All the reactions of the Calvin cycle except those catalyzed by rubisco, sedoheptulose 1,7-bisphosphatase, and ribulose 5-phosphate kinase also take place in animal tissues. Lacking these three enzymes, animals cannot carry out net conversion of CO2 to glucose.

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#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

All reducing sugars (except a few ketoses) undergo mutarotation

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

Allolactose binds to the Lac repressor and triggers a change in the shape (conformation) of that protein. 

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#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology

Dispersion or London forces are large networks of intermolecular forces between nonpolar and non-charged molecules and atoms (i.e. alkanes, noble gases, and halogens). 

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#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes

There are RNA polymerase crystal structures that provide considerable insight into how the enzyme retains contact with its substrate while breaking and remaking bonds in the process of the nucleotide addition cycle and undergoing translocation by a Brownian ratchet mechanism.

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Genetic Maternal Effect 

Determination of the phenotype of an offspring not by its own genotype, but by the nuclear genotype of its mother.