General (or Random) Questions
Types of RNA
DNA to RNA
RNA to Proteins
Practice Makes Perfect...Proteins!
100
The Central Dogma (Theory) of Genetics.
What is DNA to RNA to Proteins?
100
DNA is ____ stranded; RNA is ____ stranded.
What is Double Stranded and Single Stranded?
100
The process of "rewriting" the DNA code to RNA.
What is transcription?
100
The process of converting the RNA code to an amino acid code.
What is translation?
100
The DNA codon "chunks" of the sequence: 3'-ACGTTCGAT-5'
What is 3'-ACG TTC GAT-5'?
200
In order for genes to be expressed, these two processes must occur.
What is transcription and translation?
200
The sugar found in DNA is ____; the sugar found in RNA is ____.
What is Deoxyribose and Ribose?
200
The enzyme used to lay down new nucleotides to make the new mRNA strand.
What is RNA Polymerase?
200
The building blocks of proteins
What are Amino Acids?
200
The transcribed code from this DNA sequence: 3'-TAC GTT AGA TAG-5'. The type of is RNA here is ____.
What is 5'-AUG CAA UCU AUC-3'? And what is mRNA?
300
The three types of RNA ("full" names!).
What is messenger RNA (mRNA), transfer RNA (tRNA), ribosomal RNA (rRNA)?
300
The type of RNA that is the corresponding code to DNA that will leave the nucleus to be read by a ribosome.
What is messenger RNA (mRNA)?
300
The nucleotides that are used for DNA and the nucleotides that are used for RNA.
What is ATCG for DNA and AUCG for RNA?
300
The genetic code is read three nitrogen bases at a time. A group of three nitrogen bases is called _____. This codes for one _______.
What is a Codon and an Amino Acid?
300
The translated code of the mRNA sequence 5'-AUG CAA UCU AUC-3'. The type of RNA that provides the amino acids for translation _____.
What is Met-Gln-Ser-Ile? And what is transfer RNA (tRNA)?
400
The cellular location of transcription; the cellular location of translation.
What is nucleus and cytoplasm?
400
The type of RNA that carries amino acids to the ribosome during translation.
What is tRNA?
400
The protein building instructions stored in DNA "leave" the nucleus to where they are translated by this biological molecule.
What is mRNA?
400
The number of possible codons in RNA and the number of amino acids used to make proteins.
What is 64 Codons and 20 Amino Acids?
400
The mRNA code that creates the amino acid sequence: Met-Arg-Pro-Lys-STOP.
What is 5'-AUG AGG CCC AAG UAG-3'?
500
The amount of components in an organism made up of proteins.
What is everything or almost everything!?
500
The components of the cellular structure called the ribosome.
What is ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and proteins?
500
In DNA, one _____ will make one strand of mRNA which will make one ______.
What is One Gene and One Protein?
500
Because there are 64 possible codons but only 20 possible amino acids used for translation.
Why can small "mistakes" in a codon be made during transcription but still result in the correct amino acid sequence?
500
Transcription (mRNA sequence) and Translation (amino acid sequence) that results from the DNA code 3'-TAC CAA CGT ACC AAA TGA-5'.
What is backwards Translation: 5'-AUG GUU GCA UGG UUU ACU-3'? What is backwardsTranslation: Met-Val-Ala-Trp-Phe-Thr?
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