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BMSC 210 MIDTERM 2 QUIZZES

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8 pages

Written in 2023/2024

Grade A+

Greaterheights

What is genetic engineering? - using in vitro techniques to alter genetic material in the lab What is recombinant DNA technology? - the artificial recombination of DNA from two organisms What are some basic techniques of genetic engineering? - DNA amplification electrophoesis nucleic acid hybridization molecular cloning expressing foreign genes targeted mutagenesis What is heterologous expression? - expressing a gene in a different host What is the polymerase chain reaction? - rapid a...

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17 pages

Written in 2023/2024

Grade A+

BESTSOLUTIONGURU

Clinical Microbiology - Answer Diagnosing infectious diseases by identifying pathogenic microbes and advising medical providers on treatment - A subset of microbiology Clinical labs must identify pathogens safely, efficiently and reliably Safety in the Microbiology Lab - Answer Established to minimize risk of accidental lab infections - prevent biological hazards Biosafety Level (BSL) - Answer Containment potential BSL1 - BSL4 BSL 1 - Answer - Teaching labs - do NOT...

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5 pages

Written in 2026/2027

Grade A+

COCOSOLUTIONS

Why are wild type genotypes useful? - Answer They are used as a non-mutated reference point Screening tests hundreds/thousands/millions of colonies (select one) - Answer Thousands What are auxoautotrophs? - Answer Mutants that cannot biosynthesize certain amino acids What is a spontaneous mutation? - Answer A mutation that arises naturally and not as a result of exposure to mutagens What is an induced mutation? - Answer Caused by mutagens What is a point mutation? -...

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5 pages

Written in 2026/2027

Grade A+

COCOSOLUTIONS

what is the important advantage of pfu pol of taq - Answer has proofreading activity whats the difference between PRC and RT PCR - Answer RTPCR uses an RNA template whereas PCR uses a DNA template which objective would be best to use a southern rather than nothern blot - Answer determine if a gene is present in a genome a PCR rxn coies individual gene in vitro with what as primers - Answer pair of DNA which time periods during PCR thermocycling is hottest - Answer dena...

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15 pages

Written in 2026/2027

Grade A+

COCOSOLUTIONS

Antisepsis - Answer Removing pathogens from living tissue Acidophiles - Answer grow at extreme acid pH How do bacteria archaea replicate? - Answer binary fission budding form filaments - all must replicate and segregate the genome prior to divison bacterial cell cycle - Answer cell cycle is sequence of events from formation of new cell through the next cell division consists of 3 phases: 1. period of growth after the cell is born chromosome replication and partition...

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5 pages

Written in 2026/2027

Grade A+

COCOSOLUTIONS

microorganism - Answer unicellular, multicellular, acellular microscopic organisms acellular - Answer lacking a cell virus Cellular - Answer 3 domains; bacteria, archea and eukarya Spontaneous generation - Answer that living things arised from non-living matter who disproved the spontaneuous generation theory - Answer louis pasteur Swan Neck Experiment - Answer step 1: flask with swan neck- air could come in, dirt could not, nothing grew in broth step 2: flask...

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11 pages

Written in 2026/2027

Grade A+

COCOSOLUTIONS

What are some properties of all cells? - Answer Growth, metabolism, and evolution What are properties of some cells? - Answer differentiation, communication, genetic exchange, motility What domain of life do microorganisms belong to? - Answer Eukarya How did the diversity of life arise? - Answer Through evolution Which encoding gene was/is slow to evolve? - Answer The gene encoding the small ribosomal subunit in both eukarya (18S) and Bacteria/Archaea (16S) Which do...

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21 pages

Written in 2026/2027

Grade A+

COCOSOLUTIONS

3 micro environments of the skin. - Answer - Dry - Moist - Sebacious glands Dry Skin - Answer Mainly colonized by Betaproteobacteria and Corynebacteria Moist Skin - Answer Mainly colonized by Corynebacteria and Staphyococci Sebaceous Skin - Answer Mainly colonized by Propionibacteria Oral Cavity - Answer - Complex heterogeneous microbial habitat - Saliva contains antimicrobial enzymes - High concentration of nutrients near surfaces promote localized microbial grow...

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25 pages

Written in 2026/2027

Grade A+

COCOSOLUTIONS

What is genetic engineering? - Answer using in vitro techniques to alter genetic material in the lab What is recombinant DNA technology? - Answer the artificial recombination of DNA from two organisms What are some basic techniques of genetic engineering? - Answer DNA amplification electrophoesis nucleic acid hybridization molecular cloning expressing foreign genes targeted mutagenesis What is heterologous expression? - Answer expressing a gene in a different host Wh...

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15 pages

Written in 2026/2027

Grade A+

COCOSOLUTIONS

The concept that living organisms arise from nonliving material is called _____________. - Answer spontaneous generation While each of these processes are believed to have evolved prior to aerobic respiration, which one os the most critical process, without which aerobic respiration could have never developed? - Answer Oxygenic photosynthesis The ribosomal RNA studies that led to the division of prokaryotic organisms into the Bacteria and the Archaea were begun by ________. - Answer ...

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20 pages

Written in 2026/2027

Grade A+

COCOSOLUTIONS

Which of the following distinguish the field of microbiology from other fields of biology? A) The techniques used to study organisms regardless of their size. B) Neither the size of the organism studied nor the techniques employed in the study of organisms regardless of their size. C) Both the size of the organism studied and the techniques employed in the study of organisms. D)The size of the organism studied. - Answer C The concept that living organisms arise from nonliving materia...

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41 pages

Written in 2026/2027

Grade A+

COCOSOLUTIONS

definition of microbiology - Answer study of things that are not visible to the naked eye - microorganisms microorganisms can be... - Answer unicellular, multicellular, acellular insulin and microbes - Answer insulin made by modifying production of milk and microbes - Answer microbes in cows stomach responsible for milk production why is microbiology the backbone of the food chain - Answer microbes are responsible for fixing atmospheric nitrogen for plant growth wh...

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21 pages

Written in 2026/2027

Grade A+

COCOSOLUTIONS

Mutation - Answer Heritable change in DNA sequence that can lead to a change in phenotype Phenotype - Answer observable properties of an organism Mutant - Answer a strain of any cell or virus differing from parental strain genotype Genotype - Answer nucleotide sequence of genome Wild-type Strain - Answer Typically refers to stain isolated from nature Selectable Mutations - Answer -those that give the mutant a growth advantage under certain conditions -useful in...

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25 pages

Written in 2026/2027

Grade A+

COCOSOLUTIONS

BMSC 210 Lecture 12 Practice Quiz 2025

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8 pages

Written in 2025/2026

Grade A+

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BMSC 210 Post-Midterm 2 Quizzes | 100% Correct Answers | Verified | Latest 2025/2026 Version Which is one major difference between anaerobic and aerobic respiration? - Electron acceptor Fermentation has a relatively low ATP yield compared to aerobic respiration because - oxidative phosphorylation yields a lot of ATP. Aerobic respiration and anaerobic respiration use different , while chemolithotrophs and chemoorganotrophs use different . - electron acceptors / electron donors During fermen...

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13 pages

Written in 2024/2025

Grade A+

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BMSC 210 Midterm 2 | 100% Correct Answers | Verified | Latest 2025/2026 Version What is genetic engineering? - using in vitro techniques to alter genetic material in the lab What is recombinant DNA technology? - the artificial recombination of DNA from two organisms What are some basic techniques of genetic engineering? - DNA amplification electrophoesis nucleic acid hybridization molecular cloning expressing foreign genes targeted mutagenesis What is heterologous expression? - expr...

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17 pages

Written in 2024/2025

Grade A+

Holygrams

BMSC 210 Midterm 2 Quizzes | 100% Correct Answers | Verified | Latest 2025/2026 Version what can restore a frameshift mutation? - another frameshift, microdeletion, and microinsertion A mutation in a particular gene that results in the premature halting of transcription (and, consequently, protein translation) is a mutation. - nonsense Consider a mutation in which the change is from UAC to UAU. Both codons specify the amino acid tyrosine. Which type of point mutation is this? - Silent mut...

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10 pages

Written in 2024/2025

Grade A+

Holygrams

BMSC 210 Midterm 1 | 100% Correct Answers | Verified | Latest 2025/2026 Version What are some properties of all cells? - Growth, metabolism, and evolution What are properties of some cells? - differentiation, communication, genetic exchange, motility What domain of life do marcroorganisms belong to? - Eukarya How did the diversity of life arise? - Through evolution Which encoding gene was/is slow to evolve? - The gene encoding the small ribosomal subunit in both eukarya (18S) and Bacteri...

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25 pages

Written in 2024/2025

Grade A+

Holygrams

BMSC 210 Midterm 1 Study Guide | 100% Correct Answers | Verified | Latest 2025/2026 Version What are properties of all cells? - Growth Metabolism Evolution LUCA - Last universal common ancestor How do we decide how the phylogenetic tree is drawn? - Use ribosomes. All organisms have it and it has been the same for billions of years What are the domains? - Bacteria Archaea Eukarya What defines the domains of cells? - Their rRNA sequencing What domains are most closely related? - Ar...

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30 pages

Written in 2024/2025

Grade A+

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BMSC 210 Midterm 1 Review | 100% Correct Answers | Verified | Latest 2025/2026 Version Describe Koch's postulates and the significance of his experiment - Koch's postulates: with the use of anthrax provided a basis for Germ Theory. the experiment: extract blood from diseased individual grow culture put culture into healthy individual, develop disease extract this blood, culture it to show same results Describe the importance of Louis Pasteur and the significance of his swan-neck f...

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11 pages

Written in 2024/2025

Grade A+

Holygrams

BMSC 210 Midterm 1 Questions | 100% Correct Answers | Verified | Latest 2025/2026 Version

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14 pages

Written in 2024/2025

Grade A+

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