DNA Structure
Watson and Crick used this term to describe the shape of DNA
What is a double helix?
Chemical bond responsible for binding of opposite DNA strands.
What is hydrogen bond?
This process by which DNA is copied during the cell cycle
What is replication?
The Central Dogma of molecular biology
What is DNA -> RNA -> Protein?
Enzyme responsible for transcription
What is RNA polymerase?
The type of bond that holds bases together in the double helix
What is a hydrogen bond?
Subunits of DNA polymer.
What are Nucleotides?
This is the first step in the replication of one DNA molecule
What is the unwinding of DNA?
The process of turning mRNA into protein
What is translation?
Enzyme complex responsible for translation
What is ribosome?
The sugars and the Phosphates
What is the "backbone of a DNA molecule"?
The sugar in DNA.
What is deoxyribose?
A group of enzymes that bond new nucleotides together
What are Polymerases?
The process of turning DNA in mRNA
What is transcription?
Type of chemical reaction responsible for DNA polymerization
What is dehydration (or condensation) reaction?
The directionality of synthesis of DNA and RNA polymers
What is 5' to 3'?
Three differences between DNA and RNA.
What is deoxyribose versus ribose, single stranded versus double, and A versus T?
Kind of replication where one strand of new DNA molecule is from the original template molecule
What is semiconservative replication?
Amino acid with which all proteins begin
What is methionine?
What are histones?
The three parts of a nucleotide
What are a nitrogenous base, a sugar and a phosphate?
Process of copying DNA
What is DNA Replication?
Site of DNA replication
What is nucleus?
All mutations in DNA result in changes in protein (true/false)
What is false?
An organism's complete set of genetic instructions
What is genome?