DNA Structure
DNA Replication
Types of RNA
Where does it happen?
Misc.
100
Watson and Crick used this term to describe the shape of DNA.
What is a double helix?
100
This is the name of the process where DNA divides and makes identical copies of itself.
What is replication?
100
A long, single stranded sequence of RNA copied from a piece of DNA.
What is messenger RNA (mRNA)?
100
Chromosomes are made of coiled up...
What is DNA?
100
A 3-base sequence of mRNA.
What is a codon?
200
The sugars and the phosphates make up this part of the DNA molecule.
What are the strands of a DNA molecule?
200
This is the first step in the replication of one DNA molecule.
What is the unwinding of DNA?
200
RNA is the abbreviated version of...
What is Ribonucleic Acid
200
This is where transcription takes place.
What is the nucleus?
200
A 3-base sequence found on tRNA.
What is an anticodon?
300
The type of bond that holds bases together in the double helix.
What is a hydrogen bond?
300
In a DNA molecule, the nitrogen base Guanine always pairs with...
What is Cytosine?
300
This type of RNA carries an amino acid.
What is transfer RNA (tRNA)?
300
This is where translation takes place.
What is the cytoplasm or ribosome?
300
With RNA, A (adenine) binds with this other base.
What is U (uracil)?
400
A nitrogen base, a sugar, and a phosphate.
What are the 3 parts of a nucleotide?
400
After DNA replication the resulting molecules have one ____ strand and one _____ strand.
What is old and new?
400
This type of RNA assembles itself into an organelle through which mRNA can enter to begin translation.
What is ribosmal RNA rRNA
400
This is where the mRNA strand goes during the translation process.
What is the ribosome?
400
The sugar in DNA is called...
What is Deoxyribose?
500
He is credited with the discovery that the amount of G's was roughly equal to the amount of C's (and A's with T's) in several samples of DNA.
Who is Erwin Chargaff?
500
Explain why DNA needs to be able to replicate.
To pass on genetic information.
500
This type of RNA begins in the nucleus but travels out into the cytoplasm to another organelle.
What is mRNA
500
After mRNA is transcribed from DNA, it then leaves this organelle.
What is the nucleus?
500
In order to know what amino acid a codon codes for we must use this.
What is a codon chart?
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