DNA Structure
DNA vs RNA
Replication
Anything Goes
Lets Make Proteins
100
The monomer of DNA
What is a nucleotide?
100
It contains Thymine.
What is DNA?
100
These Unzip to separate the parent strands.
What is hydrogen bonds?
100
The three parts of a nucleotide.
What are the sugar group, phosphate group and the nitrogen base?
100
What a gene codes for.
What is a protein.
200
The sides of the DNA ladder.
What is the sugar-phosphate backbone?
200
It is single stranded.
What is RNA
200
A parent strand separates and makes what?
Two daughter strands
200
How many nitrogen bases must be coded to make an amino acid?
What is three?
200
What is the site of protein synthesis in a cell?
The ribosome.
300
The 'rungs' of the DNA ladder
What are the nitrogen bases?
300
It is directly involved in translation.
What is RNA.
300
The complementary DNA strand to ATGCAC?
What is TACGTG?
300
What process causes carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight to be used in a plant in order to make oxygen and glucose?
What is photosynthesis?
300
What are the two steps of protein synthesis.
transcription and translation.
400
Its shape is like a twisted ladder, or this more scientific sounding description.
What is a double helix?
400
What is the monomer of a nucleotide?
What is DNA and RNA?
400
What types of bonds are in the middle of DNA that must unzip for it to be copied?
Hydrogen
400
A sequence of 3 nitrogen bases that codes for an amino acid.
What is a codon?
400
It brings in the correct amino acids when a protein is being made.
What is transfer RNA.
500
Chargaff's Rules of base pairing state that ___ must go with ___ and ___ must go with ___
What is A pairs with T AND G pairs with C?
500
It can be found in the nucleus.
What is DNA and RNA.
500
The end result is two DNA molecules each with one NEW and one OLD strand.
What is replication?
500
What is the process that somatic cells must go through to reproduce?
Mitosis
500
Why is messenger RNA necessary?
Because DNA can't leave the nucleus.
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