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The specific amino acid sequence of a protein is its __________.

The function of chaperone proteins is to _____.

You arrive late to a biological seminar. However, just as you enter the room, you hear the speaker referring to the “amino end” and the “carboxyl end” of a macromolecule. Immediately, you know that they are talking about a __________.

Ribosomes are made up of __________.

Mendeleev found that when he arranged the known elements according to their atomic mass, the entries in the table exhibited a pattern of chemical properties that repeated itself in groups of eight elements. This led to the generalization now known as __________.

In eukaryotes, mitochondria are the organelles primarily involved in __________.

A student set up an experiment to test if plants give off water vapor. Fifty pea plants, growing in pots, were covered with individual glass containers and left overnight. The next morning, the inside of each lid was covered in droplets of water. The lab student concluded that plants generally give off water vapor. What critique would you make of the experimental design?

Which of the following are pyrimidines? (You may select more than one)

The functional group below is hydrophobic.

The organelle that can collect, package, modify, and transport molecules is called the __________.