Transcription
This is the name of the process cells use to make a working copy of a gene that a ribosome can use.
What is transcription?
RNA uses this base in place of thymine.
What is uracil?
This is the name of the process of converting the RNA code into a protein.
What is translation?
This type of RNA carries amino acids to the ribosome during translation.
What is transfer RNA, or tRNA?
This is the term for a group of things that are planned, designed, and built to work together to do a certain job.
What is an engineered system?
This is the location inside the cell where transcription takes place.
What is the nucleus?
This is the name of the sugar found in RNA, instead of deoxyribose.
What is ribose?
This cell structure, made of RNA and protein, reads the mRNA and directs translation.
What is a ribosome?
This is the part of a tRNA molecule that matches up with a codon on the mRNA strand.
What is an anticodon?
This everyday household object is used as the textbook example of irreducible complexity, since removing its spring makes it unusable.
What is a mousetrap?
This type of molecule temporarily unzips part of a DNA molecule in order to read a gene.
What is an enzyme?
This is the number of strands of nucleotides found in an RNA molecule, compared to two in DNA.
What is one, a single strand?
This is the name for a set of three nucleotides in a row on an mRNA strand, which codes for one amino acid.
What is a codon?
This is how tRNA molecules know where to line up their amino acids in the correct order along the mRNA strand.
What is by matching their anticodon to a codon on the mRNA?
This is the term for a system that will stop working entirely if even one of its parts is removed.
What is irreducible complexity?
This is the name of the single stranded nucleic acid molecule that is built during transcription.
What is RNA, or messenger RNA?
If a section of DNA reads cytosine, guanine, adenine, this is the matching order of bases built into the new mRNA strand.
What is guanine, cytosine, uracil?
This is the best description of protein synthesis, the final step of translation.
What is the bonding together of amino acids in a growing chain?
A group of three nucleotides on an mRNA strand, the words of the genetic code, is called this.
What is a codon?
This is what would happen to the process of translation if tRNA were missing.
What is it would not function properly?
After transcription, the finished mRNA leaves the nucleus and travels here, where a ribosome can read it.
What is the cytoplasm?
Since this type of RNA carries its information out of the nucleus, it is given this special name.
What is messenger RNA, or mRNA?
These are the molecules, about twenty different kinds in all, that are bonded together in a growing chain to build a protein.
What are amino acids?
This is approximately how many different amino acids are coded for by codons.
What is twenty?
According to the textbook, this is who is the most masterful engineer of all, the Creator of all things.
Who is God?