Brock Biology of Microorganisms, Books a la Carte Edition (14th Edition)
14th Edition
ISBN: 9780321928351
Author: MADIGAN, Michael T., Martinko, John M., Brock, Thomas, Bender, Kelly S., BUCKLEY, Daniel H., Stahl, David A.
Publisher: PEARSON
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How can quorum sensing be considered a regulatory mechanism for conserving cell
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Brock Biology of Microorganisms, Books a la Carte Edition (14th Edition)
Ch. 7.1 - Prob. 1MQCh. 7.1 - Prob. 2MQCh. 7.1 - Prob. 3MQCh. 7.2 - What is protein domain?Ch. 7.2 - Why are most DMA-binding proteins specific to...Ch. 7.3 - Why is negative control so named?Ch. 7.3 - How does a repressor inhibit the synthesis of a...Ch. 7.4 - Prob. 1MQCh. 7.4 - Prob. 2MQCh. 7.5 - Prob. 1MQ
Ch. 7.5 - Prob. 2MQCh. 7.5 - Explain how the lac operon is both positively and...Ch. 7.6 - What is the major difference between...Ch. 7.6 - How do transcriptional activators in Archaea often...Ch. 7.7 - What are kinases and what is their role in...Ch. 7.7 - Prob. 2MQCh. 7.8 - What are the primary response regulator and the...Ch. 7.8 - Why is adaptation during chemotaxis important?Ch. 7.8 - How does the response of the chemortaxis system to...Ch. 7.9 - Prob. 1MQCh. 7.9 - Prob. 2MQCh. 7.10 - Prob. 1MQCh. 7.10 - Prob. 2MQCh. 7.10 - Prob. 3MQCh. 7.11 - How are different sets of genes expressed in the...Ch. 7.11 - Prob. 2MQCh. 7.12 - Why are the levels of DnaA protein controlled...Ch. 7.12 - Prob. 2MQCh. 7.14 - Prob. 1MQCh. 7.14 - Prob. 2MQCh. 7.15 - What happens when a riboswitch binds the small...Ch. 7.15 - What are the major differences between a repressor...Ch. 7.16 - Why does attenuation control not occur in...Ch. 7.16 - Prob. 2MQCh. 7.17 - What is feedback inhibition?Ch. 7.17 - Prob. 2MQCh. 7.18 - Prob. 1MQCh. 7.18 - Prob. 2MQCh. 7 - Prob. 1RQCh. 7 - Describe why a protein that binds to a specific...Ch. 7 - REVIEW QUESTIONS
3. Most biosynthetic operons need...Ch. 7 - What is the difference between an operon and a...Ch. 7 - Prob. 5RQCh. 7 - Prob. 6RQCh. 7 - Prob. 7RQCh. 7 - Adaptation allows the mechanism controlling...Ch. 7 - How can quorum sensing be considered a regulatory...Ch. 7 - Prob. 10RQCh. 7 - Prob. 11RQCh. 7 - Prob. 12RQCh. 7 - Prob. 13RQCh. 7 - Prob. 14RQCh. 7 - Prob. 15RQCh. 7 - Prob. 16RQCh. 7 - Prob. 17RQCh. 7 - Application Questions
1. What would happen to...Ch. 7 - Prob. 2AQCh. 7 - Prob. 3AQCh. 7 - Most of the regulatory systems described in this...Ch. 7 - Many amino acid biosynthetic operons under...Ch. 7 - How would you design a regulatory system to make...
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- There is a group of six or so genes, called luxlux genes, whose gene products are necessary for light formation. Given that these bacterial genes are regulated together, propose a hypothesis for how the genes are organized and regulated. Match the terms in the left column to the appropriate blanks in the sentences on the right. Terms can be used once, more than once, or not at all. Terms: metaboliozed, density, quorum sensing, state, signal amplification, inhibit, activate, detected, secrete, transcrption initiation complex, consume, operon Bacterial cells blank molecules that can be blank by other bacterial cells. Sensing the concentration of such signalling molecules allows bacteria to monitor the local blank of cells, a phenomenon called blank. There is a group of genes in the genome of the described bacterium, called luxgenes, which are organized in an blank. Reaching a certain concentration, molecules involved in this process blank the luxgenes. As a result, the…arrow_forwardFigure 9.17 Which of the following statements about quorum sensing is false? Autoinducer must bind to receptor to turn on transcription of genes responsible for the production of more autoinducer. The receptor stays in the bacterial cell but the autoinducer diffuses out. Autoinducer can only act on a different cell: it cannot act on the cell in which it is made. Autoinducer turns on genes that enable the bacteria to form a biofilm.arrow_forwardFor cellular transduction, why is it useful that phosphorylation cascades have a series of protein kinases? a. they amplify the original signal b. they always lead to the same cellular response c. the number of molecules used is small and fixed d. they are cell specificarrow_forward
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