DNA vs. RNA
The sugar that is part of DNA
What is deoxyribose?
The process in which a DNA molecule is duplicated
What is replication?
The full names for three different types of RNA
What are messenger RNA, transfer RNA, and ribosomal RNA?
An unintended change to a gene
What is a mutation
These are the building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
The names of the 4 nitrogenous bases of DNA
What are Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, and Cytosine?
The complementary DNA sequence to G T C C G G A A T
What is C A G G C C T T A?
Anticodons and amino acids are found on this molecule.
What is transfer RNA?
The central dogma of biology
What is information flows from DNA to RNA to protein
These are the building blocks of DNA and RNA
What are nucleotides?
The sugar that is found in RNA
What is Ribose?
The mRNA sequence that would complement the following bases on DNA: A T T C G C A G T
What is U A A G C G U C A
Translation of RNA to protein happens here
What is the ribosome?
The ability of an organism to control whether genes are transcribed or translated
What is gene regulation?
Something that can cause mutations
What is a mutagen?
The names of the 4 nitrogen bases of RNA.
What are Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine and Uracil?
This enzyme creates new DNA strands by linking nucleotides together.
What is DNA polymerase?
DNA is copied into a strand of RNA during this step of protein synthesis.
What is transcription?
A mutation in this kind of cell has a big effect, since it will be present in all of the offspring's cells
What is a sex cell/gamete?
This type of RNA combines with proteins to form a ribosome
What is rRNA/ribosomal RNA?
Two differences between the STRUCTURE of RNA and DNA.
What is DNA is double stranded and RNA is single stranded? What is RNA has Ribose and DNA has Deoxyribose? What is RNA has the base Uracil and DNA has the base Thymine?
Why DNA replication is considered "semiconservative"
What is each new DNA molecule contains half of the parent DNA molecule
Groups of three bases on a mRNA molecule
What is a codon?
The difference between transcription and translation
What is that transcription is the synthesis of mRNA based on DNA, while translation is the synthesis of proteins/polypeptides based on mRNA
DNA and RNA are this kind of macromolecule
What are nucleic acids?