Kevin Matthew McKay week 3

BIOL398-03/S13:Week 3

Definitions

• (I could not find words that I did not know the definition of so I listed 10 words I thought most difficult)
• Biosynthetic-relating to or produced by biosynthesis:The production of a complex chemical compound from simpler precursors in a living organism, usually involving enzymes (to catalyze the reaction) and energy source (such as ATP)-[[1]]

• Flux-The total amount of a quantity passing through a given surface per unit time. Typical quantities include (magnetic) field lines, particles, heat, energy, mass of fluid, etc. [[2]]

• Oligonucleotides-polymers made up of a few (2-20) nucleotides. In molecular genetics, they refer to a short sequence synthesised to match a region where a mutation is known to occur, and then used as a probe (oligonucleotide probes). [[3]]

• arbitrary-Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; [[4]]

• gram-negative bacteria- bacteria which lose crystal violet stain but are stained pink when treated by grams method. [[5]]

• glutamate- major fast excitatory neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system. [[6]]

• dilution-In microbiologic techniques, a method for counting the number of viable cells in a suspension; a sample is diluted to the point where an aliquot, when plated, yields a countable number of separate colonies. [[7]]

• glutamine-A crystalline amino acid occurring in proteins; important in protein metabolism.One of the 20 amino acids that are commonly found in proteins.glutamine [[8]]

• biomass-The total mass of all living material in a specific area, habitat, or region. [[9]]

• northern blot- An electroblotting method in which rNA is transferred to a filter and detected by hybridisation to (32)P labelled RNA or dNA. [[10]]