DNA Structure
DNA vs RNA
Anything Goes
Lets Make Proteins
100
The monomer of DNA
What is a nucleotide?
100
It contains Thymine.
What is DNA?
100
The three parts of a nucleotide.
What are the sugar group, phosphate group and the nitrogen base?
100
What a gene codes for.
What is a protein.
200
The sides of the DNA ladder.
What is the sugar-phosphate backbone?
200
It is single stranded.
What is RNA
200
The number of different amino acids that make up proteins.
What is twenty?
200
The ribosome.
What is the site of protein synthesis in a cell?
300
The 'rungs' of the DNA ladder
What are the nitrogen bases?
300
It is directly involved in translation.
What is RNA.
300
They determined what the structure of the DNA molecule is.
Who are Watson and Crick?
300
The two steps of protein synthesis.
What transcription and translation.
400
Its shape is like a twisted ladder, or this more scientific sounding description.
What is a double helix?
400
the monomer is a nucleotide.
What is DNA and RNA?
400
A sequence of 3 nitrogen bases that codes for an amino acid.
What is a codon?
400
It brings in the correct amino acids when a protein is being made.
What is transfer RNA.
500

What are the complementary bases?

What is A pairs with T AND G pairs with C?

500
It can be found in the nucleus.
What is DNA and RNA.
500

The bonds that link amino acids together.

What are peptide bonds?

500
Because DNA can't leave the nucleus.
Why is messenger RNA necessary?
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