WPR #1 Cell Bio

There’s a lot of material.  But if you ensure you understand these major points that we’ve covered, then you ought to be doing pretty well.

Drop me a line with Q’s.

- Proks vs. Euks – differences and similarities

- Kind of chemical bonds that define or are distinctive for a given class of biological macromolecule.

- Reaction energy diagrams (RED)

- Enzymes and what they do (think RED)

- Delta G and DeltaGo

- Know primary classes of biological macromolecules, their monomer units and be able to identify them from a picture

- Scientific Method

- Microscope

- DNA replication: you need to be able to talk over a movie and describe each step, the players, and the chemistry behind the operation.

- DNA packing: DNA, histone-DNA string, histone-DNA fiber, diffuse chromatid material, condense into chromosomes.

- Genetic Code: total codons, codons encoding amino acids, understand the wobble position.

- Base pairs: understand that G can pair with U (the wobble pair) to give flexibility to the genetic code.

- Know Mitosis and Meiosis

The movies and cartoons I linked to in the lessons will really help you out for this exam.

Good luck and see you tomorrow!