DNA Structure and Function
RNA Types and Function
Information Flow
Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
PCR
100
dNTP's
What are the building blocks of DNA?
100
Intermediate between DNA and proteins.
What is mRNA?
100
DNA goes to mRNA in the nucleus
What is transcription?
100
Separated fragments of DNA based upon their size.
What is agarose gel electrophoresis?
100
Kary Mullis
Who developed PCR and won a Nobel Prize?
200
Deoxyribose alternates with phosphate.
What is the backbone of the helix or side rails of DNA?
200
Carries amino acids to the ribosome.
What is tRNA?
200
Ribosomes
Where are proteins made?
200
Patterns of separated DNA (bands) are used to solve crimes.
What is DNA profiling or DNA fingerprinting?
200
Taq Polymerase copies the template at 72 celsius.
What is the third step of PCR?
300
A pairs with T and G pairs with C
What are the Watson Crick base pairing rules for DNA?
300
Integral component of ribosomes.
What is rRNA?
300
The language of mRNA is changed to the language of amino acids.
What is translation?
300
The small fragments win the race, and the large ones barely get out of the well.
What is the rate of separation of different sizes of DNA?
300
Copies a target site on the chromosome millions or even billions of times.
What PCR does?
400
Information Storage
What is the function of DNA?
400
Three letters of the mRNA that specifies an amino acid.
What is a codon?
400
AUG
What is the start codon?
400
Run to red (positive electrode).
What is direction that DNA moves in an agarose gel?
400
Thermocycler
What is machine that carries out PCR
500
Contains the information to make a protein.
What is a gene sequence?
500
RNA Polymerase
What is the enzyme that makes mRNA?
500
UAA
What is stop codon?
500
Paternity testing with horses.
What is an application of PCR?
500
Short, single stranded DNA primer that binds to chromosomal DNA.
What identifies the target site on the chromosome and allows the DNA polymerase to copy the target
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