Vocabulary
What are the building blocks of nucleic acids that contain: a 5 carbon sugar, phosphate group and nitrogenous bases?
What is nucleotide.
What two scientists discovered the shape of a DNA molecule?
What is Watson and Crick
Unlike DNA, RNA contains which unique base pair?
What is uracil.
DNA makes a copy of itself. This process is called:
What is replication.
What base pairs with thymine?
What is Adenine
Where does RNA come from?
What is DNA
What genetic material stores information in a cell?
What is DNA
During DNA replication, a DNA strand that has the bases CTAGGT produces a strand with the bases?
What is GATCCA.
What is the name of the enzyme that drives transcription?
What is RNA polymerase.
Where does translation take place in eukaryotes?
What is cytoplasm and ribosome
What structure carries information from DNA to other parts of the cell?
What is mRNA
If 10% of DNA is made up of adenine, what are the amounts for the 3 remaining bases?
What is T= 10%, C= 40%, G= 40%.
During eukaryotic transcription, an RNA molecule is formed that is
What is complementary to part of one strand of DNA .
The anticodon of tRNA is complementary to the _________________ of mRNA
what is codon
What molecule transfers amino acids to the ribosome?
What is tRNA
In both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, DNA replication occurs
What is before cell division. ****(Remember replication occurs in S phase of interphase which occurs before mitosis aka cell division)
How many nucleotides are needed to specify three amino acids?
What is 9
What links together to form proteins?
What is amino acids.