Nucleotide or nucleoside (acids/analogs/antisense) are antimicrobial agents that mimic the chemical structure of DNA building blocks

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge
Section: Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Action
Learning Outcome: 10.12

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At 4:00 p.m. a closed flask of sterile broth is inoculated with 10,000 cells. The lag phase lasts 1 hour. At 9:00 p.m. the log phase culture has a population of 65 million cells. The mean generation time is approximately

A. 10 minutes. B. 40 minutes. C. 20 minutes. D. 30 minutes.

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Data from the Human Genome Project revealed that humans, considered among the most complex of all organisms, have fewer genes and less DNA than some "simpler" organisms. Explain how a species can be more complex than another even though it possesses fewer genes

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The most important chemical group that determines how tightly histones bind DNA is

A) acetyl. B) methyl. C) ethyl. D) phosphate.

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Although Dolly the cloned sheep and her nucleus donor are clones, they do not contain the same ________ DNA.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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