Enzymes
An enzyme that joins (ligates) two pieces of DNA together.
What is DNA ligase?
The process of converting an mRNA into a polypeptide
What is translation?
The entire complement of DNA of an organism
What is the genome?
The place where RNA polymerase begins to transcribe a gene
What is "+1"? or What is the transcription start site (TSS)?
An enzyme that synthesizes RNA from a DNA strand.
RNA polymerase
The process of copying a region of DNA into RNA
What is transcription?
A unit of DNA that contains the information to specify synthesis of a single polypeptide chain or functional RNA
What is a gene?
The part of an mRNA upstream of the translation initiation codon
What is the 5' UTR?
An enzyme that synthesizes DNA from a complementary strand, using a primer and dNTPs.
What is DNA polymerase?
A process to amplify a specific region of DNA in the lab
What is PCR?
DNA consisting of the regulatory region and the transcribed region
What is a gene?
A run of A nucleotides at the 3' end of a mRNA
What is the polyA tail?
An enzyme that converts RNA into DNA
The process of removing transcribed introns from an mRNA
What is splicing?
An RNA and protein complex that translates mRNA into a polypeptide chain
What is a ribosome?
A special G added via a 5'-5' link at the very 5' end of a mRNA
What is the 7 methyl G cap?
An enzyme that joins two pieces of RNA together.
The process of converting RNAs from a cell or tissue into DNA in the lab
What is cDNA synthesis?
A complex of RNA and proteins that removes transcribed introns from a maturing mRNA
What is a spliceosome?
A transcribed region of a gene that is spliced out during mRNA maturation
What is an intron?