DNA
This molecule stores genetic information in living things.
What is DNA?
RNA contains this unnamed base instead of thymine.
What is uracil?
The process of making RNA from a DNA template is called this.
What is transcription?
The process of using mRNA to build a protein is called this.
What is translation?
This is the yellow character in Sesame Street.
What is Big Bird?
This is what DNA stands for.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
This is the number of strands in RNA.
What is a single strand?
This is the flow of information in the central _____ of biology: DNA → RNA → protein
What is dogma?
The structure that reads mRNA to build proteins is this.
What is a ribosome?
This is the shape of DNA.
What is a double helix?
This is what RNA stands for.
What is ribonucleic acid?
During transcription, DNA is used as a ____ for making RNA.
What is a template?
The ribosome joins amino acids together to make this chain.
What is a polypeptide chain?
The four nitrogen bases found in DNA are adenine, thymine, cytosine, and this unnamed base.
What is guanine?
One important job of RNA is helping the cell make these molecules.
What is protein?
Transcription happens in this part of the cell in eukaryotes.
What is the nucleus?
The small molecules linked together to make a protein are these.
What are amino acids?
In DNA, adenine always pairs with this base.
What is thymine?
This molecule carries a copy of genetic instructions from DNA to the ribosome.
What is mRNA?
If the DNA template has the bases A-T-G, the mRNA strand will have these bases.
What is U-A-C?
During translation, the ribosome reads mRNA in groups of this many bases
What is 3?