DNA and RNA
This nucleotide pairs with adenine in DNA.
What is Thymine?
The enzyme that unzips the DNA helix.
What is Helicase?
The first level of protein structure.
What is primary structure?
The first step of protein synthesis.
What is transcription?
A mutation that doesn’t change the amino acid sequence.
What is silent mutation?
The sugar found in RNA but not DNA
What is ribose?
The DNA strand made in small fragments.
What is the lagging strand?
This structural protein is found in and nails.
What is Keratin?
The molecule that carries amino acids during translation.
What is tRNA?
A point mutation that results in a stop codon.
What is a nonsense mutation?
This pyramidine replaces thymine in RNA
What is uracil?
This enzyme connects Okazaki fragments.
What is DNA Ligase?
The protein structure involving two or more polypeptides.
What is Quaternary structure?
This step of translation involves peptide bonds forming.
What is elongation?
These mutations insert or delete nucleotides and shift the reading frame.
What are frame shift mutations?
What is Negative?
These enzymes replace RNA primers with DNA bases.
What is DNA Polymerase?
This type of protein catalyzes reactions in the body.
What is an enzyme?
This polymerase transcribes mRNA in eukaryotes.
What is mRNA polymerase II?
The type of mutation that causes sickle cell disease.
What is a missense mutation?
RNA’s main role compared to DNA’s role.
What is protein synthesis?
The reason DNA replication is faster in prokaryotes.
What is circular structure and fewer replication forks?
Name one technology used to visualize the 3d structure of proteins.
What is Cn3D or Protein Bank?
Post transcriptional modification that adds a tail of adenines.
What is polyadenylation or the poly-A tail?
The gene nicknames “guardian of the genome” often mutated in cancer.
What is p53?