DNA
The sugar that is part of DNA.
What is deoxyribose?.
The sugar that is found in RNA.
What is Ribose?
Translation of RNA to protein happens here.
What is a Ribosome?
What is Protein Synthesis?
What is the creation of proteins by cells that uses DNA, RNA, and various enzymes.
These are the building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
The 4 nitrogen bases of DNA.
What are Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, and Cytosine?
The sequence of nucleotide bases on mRNA 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
DNA is copied into a strand of RNA during this step of protein synthesis.
What is Transcription?
What is translation in Protein Synthesis.
What is the process of translating the sequence of a messenger RNA (mRNA) molecule to a sequence of amino acids?
The bonds that link amino acids together.
What are peptide bonds?
Two things that happen in the nucleus involving DNA.
What are DNA Replication and Transcription?
The full names for the three different types of RNA.
What are messenger RNA, transfer RNA and ribosomal RNA?
Anticodons and amino acids are found on this molecule.
What is transfer RNA?
Blank space
free space
These special types of proteins help to unzip DNA and match up complementary nucleotide bases during DNA replication and protein synthesis.
What are enzymes?
The three parts of the DNA nucleotide (building block).
What are deoxyribose sugar, phosphate group and nitrogen base?
The names of the 4 nitrogen bases of RNA.
What are Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine and Uracil?
Groups of three bases on a mRNA molecule.
What is a codon?
What is the difference between mRNA and tRNA?
mRNA has a linear structure and carries genetic information copied from DNA. tRNA has an L shaped 3D structure and ate smaller
A disease that results in a change in the shape of hemoglobin in red blood cells due to a point mutation.
What is sickle cell anemia?
The reason why DNA replication happens.
What is to pass on genetic information to other cells during cell division?
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?
This is the anticodon for CAG.
What is GUC?
What is RNA polymerase?
What is a multi-unit enzyme that synthesizes RNA molecules from a template of DNA through a process called transcription.
The name for long chains of amino acids that form during protein synthesis.
What are polypeptides?