DNA Transcription
DNA Translation
History
Protein Structure
Protein Function
100
The type of RNA that is produced by transcription.
What is mRNA?
100
The site of protein synthesis.
What is a ribosome.
100
The full name of DNA.
What is Deoxyribonucleic acid?
100
A chain these is a called a protein.
What are amino acids?
100
These three functions are the most important functions of proteins.
What is to build up, keep up, and replace the tissues in your body?
200
The strand of DNA that serves as the basis for making an mRNA strand.
What is the template?
200
Functions as an adapter to transfer the amino acids into the proper sequence at the ribosome.
What is tRNA.
200
Father of Genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
200
A large molecule of repeating structural units.
What is a polymer?
200
Ligaments, fingernails, and hair are examples of this function of a protein.
What is providing structure?
300
The site of transcription.
What is the nucleus?
300
Guanine and Adenine.
Which nucleotides are purines?
300
The meaning of the Greek work Proteios.
What is "primary"?
300
We cannot synthesize them, so we must ingest them.
What are essential amino acids?
300
"Project manager" proteins.
What are hormones?
400
RNA is single stranded, RNA contains Uracil, RNA contains a ribose sugar, RNA can move out of the nucleus.
How is RNA different from DNA?
400
A sugar that is missing an oxygen.
What is deoxyribose?
400
A chemist from this country first described proteins in 1838.
What is Sweden?
400
alpha-helix and beta-sheets are examples of this layer of structure.
What is secondary protein structure?
400
Proteins that are an important component of our immune system.
What are antibodies?
500
Information must get to the site of protein synthesis, but DNA cannot leave the nucleus!
Why must DNA be transcribed to mRNA?
500
The number and type of bonds connecting Guanine and Cytosine.
What are 3 hydrogen bonds?
500
Frederick Griffith used this disease in his experiments to point out that DNA was the molecule of inheritance.
What is pneumonia?
500
A type of bonding, found in primary structure, that shares electrons.
What is covalent bonding?
500
Responsible for delivering oxygen to your blood cells.
What is hemoglobin?
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