TU Wien:Biologie VO (Mach)/Prüfung 2019-09-23

120 Minuten Zeit. Keine Garantie für Richtigkeit der Fragen.

• Name at least 6 different functions of proteins.
• Describe the usual eco-toxological assessment process. Max 4 sentences.
• Why to study biology? How do discoveries in biology influence every day life? (Etwas komische Frage, wusste nicht genau, was sie da hören wollten)
• What is transcription and why is it needed?
• Describe the Miller-Urey Experiment. What conclusions were made as a result of that experiment?
• Describe the rules of base pairing.
• Name the microorganism for penicillin production. How does penicillin work? Why are we using half-synthetic penicillin?
• Name the four possible structures of proteins and describe them briefly. (primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary)
• Describe the four basic mechanisms of change and the primary sources of genetic variation.
• Red biotechnology: To what field does it apply? What importance does it have in biotechnology (minor, middle, major)? Name 3 products of red biotechnology (except antibiotica).