History and Mutations
The Structure of DNA
DNA Replication
Transcription
Translation
100
Discovered the amount of adenine is equal to the amount of thymine.
Who is Erwin Chargaff?
100
The components of a nucleotide
What are a deoxyribose sugar, phosphate group and one of the following nitrogen bases: adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine?
100
The direction of synthesis of the new DNA strand.
What is 5' to 3'?
100
The product and location of transcription.
What is mRNA and nucleus?
100
The name of the molecules that are strung together to make a protein.
What are amino acids?
200
The scientist responsible for taking the famous x-ray diffraction photograph 51.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
200
The name of the binding of adenine to thymine, and cytosine to guanine.
What is base pairing?
200
The function of DNA helicase.
What is to unwind the double-helical DNA by breaking hydrogen bonds?
200
The enzyme responsible for unwinding the DNA helix.
What is helicase?
200
The type of bond that links amino acids.
What is a peptide bond?
300
The change of a single codon resulting in the placement of the same amino acid in the polypeptide chain.
What is a silent mutation?
300
The type of bond that forms between cytosine and guanine
What is a hydrogen bond?
300
The word describing that each new daughter strand of DNA is composed of a parent strand and a newly synthesized strand.
What is semi-conservative replication?
300
DNA copying in the nucleus demonstrates ____________ replication.
What is semiconservative?
300
If a tRNA's anticodon arm contains the sequence CCA, the sequence of mRNA that it will bind to.
What is GGU?
400
Used his relationship with mice to discover the process of transformation.
Who is Frederick Griffith?
400
The name of the molecule formed by a nitrogen base, a phosphate group, and ribose.
What is a nucleotide?
400
The function of DNA ligase.
What is joining DNA fragments?
400
The enzyme responsible for building mRNA.
What is RNA polymerase?
400
The term used to describe the movement of the ribosome to the next codon in mRNA and the movement of tRNA.
What is translocation?
500
This change in DNA sequence results in the worst type of mutation and causes a change in this.
What is a frameshift mutation and amino acid sequence after the change?
500
Negatively charged DNA in chromosomes coil around these positively charged proteins.
What are histones?
500
The name for DNA strands lining up 3' to 5'
What is antiparallel?
500
The posttranscription molecule used after mRNA.
What is tRNA?
500
The complementary tRNA structure for the following mRNA transcript 5' - GGC CCA UAG AUG CCA CCG GGA UAA UCU CUU - 3'
What is 3' - CCG GGU AUC GGU GGC CCU AUU AGA GAA - 5'?
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