic Selections - Answer (click here)
119. Mapping with Generalized Transducing Phage - Answer (click here)
120. Principles of Bacterial Sex - Answer (click here)
121. Elements of Yeast Genetics - Answer (click here)
122. Elements of Drosophila Genetics - Answer (click here)
123. Isolating Mutations in Muscle or Nerve in Drosophila - Answer (click here)
124. Fate Mapping and Study of Tissue-Specific Gene Expression - Answer
(click here)
125. Isolation of DNA - Answer (click here)
126. Biology of Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
127. Cutting DNA with Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
128. Isolation of DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
129. Joining DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
130. Vectors: Selection and Autonomous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
131. Plasmid Vectors - Answer (click here)
132. A Phage Vector for Bacteria - Answer (click here)
133. Vectors for Higher Cells - Answer (click here)
134. Putting DNA Back into Cells - Answer (click here)
135. Cloning from RNA - Answer (click here)
136. Plaque and Colony Hybridization for Clone Identification - Answer (click
here)
137. Walking Along a Chromosome to Clone a Gene - Answer (click here)
138. Arrest of Translation to Assay for DNA of a Gene - Answer (click here)
139. Chemical DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
140. Enzymatic DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
141. Finding Clones from a Known Amino Acid Sequence - Answer (click here)
142. Finding Clones Using Antibodies Against a Protein - Answer (click here)
143. Southern, Northern, and Western Transfers - Genetic Engineering -
Answer (click here)
144. Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
145. Isolation of Rare Sequences Utilizing PCR - Answer (click here)
146. Physical and Genetic Maps of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
147. Chromosome Mapping - Answer (click here)
148. DNA Fingerprinting - Forensics - Answer (click here)
149. Megabase Sequencing - Answer (click here)
150. Footprinting, Premodification and Missing Contact Probing - Answer (click
here)
151. Antisense RNA: Selective Gene Inactivation - Answer (click here)
152. Hypersynthesis of Proteins - Answer (click here)
153. Altering Cloned DNA by in vitro Mutagenesis - Answer (click here)
154. Mutagenesis with Chemically Synthesized DNA - Answer (click here)
155. Repression and the lac Operon - Answer (click here)
156. Role of Inducer Analogs in the Study of the lac Operon - Answer (click
here)
157. Proving lac Repressor is a Protein - Answer (click here)
158. An Assay for lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
159. Difficulty of Detecting Wild Type lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
160. Detection and Purification of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
161. Repressor Binds to DNA: The Operator is DNA - Answer (click here)
162. Migration Retardation Assay and DNA Looping - Repression and the lac
Operon - Answer (click here)
163. Isolation and Structure of Operator - Repression and the lac Operon -
Answer (click here)
164. In vivo Affinity of Repressor for Operator - Answer (click here)
165. DNA-binding Domain of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
166. A Mechanism for Induction - Repression and the lac Operon - Answer
(click here)
167. Sugar Arabinose and Arabinose Metabolism - Answer (click here)
168. Genetics of the Arabinose System - Answer (click here)
169. Detection and Isolation of AraC Protein - Answer (click here)
170. Repression by AraC - Answer (click here)
171. Regulating AraC Synthesis - Answer (click here)
172. Binding Sites of the ara Regulatory Proteins - Answer (click here)
173. DNA Looping and Repression of araBAD - Answer (click here)
174. In vivo Footprinting Demonstration of Looping - Answer (click here)
175. How AraC Protein Loops and Unloops - Answer (click here)
176. Why Looping is Biologically Sensible - Answer (click here)
177. Why Positive Regulators are a Good Idea - Answer (click here)
178. Attenuation and the trp Operon - Answer (click here)
179. Rapid Induction Capabilities of the trp Operon - Answer (click here)
180. Serendipitous Discovery of trp Enzyme Hypersynthesis - Answer (click
here)
181. Early Explorations of the Hypersynthesis - Answer (click here)
182. trp Multiple Secondary Structures in trp Leader RNA - Answer (click here)
183. Coupling Translation to Termination - Answer (click here)
184. RNA Secondary Structure and the Attenuation Mechanism - Answer (click
here)
185. Other Attenuated Systems: Operons, Bacillus subtilis and HIV - Answer
(click here)
186. Physical Structure of Lambda - Answer (click here)
187. Genetic Structure of Lambda - Answer (click here)
188. Lysogeny and Immunity - Answer (click here)
189. Lambda’s Relatives and Lambda Hybrids - Answer (click here)
190. Lambda Adsorption to Cells - Answer (click here)
191. Early Transcription of Genes N and Cro - Answer (click here)
192. N Protein and Antitermination of Early Gene Transcription - Answer (click
here)
193. Role of Cro Protein - Answer (click here)
194. Initiating DNA Synthesis with the O and P Proteins - Answer (click here)
195. Proteins Kil, γ, β, and Exo - Answer (click here)
196. Q Protein and Late Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
197. Lysis - Answer (click here)
198. Chronology of Becoming a Lysogen - Answer (click here)
199. Site for Cro Repression and CI Activation - Answer (click here)
200. Cooperativity in Repressor Binding and its Measurement - Answer (click
here)
201. Need for and the Realization of Hair-Trigger Induction - Answer (click
here)
202. Induction from the Lysogenic State - Answer (click here)
203. Entropy, a Basis for Lambda Repressor Inactivation - Answer (click here)
204. Biology of 5S RNA Synthesis in Xenopus - Answer (click here)
205. In vitro 5S RNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
206. TFIIIA Binding to the Middle of its Gene as Well as to RNA - Answer
(click here)
207. Switching from Oocyte to Somatic 5S Synthesis - Answer (click here)
208. Structure and Function of TFIIIA - Answer (click here)
209. Regulation of Mating Type in Yeast - Answer (click here)
210. Yeast Cell Cycle - Answer (click here)
211. Mating Type Conversion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae - Answer (click here)
212. Cloning the Mating Type Loci in Yeast - Answer (click here)
213. Transfer of Mating Type Gene Copies to an Expression Site - Answer
(click here)
214. Structure of the Mating Type Loci - Answer (click here)
215. Expression and Recombination Paradoxes - Answer (click here)
216. Silencing HML and HMR - Answer (click here)
217. Isolation of α2 Protein - Answer (click here)
218. α2 and MCM1 - Answer (click here)
219. Sterile Mutants, Membrane Receptors and G Factors - Answer (click here)
220. DNA Cleavage at the MAT Locus - Answer (click here)
221. DNA Strand Inheritance and Switching in Fission Yeast - Answer (click
here)
222. General Considerations on Signaling - Answer (click here)
223. Outline of Early Drosophila Development - Answer (click here)
224. Classical Embryology - Answer (click here)
225. Using Genetics to Begin Study of Developmental Systems - Answer (click
here)
226. Cloning Developmental Genes - Answer (click here)
227. Enhancer Traps for Detecting and Cloning Developmental Genes -
Answer (click here)
228. Expression Patterns of Developmental Genes - Answer (click here)
229. Similarities Among Developmental Genes - Answer (click here)
230. Overall Model of Drosophila Early Development - Answer (click here)
231. Mapping Integrated Lambda - Answer (click here)
232. Simultaneous Deletion of Chromosomal and Lambda DNA - Answer (click
here)
233. DNA Heteroduplexes Prove that Lambda Integrates - Answer (click here)
234. Gene Order Permutation and the Campbell Model - Answer (click here)
235. Isolation of Integration-Defective Mutants - Answer (click here)
236. Isolation of Excision-Deficient Mutants - Answer (click here)
237. Properties of the int and xis Gene Products - Answer (click here)
238. Incorrect Excision and gal and bio Transducing Phage - Answer (click here)
239. Transducing Phage Carrying Genes Other than gal and bio - Answer (click
here)
240. Use of Transducing Phage to Study Integration and Excision - Answer
(click here)
241. The Double att Phage, att.squ - Answer (click here)
242. Demonstrating Xis is Unstable - Answer (click here)
243. Inhibition By a Downstream Element - Answer (click here)
244. In vitro Assay of Integration and Excision - Answer (click here)
245. Host Proteins Involved in Integration and Excision - Answer (click here)
246. Structure of the att Regions - Answer (click here)
247. Structure of the Intasome - Answer (click here)
248. Holliday Structures and Branch Migration in Integration - Answer (click
here)
249. Transposable Genetic Elements - Answer (click here)
250. IS Elements in Bacteria - Answer (click here)
251. Structure and Properties of IS Elements - Answer (click here)
252. Discovery of Tn Elements - Answer (click here)
253. Structure and Properties of Tn Elements - Answer (click here)
254. Inverting DNA Segments by Recombination, Flagellin Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
255. Mu Phage As a Giant Transposable Element - Answer (click here)
256. An Invertible Segment of Mu Phage - Answer (click here)
257. In vitro Transposition, Threading or Global Topology? - Answer (click here)
258. Hopping by Tn10 - Answer (click here)
259. Retrotransposons in Higher Cells - Answer (click here)
260. An RNA Transposition Intermediate - Answer (click here)
261. P Elements and Transformation - Answer (click here)
262. P Element Hopping by Chromosome Rescue - Answer (click here)
263. Generating Genetic Diversity: Antibodies - Answer (click here)
264. Basic Adaptive Immune Response - Answer (click here)
265. Telling the Difference Between Foreign and Self - Answer (click here)
266. Number of Different Antibodies Produced - Answer (click here)
267. Myelomas and Monoclonal Antibodies - Answer (click here)
268. Structure of Antibodies - Answer (click here)
269. Many Copies of V Genes and Only a Few C Genes - Answer (click here)
270. J Regions - Generating Genetic Diversity: Antibodies - Answer (click here)
271. D Regions in H Chains - Answer (click here)
272. Induced Mutations and Antibody Diversity - Answer (click here)
273. Class Switching of Heavy Chains - Answer (click here)
274. Enhancers and Expression of Immunoglobulin Genes - Answer (click here)
275. AIDS Virus - Answer (click here)
276. Engineering Antibody Synthesis in Bacteria - Answer (click here)
277. Assaying for Sequence Requirements of Gene Rearrangements - Answer
(click here)
278. Cloning the Recombinase - Answer (click here)
279. Biological Assembly, Ribosomes and Lambda Phage - Answer (click here)
280. RNAse and Ribosomes - Answer (click here)
281. Global Structure of Ribosomes - Answer (click here)
282. Assembly of Ribosomes - Answer (click here)
283. Experiments with in vitro Ribosome Assembly - Answer (click here)
284. Determining Details of Local Ribosomal Structure - Answer (click here)
285. Lambda Phage Assembly: General Aspects - Answer (click here)
286. Geometry of Capsids - Answer (click here)
287. Structure of the Lambda Particle - Answer (click here)
288. Head Assembly Sequence and Host Proteins - Answer (click here)
289. Packaging the DNA and Formation of the cos Ends - Answer (click here)
290. Formation of the lambda Tail - Answer (click here)
291. In vitro Packaging - Answer (click here)

Chemotaxis
1. Cell’s Need for Immense Amounts of Information - Answer (click here)
2. Rudiments of Prokaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
3. Rudiments of Eukaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
4. Packing DNA into Cells - Answer (click here)
5. Moving Molecules into or out of Cells - Answer (click here)
6. Diffusion within the Small Volume of a Cell - Answer (click here)
7. Exponentially Growing Populations - Answer (click here)
8. Composition Change in Growing Cells - Answer (click here)
9. Age Distribution in Populations of Growing Cell - Answer (click here)
10. The Regular Backbone of DNA - Answer (click here)
11. Grooves in DNA and Helical Forms of DNA - Answer (click here)
12. Dissociation and Reassociation of Base-paired Strands - Answer (click here)
13. Reading Sequence Without Dissociating Strands - Answer (click here)
14. Electrophoretic Fragment Separation - Answer (click here)
15. Bent DNA Sequences - Answer (click here)
16. Measurement of Helical Pitch - Answer (click here)
17. Topological Considerations in DNA Structure - Answer (click here)
18. Generating DNA with Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
19. Measuring Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
20. Determining Lk, Tw, and Wr in Hypothetical Structures - Answer (click
here)
21. Altering Linking Number - Answer (click here)
22. Biological Significance of Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
23. The Linking Number Paradox of Nucleosomes - Answer (click here)
24. General Chromosome Structure - Answer (click here)
25. Southern Transfers to Locate Nucleosomes on Genes - Answer (click here)
26. ARS Elements, Centromeres, and Telomeres - Answer (click here)
27. DNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
28. Proofreading, Okazaki Fragments, and DNA Ligase - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
29. Detection and Basic Properties of DNA Polymerases - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
30. In vitro DNA Replication - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
31. Error and Damage Correction - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
32. DNA Replication Areas In Chromosomes - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
33. Bidirectional Replication from E. coli Origins - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
34. The DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
35. Constancy of the E. coli DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
36. Regulating Initiations - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
37. Gel Electrophoresis Assay of Eukaryotic Replication Origins -
Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
38. How Fast Could DNA Be Replicated? - Physiological Aspects - Answer
(click here)
39. Measuring the Activity of RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
40. Concentration of Free RNA Polymerase in Cells - Answer (click here)
41. The RNA Polymerase in Escherichia coli - Answer (click here)
42. Three RNA Polymerases in Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
43. Multiple but Related Subunits in Polymerases - Answer (click here)
44. Multiple Sigma Subunits - Answer (click here)
45. Structure of Promoters - Answer (click here)
46. Enhancers - Answer (click here)
47. Enhancer-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. DNA Looping in Regulating Promoter Activities - Answer (click here)
49. Steps of the Initiation Process - Answer (click here)
50. Measurement of Binding and Initiation Rates - Answer (click here)
51. Relating Abortive Initiations to Binding and Initiating - Answer (click here)
52. Roles of Auxiliary Transcription Factors - Answer (click here)
53. Melted DNA Under RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
54. Polymerase Elongation Rate - Answer (click here)
55. Transcription Termination at Specific Sites - Answer (click here)
56. RNA Termination - Answer (click here)
57. Processing Prokaryotic RNAs After Synthesis - Answer (click here)
58. S1 Mapping to Locate 5’ and 3’ Ends of Transcripts - Answer (click here)
59. Caps, Splices, Edits, and Poly-A Tails on Eukaryotic RNAs - Answer
(click here)
60. The Discovery and Assay of RNA Splicing - Answer (click here)
61. Involvement of the U1 snRNP Particle in Splicing - Answer (click here)
62. Splicing Reactions and Complexes - Answer (click here)
63. The Discovery of Self-Splicing RNAs - Answer (click here)
64. A Common Mechanism for Splicing Reactions - Answer (click here)
65. Other RNA Processing Reactions - Answer (click here)
66. Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
67. The Amino Acids - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
68. Peptide Bond - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
69. Electrostatic Forces that Determine Protein Structure - Protein Structure
- Answer (click here)
70. Hydrogen Bonds and the Chelate Effect - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
71. Hydrophobic Forces - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
72. Thermodynamic Considerations of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
73. Structures within Proteins - Answer (click here)
74. Alpha Helix, Beta Sheet, and Beta Turn - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
75. Calculation of Protein Tertiary Structure - Answer (click here)
76. Secondary Structure Predictions - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
77. Structures of DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
78. Salt Effects on Protein-DNA Interactions - Answer (click here)
79. Locating Specific Residue-Base Interactions - Protein Structure - Answer
(click here)
80. Activation of Amino Acids During Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
81. Fidelity of Aminoacylation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
82. How Synthetases Identify the Correct tRNA Molecule - Answer (click here)
83. Decoding the Message - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
84. Base Pairing between Ribosomal RNA and Messenger - Answer (click here)
85. Experimental Support for the Shine-Dalgarno Hypothesis - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
86. Eukaryotic Translation and the First AUG - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
87. Tricking the Translation Machinery into Initiating - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
88. Protein Elongation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
89. Peptide Bond Formation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
90. Translocation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
91. Termination, Nonsense, and Suppression - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
92. Chaperones and Catalyzed Protein Folding - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
93. Resolution of a Paradox - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
94. Messenger Instability - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
95. Protein Elongation Rates - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
96. Directing Proteins to Specific Cellular Sites - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
97. Verifying the Signal Peptide Model - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
98. The Signal Recognition Particle and Translocation - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
99. Expectations for Ribosome Regulation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
100. Proportionality of Ribosome Levels and Growth Rates - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
101. Regulation of Ribosome Synthesis - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
102. Balancing Synthesis of Ribosomal Components - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
103. Genetics Mutations - Answer (click here)
104. Point Mutations, Deletions, Insertions, and Damage - Answer (click here)
105. Classical Genetics of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
106. Complementation, Cis, Trans, Dominant, and Recessive - Answer (click
here)
107. Mechanism of a trans Dominant Negative Mutation - Answer (click here)
108. Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
109. Genetics Mapping by Recombination Frequencies - Answer (click here)
110. Genetics: Mapping by Deletions - Answer (click here)
111. Heteroduplexes and Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
112. Genetics: Branch Migration and Isomerization - Answer (click here)
113. Elements of Recombination in E. coli, RecA, RecBCD, and Chi - Answer
(click here)
114. Genetic Systems - Answer (click here)
115. Growing Cells for Genetics Experiments - Answer (click here)
116. Testing Purified Cultures, Scoring - Answer (click here)
117. Isolating Auxotrophs, Use of Mutagens and Replica Plating - Answer
(click here)
118. Genetic Selections - Answer (click here)
119. Mapping with Generalized Transducing Phage - Answer (click here)
120. Principles of Bacterial Sex - Answer (click here)
121. Elements of Yeast Genetics - Answer (click here)
122. Elements of Drosophila Genetics - Answer (click here)
123. Isolating Mutations in Muscle or Nerve in Drosophila - Answer (click here)
124. Fate Mapping and Study of Tissue-Specific Gene Expression - Answer
(click here)
125. Isolation of DNA - Answer (click here)
126. Biology of Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
127. Cutting DNA with Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
128. Isolation of DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
129. Joining DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
130. Vectors: Selection and Autonomous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
131. Plasmid Vectors - Answer (click here)
132. A Phage Vector for Bacteria - Answer (click here)
133. Vectors for Higher Cells - Answer (click here)
134. Putting DNA Back into Cells - Answer (click here)
135. Cloning from RNA - Answer (click here)
136. Plaque and Colony Hybridization for Clone Identification - Answer (click
here)
137. Walking Along a Chromosome to Clone a Gene - Answer (click here)
138. Arrest of Translation to Assay for DNA of a Gene - Answer (click here)
139. Chemical DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
140. Enzymatic DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
141. Finding Clones from a Known Amino Acid Sequence - Answer (click here)
142. Finding Clones Using Antibodies Against a Protein - Answer (click here)
143. Southern, Northern, and Western Transfers - Genetic Engineering -
Answer (click here)
144. Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
145. Isolation of Rare Sequences Utilizing PCR - Answer (click here)
146. Physical and Genetic Maps of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
147. Chromosome Mapping - Answer (click here)
148. DNA Fingerprinting - Forensics - Answer (click here)
149. Megabase Sequencing - Answer (click here)
150. Footprinting, Premodification and Missing Contact Probing - Answer (click
here)
151. Antisense RNA: Selective Gene Inactivation - Answer (click here)
152. Hypersynthesis of Proteins - Answer (click here)
153. Altering Cloned DNA by in vitro Mutagenesis - Answer (click here)
154. Mutagenesis with Chemically Synthesized DNA - Answer (click here)
155. Repression and the lac Operon - Answer (click here)
156. Role of Inducer Analogs in the Study of the lac Operon - Answer (click
here)
157. Proving lac Repressor is a Protein - Answer (click here)
158. An Assay for lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
159. Difficulty of Detecting Wild Type lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
160. Detection and Purification of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
161. Repressor Binds to DNA: The Operator is DNA - Answer (click here)
162. Migration Retardation Assay and DNA Looping - Repression and the lac
Operon - Answer (click here)
163. Isolation and Structure of Operator - Repression and the lac Operon -
Answer (click here)
164. In vivo Affinity of Repressor for Operator - Answer (click here)
165. DNA-binding Domain of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
166. A Mechanism for Induction - Repression and the lac Operon - Answer
(click here)
167. Sugar Arabinose and Arabinose Metabolism - Answer (click here)
168. Genetics of the Arabinose System - Answer (click here)
169. Detection and Isolation of AraC Protein - Answer (click here)
170. Repression by AraC - Answer (click here)
171. Regulating AraC Synthesis - Answer (click here)
172. Binding Sites of the ara Regulatory Proteins - Answer (click here)
173. DNA Looping and Repression of araBAD - Answer (click here)
174. In vivo Footprinting Demonstration of Looping - Answer (click here)
175. How AraC Protein Loops and Unloops - Answer (click here)
176. Why Looping is Biologically Sensible - Answer (click here)
177. Why Positive Regulators are a Good Idea - Answer (click here)
178. Attenuation and the trp Operon - Answer (click here)
179. Rapid Induction Capabilities of the trp Operon - Answer (click here)
180. Serendipitous Discovery of trp Enzyme Hypersynthesis - Answer (click
here)
181. Early Explorations of the Hypersynthesis - Answer (click here)
182. trp Multiple Secondary Structures in trp Leader RNA - Answer (click here)
183. Coupling Translation to Termination - Answer (click here)
184. RNA Secondary Structure and the Attenuation Mechanism - Answer (click
here)
185. Other Attenuated Systems: Operons, Bacillus subtilis and HIV - Answer
(click here)
186. Physical Structure of Lambda - Answer (click here)
187. Genetic Structure of Lambda - Answer (click here)
188. Lysogeny and Immunity - Answer (click here)
189. Lambda’s Relatives and Lambda Hybrids - Answer (click here)
190. Lambda Adsorption to Cells - Answer (click here)
191. Early Transcription of Genes N and Cro - Answer (click here)
192. N Protein and Antitermination of Early Gene Transcription - Answer (click
here)
193. Role of Cro Protein - Answer (click here)
194. Initiating DNA Synthesis with the O and P Proteins - Answer (click here)
195. Proteins Kil, γ, β, and Exo - Answer (click here)
196. Q Protein and Late Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
197. Lysis - Answer (click here)
198. Chronology of Becoming a Lysogen - Answer (click here)
199. Site for Cro Repression and CI Activation - Answer (click here)
200. Cooperativity in Repressor Binding and its Measurement - Answer (click
here)
201. Need for and the Realization of Hair-Trigger Induction - Answer (click
here)
202. Induction from the Lysogenic State - Answer (click here)
203. Entropy, a Basis for Lambda Repressor Inactivation - Answer (click here)
204. Biology of 5S RNA Synthesis in Xenopus - Answer (click here)
205. In vitro 5S RNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
206. TFIIIA Binding to the Middle of its Gene as Well as to RNA - Answer
(click here)
207. Switching from Oocyte to Somatic 5S Synthesis - Answer (click here)
208. Structure and Function of TFIIIA - Answer (click here)
209. Regulation of Mating Type in Yeast - Answer (click here)
210. Yeast Cell Cycle - Answer (click here)
211. Mating Type Conversion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae - Answer (click here)
212. Cloning the Mating Type Loci in Yeast - Answer (click here)
213. Transfer of Mating Type Gene Copies to an Expression Site - Answer
(click here)
214. Structure of the Mating Type Loci - Answer (click here)
215. Expression and Recombination Paradoxes - Answer (click here)
216. Silencing HML and HMR - Answer (click here)
217. Isolation of α2 Protein - Answer (click here)
218. α2 and MCM1 - Answer (click here)
219. Sterile Mutants, Membrane Receptors and G Factors - Answer (click here)
220. DNA Cleavage at the MAT Locus - Answer (click here)
221. DNA Strand Inheritance and Switching in Fission Yeast - Answer (click
here)
222. General Considerations on Signaling - Answer (click here)
223. Outline of Early Drosophila Development - Answer (click here)
224. Classical Embryology - Answer (click here)
225. Using Genetics to Begin Study of Developmental Systems - Answer (click
here)
226. Cloning Developmental Genes - Answer (click here)
227. Enhancer Traps for Detecting and Cloning Developmental Genes -
Answer (click here)
228. Expression Patterns of Developmental Genes - Answer (click here)
229. Similarities Among Developmental Genes - Answer (click here)
230. Overall Model of Drosophila Early Development - Answer (click here)
231. Mapping Integrated Lambda - Answer (click here)
232. Simultaneous Deletion of Chromosomal and Lambda DNA - Answer (click
here)
233. DNA Heteroduplexes Prove that Lambda Integrates - Answer (click here)
234. Gene Order Permutation and the Campbell Model - Answer (click here)
235. Isolation of Integration-Defective Mutants - Answer (click here)
236. Isolation of Excision-Deficient Mutants - Answer (click here)
237. Properties of the int and xis Gene Products - Answer (click here)
238. Incorrect Excision and gal and bio Transducing Phage - Answer (click here)
239. Transducing Phage Carrying Genes Other than gal and bio - Answer (click
here)
240. Use of Transducing Phage to Study Integration and Excision - Answer
(click here)
241. The Double att Phage, att.squ - Answer (click here)
242. Demonstrating Xis is Unstable - Answer (click here)
243. Inhibition By a Downstream Element - Answer (click here)
244. In vitro Assay of Integration and Excision - Answer (click here)
245. Host Proteins Involved in Integration and Excision - Answer (click here)
246. Structure of the att Regions - Answer (click here)
247. Structure of the Intasome - Answer (click here)
248. Holliday Structures and Branch Migration in Integration - Answer (click
here)
249. Transposable Genetic Elements - Answer (click here)
250. IS Elements in Bacteria - Answer (click here)
251. Structure and Properties of IS Elements - Answer (click here)
252. Discovery of Tn Elements - Answer (click here)
253. Structure and Properties of Tn Elements - Answer (click here)
254. Inverting DNA Segments by Recombination, Flagellin Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
255. Mu Phage As a Giant Transposable Element - Answer (click here)
256. An Invertible Segment of Mu Phage - Answer (click here)
257. In vitro Transposition, Threading or Global Topology? - Answer (click here)
258. Hopping by Tn10 - Answer (click here)
259. Retrotransposons in Higher Cells - Answer (click here)
260. An RNA Transposition Intermediate - Answer (click here)
261. P Elements and Transformation - Answer (click here)
262. P Element Hopping by Chromosome Rescue - Answer (click here)
263. Generating Genetic Diversity: Antibodies - Answer (click here)
264. Basic Adaptive Immune Response - Answer (click here)
265. Telling the Difference Between Foreign and Self - Answer (click here)
266. Number of Different Antibodies Produced - Answer (click here)
267. Myelomas and Monoclonal Antibodies - Answer (click here)
268. Structure of Antibodies - Answer (click here)
269. Many Copies of V Genes and Only a Few C Genes - Answer (click here)
270. J Regions - Generating Genetic Diversity: Antibodies - Answer (click here)
271. D Regions in H Chains - Answer (click here)
272. Induced Mutations and Antibody Diversity - Answer (click here)
273. Class Switching of Heavy Chains - Answer (click here)
274. Enhancers and Expression of Immunoglobulin Genes - Answer (click here)
275. AIDS Virus - Answer (click here)
276. Engineering Antibody Synthesis in Bacteria - Answer (click here)
277. Assaying for Sequence Requirements of Gene Rearrangements - Answer
(click here)
278. Cloning the Recombinase - Answer (click here)
279. Biological Assembly, Ribosomes and Lambda Phage - Answer (click here)
280. RNAse and Ribosomes - Answer (click here)
281. Global Structure of Ribosomes - Answer (click here)
282. Assembly of Ribosomes - Answer (click here)
283. Experiments with in vitro Ribosome Assembly - Answer (click here)
284. Determining Details of Local Ribosomal Structure - Answer (click here)
285. Lambda Phage Assembly: General Aspects - Answer (click here)
286. Geometry of Capsids - Answer (click here)
287. Structure of the Lambda Particle - Answer (click here)
288. Head Assembly Sequence and Host Proteins - Answer (click here)
289. Packaging the DNA and Formation of the cos Ends - Answer (click here)
290. Formation of the lambda Tail - Answer (click here)
291. In vitro Packaging - Answer (click here)
292. Chemotaxis - Answer (click here)
293. Assaying Chemotaxis - Answer (click here)
294. Fundamental Properties of Chemotaxis - Answer (click here)
295. Genetics of Motility and Chemotaxis - Answer (click here)
296. How Cells Swim - Answer (click here)
297. Mechanism of Chemotaxis - Answer (click here)
298. Energy for Chemotaxis - Answer (click here)
299. Adaptation - Answer (click here)
300. Methylation and Adaptation - Answer (click here)
301. Phosphorylation and the Rapid Response - Answer (click here)

Oncogenesis Molecular Aspects


1. Cell’s Need for Immense Amounts of Information - Answer (click here)
2. Rudiments of Prokaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
3. Rudiments of Eukaryotic Cell Structure - Answer (click here)
4. Packing DNA into Cells - Answer (click here)
5. Moving Molecules into or out of Cells - Answer (click here)
6. Diffusion within the Small Volume of a Cell - Answer (click here)
7. Exponentially Growing Populations - Answer (click here)
8. Composition Change in Growing Cells - Answer (click here)
9. Age Distribution in Populations of Growing Cell - Answer (click here)
10. The Regular Backbone of DNA - Answer (click here)
11. Grooves in DNA and Helical Forms of DNA - Answer (click here)
12. Dissociation and Reassociation of Base-paired Strands - Answer (click here)
13. Reading Sequence Without Dissociating Strands - Answer (click here)
14. Electrophoretic Fragment Separation - Answer (click here)
15. Bent DNA Sequences - Answer (click here)
16. Measurement of Helical Pitch - Answer (click here)
17. Topological Considerations in DNA Structure - Answer (click here)
18. Generating DNA with Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
19. Measuring Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
20. Determining Lk, Tw, and Wr in Hypothetical Structures - Answer (click
here)
21. Altering Linking Number - Answer (click here)
22. Biological Significance of Superhelical Turns - Answer (click here)
23. The Linking Number Paradox of Nucleosomes - Answer (click here)
24. General Chromosome Structure - Answer (click here)
25. Southern Transfers to Locate Nucleosomes on Genes - Answer (click here)
26. ARS Elements, Centromeres, and Telomeres - Answer (click here)
27. DNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
28. Proofreading, Okazaki Fragments, and DNA Ligase - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
29. Detection and Basic Properties of DNA Polymerases - Enzymology -
Answer (click here)
30. In vitro DNA Replication - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
31. Error and Damage Correction - Enzymology - Answer (click here)
32. DNA Replication Areas In Chromosomes - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
33. Bidirectional Replication from E. coli Origins - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
34. The DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
35. Constancy of the E. coli DNA Elongation Rate - Physiological Aspects -
Answer (click here)
36. Regulating Initiations - Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
37. Gel Electrophoresis Assay of Eukaryotic Replication Origins -
Physiological Aspects - Answer (click here)
38. How Fast Could DNA Be Replicated? - Physiological Aspects - Answer
(click here)
39. Measuring the Activity of RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
40. Concentration of Free RNA Polymerase in Cells - Answer (click here)
41. The RNA Polymerase in Escherichia coli - Answer (click here)
42. Three RNA Polymerases in Eukaryotic Cells - Answer (click here)
43. Multiple but Related Subunits in Polymerases - Answer (click here)
44. Multiple Sigma Subunits - Answer (click here)
45. Structure of Promoters - Answer (click here)
46. Enhancers - Answer (click here)
47. Enhancer-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
48. DNA Looping in Regulating Promoter Activities - Answer (click here)
49. Steps of the Initiation Process - Answer (click here)
50. Measurement of Binding and Initiation Rates - Answer (click here)
51. Relating Abortive Initiations to Binding and Initiating - Answer (click here)
52. Roles of Auxiliary Transcription Factors - Answer (click here)
53. Melted DNA Under RNA Polymerase - Answer (click here)
54. Polymerase Elongation Rate - Answer (click here)
55. Transcription Termination at Specific Sites - Answer (click here)
56. RNA Termination - Answer (click here)
57. Processing Prokaryotic RNAs After Synthesis - Answer (click here)
58. S1 Mapping to Locate 5’ and 3’ Ends of Transcripts - Answer (click here)
59. Caps, Splices, Edits, and Poly-A Tails on Eukaryotic RNAs - Answer
(click here)
60. The Discovery and Assay of RNA Splicing - Answer (click here)
61. Involvement of the U1 snRNP Particle in Splicing - Answer (click here)
62. Splicing Reactions and Complexes - Answer (click here)
63. The Discovery of Self-Splicing RNAs - Answer (click here)
64. A Common Mechanism for Splicing Reactions - Answer (click here)
65. Other RNA Processing Reactions - Answer (click here)
66. Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
67. The Amino Acids - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
68. Peptide Bond - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
69. Electrostatic Forces that Determine Protein Structure - Protein Structure
- Answer (click here)
70. Hydrogen Bonds and the Chelate Effect - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
71. Hydrophobic Forces - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
72. Thermodynamic Considerations of Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
73. Structures within Proteins - Answer (click here)
74. Alpha Helix, Beta Sheet, and Beta Turn - Protein Structure - Answer (click
here)
75. Calculation of Protein Tertiary Structure - Answer (click here)
76. Secondary Structure Predictions - Protein Structure - Answer (click here)
77. Structures of DNA-Binding Proteins - Answer (click here)
78. Salt Effects on Protein-DNA Interactions - Answer (click here)
79. Locating Specific Residue-Base Interactions - Protein Structure - Answer
(click here)
80. Activation of Amino Acids During Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
81. Fidelity of Aminoacylation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
82. How Synthetases Identify the Correct tRNA Molecule - Answer (click here)
83. Decoding the Message - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
84. Base Pairing between Ribosomal RNA and Messenger - Answer (click here)
85. Experimental Support for the Shine-Dalgarno Hypothesis - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
86. Eukaryotic Translation and the First AUG - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
87. Tricking the Translation Machinery into Initiating - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
88. Protein Elongation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
89. Peptide Bond Formation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
90. Translocation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
91. Termination, Nonsense, and Suppression - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
92. Chaperones and Catalyzed Protein Folding - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
93. Resolution of a Paradox - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
94. Messenger Instability - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
95. Protein Elongation Rates - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
96. Directing Proteins to Specific Cellular Sites - Protein Synthesis - Answer
(click here)
97. Verifying the Signal Peptide Model - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
98. The Signal Recognition Particle and Translocation - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
99. Expectations for Ribosome Regulation - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click
here)
100. Proportionality of Ribosome Levels and Growth Rates - Protein
Synthesis - Answer (click here)
101. Regulation of Ribosome Synthesis - Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
102. Balancing Synthesis of Ribosomal Components - Protein Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
103. Genetics Mutations - Answer (click here)
104. Point Mutations, Deletions, Insertions, and Damage - Answer (click here)
105. Classical Genetics of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
106. Complementation, Cis, Trans, Dominant, and Recessive - Answer (click
here)
107. Mechanism of a trans Dominant Negative Mutation - Answer (click here)
108. Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
109. Genetics Mapping by Recombination Frequencies - Answer (click here)
110. Genetics: Mapping by Deletions - Answer (click here)
111. Heteroduplexes and Genetic Recombination - Answer (click here)
112. Genetics: Branch Migration and Isomerization - Answer (click here)
113. Elements of Recombination in E. coli, RecA, RecBCD, and Chi - Answer
(click here)
114. Genetic Systems - Answer (click here)
115. Growing Cells for Genetics Experiments - Answer (click here)
116. Testing Purified Cultures, Scoring - Answer (click here)
117. Isolating Auxotrophs, Use of Mutagens and Replica Plating - Answer
(click here)
118. Genetic Selections - Answer (click here)
119. Mapping with Generalized Transducing Phage - Answer (click here)
120. Principles of Bacterial Sex - Answer (click here)
121. Elements of Yeast Genetics - Answer (click here)
122. Elements of Drosophila Genetics - Answer (click here)
123. Isolating Mutations in Muscle or Nerve in Drosophila - Answer (click here)
124. Fate Mapping and Study of Tissue-Specific Gene Expression - Answer
(click here)
125. Isolation of DNA - Answer (click here)
126. Biology of Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
127. Cutting DNA with Restriction Enzymes - Answer (click here)
128. Isolation of DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
129. Joining DNA Fragments - Answer (click here)
130. Vectors: Selection and Autonomous DNA Replication - Answer (click here)
131. Plasmid Vectors - Answer (click here)
132. A Phage Vector for Bacteria - Answer (click here)
133. Vectors for Higher Cells - Answer (click here)
134. Putting DNA Back into Cells - Answer (click here)
135. Cloning from RNA - Answer (click here)
136. Plaque and Colony Hybridization for Clone Identification - Answer (click
here)
137. Walking Along a Chromosome to Clone a Gene - Answer (click here)
138. Arrest of Translation to Assay for DNA of a Gene - Answer (click here)
139. Chemical DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
140. Enzymatic DNA Sequencing - Answer (click here)
141. Finding Clones from a Known Amino Acid Sequence - Answer (click here)
142. Finding Clones Using Antibodies Against a Protein - Answer (click here)
143. Southern, Northern, and Western Transfers - Genetic Engineering -
Answer (click here)
144. Polymerase Chain Reaction - Answer (click here)
145. Isolation of Rare Sequences Utilizing PCR - Answer (click here)
146. Physical and Genetic Maps of Chromosomes - Answer (click here)
147. Chromosome Mapping - Answer (click here)
148. DNA Fingerprinting - Forensics - Answer (click here)
149. Megabase Sequencing - Answer (click here)
150. Footprinting, Premodification and Missing Contact Probing - Answer (click
here)
151. Antisense RNA: Selective Gene Inactivation - Answer (click here)
152. Hypersynthesis of Proteins - Answer (click here)
153. Altering Cloned DNA by in vitro Mutagenesis - Answer (click here)
154. Mutagenesis with Chemically Synthesized DNA - Answer (click here)
155. Repression and the lac Operon - Answer (click here)
156. Role of Inducer Analogs in the Study of the lac Operon - Answer (click
here)
157. Proving lac Repressor is a Protein - Answer (click here)
158. An Assay for lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
159. Difficulty of Detecting Wild Type lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
160. Detection and Purification of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
161. Repressor Binds to DNA: The Operator is DNA - Answer (click here)
162. Migration Retardation Assay and DNA Looping - Repression and the lac
Operon - Answer (click here)
163. Isolation and Structure of Operator - Repression and the lac Operon -
Answer (click here)
164. In vivo Affinity of Repressor for Operator - Answer (click here)
165. DNA-binding Domain of lac Repressor - Answer (click here)
166. A Mechanism for Induction - Repression and the lac Operon - Answer
(click here)
167. Sugar Arabinose and Arabinose Metabolism - Answer (click here)
168. Genetics of the Arabinose System - Answer (click here)
169. Detection and Isolation of AraC Protein - Answer (click here)
170. Repression by AraC - Answer (click here)
171. Regulating AraC Synthesis - Answer (click here)
172. Binding Sites of the ara Regulatory Proteins - Answer (click here)
173. DNA Looping and Repression of araBAD - Answer (click here)
174. In vivo Footprinting Demonstration of Looping - Answer (click here)
175. How AraC Protein Loops and Unloops - Answer (click here)
176. Why Looping is Biologically Sensible - Answer (click here)
177. Why Positive Regulators are a Good Idea - Answer (click here)
178. Attenuation and the trp Operon - Answer (click here)
179. Rapid Induction Capabilities of the trp Operon - Answer (click here)
180. Serendipitous Discovery of trp Enzyme Hypersynthesis - Answer (click
here)
181. Early Explorations of the Hypersynthesis - Answer (click here)
182. trp Multiple Secondary Structures in trp Leader RNA - Answer (click here)
183. Coupling Translation to Termination - Answer (click here)
184. RNA Secondary Structure and the Attenuation Mechanism - Answer (click
here)
185. Other Attenuated Systems: Operons, Bacillus subtilis and HIV - Answer
(click here)
186. Physical Structure of Lambda - Answer (click here)
187. Genetic Structure of Lambda - Answer (click here)
188. Lysogeny and Immunity - Answer (click here)
189. Lambda’s Relatives and Lambda Hybrids - Answer (click here)
190. Lambda Adsorption to Cells - Answer (click here)
191. Early Transcription of Genes N and Cro - Answer (click here)
192. N Protein and Antitermination of Early Gene Transcription - Answer (click
here)
193. Role of Cro Protein - Answer (click here)
194. Initiating DNA Synthesis with the O and P Proteins - Answer (click here)
195. Proteins Kil, γ, β, and Exo - Answer (click here)
196. Q Protein and Late Protein Synthesis - Answer (click here)
197. Lysis - Answer (click here)
198. Chronology of Becoming a Lysogen - Answer (click here)
199. Site for Cro Repression and CI Activation - Answer (click here)
200. Cooperativity in Repressor Binding and its Measurement - Answer (click
here)
201. Need for and the Realization of Hair-Trigger Induction - Answer (click
here)
202. Induction from the Lysogenic State - Answer (click here)
203. Entropy, a Basis for Lambda Repressor Inactivation - Answer (click here)
204. Biology of 5S RNA Synthesis in Xenopus - Answer (click here)
205. In vitro 5S RNA Synthesis - Answer (click here)
206. TFIIIA Binding to the Middle of its Gene as Well as to RNA - Answer
(click here)
207. Switching from Oocyte to Somatic 5S Synthesis - Answer (click here)
208. Structure and Function of TFIIIA - Answer (click here)
209. Regulation of Mating Type in Yeast - Answer (click here)
210. Yeast Cell Cycle - Answer (click here)
211. Mating Type Conversion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae - Answer (click here)
212. Cloning the Mating Type Loci in Yeast - Answer (click here)
213. Transfer of Mating Type Gene Copies to an Expression Site - Answer
(click here)
214. Structure of the Mating Type Loci - Answer (click here)
215. Expression and Recombination Paradoxes - Answer (click here)
216. Silencing HML and HMR - Answer (click here)
217. Isolation of α2 Protein - Answer (click here)
218. α2 and MCM1 - Answer (click here)
219. Sterile Mutants, Membrane Receptors and G Factors - Answer (click here)
220. DNA Cleavage at the MAT Locus - Answer (click here)
221. DNA Strand Inheritance and Switching in Fission Yeast - Answer (click
here)
222. General Considerations on Signaling - Answer (click here)
223. Outline of Early Drosophila Development - Answer (click here)
224. Classical Embryology - Answer (click here)
225. Using Genetics to Begin Study of Developmental Systems - Answer (click
here)
226. Cloning Developmental Genes - Answer (click here)
227. Enhancer Traps for Detecting and Cloning Developmental Genes -
Answer (click here)
228. Expression Patterns of Developmental Genes - Answer (click here)
229. Similarities Among Developmental Genes - Answer (click here)
230. Overall Model of Drosophila Early Development - Answer (click here)
231. Mapping Integrated Lambda - Answer (click here)
232. Simultaneous Deletion of Chromosomal and Lambda DNA - Answer (click
here)
233. DNA Heteroduplexes Prove that Lambda Integrates - Answer (click here)
234. Gene Order Permutation and the Campbell Model - Answer (click here)
235. Isolation of Integration-Defective Mutants - Answer (click here)
236. Isolation of Excision-Deficient Mutants - Answer (click here)
237. Properties of the int and xis Gene Products - Answer (click here)
238. Incorrect Excision and gal and bio Transducing Phage - Answer (click here)
239. Transducing Phage Carrying Genes Other than gal and bio - Answer (click
here)
240. Use of Transducing Phage to Study Integration and Excision - Answer
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241. The Double att Phage, att.squ - Answer (click here)
242. Demonstrating Xis is Unstable - Answer (click here)
243. Inhibition By a Downstream Element - Answer (click here)
244. In vitro Assay of Integration and Excision - Answer (click here)
245. Host Proteins Involved in Integration and Excision - Answer (click here)
246. Structure of the att Regions - Answer (click here)
247. Structure of the Intasome - Answer (click here)
248. Holliday Structures and Branch Migration in Integration - Answer (click
here)
249. Transposable Genetic Elements - Answer (click here)
250. IS Elements in Bacteria - Answer (click here)
251. Structure and Properties of IS Elements - Answer (click here)
252. Discovery of Tn Elements - Answer (click here)
253. Structure and Properties of Tn Elements - Answer (click here)
254. Inverting DNA Segments by Recombination, Flagellin Synthesis -
Answer (click here)
255. Mu Phage As a Giant Transposable Element - Answer (click here)
256. An Invertible Segment of Mu Phage - Answer (click here)
257. In vitro Transposition, Threading or Global Topology? - Answer (click here)
258. Hopping by Tn10 - Answer (click here)
259. Retrotransposons in Higher Cells - Answer (click here)
260. An RNA Transposition Intermediate - Answer (click here)
261. P Elements and Transformation - Answer (click here)
262. P Element Hopping by Chromosome Rescue - Answer (click here)
263. Generating Genetic Diversity: Antibodies - Answer (click here)
264. Basic Adaptive Immune Response - Answer (click here)
265. Telling the Difference Between Foreign and Self - Answer (click here)
266. Number of Different Antibodies Produced - Answer (click here)
267. Myelomas and Monoclonal Antibodies - Answer (click here)
268. Structure of Antibodies - Answer (click here)
269. Many Copies of V Genes and Only a Few C Genes - Answer (click here)
270. J Regions - Generating Genetic Diversity: Antibodies - Answer (click here)
271. D Regions in H Chains - Answer (click here)
272. Induced Mutations and Antibody Diversity - Answer (click here)
273. Class Switching of Heavy Chains - Answer (click here)
274. Enhancers and Expression of Immunoglobulin Genes - Answer (click here)
275. AIDS Virus - Answer (click here)
276. Engineering Antibody Synthesis in Bacteria - Answer (click here)
277. Assaying for Sequence Requirements of Gene Rearrangements - Answer
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278. Cloning the Recombinase - Answer (click here)
279. Biological Assembly, Ribosomes and Lambda Phage - Answer (click here)
280. RNAse and Ribosomes - Answer (click here)
281. Global Structure of Ribosomes - Answer (click here)
282. Assembly of Ribosomes - Answer (click here)
283. Experiments with in vitro Ribosome Assembly - Answer (click here)
284. Determining Details of Local Ribosomal Structure - Answer (click here)
285. Lambda Phage Assembly: General Aspects - Answer (click here)
286. Geometry of Capsids - Answer (click here)
287. Structure of the Lambda Particle - Answer (click here)
288. Head Assembly Sequence and Host Proteins - Answer (click here)
289. Packaging the DNA and Formation of the cos Ends - Answer (click here)
290. Formation of the lambda Tail - Answer (click here)
291. In vitro Packaging - Answer (click here)
292. Chemotaxis - Answer (click here)
293. Assaying Chemotaxis - Answer (click here)
294. Fundamental Properties of Chemotaxis - Answer (click here)
295. Genetics of Motility and Chemotaxis - Answer (click here)
296. How Cells Swim - Answer (click here)
297. Mechanism of Chemotaxis - Answer (click here)
298. Energy for Chemotaxis - Answer (click here)
299. Adaptation - Answer (click here)
300. Methylation and Adaptation - Answer (click here)
301. Phosphorylation and the Rapid Response - Answer (click here)
302. Bacterially Induced Tumors in Plants - Answer (click here)
303. Transformation and Oncogenesis by Damaging the Chromosome -
Answer (click here)
304. Identifying a Nucleotide Change Causing Cancer - Answer (click here)
305. Retroviruses and Cancer - Answer (click here)
306. Cellular Counterparts of Retroviral Oncogenes - Answer (click here)
307. Identification of the src and sis Gene Products - Answer (click here)
308. DNA Tumor Viruses - Answer (click here)
309. Recessive Oncogenic Mutations, Tumor Suppressors - Answer (click here)
310. ras-fos-jun Pathway - Answer (click here)
311. Directions for Future Research in Molecular Biology - Answer (click here)

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