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RNAi (siRNA)                   .

You are helping your younger cousins with their history lessons, and come across accounts of how prior to the advent of antibiotics, physicians would deliberately infect syphilis (bacterial infection) patients with the malaria protozoan to induce a high fever.  Surprisingly, this was often effective, and the physicians would then use quinine to cure the malaria. Using the information you have learned for this exam, briefly explain to your cousins how this would work.  That is, what part of bacterial cell functioning would be affected by the higher temperature, and why? Note:  while degrading cytoplasmic membranes would certainly kill the syphilis bacterium, it would also kill the patients.  So, this is not a possible answer. 

             is the reason that salt and sugar can be use to preserve various foods eg., fruit jam.

During the Calvin-Benson cycle, CO2 is converted to glucose.  The key enzyme for this process is           .

              is the template/instructions for translation;               is the product.

The leading strand of DNA is replicated synchronously.  The lagging strand is synthesized discontinuously as                 which are bonded together by               .

A non-competitive inhibitor would interfere with the enzyme by 

The initial effect of ionizing radiation (eg., X-rays) on a cell is               .

Microbes have a high degree of habitat diversity because            .

In photosynthesis, the ATP and NADPH used to fix carbon are produced by         .