DNA Structure
It is a monomer of DNA.
What is a nucleotide?
It pairs to Thymine.
What is Adenine?
What a gene codes for.
What is a protein.
The bond between two amino acids.
What is a polypeptide bond?
A changes to a DNA sequence.
What is a mutation?
It makes up the sides of the DNA ladder.
What is the sugar-phosphate backbone?
It pairs to Guanine.
What is Cytosine?
The building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
This determines the 3D structure of a protein.
What is the amino acid sequence?
It alters one base pair.
What is a substitution?
They make up the 'rungs' of the DNA ladder.
What are the nitrogen bases?
The DNA helix is _________, meaning the DNA strands go in opposite directions.
What is anti-parallel helix?
R-group properties used to classify amino acids.
What are hydrophilic and hydrophobic?
Interactions between R-groups that are important for protein folding.
What are non-covalent interactions?
It adds one or more base pairs.
What is an insertion?
Its shape is like a twisted ladder, or this more scientific sounding description.
What is a double helix?
The complementary strand to ATGCAC?
What is TACGTG?
It means "water fearing."
What is hydrophobic?
This is essential for proper protein function.
What is proper protein folding?
It removes one or more base pairs.
What is a deletion?
Hydrogen bonds
What holds two DNA strands together (between A-T and G-C)?
A sequence of 3 nitrogen bases that codes for an amino acid.
What is a codon?
It means "water loving."
What is hydrophilic?
Typical secondary structures.
What are alpha helices and beta sheets?
A _______ mutation changes one base pair, but does not change the amino acid. A _______ mutation is when a change to one base pair also changes the amino acid.
What is a silent mutation? and What is a missense mutation?