DNA Structure
Replication
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Translation
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The person who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
100
The longest river in the world.
What is the nile?
100
The greek goddess of love.
Who is Aphrodite?
100
The largest desert in the world.
What is Antarctica?
200
The shape of DNA
What is a double helix?
200
Using the semiconservative model, will there ever be a piece of DNA that does not contain a parent strand?
What is no?
200
The macromolecule that DNA makes.
What is proteins?
200
A metaphor for translation.
What is translating english to spanish?
300
DNA runs antiparallel. If one strand has an arrangement of A A C T, what is the other strand composed of?
What is T T G A?
300
The cellular division processes that begin with DNA replication during interphase.
What are meiosis and mitosis?
300
A metaphor for transcription.
What is a copy machine?
300
If there are 4 nucleotides, "letters" in DNA, what size of groups would nucleotides need to be read in to account for the 20 amino acids?
What is three?
400
A DNA molecule is 17% guanine, what is the thymine percentage?
What is 33 percent?
400
The direction that DNAP III adds nucleotides to the new strand.
What is 5' to 3'?
400
The substance DNA is converted to in transcription.
What is RNA?
400
The site of translation.
What are ribosomes?
500
The three parts and four possible variations of an RNA nucleotide.
What is ribose, phosphate group, and nitrogenous base? What are adenine, uracil, cytosine, and guanine?
500
A mutation causes an inability to produce topoisomerase. What will this cause in the body?
What is a large strain on helicase, making DNA replication slow exponentially?
500
What type of cells does RNA have to undergo processing in before translation and why?
What are eukaryotic cells, and because there is a nucleus separating the two processes.
500
During RNA processing, mRNA 3' end receives many adenine, forming a poly-A tail. What is the purpose of this?
What is to prevent against degradation and make it more stable?