Vocabulary
The term "Frameshift mutation" refers to...
What is a mutation that shifts the "reading frame" of the genetic message?
What two characteristics of DNA did Rosalind Franklin discover?
What is that DNA is a helix and there are 2 strands?
In transcription, RNA polymerase binds to what part of a DNA sequence?
What is a Promoter?
In what organelle does transcription occur and the mRNA is created?
What is the Nucleus?
What is an example of a point mutation, that is not a frameshift mutation?
What is Substitution?
The term "Anti-codon" refers to...
What is a 3 letter coding for the letters complimentary to the mRNA's codon?
What is Chargaff's Rule?
What is the percentages of guanine and cytosine, and adenine and thymine bases are almost equal in any sample?
To what organelle does an mRNA strand travel into in order to find ribosomes?
What is the Cytoplasm?
What is an Amino Acid?
What is Inversion?
The term "Polyploidy" means...
What is the condition in which an organism has extra sets of chromosomes?
What did Avery inject into bacteria cells in order to identify the molecule that caused transformation in Griffith's experiment?
What are Enzymes?
What are the three differences between RNA and DNA?
What is RNA is single stranded, RNA has ribose, and RNA has Uracil?
Peptide bonds are an example of what type of bond?
What is a Covalent Bond?
What happens in a nonsensical substitution mutation,
What is a codon being changed to code for STOP, causing the translation process to stop before intended?
The term "Bacteriophage" refers to...
What is a virus that infects bacteria?
What radioactive markers did Hershey and Chase use to track which genetic materials in bacteria?
What is Phosphorus for DNA and Sulfur for Protein?
In the Pre-mRNA phase, what is removed from the RNA molecule, and what is spliced together?
What are Introns being removed and Exons being spliced together?
If a sequence in mRNA is AUG GGC CUA GAC, what is the correct translation to DNA?
What is TAC CCG GAT CTG?
The term "Telomere" refers to...
What are the tips of eukaryotic chromosomes that code for nothing, which helps prevent genes on the end of chromosomes from being damaged?
What is Heat-killed S-type cells + living R-type cells?
Only what genes are copied into RNA at a given time?
What are the 3 stop codon codings?
The swapping of some or all parts of a chromosome from another chromosome is known as...