260 Final Exam -2024

You develop an anti-helminth drug that specifically targets segmented reproductive sections. This will kill {Ans: cestodes (takeworms)}If you put a bacterium into demonized water, what do you expect to have happen? {Ans: water will enter cell as the external environment is now hypo tonic}Blocking the conversion of phagocytes to dendritic cells would also block what specific step of antibody production {Ans: presentation of antigens to TH cells}You add DNA for making the color pink to a culture of bacteria. The bacteria began to turn pink. They must have taken up the DNA via {Ans: Transformation}You are looking at a plasmid, so you expect to see a/an _________ and for it to be ____________. {Ans: origin of replication: double-stranded DNA}A mutation changes an mRNA sequence from 3' - AUGAAGAGGUGA-5' TO 3'-AUGAAGAGGUAG-5' {Ans: This is not likely a problem as the mutation is silent}